Benghazi (Arabic بنغازي, transliterated Banġāzī) is a seaport in Libya, Africa. The present name is derived from that of a pious benefactor of the city named Ghazi or "Sidi Ghazi," as the locals called him, who died about 1450. The city was renamed "Bani Ghazi". The population was 500,120 in 1995 (census) and an estimated 637,000 in 2003. Benghazi - History. Modern Benghazi, on the Gulf of Sidra, lies a little southwest of the site of the ancient Greek city of Berenice ...

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Benjamin Apthorp Gould (September 27, 1824 – November 26, 1896) was an American astronomer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Having graduated at Harvard College in 1844, he studied mathematics and astronomy under C. F. Gauss at Göttingen, Germany, during which time he published approximately 20 papers on the observation and motion of comets and asteroids. He returned to America in 1848. From 1852 to 1867 he was in charge of the longitude department of the United States Coast Survey; he developed and organized the servic ...

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The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John Company", was a joint-stock company of investors, which was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intent to favour trade privileges in India. The Royal Charter effectively gave the newly created Honourable East India Company a monopoly on all trade in the East Indies. The Company transformed from a commercial trading venture to one which virtually ruled India as it acquired auxiliary governmental and military functions, until t ...

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• British East India Company - Expansion
• British East India Company - The road to a complete monopoly
• British East India Company - The Basis of the Monopoly
• British East India Company - Regulation of the company's affairs
• British East India Company - The end
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Beaconsfield is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England, about 30 miles NW of London. The town sits in the highly attractive Chiltern Hills and is part of the London commuter belt, thus the average cost of housing in the town is extremely high. It is in the South Bucks local government district, which was known as the Beaconsfield district from 1974 to 1980. The parish is mainly given over arable land though some forest remains that was planted to supply the furniture industry of High ...

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The Baudot code, named after its inventor Émile Baudot, is a character set predating EBCDIC and ASCII and used originally and primarily on teleprinters. Baudot's original code, developed around 1874 is known as International Telegraph Alphabet No 1, and is no longer used. It was sent using a five-key keyboard where each key represented one bit of the five state signal. A mechanical wiper would scan the keyboard state and unlock the keys ...

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Henry McCarty (November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881) better known as Billy the Kid but also known by the alias William Harrison Bonney, was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and murderer who was a participant in the Lincoln County War. He is reputed to have killed 21 men, one for each year of his life, but the actual total is probably closer to nine (four on his own and five with the help of others). Short and lithe, McCarty had blue eyes, smooth cheeks and prominent front teeth, all of which gave him a pleasant, op ...

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April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). There are 267 days remaining in the year. April 8 - Events. 217 - Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus 1203 - Congress in Bilino Polje, where Ban Kulin officially declared his allegiance to the Catholic Church and denounced the heresy. 1730 - Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.Including:

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The Bonan (also Bao'an) people (保安族; pinyin: bǎoān zú ; native [bɵ:ŋɑn]) are an ethnic group living in Gansu and Qinghai provinces in northwestern China. Numbering approximately 12,000, they are the 7th smallest of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. The Bonan speak a Mongolic language and are predominately Muslim. [1] They are believed to be descended from Muslim Mongol soldiers stationed in Qinghai during the Yuan or Ming dynasties and to have settled in Gansu during t ...

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The BEST (Marathi: बेस्ट) or the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport is Mumbai's public transport service and electricity provider. The government-owned organisation, which was set up in 1873, operates one of India's largest fleet of buses. Originally setup as a tramway company, it branched out into supplying electricity to the city in 1905, and later into operating ...

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• Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport - Electric department
• Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport - Organisation
• Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport - Finances
• Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport - Culture and awards
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Blazing Saddles is a Warner Bros. 1974 comedy directed by Mel Brooks and starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. The film was written (in what Brooks called Your Show of Shows-style) by a team of writers, namely Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Alan Uger; it was based on Bergman's story and draft. Brooks appears in multiple supporting roles, including Governor Lepetomane and a Yiddish-speaking Indian Chief. Slim Pickens, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, and Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn and Harvey Korma ...

