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Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll and 10th Earl of Argyll (July 25, 1658–September 25, 1703) was a Scottish peer. The eldest son of the 9th Earl of Argyll, Campbell sought to recover his father's estates (by moving into King James II's favour). However, after failing to do so, he supported William and Mary's quest for the throne; this important support led to the monarch's returning his father's estate. Also, he was made a Privy Councillor. He was William's chief Scottish advisor, and was made a duke in 1701. ...

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The Beach Boys are a pop music group formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961, whose popularity has lasted into the twenty-first century. They have recorded dozens of top-forty hits (including four US #1 singles), many best-selling albums, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. The original group comprised singer-musician-composer Brian Wilson, his brothers Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Alan Jardine. Many changes in both musical style and personnel have occurred in their sometimes-st ...

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• The Beach Boys - Early years
• The Beach Boys - Brian's innovations and personal difficulties
• The Beach Boys - The story behind Smile
• The Beach Boys - Mid-career brings a change in leadership
• The Beach Boys - Deaths of Dennis and Carl Wilson
• The Beach Boys - Personnel changes through the years
• The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys in the courts
• The Beach Boys - Awards and designations
• The Beach Boys - Members
• The Beach Boys - Discography
• The Beach Boys - Studio albums
• The Beach Boys - Live albums
• The Beach Boys - Compilations
• The Beach Boys - Anthologies
• The Beach Boys - Boxed sets
• The Beach Boys - Singles
• The Beach Boys - EPs
• The Beach Boys - Album availability

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The USS Shenandoah was the first of four United States Navy rigid airships. She was built from 1922 to 1923 in Lakehurst, New Jersey, and first flew in 1923. She developed the Navy's experience with rigid airships, even making the first crossing of the North American continent by airship. She was destroyed in a crash in 1925. USS Shenandoah ZR-1 - Design and Construction. The Shenandoah was originally designated FA-1, for 'Fleet Airship Number One' but this was changed to ZR-1. The airship was ...

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• USS Shenandoah ZR-1 - Design and Construction
• USS Shenandoah ZR-1 - Early Naval Service
• USS Shenandoah ZR-1 - Flight Across North America
• USS Shenandoah ZR-1 - Later Naval Career
• USS Shenandoah ZR-1 - End of the Shenandoah
• USS Shenandoah ZR-1 - Specifications

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Chester William Nimitz (February 24, 1885 – February 20, 1966) was the Commander in Chief of Pacific Forces for the United States and Allied forces during World War II. He was the nation's leading authority on submarines, as well as Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation (now called the Bureau of Naval Personnel) in 1939. He was America's last surviving fleet admiral. Chester Nimitz - Early life. Chester William Nimitz, son of Chester Bernhard and Anna (Henke) Nimitz, was born in Fredericksburg, Texas, ...

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• Chester Nimitz - Early life
• Chester Nimitz - Military Career
• Chester Nimitz - Dates of Rank
• Chester Nimitz - Decorations and Awards
• Chester Nimitz - Early Career
• Chester Nimitz - World War I
• Chester Nimitz - Between the Wars
• Chester Nimitz - World War II
• Chester Nimitz - Post War
• Chester Nimitz - Civilian Life
• Chester Nimitz - Memorials
• Chester Nimitz - Reference

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United Airlines, the major subsidiary of UAL Corporation, is a major airline of the United States. It is headquartered in Elk Grove Village, Illinois near its largest hub at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. As of autumn 2005 it was the world's third-largest airline in terms of total passengers transported (behind American Airlines and Delta Air Lines), second-largest in terms of revenue-passenger-kilometers (behind American Airlines), and third-largest in terms of total operating revenues (behind Air France-KLM and American Airlines). It employs ...

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• United Airlines - History
• United Airlines - Early beginnings
• United Airlines - Expansion into a national carrier
• United Airlines - Deregulation
• United Airlines - Strike of 1985
• United Airlines - Employee stock ownership
• United Airlines - Recent developments
• United Airlines - Operation Bojinka and September 11
• United Airlines - Bankruptcy and reorganization
• United Airlines - Destinations
• United Airlines - Routes
• United Airlines - Fleet
• United Airlines - Alliances and partners
• United Airlines - Incidents and Accidents
• United Airlines - Directors

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The Kashmir earthquake (also known as the Northern Pakistan earthquake or South Asia earthquake) of 2005 was a major seismological disturbance (earthquake) that occurred at 08:50:38 Pakistan Standard Time (03:50:38 UTC, 09:20:38 India Standard Time, 08:50:38 local time at epicenter) on October 8, 2005 with the epicenter in the Pakistan-administered region of the disputed territory of Kashmir in South Asia. It registered 7.6 on the moment magnitude scale making it a major earthquake similar in intensity to the 1935 Quetta earthquake, the 2 ...

