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Main article: History of Yemen The port's convenient position on the sea route between India and Europe has made Aden desirable to rulers who sought to possess it at various times throughout history. Known as Arabian Eudaemon in the 1st century BC, it was a transshipping point for the Red Sea trade, but fell on hard times when new shipping practices by-passed it and made the daring direct crossing to India in the 1st century AD, according to the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. See also:

Aden, Aden - History, Aden - British Rule, Aden - Little Aden 1955 to 1967, Aden - Federation of South Arabia and the Aden Emergency, Aden - Independence

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1949 in baseball - Major League Baseball. World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-1) All-Star Game, July 12 at Ebbets Field: American League, 11-7 1949 in baseball - Other champions. First Caribbean World Series: Almendares (Cuba) College World Series: Texas Little League World Series: Hammonton, New Jersey ...

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1949 in baseball, 1949 in baseball - Champions, 1949 in baseball - Major League Baseball, 1949 in baseball - Other champions, 1949 in baseball - Awards and honors, 1949 in baseball - Major League Baseball final standings, 1949 in baseball - Events, 1949 in baseball - January-March, 1949 in baseball - April, 1949 in baseball - May, 1949 in baseball - June, 1949 in baseball - July, 1949 in baseball - August, 1949 in baseball - September, 1949 in baseball - October, 1949 in baseball - November, 1949 in baseball - December, 1949 in baseball - Births, 1949 in baseball - January-June, 1949 in baseball - July-December, 1949 in baseball - Deaths

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Dean began his acting career with a Pepsi-Cola television commercial followed by a stint as a stunt tester in the game show Beat the Clock. He quit college to focus on his budding career but struggled to get jobs in Hollywood and succeeded in paying his bills only by working as a parking lot attendant at CBS studios. Following the advice of friends Dean moved to New York City to pursue live stage acting, where he was accepted to study under Lee Strasberg in the storied Actors Studio. His career picked up and Dean did several ep ...

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James Dean, James Dean - Childhood and education, James Dean - Acting career, James Dean - East of Eden, James Dean - Rebel Without a Cause, James Dean - Giant, James Dean - Death, James Dean - Porsche 550 Spyder, James Dean - Legacy, James Dean - Sexuality, James Dean - Memorial, James Dean - Filmography, James Dean - Stage, James Dean - Television

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Harold Bloom - Miscellaneous Books. (Editor) English Romantic Poetry, An Anthology, Doubleday, 1961, two-volume revised edition, Anchor, 1963. (Editor, with John Hollander) The Wind and the Rain, Doubleday, 1961. The Literary Criticism of John Ruskin, Edited and with Introduction by Harold Bloom, Anchor, 1965. (Editor, with Frederick W. Hilles) From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle, Oxford University Press, 1965. ...

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Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom - Life, Harold Bloom - Bloom's Influence, Harold Bloom - Bibliography, Harold Bloom - Miscellaneous Books, Harold Bloom - Articles, Harold Bloom - Books About Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom - Awards

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A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word is applied to the inflow of the tide, as opposed to the outflow or "ebb". The Flood, the great Universal Deluge of myth and perhaps o ...

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• Flood - Main causes
• Flood - Flood defenses planning and management
• Flood - Significant modern floods
• Flood - Prevention

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ITV - Former ITV contractors. Associated British Corporation (ABC Television): North and Midlands weekend franchise (1956–1968) Associated-Rediffusion: London weekday franchise (1955–1968) Associated TeleVision/ATV Network: Midlands weekday franchise and London weekend franchise (1956–1968); Midlands (7 day) (1968–1981) Southern Television: South and South East England franchise (1958–1981) Thames Television: London weekday franchise (1968–1992) TSW S ...

