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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Originating in Columbus, Ohio, the Bush family in the 20th century became an accomplished political family in the United States. In January 2005, The Economist described the Bush family as the most successful political dynasty in U.S. history. Bush family - Family tree. The following is an approximate family tree of some of the members of the Bush family: George Bush (1796-1859) a biblical scholar and distant relative Samuel P. Bush (1863-1948), a close advisor to President Hoov ...

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• Bush family - Family tree
• Bush family - Ancestors
• Bush family - Obadiah Newcomb Bush
• Bush family - Timothy Bush Jr.
• Bush family - Timothy Bush
• Bush family - Richard Bush
• Bush family - Connections to other prominent families
• Bush family - Anne Hutchinson
• Bush family - Pierce family connections
• Bush family - Kerry family connections

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Mesaba Airlines (IATA: XJ, ICAO: MES, and Callsign: Mesaba) is an American regional airline based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The airline operates under Mesaba Aviation, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of MAIR Holdings. All of its flights are operated under the name Northwest Airlink for Northwest Airlines. Mesaba Airlines - History. Mesaba was founded in 1944 in Coleraine, Minnesota to shuttle employees of the Blandin Paper Company from Grand Rapids, Minnesota to Minneapolis. ...

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• Mesaba Airlines - History
• Mesaba Airlines - Destinations
• Mesaba Airlines - Fleet
• Mesaba Airlines - Sources

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Christoph Cardinal Schönborn OP (who would have been Count Christoph Maria Michael Hugo Damian Peter Adalbert von Schönborn if Austrian law on nobility were not in place), born on January 22, 1945 at Skalken castle west of Leitmeritz, in Bohemia, which is now in the Czech Republic) is an Austrian cardinal. He has been Archbishop of Vienna since 1995. Schönborn succeeded Hans Hermann Groër. Christoph Cardinal Schönborn - Biography. Schönborn is the second son of the Count Hugo-Damian von Schönb ...

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• Christoph Cardinal Schönborn - Biography
• Christoph Cardinal Schönborn - Statement on evolution

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Burn is a village some three miles south of Selby, North Yorkshire. The village is mainly situated around the main A19 road with the addition of a small housing estate built in the mid 1960s to the west of the main road. To the east of the A19 is Burn Airfield, built in 1942 as a bomber base in World War II. The airfield is now used by Burn Gliding Club, but may in the future be developed as the site of the European Spallation Source (ESS), a nuclear facility to generate neutrons by spallation. Outline planning permission for the ESS was condition ...

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Moses ben Samuel Sofer (or Schreiber), known to Jews as the Hatam Sofer, or the Ch'sam Soifer, (after his main work "שו"ת חתם סופר" - "Responsa 'Hatam Sofer", lit. "Seal of the Writer"), was one of the leading rabbis of European Judaism in the 1800s. His German name was Moses Schreiber. Moses Sofer - Early years. Sofer was born in Germany at Frankfort-on-the-Main 14 September 1763; he died at Pressburg (now Bratislava) 3 October 1839. His mother's name was Reisil. At th ...

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• Moses Sofer - Early years
• Moses Sofer - Education
• Moses Sofer - Boskowitz and Mattersdorf
• Moses Sofer - Fight against changes in Judaism
• Moses Sofer - Influence

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Ayumi Hamasaki (浜崎 あゆみ Hamasaki Ayumi, born October 2, 1978) is a Japanese pop singer and Japanese idol originally from Fukuoka. In Japan, she is commonly called by her nickname Ayu. To this date, she has released seven full-length studio albums, one mini-album, two compilation albums, and 38 singles. She officially debuted in 1998 with her single poker face. She is the first Japanese artist to have her first original seven studio albums top the charts. Ayumi Hamasaki - Biography. Including:

