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Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935 in Paide) is an Estonian composer, often identified with the school of minimalism and more specifically, that of "holy minimalism" or "sacred minimalism". He is considered a pioneer of this style, along with contemporaries Henryk Gorecki and John Tavener. Arvo Pärt is best known for his choral works. Arvo Pärt - Biography. Even in Estonia, Arvo was getting the same feeling that we were all getting. [...] I love his music, and I love the fact that he is such a br ...

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• Arvo Pärt - Biography
• Arvo Pärt - Well-known works
• Arvo Pärt - Works for voices and orchestra
• Arvo Pärt - Works for voices and ensemble or piano
• Arvo Pärt - Works for chorus and organ
• Arvo Pärt - Orchestral works
• Arvo Pärt - Works for solo instruments and orchestra
• Arvo Pärt - Instrumental works
• Arvo Pärt - Printed sources

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Ylva Anna Maria Lindh (19 June 1957 – 11 September 2003) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician who served as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her assassination in 2003. She previously served as Minister for the Environment from 1994 to 1998. Anna Lindh was married to Bo Holmberg, the Governor of Södermanland, with whom she had two sons, named David and Filip. Anna Lindh - Political career. Lindh was born in Including:

• Anna Lindh - Political career
• Anna Lindh - Assassination
• Anna Lindh - Reaction

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The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force was a small volunteer force, approximately 2,000 men, raised in Australia shortly after the outbreak of the First World War to seize and destroy German wireless stations in the south-west Pacific. (New Zealand provided a similar force for the capture of Samoa.) Britain required the German wireless installations to be destroyed because they were used by the German East Asian Cruiser Squadron of Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee which threatened merchant shipping in the region. Follow ...

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• Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force - Formation
• Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force - Landing at Rabaul
• Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force - German surrender

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Blur is the name of a British rock band. Originally called Seymour, Blur formed in London in 1989 from the remnants of a band called Circus. Vocalist/keyboardist Damon Albarn, guitarist/backing vocalist Graham Coxon and drummer Dave Rowntree, with bassist Alex James joining the lineup. Blur - History. Blur - Roots and Influence. Blur were one of the British bands who appeared in the wake of the Stone Roses's eponymous album, mixing psychedelic pop rock with very loud guit ...

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• Blur - History
• Blur - Roots and Influence
• Blur - Breakthrough and rising to success 1991-1993
• Blur - Britpop and the Height of Fame 1994-1998
• Blur - Post Britpop 1999-present
• Blur - Music
• Blur - Discography
• Blur - Studio Albums
• Blur - Compilations & Live Albums and Box Sets
• Blur - Fanclub CDs
• Blur - Samples

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Alberta Christine Williams King (September 13, 1903 – June 30, 1974) was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mother and the wife of Martin Luther King, Sr. She played a significant role in the affairs of the Ebenezer Baptist Church where both her husband and her son preached. King was shot dead in the church six years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Alberta Williams King - Early Life 1904-1926. She was born Alberta Christine Williams, the only daughter of A.D. Williams, who was then the head of th ...

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• Alberta Williams King - Early Life 1904-1926
• Alberta Williams King - Family and Church Life 1926-1968
• Alberta Williams King - Family Tragedies 1968-1974
• Alberta Williams King - External References

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William Avery "Billy" Bishop VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED (February 8, 1894 – September 11, 1956) was a Canadian World War I flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, the highest number for a British Empire pilot. Billy Bishop was born on 8 February 1894, in Owen Sound, Ontario. He was the third of four children born to William A. and Margaret Bishop. His father, a lawyer and graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, was the Registrar of Grey County. In 1911, at the age of 17, Billy Bishop entered the Roy ...

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Belfast International Airport (IATA: BFS, ICAO: EGAA) is an airport located some 24 km (15 miles) west of Belfast in Northern Ireland. It is also known as Aldergrove, after the village of that name lying immediately to the west of the airport. Belfast International shares its runways with the Royal Air Force base RAF Aldergrove, which otherwise has its own facilites. Belfast International Airport - Timeline. November 1917: Aldergrove selected to be the Royal Flying Corps training establi ...