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• 2005 Kashmir earthquake - The earthquake
• 2005 Kashmir earthquake - Casualties
• 2005 Kashmir earthquake - Confirmed casualties
• 2005 Kashmir earthquake - Estimated casualties
• 2005 Kashmir earthquake - Damage
• 2005 Kashmir earthquake - Pakistan
• 2005 Kashmir earthquake - India
• 2005 Kashmir earthquake - Afghanistan
• 2005 Kashmir earthquake - Rescue and relief operations
• 2005 Kashmir earthquake - Pakistan
• 2005 Kashmir earthquake - India
• 2005 Kashmir earthquake - International response

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USS Stephen Potter (DD-538), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Ensign Stephen Potter (1896–1918), a naval aviator during World War I. Stephen Potter (DD-538) was laid down on 27 October 1942 by the Bethlehem Steel Co., San Francisco, Calif.; launched on 28 April 1943; sponsored by Sally and Marian Potter, nieces of Ensign Potter; and commissi ...

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• USS Stephen Potter DD-538 - 1944
• USS Stephen Potter DD-538 - 1945
• USS Stephen Potter DD-538 - 1951 – 1958

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By category Medieval 16th Century - 17th Century 18th Century -19th Century 20th Century - Contemporary Chronological list Writers by category Novelists - Playwrights Poets - Essayists Short Story Writers Claude Simon (10 October 1913 – 6 July 2005) was the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature who in his novels combined the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition. He was born in Tananarive/A ...

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• Claude Simon - Works

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Weatherman, also known as the Weather Underground Organization and, colloquially, sometimes 'the Weathermen', was a U.S. Radical Left organization consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society. Its members referred to themselves as a "revolutionary organization of communist women and men," and carried out guerrilla actions, now often characterized as terrorist, to achieve the revolutionary overthrow of the government of the United States. The group collapsed shortly after the U ...

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• Weatherman organization - Background
• Weatherman organization - Chronology of events

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The Council of Europe is an international organisation of 46 member states in the European region. Membership is open to all European states which accept the principle of the rule of law and guarantee fundamental human rights and freedoms to their citizens. One of the main successes of the Council was the European Convention on Human Rights in 1950, which serves as the basis for the European Court of Human Rights. The seat of the Council of Europe is in Strasbourg on the Franco-German border. Originally meeting in Strasbourg's University Palace, it is now domiciled in t ...

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• Council of Europe - Founding
• Council of Europe - Aims
• Council of Europe - Institutions
• Council of Europe - Symbols
• Council of Europe - Membership

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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (13 September 1521–4 August 1598), was an English politician, the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign (17 November 1558–24 March 1603), and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley - Early Life. Cecil was born in Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1520, the son of Richard Cecil, owner of the Burghley estate (then in Northamptonshire, now in Cambridgeshire), and his wife Jane Heckington. The estate is today open to the publi ...

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• William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley - Early Life
• William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley - Early Career
• William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley - Reign of Elizabeth I of England
• William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley - Later Years
• William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley - Private Life
• William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley - Nicholas White

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The USS Vermont (BB-20), a Connecticut-class battleship, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the 14th state. Her keel was laid down on May 21, 1904 at Quincy, Massachusetts, by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company. The Vermont was launched on August 31, 1905 sponsored by Miss Jennie Bell, the daughter of Governor Charles J. Bell of Vermont, and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard o ...

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• USS Vermont BB-20 - External link

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The history of USS Vestal (AR-4) began when Erie (Fleet Collier No. 1) was authorized on 17 April 1904; but the ship was renamed Vestal in October 1905, well before her keel was laid down on 25 March 1907 at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y. Launched on 19 May 1908, Vestal was placed in service as a fleet collier, with a civilian crew, at her builders' yard on 4 October 1909. Vestal served the fleet as a collier, operating along the Atlantic coast and in the West Indies, from the autumn o ...

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The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. Its sister paper, The Sunday Telegraph, was founded in 1961. In November 2005, the Telegraph was the highest selling British broadsheet, with a certified average daily circulation of 904,955. This compared with a circulation of 692,581 for The Times, 261,193 for The Independent, and 378,618 for The Guardian1. [Audit Bureau of Circulations Ltd.] According to a MORI survey conducted in 2004, 61% of Telegr ...