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ITV, ITV - History, ITV - The start, ITV - 1968 franchise round, ITV - 1982 franchise round, ITV - 1993 franchise round, ITV - Programmes, ITV - ITV companies: past and present, ITV - Former ITV contractors, ITV - Current ITV franchise holders

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Barry fitted out at the Boston Naval Shipyard through November, testing her new electronics, ASW gear and gunnery systems into December. After a brief underway period in Narragansett Bay, she departed 3 January 1957 for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to continue her shakedown. Her training exercises were interspersed with port visits to Kingston, Jamaica; Cuelebra, Puerto Rico, and Santa Marta, Colombia, before she departed for Colon, Panama. The destroyer transited the Canal Zone on 26 February and anchored at Salinas, Ecuador, two days later ...

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USS Barry DD-933, USS Barry DD-933 - 1956 – 1959, USS Barry DD-933 - 1960 – 1962, USS Barry DD-933 - Cuban Missile Crisis, USS Barry DD-933 - 1962 – 1965, USS Barry DD-933 - Vietnam War, USS Barry DD-933 - 1966 – 1970, USS Barry DD-933 - 1970 – 1976, USS Barry DD-933 - 1977 – 1979, USS Barry DD-933 - 1980 – 1982, USS Barry DD-933 - Present

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1977 in baseball - Major League Baseball. World Series: New York Yankees over Los Angeles Dodgers (4-2); Reggie Jackson, MVP American League Championship Series: New York Yankees (East) over Kansas City Royals (West) (3-2) National League Championship Series: Los Angeles Dodgers (West) over Philadelphia Phillies (East) (3-1); Dusty Baker, MVP All-Star Game, July 19 at Yankee Stadium ...

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1977 in baseball, 1977 in baseball - Champions, 1977 in baseball - Major League Baseball, 1977 in baseball - Other champions, 1977 in baseball - Awards and honors, 1977 in baseball - Major League Baseball final standings, 1977 in baseball - American League final standings, 1977 in baseball - National League final standings, 1977 in baseball - Events, 1977 in baseball - January-March, 1977 in baseball - April-June, 1977 in baseball - July-September, 1977 in baseball - October-December, 1977 in baseball - Births, 1977 in baseball - Deaths

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Aberdeen Football Club is a football team from Scotland, who compete in the Scottish Premier League. Formed in 1903 from the amalgamation of a number of clubs from Aberdeen, they have been one of the top clubs in Scotland. Sir Alex Ferguson was a highly successful manager of the team in the 1980s, guiding them to three league championships, and famously to victory in the 1983 Cup Winners' Cup, defeating Real Madrid in the final. Aberdeen are the only Scottish team to have won more than one European trophy. They play at P ...

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• Aberdeen F.C. - History
• Aberdeen F.C. - Origins of the club
• Aberdeen F.C. - Scottish Dominance
• Aberdeen F.C. - 90 minutes from the title
• Aberdeen F.C. - Into decline
• Aberdeen F.C. - Famous Players
• Aberdeen F.C. - Managers
• Aberdeen F.C. - Current Squad season 2005-2006
• Aberdeen F.C. - Honours
• Aberdeen F.C. - Trivia
• Aberdeen F.C. - Club Records

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When the Spanish Civil War broke out, Ramsay was a strong supporter of the Nationalists under Franco, largely arising out of his opposition to the anti-clericism of the Spanish Republicans and their alleged attacks on the Roman Catholic Church. In the early months of the war he objected in Parliament to what he saw as bias in BBC news reports on Spain, and pointed to links between Spanish Republicans and the Soviet Union. Late in 1937, Ramsay formed the 'United Christian Front' to combat attacks on Christianity 'which emanate from Moscow'. M ...