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• Belfast International Airport - Timeline
• Belfast International Airport - Key facts
• Belfast International Airport - Airlines and destinations
• Belfast International Airport - External link

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AIR is a name under which Kurumatani Koji releases his songs. He started AIR two months after SPIRAL LIFE broke up in April 1996. Air Japanese band - Discography. Air Japanese band - Singles. 'AIR' (26 June 1996) 'TODAY' (30 April 1997) 'KIDS ARE ALRIGHT' (10 September 1997) 'MY RHYME' (8 October 1997) 'Heavenly' (26 August 1998) 'Hello' (9 December 1998) 'LIBERAL' (8 May 1999) 'No more Dolly' (1 July 19 ...

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• Air Japanese band - Discography
• Air Japanese band - Singles
• Air Japanese band - Albums
• Air Japanese band - DVD
• Air Japanese band - External link

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1st Marine Division "First Mar Div" "The Old Breed" No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy United States Marine Corps 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Marine Infantry Division. Capable of short notice world wide deployment. Locate, close with and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver or repel the enemy's assault with fire and close combat. Marine Corps Base Camp PendletonIncluding:

• U.S. 1st Marine Division - History
• U.S. 1st Marine Division - World War II
• U.S. 1st Marine Division - Korean War
• U.S. 1st Marine Division - Vietnam War
• U.S. 1st Marine Division - Desert Shield/Storm
• U.S. 1st Marine Division - 1990s
• U.S. 1st Marine Division - Iraq War
• U.S. 1st Marine Division - Organization

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The 2003 Invasion of Iraq began on March 20, consisting primarily of United States and United Kingdom forces; 98% of the forces came from these two countries, although numerous other nations also participated. The 2003 Iraq invasion marked the beginning of what is commonly referred to as the Iraq War. Iraq's elite Republican Guard units were defeated April 2, and Baghdad fell on April 9th, 2003. On May 1, 2003, U.S. president George W. Bush declared the end of major combat operations, terminating the Ba'ath Party's rule and removing I ...

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• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Political and diplomatic aspects
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Military aspects
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Prelude
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Rationale
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Weapons of mass destruction
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Sanctions
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Human Rights
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Libyan disarmament
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Purported links between the government of Iraq and terrorist organizations
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Legitimacy and legality
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Invasion legitimacy
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Countries supporting and opposing the invasion
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Legality of the invasion
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Opposition view of the invasion
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Invasion
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Opening attack
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Special Operations
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Fall of Baghdad April 2003
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Other areas
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Summary of the invasion
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Security looting and war damage
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - End of major combat operations May 2003
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Deaths
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Related propaganda and phrases
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Media coverage
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Veterans Organizations

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The British Mandate of Palestine was a territory in the Middle East including the modern territories of Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip, formerly belonging to the Ottoman Empire, which the League of Nations entrusted to the United Kingdom to administer in the aftermath of World War I as a Mandate Territory. British Mandate of Palestine - Establishment of British League of Nations mandate. British interest in Zionism dates to the rise in importance of the British Empire's South Asian enterpr ...

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• British Mandate of Palestine - Establishment of British League of Nations mandate
• British Mandate of Palestine - Palestinian Arab opposition to Jewish immigration
• British Mandate of Palestine - Great Uprising
• British Mandate of Palestine - World War II and the Nazi Holocaust
• British Mandate of Palestine - Division of Palestine by United Nations
• British Mandate of Palestine - Population of the British Mandate of Palestine
• British Mandate of Palestine - British High Commissioners for Palestine
• British Mandate of Palestine - For further reading
• British Mandate of Palestine - Notes

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Cardinal Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J., (April 1, 1911 in Huta Komorowska, Poland) is Archbishop of Lusaka (Zambia) and Cardinal. He was ordained for the Jesuits on 24 June 1937. In 1939 he and 24 confrères were arrested by the Gestapo in Kraków and then sent to Auschwitz. Six months later he was transferred to Dachau, where he remained until the end of the war. After his release the Vicar General proposed that he go to then-Northern Rhodesia, where the Polish Jesuits had a mission. He taught there for several years until be ...