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• The Daily Telegraph - Editorial history
• The Daily Telegraph - Editors
• The Daily Telegraph - Founding history
• The Daily Telegraph - The Sunday Telegraph
• The Daily Telegraph - Editors
• The Daily Telegraph - Recent history
• The Daily Telegraph - Notable mistakes
• The Daily Telegraph - Notes

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The United States Navy's first battleship was the first to bear the name USS Texas, in honor of Texas, a region that, after being taken from its natives by first Spain and then Mexico, and later becoming an independent republic, was admitted to the United States as the 28th state on 29 December 1845. Texas was authorized by the U.S. Congress on 3 August 1886. She was built from British plans developed for a design com ...

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Auschwitz is the name loosely used to identify three main Nazi German concentration camps and 45-50 sub-camps. The name is derived from the German name for the nearby Polish town of Oświęcim, situated about 60 km southwest of Kraków. Beginning in 1940, Nazi Germany built several concentration camps and an extermination camp in the area, which at the time had been annexed by Nazi Germany. T ...

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• Auschwitz concentration camp - The camp
• Auschwitz concentration camp - Auschwitz I
• Auschwitz concentration camp - Auschwitz II Birkenau
• Auschwitz concentration camp - Auschwitz III and satellite camps
• Auschwitz concentration camp - Knowledge of the Allies
• Auschwitz concentration camp - Evacuation and liberation
• Auschwitz concentration camp - After the war
• Auschwitz concentration camp - Other Controversies

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Cyberpunk (a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk) is a sub-genre of science fiction that focuses on advanced technology such as computers or information technology, usually coupled with some degree of breakdown in the social order. The plot of cyberpunk writing often centres on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and mega corporations, tending to be set within a near-future Earth, rather than the "outer space" locales prevalent in science fiction at the time of cyberpunk's inception. The cities of this future typically ...

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• Cyberpunk - Style
• Cyberpunk - Literature
• Cyberpunk - Film and television
• Cyberpunk - Music and fashion
• Cyberpunk - Games
• Cyberpunk - References and notes

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On 5 June the troops at Benares mutinied, but were disarmed by General Neill; and on 6 June the 6th Native Infantry at Allahabad mutinied and shot down their officers, but the fort was held until the arrival of Neill, who promptly restored order. On 30 June Sir Henry Havelock, who had been appointed to the command of the relieving column, arrived at Allahabad from Calcutta, and on 7 July he set out for the relief of Lucknow. His force consisted of some two thousand men all told, of whom three-quarters were British. On 12 July h ...

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Siege of Lucknow, Siege of Lucknow - Background to the siege, Siege of Lucknow - Mutiny begins - Lawrence Besieged, Siege of Lucknow - First attack successfully repulsed, Siege of Lucknow - First relief of Lucknow, Siege of Lucknow - Havelock's column - attempts to reach Lucknow, Siege of Lucknow - Siege resumes on a large scale, Siege of Lucknow - Further developments elsewhere, Siege of Lucknow - Second Relief

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Upon commissioning, Inflexible was assigned to the Nore Division of the British Home Fleet. On 26 May 1911, she was in a collision with the battleship Bellerophon, and suffered bow damage. She was under refit and repair through November, where her fore funnel was also raised by 6 feet. On the outbreak of World War I Inflexible was flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet. Between 4 and 10 August 1914 she was engaged in the pursuit of Goeben and Breslau, before being ordered back to Britain on 19 August 1914. Bet ...

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HMS Inflexible 1907, HMS Inflexible 1907 - Career, HMS Inflexible 1907 - External link

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The party was launched on 6 July 1985 under the auspices of the Fiji Trade Union Congress, at the Fiji Teachers Association hall in Suva. It faced its first electoral test in municipal elections held three months later, when it won control of the Suva City Council and its candidate, Bob Kumar was elected Lord Mayor. The FLP also won seats on the Labasa, Nadi, and Ba Town Councils, and subsequently secured ...

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Fiji Labour Party, Fiji Labour Party - Early history, Fiji Labour Party - The People's Coalition and the Coup of 2000, Fiji Labour Party - Post-coup developments, Fiji Labour Party - 2005 Municipal poll, Fiji Labour Party - Towards 2006, Fiji Labour Party - Negotiations with the NFP, Fiji Labour Party - Negotiations with NAP UPP

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