• Ayumi Hamasaki - Biography
• Ayumi Hamasaki - Idol Career
• Ayumi Hamasaki - As an Artist
• Ayumi Hamasaki - NOTHING FROM NOTHING Era
• Ayumi Hamasaki - A Song for XX to LOVEppears Era
• Ayumi Hamasaki - Duty Era
• Ayumi Hamasaki - A BEST to I am... Era
• Ayumi Hamasaki - RAINBOW to A BALLADS Era
• Ayumi Hamasaki - Memorial address to MY STORY
• Ayumi Hamasaki - missunderstood Era
• Ayumi Hamasaki - Symbols
• Ayumi Hamasaki - The first A
• Ayumi Hamasaki - M
• Ayumi Hamasaki - The second A
• Ayumi Hamasaki - H
• Ayumi Hamasaki - &
• Ayumi Hamasaki - Discography
• Ayumi Hamasaki - DVD
• Ayumi Hamasaki - Video Clips
• Ayumi Hamasaki - Short Film
• Ayumi Hamasaki - DVDs
• Ayumi Hamasaki - DVD Audio
• Ayumi Hamasaki - OTHERS

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The Gregorian calendar is the calendar that is used nearly everywhere in the world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first proposed by the Neapolitan doctor Aloysius Lilius, and was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, for whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 (Note: The papal bull Inter gravissimas was signed in the year 1581 for unknown reasons, but printed on 1 March 1582. Although the use of the date 1581 is often attributed to the supposed adoption by the papacy of a reckoning by which the year began on 25 March, other contemporaneous papal bulls have years that do not agree with March years, let alo ...

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• Gregorian calendar - History
• Gregorian calendar - Invention
• Gregorian calendar - Beginning of the year
• Gregorian calendar - Adoption outside of Roman Catholic nations
• Gregorian calendar - Proleptic Gregorian calendar
• Gregorian calendar - Confusion with British vs. American usage
• Gregorian calendar - Difference between Gregorian and Julian calendar dates
• Gregorian calendar - Months of the year
• Gregorian calendar - Accuracy
• Gregorian calendar - Calendar seasonal error
• Gregorian calendar - Numerical facts
• Gregorian calendar - Number of leap years starting on a given day of the week
• Gregorian calendar - Days of the week
• Gregorian calendar - Reference

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The Most Noble Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, widely considered one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. Commissioned an Ensign in the British Army, he would rise to prominence in the Napoleonic Wars, eventually reaching the rank of Field Marshal. Wellington commanded the Allied forces during the Peninsular War, pushing the French Army out of Portugal and Spain and reaching southern Fran ...

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• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - Early life
• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - Napoleonic Wars
• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - Wellington as soldier
• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - Later life
• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - Titles & Honours
• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - Peerage of the United Kingdom
• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - British & Irish Honours
• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - International Honours & Titles
• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - Nicknames
• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - Trivia
• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - The Duke of Wellington's Government January 1828–November 1830
• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - The Duke of Wellington's Caretaker Government November 1834–December 1834
• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - References
• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - External links

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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 Battle of the Boyne was a turning point in the Williamite war in Ireland between the deposed King James II of England and VII of Scotland and his son-in-law and successor, William, for the English, Scottish and Irish thrones. It took place on July 1, 1690 (as a consequence of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar the battle is now commemorated on July 12) just outside of the town of Drogheda on Ireland's east coast. Though not militarily decisive, its symbolic importance has made it one of the most infamous battles in British and ...

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• Battle of the Boyne - A sectarian battle?
• Battle of the Boyne - The competing sides
• Battle of the Boyne - Commanders
• Battle of the Boyne - Armies
• Battle of the Boyne - The Battle
• Battle of the Boyne - Aftermath
• Battle of the Boyne - Commemoration of the Battle
• Battle of the Boyne - The Twelfth in Ireland today
• Battle of the Boyne - The battlefield today
• Battle of the Boyne - Sources

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The 1916 Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the First World War, with more than one million casualties. The British and French forces attempted to break through the German lines along a 25 mile (40 km) front north and south of the River Somme in northern France. One purpose of the battle was to draw German forces away from the battle of Verdun; however, by its end the losses on the Somme had exceeded those at Verdun. The battle is best remembered for its first day, 1 July 1916, on which the British suffered 57,470 casualties of which 19,240 were killed or died of wounds. ...