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Archibald Maule Ramsay, Archibald Maule Ramsay - Family and early life, Archibald Maule Ramsay - Spanish Civil War, Archibald Maule Ramsay - Anti-Semitism, Archibald Maule Ramsay - Controversy, Archibald Maule Ramsay - The Right Club, Archibald Maule Ramsay - Outbreak of war, Archibald Maule Ramsay - House of Commons, Archibald Maule Ramsay - Internment, Archibald Maule Ramsay - Libel trial, Archibald Maule Ramsay - Subsequent political activity, Archibald Maule Ramsay - Sources

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The Abbey of Thelema was a temple founded by Aleister Crowley in a rented villa at Cefalu, Sicily in 1920. The name for this magical temple was taken from a fictional abbey in Rabelais's satire Gargantua, where all worldly pleasures were freely indulged. As in that story, Crowley painted the words, "Do What Thou Will" over the door. (These words were also engraved over the doors of Medmenham Abbey, the meeting place of Sir Francis Dashwood's notorious Hellfire Club in the eighteenth century, so Crowley may have gotten the idea ...

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A naval arms race had been ongoing between Germany and the United Kingdom since the 1890s. The building of Dreadnought actually helped Germany in this, as instead of having a lead of 15 or so ships of the latest type, Britain now had a lead of just one. Furthermore, Britain's policy of maintaining a navy larger than the world's second and third largest navies combined was becoming unsustainably expensive. All other battleship navies switched over in the next few years t ...

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Battleship, Battleship - Early battleships, Battleship - Industrial Age, Battleship - Explosive-shell naval guns, Battleship - Ironclads, Battleship - Turrets and rifled guns, Battleship - Brown powder, Battleship - Design experiments, Battleship - All-big-guns, Battleship - The Dreadnought era, Battleship - The super dreadnought, Battleship - World War I, Battleship - World War II, Battleship - Post World War II, Battleship - Fictional appearances

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A film crew is a group of people hired by a film company for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Crew are distinguished from cast, the actors who appear in front of the camera or provide voices for characters in the film. Film - Production Team. These are the senior personnel responsible for the creation of a film: Film producer A person or persons responsible for accepting or creating, securing or providing financing for, and controlling from a business p ...

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Film, Film - History of film, Film - Origins of motion picture arts and sciences, Film - Protean developments, Film - The silent era, Film - The Sound Era & The Golden Age of Hollywood, Film - The 1940s: the war and post-war years, Film - The 1950s: Widescreen 70mm Stereo and even 3D, Film - The 1960s, Film - The 1970s, Film - The '80s: sequels blockbusters and videotape, Film - The Digital Age, Film - The '90s and new Millenium: technical advances, Film - Film theory, Film - History, Film - Specific theories styles and movements in film, Film - Film criticism, Film - The motion picture industry, Film - Stages of filmmaking, Film - Development, Film - Preproduction, Film - Production, Film - Post-production, Film - Distribution, Film - Film crew, Film - Production Team, Film - Primary Production Artists, Film - Camera and lighting, Film - Production sound, Film - Postproduction picture, Film - Postproduction sound, Film - Independent filmmaking, Film - Animation, Film - Film venues, Film - Development of film technology, Film - Endurance of films, Film - Wikibooks, Film - Basic types of film, Film - Lists, Film - Other

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The position that language anchors thought (thinking is shabdanA or 'languageing') was argued for cogently by Bhartrihari (6th c.AD) and was the subject of centuries of debate in the Indian linguistic tradition. Related notions in the West, such as the axiom that language has controlling effects upon thought can be traced to Wilhelm von Humboldt's essay "Über das vergleichende Sprachstudium" (On the comparative study of languages), and the notion has been largely assimilated into Western thought. Karl Kerenyi began his 1976 English l ...

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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - History of the concept, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - Strong and weak versions, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - Linguistic determinism, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - Politics and etiquette, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - Fictional exploration of linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - Quotations, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - Fictional examples, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - Topics, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - People, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - Languages

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This article is about the mid-20th century North American airline, not to be confused with the late 20th-century Capitol Air Lines. A different "Capital Airlines," formerly Brown Air International, operated in the United Kingdom 1983–1990. It is also the name of a charter and air ambulance service in Kenya. Capital Airlines was an airline serving the eastern United States which was merged into United Airlines in 1961. Its primary hubs were National Airport near Washington, DC and Allegheny County Airport near Pittsburg ...