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The Airbus A320 is a short to medium range commercial passenger aircraft manufactured by Airbus. It was the first airliner with a digital fly-by-wire flight control system, where the pilot controls flight surfaces through the use of electronic signals rather than mechanically with pulleys and hydraulic systems. Airbus A320 - History. After the initial success of the Airbus A300, Airbus began developing a successor to the world's most popular aircraft at the time, the Boeing 727. The new Airbus would be of t ...

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• Airbus A320 - History
• Airbus A320 - In service
• Airbus A320 - Technology
• Airbus A320 - Variants
• Airbus A320 - A320
• Airbus A320 - A319
• Airbus A320 - A321
• Airbus A320 - A318
• Airbus A320 - A320 market share
• Airbus A320 - Accident summary
• Airbus A320 - Specifications A320
• Airbus A320 - General characteristics
• Airbus A320 - Performance
• Airbus A320 - Related content

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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 - Chronology of events

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Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 - 10 November 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. He is usually referred to, especially in older literature, as Aldrovandus. Aldrovandi's noble family sent him to apprentice with merchants, but he found his vocation, after studying humanities and law at the universities of Bologna and Padua and becoming a notary. Successively his interests went out to philosophy and logic which he combined with the study of m ...

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• Ulisse Aldrovandi - Honors

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David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, prolific and controversial English writers of the 20th century, whose output spans novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. These works, taken together, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, sexuality, and instinctive behaviour, making hi ...

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• D. H. Lawrence - Life
• D. H. Lawrence - Early life 1885-1912
• D. H. Lawrence - Blithe spirits 1912-1914
• D. H. Lawrence - The nightmare 1914-1919
• D. H. Lawrence - The savage pilgrimage begins 1919-1922
• D. H. Lawrence - Seeking a new world 1922-1925
• D. H. Lawrence - Approaching death 1925-1930
• D. H. Lawrence - Posthumous reputation
• D. H. Lawrence - Works
• D. H. Lawrence - Poetry
• D. H. Lawrence - Quotations
• D. H. Lawrence - List of Lawrence's writings
• D. H. Lawrence - Novels
• D. H. Lawrence - Short stories
• D. H. Lawrence - Poetry
• D. H. Lawrence - Plays
• D. H. Lawrence - Non-fiction
• D. H. Lawrence - Travel books
• D. H. Lawrence - Works translated by Lawrence
• D. H. Lawrence - Manuscripts and early drafts of published novels and other works
• D. H. Lawrence - Letters
• D. H. Lawrence - Works about Lawrence
• D. H. Lawrence - Bibliographic resources
• D. H. Lawrence - Biographical studies
• D. H. Lawrence - Literary criticism

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USS Michigan (SSBN/SSGN-727) is the second Ohio-class Nuclear Powered Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine in the United States Navy. She is the third ship to bear the name of the state of Michigan. Michigan was constructed at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut and was commissioned on 11 September 1982. Michigan arrived in Bangor, Washington on 16 M ...

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The second USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), nicknamed "Abe", is the fifth Nimitz-class supercarrier in the United States Navy. The ship is named after former president Abraham Lincoln. Its home port is Everett, Washington. USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72 - Ship history. Abe's contract was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding on 27 December 1982; her keel was laid down 3 November 1984 at Newport News, Virginia. The ship was launched on 13 February 1988 and commissioned on 11 November 1989. Ab ...

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• USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72 - Cultural references
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119 is the natural number following 118 and preceding 120. << 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 >> List of numbers -- Integers << 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 >> 119 number - In mathematics. 119 is the sum of five consecutive primes (17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31). It is a highly cototient number. 119 number - In astronomy. In astronomy ...

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• 119 number - In astronomy
• 119 number - In other fields

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UNMIL is the acronym for the United Nations Mission in Liberia, a peace-keeping force for Liberia, which was established by Resolution 1509 of the United Nations Security Council in 2003. This followed the resignation of President Charles Taylor and the peaceful transfer of power. UNMIL was proposed to consist of up to 15,000 United Nations military personnel and 1,115 police officers, along with a civilian component. UNMIL - History. Civil war in Liberia claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people ...

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• UNMIL - History
• UNMIL - 1997–2003
• UNMIL - Recommendation for the establishment of a UN peacekeeping mission
• UNMIL - Establishment of UNMIL
• UNMIL - External link

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