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• Battle of the Somme 1916 - Prelude
• Battle of the Somme 1916 - The first day on the Somme
• Battle of the Somme 1916 - Aftermath of the first day
• Battle of the Somme 1916 - Battle of Bazentin Ridge
• Battle of the Somme 1916 - Pozières and Mouquet Farm
• Battle of the Somme 1916 - Attrition: August and September
• Battle of the Somme 1916 - Tank!
• Battle of the Somme 1916 - The final phase
• Battle of the Somme 1916 - Conclusion
• Battle of the Somme 1916 - Casualties

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Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is a British journalist, author, and literary critic. He was educated at The Leys School Cambridge and Balliol College, Oxford. Hitchens lives in Washington, DC, and has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Nation, Slate, and an occasional contributor to many other publications. Hitchens is known for his iconoclasm, anti-clericalism, and anti-fascism, as well as for his acid wit and his departure from the Anglo-American political left. He was formerly a social ...

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• Christopher Hitchens - Political views
• Christopher Hitchens - Early career
• Christopher Hitchens - Theocratic fascism and early disagreements with the Left
• Christopher Hitchens - Post-9/11
• Christopher Hitchens - Where he stands now
• Christopher Hitchens - Key points
• Christopher Hitchens - Trotsky
• Christopher Hitchens - Vietnam
• Christopher Hitchens - Israel-Palestine
• Christopher Hitchens - Mother Teresa
• Christopher Hitchens - Yugoslavia
• Christopher Hitchens - Iraq
• Christopher Hitchens - Praise for and criticism of Hitchens
• Christopher Hitchens - Relationship with brother Peter
• Christopher Hitchens - Works by Hitchens

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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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The Ulster Volunteer Force (more commonly referred to as the UVF or by some of its supporters The Peoples Army) is a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. The current incarnation was formed in May 1966 and named after the UVF of 1912. The original UVF was formed by Edward Carson and James Craig as a Unionist militia in the tensions surrounding the potential success of the third Home Rule campaign. Some contemporary estimates put its membership at over 100,000. Carson and Craig, supported by some English Conser ...

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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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Politics Politics Portal Politics by country Political campaigns Political science Political philosophy Ideology History of democracy Direct democracy Representative democracy Participatory democracy Soviet democracy Liberal democracy Referendum Representation Voting Voting systems Elections by country Elections by date Parties by country Parties by name Parties by i ...

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• Voting - Types of votes
• Voting - Issues

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The New Year is an event that happens when a culture celebrates the end of one year and the beginning of the next. Cultures that measure yearly calendars all have New Year celebrations. New Year - Modern new year celebrations. Further information: New Year's Eve & New Year's Day The most common modern celebrations are: 1 January : The first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar used by most developed countries. Rosh Ha ...

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• New Year - Modern new year celebrations
• New Year - Historical dates for the new year
• New Year - Trivia

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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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In 1986, 17-year-old Ben Edlund created The Tick as a mascot for the newsletter of New England Comics in Boston, where he was a customer on occasion. The character, which bore an uncanny resemblance in costume and personality to The Cockroach from Cerebus the Aardvark, became popular and the store financed a few black and white comic books, written and illustrated by Edlund and featuring the character. ...

See also:

The Tick, The Tick - Franchise history, The Tick - Comic book, The Tick - Characters in the comic book, The Tick - Animated series, The Tick - Characters in the animated series, The Tick - List of episodes in the animated series, The Tick - Live-action series, The Tick - Characters in the live-action series, The Tick - List of episodes in the live-action series, The Tick - Sources

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