| Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln had been a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Abraham_Lincoln
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| Cobble Hill Tunnel The Cobble Hill Tunnel (popularly the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel) of the Long Island Rail Road is an abandoned railroad tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, New York City. When open, it ran for about 2,750 feet (830railway tunnel beneath a city street in the world. Cobble_Hill_Tunnel
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| Abraham Lincoln Talk:Abraham_Lincoln
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| Byte A byte () is a basic unit of measurement of information storage in computer science. In many computer architectures it is a unit of memory addressing. There is no standard but a byte most often consists of eight bits.A byte is an ordered collection of bits, with each bit denoting a single binary value of 1 or 0. Byte
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| Berlin Wall For the chess position, see Ruy Lopez#Berlin Defence. Berlin Wall () was a physical barrier completely encircling West Berlin, separating it from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (East Germany), including East Berlin. The longer inner German border demarcated the border between East and West Germany. Both borders came to symbolize the Iron Curtain between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc. Berlin_Wall
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| BMW BMW
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| B-52 Stratofortress Talk:B-52_Stratofortress
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| Boston Corbett Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett (1832 presumed dead 1894) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He disappeared after 1888, but circumstantial evidence suggests that he died in the Great Hinckley Fire in 1894, although this remains impossible to substantiate. Boston_Corbett
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| Benoît Mandelbrot Talk:Benoît_Mandelbrot
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| B-1 Lancer B-1_Lancer
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| B-17 Flying Fortress B-17_Flying_Fortress
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| Bo Diddley Bo Diddley (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), born Ellas Otha Bates, was an original and influential American rock & roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Bo_Diddley
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| Circumference circumference is the distance around a closed curve. Circumference is a special perimeter. Circumference
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| Concorde Concorde
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| Curtiss P-40 Curtiss_P-40
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| Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria Coptic_Orthodox_Church_of_Alexandria
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| Dog tag (identifier) dog tag is the informal name for the identification tags worn by military personnel, because of their resemblance to actual dog tags. The tag is primarily used for the identification of dead and wounded along with providing essential basic medical information for the treatment of the latter such as blood type and history of inoculations. In the event the member has a medical condition that requires special attention, an additional red tag with the pertinent information is issued and worn with the dog tags. Dog_tag_(identifier)
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| Dodecahedron a^2 approx 20.64572a^2 Dodecahedron
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| Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove, or (commonly known as Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 American/British black comedy film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens. Loosely based on Peter George's Cold War thriller novel Red Alert (aka Two Hours to Doom), Dr. Dr._Strangelove
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| Esperanto Esperanto
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| Enola Gay Enola_Gay
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| Electron volt In physics, the electron volt (symbol eV; also written electronvolt according to the NIST, IUPAC, and BIPM) is a unit of energy. By definition, it is equal to the amount of kinetic energy gained by a single unbound electron when it accelerates through an electrostatic potential difference of one volt. Thus it is 1 volt (1 joule divided by 1 coulomb) multiplied by the electron charge (). One electron volt is equal to . Electron_volt
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| Emperor of Japan Talk:Emperor_of_Japan
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| Northrop F-5 Northrop_F-5
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| Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban KC (22 January 1561 Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne (Cooke) Bacon, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution. Francis_Bacon
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| False friend False friends (or faux amis) are pairs of words in two languages or dialects (or letters in two alphabets) that look and/or sound similar, but differ in meaning.False cognates, by contrast, are similar words in different languages that appear to have a common historical linguistic origin (regardless of meaning) but actually do not. False_friend
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| F-14 Tomcat F-14_Tomcat
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| F-4 Phantom II F-4_Phantom_II
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| Global Positioning System Global_Positioning_System
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| Graffiti Graffiti (singulargraffito; the plural is used as a mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is sometimes regarded as a form of art and other times regarded as unsightly damage or unwanted.Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti
