August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. August 5 - Events. 642 - Battle of Maserfeld - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia 1100 - Henry I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey 1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution. 1583 - Sir Humphrey G ...

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August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining. August 6 - Events. 1538 - Bogota, Colombia founded by Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada. 1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire. 1819 - Norwich University founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States. 1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Spain. 1861 - British ann ...

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August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. August 9 - Events. 48 BC - Roman Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt. AD 378 - Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey. Valens is killed along with 2/3 of his army. 681 - Bulgaria is founded as a ...

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Australian football, which is also known as Australian rules football, or less formally as "Aussie rules" or "footy" is a code of football which originated in Melbourne, Australia. The game is played between two teams of 18 players (plus interchange players), on cricket ovals or similar-sized arenas which vary in size and may be up to 185 metres (200 yards) long; these are much larger than those used by other codes of football. The game is also distinguished from other games by the fast, relatively f ...

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August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. August 27 - Events. 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along the with the Greek victory on the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece ended. 55 BC - Julius Caesar lands in Britain for the first time. AD 410 - Visigo ...

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August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). There are 127 days remaining. August 26 - Events. 55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert 1278 - Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in Moravia. 1346 - Hundred Years' War: The militar ...

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August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 143 days remaining. The term "the 10th of August" is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on August 10, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814. August 10 - Events. 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh. AD 955 - Battle of Lechfeld: O ...

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The Basset Hound is a chunky, short-legged breed of dog of the hound family. They are scent hounds, bred to hunt by scent. Their sense of smell for tracking is second only to that of the Bloodhound. The name Basset derives from the French word "bas" meaning "low" or "dwarf". Basset Hound - Appearance. These dogs are around 33 to 38 cm (13 to 15 inches) in height at the withers. They have smooth, short-haired coats and are generally tricolor (black, tan, and white). These dogs also occur in ope ...

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August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. August 22 - Events. 1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses 1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy 1642 - Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War 1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immi ...

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The following list is an election of famous Austrians. For full lists of all famous Austrians please view the sublists. Note: This list is rather inclusive -- some people on this list can also claim other nationalities; some were born in Austria, but spent the most important part of their lives outside Austria (e.g. Hitler, Schwarzenegger), others were born outside Austria or even outside of Austria-Hungary, but spent the most important part of their lives in Austria (e.g. Beethoven, Elisabeth of Austria). ...

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Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the English West Midlands. It is commonly considered to be England's "second city" and is the largest of England's core cities. The City of Birmingham has a population of 992,400 (2004 estimate). It also forms part of the large West Midlands conurbation, which has a population of 2,284,093 (2001 census) and includes several neighbouring towns and cities, such as Sutton Coldfield, Solihull, Wolverhampton, the towns of the Black ...

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The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States. It is coterminous with Bronx County of the State of New York. It is the northernmost and only borough of New York City on the North American mainland, located south of Westchester County. It also includes several small islands in the East River and Long Island Sound. GR6. The Harlem River separates The Bronx from the island of Manhattan. The Bronx takes its name from Bronck's Farms, after an early settler (164 ...

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Buckley (Welsh: Bwcle) is a town in Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom. It is the second largest town in Flintshire in terms of population and is 2 miles from Mold, the county town. It is located on the A549 road. Buckley - History. Buckley (the name comes from the Anglo-Saxon bok lee, meaning meadow, or field) was an Anglo-Saxon location, with some of its houses recorded in the Domesday Book of the 11th Century. However, the first documented evidence of its existence dates from 1 ...

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Bristol is a unitary authority with city and ceremonial county status in South West England. Bristol is England's eighth, and the United Kingdom's eleventh, most populous city. As such, it is one of England's core cities. For half a millennium Bristol was the second largest English city after London, until the rapid rise of Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, in the 1780s. From its earliest days, its prosper ...

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Bringing in the Sheaves is a popular hymn used almost exclusively by Protestant Christians. The lyrics were written in 1874 by Knowles Shaw, who was inspired by Psalm 126:6, "He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him." Shaw also wrote music for these words, but they are now usually set to a tune by George Minor, written in 1880. Bringing in the Sheaves - Lyrics. Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness, Sowing in the noontide ...

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Brighton is a section of the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Brighton Boston Massachusetts - History. The area was established in the late 17th century and was known as "Little Cambridge" in its early years. In 1807 residents acquired legal separation from Cambridge and named the town Brighton. In 1874 the town was officially annexed into the City of Boston. Brighton was home to agricultural plots and stockyards in post-colonial days. The extension of street car lines in the 1800s, however, encouraged reside ...

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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church with some 6.5 million members in the Republic of Bulgaria and between 1.5 and 2.0 million members in a number of European countries, the Americas and Australia. The recognition of the autocephalous Bulgarian Patriarchate by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 927 AD makes the Bulgarian Orthodox Church the oldest autocephalous Orthodox Church in the world after the four Eastern Patriarchates: those of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. Including:

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The centimetre-gram-second system (CGS) is a system of physical units. It is always the same for mechanical units, but there are several variants of electric additions. The system goes back to a proposal made in 1832 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and was in 1874 extended by the British physicists James Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson with a set of electromagnetic units. The sizes (order of magnitude) of many CGS units turned out to be inconvenient for practical purposes, therefore the CGS system neve ...

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Canada This article is part of the series: Politics of Canada Executive The Crown (Queen Elizabeth II) Governor General (Michaëlle Jean) Prime Minister (Paul Martin) Cabinet Legislative Parliament Senate Speaker of the Senate Government Leader in the Senate Opposition Leader in the Senate Canadian Senate divisi ...

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A Caddo solar cross, a religious symbol of both the sun and fire. circa 1700: 8,000  North American natives   Southeast natives    Caddo     < Anadarko>     < Adai>     < Hai-ish>     < Hasinai>     < Kadohadacho>Including:

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The term brain implants, also known as neural implants, usually refers to devices of a technological nature that are connected directly to a biological subject's brain - usually placed on the surface of the brain, or attached to the brain's cortex. A common purpose of modern brain implants and the focus of much current research is establishing a biomedical prosthesis circumventing areas in the brain, which became dysfunctional after a stroke or other head injuries. This includes sensory substitution, e.g. in vision. Brain implants inv ...

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The Boston and Albany Railroad (AAR reporting mark BA) was a railroad connecting Boston, Massachusetts to Albany, New York, later becoming part of the New York Central Railroad system. Passenger service is still operated on the line by Amtrak (as part of their Lake Shore Limited), and the MBTA Commuter Rail system uses the section east of Worcester as their Framingham/Worcester Line. Boston and Albany Railroad - History. The Boston and Worcester Railroad was chartered June 23, 1831 and ...

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