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Counter-Strike is a team-based FPS in which players join either the Terrorists (T's) or the Counter-Terrorists (CT's). Server settings may automatically balance when one team has more players than the other. Each round starts with the two teams spawning simultaneously, as one of eight different default character models (four to choose from for both Counter-Terrorist and Terrorist. Counter-Strike: Condition Zero added two extra models, bringing the total to ten). Each player generally starts with $800, two magazines of ammunitio ...

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Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike - Gameplay, Counter-Strike - Bomb Defusal, Counter-Strike - Hostage Rescue, Counter-Strike - Assassination, Counter-Strike - Escape, Counter-Strike - History, Counter-Strike - Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike - Counter-Strike: Source CS:S, Counter-Strike - Map types, Counter-Strike - List of Official Counter-Strike 1.6 maps, Counter-Strike - Player models, Counter-Strike - Counter-Terrorist models, Counter-Strike - Terrorist models, Counter-Strike - Other models, Counter-Strike - Culture, Counter-Strike - Legacy of Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike - Mods and scripts

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Ansett Australia or Ansett was a major Australian domestic and international airline. The airline failed financially in 2001 and the majority of its assets have since been liquidated. The airline operated for 66 years. Ansett - History. The company was started by Reg Ansett in 1935 as Ansett Airways Pty. Ltd. The business floated in 1937, and was contracting for the USAAF during the war. The post-war years were marked with numerous acquisitions, including Australian National Airways (1957). The airli ...

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• Ansett - History
• Ansett - Ansett New Zealand
• Ansett - Sponsorship

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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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The Honourable Annette Faye King (born 13 September 1947) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the governing Labour Party, and currently serves in Cabinet as Minister of Health and Minister of Food Safety. King was born in Murchison, a town in the West Coast region. After receiving primary and secondary education in Murchison, she attended the University of Waikato and gained a BA degree. She then obtained a post-graduate diploma in dental nursing, and worked as a dental nurse from 1967 to 1981. She was a tutor ...

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The Right Honourable Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an Englishman, and a British admiral who won fame as a leading naval commander. He is famous for his participation in the Napoleonic Wars, most notably in the Battle of Trafalgar, where he lost his life. He became the greatest naval hero in the history of the United Kingdom, eclipsing Admiral Robert Blake in fame, and is one of the most famous naval commanders in world history. His biography by the poet Robert Southey appeared in 1 ...

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• Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson - Early life
• Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson - Command
• Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson - Admiralty
• Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson - Trafalgar
• Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson - Legacy
• Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson - Monuments to Nelson
• Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson - Nelson and the Royal Navy
• Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson - Nelson's descendants
• Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson - Literary influences
• Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson - Last words
• Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson - Tapping the Admiral
• Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson - Titles

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Jerusalem (31°46′N 35°14′E; Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ▶ (help·info); Yerushalayim; Arabic: القُدس ▶ (help·info) al-Quds; (alternative Arabic found in Bible translations: أُورْشَلِيم Urshalim); see also names of Jerusalem) is an ancient Middle Eastern city. It is the holiest city of Judaism and is of key importance to Christianity and Islam. T ...

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• Jerusalem - Name
• Jerusalem - History
• Jerusalem - Status as Israel's capital
• Jerusalem - Palestinian aspirations
• Jerusalem - UN position
• Jerusalem - United States position
• Jerusalem - United Kingdom position
• Jerusalem - Arguments for and against internationalization
• Jerusalem - Religious significance
• Jerusalem - Geography and demography
• Jerusalem - Geography
• Jerusalem - Neighborhoods places and monuments
• Jerusalem - Demographics
• Jerusalem - Tourism
• Jerusalem - Museums
• Jerusalem - Jerusalem today
• Jerusalem - Mayors and government
• Jerusalem - Economy
• Jerusalem - Transportation
• Jerusalem - Roads
• Jerusalem - Buses
• Jerusalem - Railway
• Jerusalem - Airports
• Jerusalem - Born in Jerusalem
• Jerusalem - External reference and links
• Jerusalem - Official site
• Jerusalem - Photographs
• Jerusalem - Maps
• Jerusalem - Status of the city
• Jerusalem - History
• Jerusalem - News and media
• Jerusalem - Institutions
• Jerusalem - Books

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Łódź (pronunciation: ˈwudʑ̥), the second-largest city (population 776,297 in 2004) of Poland, lies in the centre of the country. It serves as the capital of the Łódź Voivodship. In Polish, the word also means 'boat'. Łódź - History. Łódź - Agricultural Łódź. Łódź first appears in the written record in a document giving the village of Łodzia to the bishops of Włocławek in 1332. In ...