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| George Harrison George Harrison MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time". Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", George_Harrison
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| Giuseppe Peano Giuseppe Peano (27 August 1858 20 April 1932) was an Italian mathematician, whose work was of exceptional philosophical value. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation. Giuseppe_Peano
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| Howland Island Howland Island () is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia and is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States. Geographically, it is part of the Phoenix Islands. For statistical purposes, Howland is grouped as one of the United States Minor Outlying Islands. Howland_Island
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| H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), H._G._Wells
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| Horsepower Horsepower (hp or HP or Hp) is the name of several non-SI units of power. It was originally defined to allow the output of steam engines to be measured and compared with the power output of draft horses. The horsepower was widely adopted to measure the output of piston engines, turbines, electric motors and other machinery. Different regions adopted different definitions of the unit. Most countries now use the SI unit watt for measurement of power. Horsepower
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| Jarvis Island Jarvis Island (; formerly known as Bunker Island) is an uninhabited 4.5 square kilometer (1.75 sq. mile) coral island located in the South Pacific Ocean at , about halfway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands. It is an unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system. Unlike most coral atolls, the lagoon on Jarvis is wholly dry. Jarvis_Island
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| John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a popular actor, well known in both the Northern United States and the South. John_Wilkes_Booth
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| James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 Scottish theoretical physicist and mathematician. His most significant achievement was the development of the classical electromagnetic theory, synthesizing all previous unrelated observations, experiments and equations of electricity, magnetism and even optics into a consistent theory. James_Clerk_Maxwell
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| Jack Kirby Jacob Kurtzberg (August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994), better known by the pen name Jack Kirby, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor. Growing up poor in New York City, Kurtzberg entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s. He drew various comic strips under different pseudonyms, ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. Jack_Kirby
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| Mural mural is any piece of artwork painted directly on a wall, ceiling, or other large permanent surface. Mural
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| Oboe The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois", "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut ("high, loud") and bois ("wood, woodwind"). Oboe
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| Palestine Liberation Organization The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (; ) is a political and paramilitary organization founded in 1964 and regarded by the Arab League since October 1974 as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people." Palestine_Liberation_Organization
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| P-51 Mustang P-51_Mustang
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| P-38 Lightning P-38_Lightning
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| Red Army Faction The Red Army Faction, shortened to RAF (German Rote Armee Fraktion), in its early stages commonly known as Baader-Meinhof Group or Gang, was one of postwar West Germany's most violent and prominent left-wing militant groups. The RAF described itself as a communist "urban guerrilla" group engaged in armed resistance. The RAF was formally founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof. Irmgard Möller and Brigitte Mohnhaupt joined early in 1971. Red_Army_Faction
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| Robert M. Pirsig Robert Maynard Pirsig (born September 6, 1928, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American writer and philosopher, mainly known as the author of the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974), which has sold over four million copies around the world. Robert_M._Pirsig
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| Rumiko Takahashi born October 10, 1957 is a Japanese mangaka.Takahashi is one of the wealthiest individuals, and the most affluent mangaka in Japan. The manga she creates (and its anime adaptations) are very popular in the United States and Europe where they have been released as both manga and anime in English translation. Rumiko_Takahashi
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| Saxhorn saxhorn is a valved brass instrument with a tapered bore and deep cup-shaped mouthpiece. The sound has a characteristic mellow quality, and blends well with other brass. Saxhorn
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| Samuel Mudd Samuel Alexander Mudd I, M.D. (December 20, 1833 Maryland physician implicated and imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln. Samuel_Mudd
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| Sun Myung Moon Sun Myung Moon (born January 6, 1920) is the Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church. He is also the founder of many other organizations and projects involved in political, cultural, artistic, mass-media, educational, public service, and other activities. One of the best-known of these is the conservative Washington Times newspaper. He is also well-known for holding Blessing ceremonies, which are sometimes referred to as "mass weddings." Sun_Myung_Moon
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