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Hurricane Grace
Hurricane Grace was a short-lived Category 2 hurricane that contributed to the formation of the powerful 1991 "Perfect Storm"
Central London Railway
The Central London Railway was a railway company established in 1889 to construct a deep-level underground "tube" railway in London
No Line on the Horizon
No Line on the Horizon is the twelfth studio album by the rock band U2
Edward Drinker Cope
Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist
Douglas Jardine
Douglas Jardine (1900-1958) was an English cricketer and captain of the England cricket team from 1931 to 1933-34
Crackdown
Crackdown is an open world, third-person shooter video game for the Xbox 360
Bedich Smetana
Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his countrys aspirations to independent statehood
Confirmation bias
Confirmation bias is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions, independently of whether they are true
La Cousine Bette
La Cousine Bette is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac
21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
The 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War
Clements Markham
Clements Markham (1830-1916) was a British geographer, explorer and writer
Mary Rose
The Mary Rose was a warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII in the first half of the 16th century
Noronha skink
The Noronha skink is a species of skink from the island of Fernando de Noronha off northeastern Brazil
distributed element filter
A distributed element filter is an electronic filter in which capacitance, inductance and resistance are not localised in discrete capacitors, inductors and resistors as they would be in a conventional filter
Degrassi The Next Generation
Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979
Ann Bannon
Ann Bannon (born 1932) is an American author who wrote six lesbian pulp fiction novels from 1957 to 1962 known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
William Hanna
William Hanna (1910-2001) was an American animator, director, producer, and cartoonist, whose movie and television cartoon characters entertained millions worldwide for much of the twentieth century
Whatd I Say
"Whatd I Say" is a song by American rhythm and blues (R&B) musician Ray Charles, released in 1959 as a single divided into two parts
St. Michaels Cathedral
St Michaels Cathedral is a Catholic church in Qingdao (formerly Tsingtao), Shandong Province, China; it is also the seat of the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Qingdao
1930 FIFA World Cup
The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural world championship for international association football teams - the FIFA World Cup
Royal Gold Cup
The Royal Gold Cup is a solid gold covered cup lavishly decorated with enamel and pearls
Chalukya dynasty
The Chalukya dynasty was an Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of southern and central India between the 6th and the 12th centuries
Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works
Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works was a 19th-century manufacturer of railroad steam locomotives based in Paterson, New Jersey in the United States
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was an Austrian late-Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks is an adventure module written by Gary Gygax (pictured) for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game
July 2009 rmqi riots
The July 2009 Ürümqi riots were a series of violent riots over several days that broke out on 5 July 2009 in Ürümqi, the capital city of Xinjiang, China
history of the Grand Canyon area
The known history of the Grand Canyon area stretches back 10,500 years when the first evidence for human presence in the area started
Andean Condor
The Andean Condor is a species of South American bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae and is the only member of the genus vultur
Sirius
Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky with a visual apparent magnitude of −1.46, almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star
John Diefenbaker
John Diefenbaker (1895-1979) led Canada as its 13th Prime Minister, serving from June 21, 1957 to April 22, 1963
Maryland Route 36
Maryland Route 36 is a 29.43-mile (47.36 km) state highway located in Allegany County, Maryland
Mariano Rivera
Mariano Rivera (born 1969) is a Panamanian right-handed baseball pitcher who has spent his entire Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees
Leopold Report
The Leopold Report is a 1963 paper composed of a series of ecosystem management recommendations that were presented by the Special Advisory Board on Wildlife Management to United States Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall
Terra Nova Expedition
The Terra Nova Expedition was led by Robert Falcon Scott with the objective of being the first to reach the geographical South Pole
Privilege of Peerage
The Privilege of Peerage is the body of special privileges belonging to members of the British Peerage
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson (1958-2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and philanthropist
Captain Jack Sparrow
Captain Jack Sparrow is a fictional character portrayed by Johnny Depp, introduced in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American writer and journalist
raccoon
The raccoon is a medium-sized mammal native to North America
Jack the Ripper
"Jack the Ripper" is the best known pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished districts in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888
Funerary art
Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead
choral symphony
A choral symphony is a musical composition for orchestra, choir and sometimes soloists, which in its internal workings and overall musical architecture adheres broadly to symphonic musical form
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) introduced in the 1930s
Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is a 1980 American space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner
Robert Hues
Robert Hues (1553-1632) was an English mathematician and geographer who made observations of the variations of the compass off the coast of Newfoundland
Grand Forks
Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the US state of North Dakota and the county seat of Grand Forks County
Sydney Newman
Sydney Newman was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s
Sargon of Akkad
Sargon of Akkad was an Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BC
Mycena haematopus
Mycena haematopus is a species of fungus in the Mycenaceae family, of the order Agaricales
Loihi Seamount
Loihi Seamount is an active undersea volcano located around 35 km (22 mi) off the southeast coast of the island of Hawaiʻi