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• Łódź - History
• Łódź - Agricultural Łódź
• Łódź - Industrial Łódź
• Łódź - After 1918
• Łódź - World War II
• Łódź - After 1945
• Łódź - Łódź today
• Łódź - Łódź for tourists
• Łódź - The Łódź Film School
• Łódź - Historical population
• Łódź - Famous people from Łódź
• Łódź - Economy
• Łódź - Education
• Łódź - Politics
• Łódź - Łódź constituency
• Łódź - Mayors
• Łódź - Sports

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CSS Patrick Henry was built in New York City in 1853 by the renowned William H. Webb for the Old Dominion Steam Ship Line as the civilian steamer Yorktown, a brigantine-rigged side-wheel steamer. She carried passengers and freight between between Richmond, Virginia and New York City. Yorktown had anchored in the James River when Virginia seceded from the Union on 17 April 1861 and was seized and turned over to the Confederate Navy. Commander John Randolph Tucker, who commanded the newly organized James River Squadron, directed that Yorktown be converted into a gunboat and renamed P ...

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Clement Lindley Wragge (19 September 1852 - 10 December 1922) was a meteorologist born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England. After training in law, Wragge became renowned in the field of meteorology, winning the Scottish Meteorological Society's Gold Medal and starting the trend of using people's names for cyclones. He travelled widely, and in his later years was a reliable authority on Australia, India and the Pacific Islands. Clement Lindley Wragge - Early Years. Wragge's lost both of his parents at a ...

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• Clement Lindley Wragge - Early Years
• Clement Lindley Wragge - Meteorology
• Clement Lindley Wragge - Later Years
• Clement Lindley Wragge - Sources

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Counter-Strike (CS) is the generic name given to a series of team-based tactical shooter games which originate with Counter-Strike, a total conversion mod of Valve Software's first-person shooter Half-Life. The series also includes Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and Counter-Strike: Source. Counter-Strike pits a team of counter-terrorists against a team of terrorists in rounds of competition won by completing an objective or eliminating the opposing team. The ...

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• Counter-Strike - Gameplay
• Counter-Strike - Bomb Defusal
• Counter-Strike - Hostage Rescue
• Counter-Strike - Assassination
• Counter-Strike - Escape
• Counter-Strike - History
• Counter-Strike - Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
• Counter-Strike - Counter-Strike: Source CS:S
• Counter-Strike - Map types
• Counter-Strike - List of Official Counter-Strike 1.6 maps
• Counter-Strike - Player models
• Counter-Strike - Counter-Terrorist models
• Counter-Strike - Terrorist models
• Counter-Strike - Other models
• Counter-Strike - Culture
• Counter-Strike - Legacy of Counter-Strike
• Counter-Strike - Mods and scripts

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The War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748). Maria Theresa of Austria succeeded her father Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor in his Habsburg dominions in 1740, namely becoming Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, and Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla. For a woman to inherit such vast territories involved many complications, which were perceived long before, and Emperor Charles VI had long anticipated them, getting all the other powers to agree to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. The plan was for her to succeed ...

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• War of the Austrian Succession - Frederick Invades Silesia: 1740
• War of the Austrian Succession - Silesian Campaign of 1741
• War of the Austrian Succession - The Allies in Bohemia
• War of the Austrian Succession - Campaign of 1742
• War of the Austrian Succession - The French at Prague
• War of the Austrian Succession - The campaign of 1743
• War of the Austrian Succession - The campaign of 1744
• War of the Austrian Succession - The campaign of 1745
• War of the Austrian Succession - Operations in Italy 1745-1747
• War of the Austrian Succession - Other theaters of operations
• War of the Austrian Succession - Later campaigns
• War of the Austrian Succession - General character of the War
• War of the Austrian Succession - Naval Operations
• War of the Austrian Succession - See Also

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Build up The Battle Lack of outside support Capitulation Aftereffects Cultural representations Military participants Notable People Facts and figures The Warsaw Uprising (Powstanie Warszawskie) was an armed struggle during the Second World War by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) to liberate Warsaw from German occupation and Nazi rule. It started on August 1, 1944, as a part of a nationwide uprising, Operation Tem ...

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• Warsaw Uprising - Eve of the battle
• Warsaw Uprising - Opposing forces
• Warsaw Uprising - The battle
• Warsaw Uprising - Life behind the front lines
• Warsaw Uprising - Lack of outside support
• Warsaw Uprising - The capitulation
• Warsaw Uprising - Destruction of the city
• Warsaw Uprising - Liberation of the ruins
• Warsaw Uprising - The legacy
• Warsaw Uprising - After the war
• Warsaw Uprising - Note

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On November 18, 1302, Pope Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam sanctam ("The One Holy"), which historians consider one of the most extreme statements of Papal spiritual supremacy ever made. It arose due to the Pope's conflict with Philip IV of France over attempts of each to prevent the other from receiving money from taxes. Unam sanctam - Content. Most significantly, the bull proclaimed, "outside of her (the Church) there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins". (See Extra Ecclesiam Nul ...