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The Black Hills War (also known as the Little Big Horn Campaign) was a series of conflicts between the Lakota Native American nation and the United States of America from 1876 until 1877 1. The Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) established the Great Sioux reservation, which included the Black Hills, claimed by the Lakota since their victory over the Cheyenne in 1776. Often considered "terra incognita," the presence of gold in the Black Hills was generally known, but no ...

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The Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign of the First World War were mainly carried out by the Royal Navy with substantial support from the French and minor contributions from Russia and Australia. The Dardanelles Campaign began as a purely naval operation and, after the amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula, naval forces were heavily involved in supporting the ground troops. Throughout the campaign, attempts were made by submarines to pass through the Dardanelles and disrupt Ottoman Empire shipping in the Sea of Marm ...

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• Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign - The Battle of March 18
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• Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign - Supporting the army

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2 Esdras (sometimes also referred to as Ezra Shaltiel) is a Jewish Christian apocalypse written toward the end of the first century AD. It is not accepted as scriptural by most Christians; therefore, they count it among the apocrypha. However, the Ethiopian Orthodox and Russian Orthodox consider it canonical, and it was often cited by the Fathers of the Church. 2 Esdras - Naming numbering and language. As with 1 Esdras, there is some confusion about the numbering of this book. Some early Latin manusc ...

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The Alexander Technique teaches how to recognize and overcome habituated limitations within a person's manner of movement. The Alexander Technique is usually learned from an Alexander teacher in one-to-one sessions by an Alexander student, using specialized hand contact and verbal instructions. The name denotes both the educational methods taught by Alexander teachers and the individual method practiced by teachers and students of the technique. It takes its name from F. Matthias Alexander (1869–1955), a former ...

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• Alexander Technique - Disadvantages
• Alexander Technique - Scientific Proof
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• Alexander Technique - Learning Environments
• Alexander Technique - Teacher Training
• Alexander Technique - The Importance Attached To Learning From An Alexander Teacher
• Alexander Technique - In-depth principles
• Alexander Technique - Sample lesson
• Alexander Technique - Professional Alexander Teaching Organizations
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1796 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. (see link for calendar) 1796 - Events. January 16 - First Dutch (and general) elections for the National A ...

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The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly voice and speech) across distance. Most telephones operate through transmission of electric signals over a complex telephone network which allows almost any phone user to communicate with almost any other. Telephone - Introduction. There are four principal means by which an end user using a telephone handset may connect to a telephon ...

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• Telephone - Telephone hacking and exploitation
• Telephone - US-specific terminology
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The Swiss Confederation or Switzerland (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica) is a landlocked federal republic in Europe, bordering Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. The country has a strong tradition of political and military neutrality, but also of international cooperation, and is home to many international organisations. Confoederatio Helvetica is the Latin official name. The use of Latin avoids having to choose one of the four official languages. The abbreviation (CH) is similarly used; for ...

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A subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom: it may be elementary or composite. Particle physics and nuclear physics concern themselves with the study of these particles, their interactions, and matter made up of them which do not aggregate into atoms. These particles include atomic constituents such as electrons, protons, and neutrons (protons and neutrons are actually composite particles, made up of quarks), as well as other particles such as photons and neutrinos which are produced copiously in the sun. However, ...

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• Subatomic particle - Classification of subatomic particles
• Subatomic particle - Elementary particles
• Subatomic particle - Conjectures and predictions
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1798 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1798 - Events. January 22 - Coupe d'état in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic). Unitarian De ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1801 (MDCCCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). 1801 - Events. January 1 - Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. January 1 - Giuseppe Pi ...

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1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1935 - Events. 1935 - January. January 1 - Italian colonies of Tripoli and Kyrenaika are joined together as Libya January 7 - Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French foreign minister Pierre Laval conclude agreement in which each power undertakes not to oppose the other's colonial claims. January 8 - Elvis Presley is born in Tupelo, ...

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1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1941 - Events. 1941 - January-February. January 6 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress. January 19 - British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea. January 21 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya. J ...

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