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• Unam sanctam - Content
• Unam sanctam - Political context
• Unam sanctam - The response to Unam sanctam

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The 1st Cavalry Division (1st Cav Div) is a heavy armored division of the United States Army with base of operations in Fort Hood, Texas. It is the largest division of the U.S. Army with 16,700 soldiers. Currently the 1st Cavalry Division is attached to the U.S. Army III Corps and is commanded by Major General Joseph F. Fil, Jr. U.S. 1st Cavalry Division - Heraldry. U.S. 1st Cavalry Division - Shoulder Sleeve Insignia. Description: On a yellow triangular Norman shi ...

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• U.S. 1st Cavalry Division - Heraldry
• U.S. 1st Cavalry Division - Shoulder Sleeve Insignia
• U.S. 1st Cavalry Division - Distinctive Unit Insignia
• U.S. 1st Cavalry Division - Pre-World War II organization and history
• U.S. 1st Cavalry Division - Organization
• U.S. 1st Cavalry Division - Formation of permanent Cavalry Divisions
• U.S. 1st Cavalry Division - 1920s and 1930s
• U.S. 1st Cavalry Division - World War II to 1960s
• U.S. 1st Cavalry Division - Vietnam
• U.S. 1st Cavalry Division - First Gulf War and beyond
• U.S. 1st Cavalry Division - Current organization

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Image:William Sowders.jpg (born 13 September 1879, died 20 November 1952) Born in Louisville, KY, USA, he worked as a policeman and a fisherman before receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost in 1913 near Paducah. He pastored a church in Louisville until his death, and in 1935 opened the “Kingdom of the Gospel” campground in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, where his teachings were adopted and spread by other pastors. Although without a formal doctrinal statement, most of the Sowders churches beliefs include: two persons in the Godhead; n ...

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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 Sacred College of Cardinals is the body of all Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church. The body plays two roles for the church: participating in papal elections when the Holy See is vacant, and advising the Pope about Church matters when he summons them to a consistory. Historically, they were also the clergy of the city of Rome serving the Pope as the Bishop of Rome and were assigned duties in parishes of the city. The College has no ruling power except during the sede vacante period, where its powers are still extr ...

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• College of Cardinals - Choosing the pope
• College of Cardinals - Members of the College of Cardinals
• College of Cardinals - Cardinals of the Order of Bishops
• College of Cardinals - Cardinals of the Order of Priests
• College of Cardinals - Cardinals of the Order of Deacons

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11th millennium and beyond - Eras. 428,899: The last year of the Kali Yuga, the current and last of four Hindu Yugas (eras). 11th millennium and beyond - Technology. December 4, 292,277,026,596: 64-bit Unix time resets to zero. 11th millennium and beyond - Astronomical events. This section will list several rare astronomical events happening after the year 10000. All dates are in a uniform time scale like Terr ...

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• 11th millennium and beyond - Science fiction
• 11th millennium and beyond - Eras
• 11th millennium and beyond - Technology
• 11th millennium and beyond - Astronomical events
• 11th millennium and beyond - Coincidences of nodes of planets
• 11th millennium and beyond - Special Transits
• 11th millennium and beyond - Occultations of bright stars by planets

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Mahima Chaudhry was a model before she became a Bollywood actress, once appearing with Aishwarya Rai in a Pepsi commercial. Her first breakthrough performance, where she won rave reviews, was Pardes (1997) as Ganga, the love interest of two men played by Shah Rukh Khan and Apoorva Agnihotri. The role of Ganga was a village girl who still values her culture. She was chosen to be the female lead among about 3,000 applicants who auditioned for Pardes. Her career was launched by Subhash Ghai who had also launched the careers of pop ...

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Mahima Chaudhry, Mahima Chaudhry - Biography, Mahima Chaudhry - Filmography

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Italy declared war on Britain and France on 10 June 1940. O'Connor was appointed Commander of the Western Desert Force, and tasked to protect Egypt and the Suez Canal from Italian attack. To accomplish this, O'Connor planned to use a screen of light tanks and armored cars, supported by artillery, to delay the Italians led by Marshal Rodolfo Graziani. In command of this delaying force was Brigadier General Gott. Meanwhile, the main force was to retreat towards Mersa Matruh and the Baggush Box where strong fixed defences had been prepared. These would stop the Italians long enough for re ...

See also:

Richard O'Connor, Richard O'Connor - Early life and the First World War, Richard O'Connor - Inter-War years, Richard O'Connor - The Italian Offensive and Operation Compass, Richard O'Connor - The tide turns and capture, Richard O'Connor - VIII Corps and Normandy, Richard O'Connor - Operation Market Garden India and afterwards

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