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• Capital Airlines - History
• Capital Airlines - Predecessors
• Capital Airlines - Pennsylvania Central Airlines
• Capital Airlines - Capital's last decade

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The first specific Los Angeles police force was founded in 1853 as the Los Angeles Rangers, a volunteer force that assisted the existing County forces. The Rangers were soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group. Neither force was particularly efficient and Los Angeles became known for its violence, gambling and "vice". The first paid force was not created until 1869 when a force of six officers under City Marshal William C. Warren were hired. Warren was shot by one of his officers in 1876 and, to replace h ...

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Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Police Department - History, Los Angeles Police Department - LAPD organization, Los Angeles Police Department - Force composition, Los Angeles Police Department - LAPD in the media, Los Angeles Police Department - Books, Los Angeles Police Department - Novels, Los Angeles Police Department - Motion pictures, Los Angeles Police Department - Television programs, Los Angeles Police Department - Video games, Los Angeles Police Department - LAPD Chiefs of Police, Los Angeles Police Department - External link

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The Bundeswehr (listen ▶ (help·info)) is the armed forces of Germany and its administration. It is a federal defence force with Army (Heer), Navy (Marine), Air Force (Luftwaffe), Central Medical Services (Zentraler Sanitätsdienst) and Joint Service Support Command (Streitkräftebasis) branches. It employs some 250,000 personnel, 50,000 of whom are 18–25-year-old men on national duty who serve for at least 9 months under ...

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• Bundeswehr - History
• Bundeswehr - Organization
• Bundeswehr - Mission

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As one of thirty-six founders of the Connecticut Land Company, General Moses Cleaveland was selected as one of its seven directors and was subsequently sent out as the company's agent to map and survey the company's holdings. On July 22, 1796, Cleaveland and his surveyors arrived at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. Cleaveland quickly saw the land, which had previously been acquired by Native Americans, as an ideal location for the "capital city" of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Cleaveland and his surveyors quickly began making plans for t ...

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History of Cleveland Ohio, History of Cleveland Ohio - Early years: 1796–1860, History of Cleveland Ohio - The Civil War years and the dawn of the Industrial Age: 1861–1900, History of Cleveland Ohio - The Progressive era and the Roaring Twenties: 1901–1929, History of Cleveland Ohio - The Great Depression and revitalization: 1929–1961, History of Cleveland Ohio - Recent history: 1962–present, History of Cleveland Ohio - Timeline of events, History of Cleveland Ohio - Firsts

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Third World was a term first coined by Jawaharlal Nehru (First Prime Minister of India), originally to distinguish nations that aligned with neither the West or with the East during the Cold War, including many members of the Non-Aligned Movement. Today, however, the term is frequently used to denote nations with a low UN Human Development Index (HDI), independent of their political status. However, there is no objective definition of Third World or Third World country and the use of the term remains controversial. Latin America, for ...

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• Third World - History of the term
• Third World - Dependency theory
• Third World - Countries

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List of Spaniards - Architects. See also: Category:Spanish architects. Ricardo Bofill (b. 1939), one of the main representatives of postmodernism in architecture. Santiago Calatrava (b. 1951), 2005 AIA Gold Medal Laureate. Ildefons Cerdà (1815–1876), urban planner who designed the 19th-century extension of Barcelona (Eixample). Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850–1923), brilliant contemporary of better known fellow c ...

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List of Spaniards, List of Spaniards - Actors, List of Spaniards - Artists, List of Spaniards - Architects, List of Spaniards - Explorers and conquistadores, List of Spaniards - Film directors, List of Spaniards - Leaders and politicians, List of Spaniards - Ancient, List of Spaniards - Medieval, List of Spaniards - Modern, List of Spaniards - Contemporary, List of Spaniards - Literature, List of Spaniards - A–D, List of Spaniards - E–H, List of Spaniards - I–L, List of Spaniards - M–P, List of Spaniards - Q–T, List of Spaniards - U–Z, List of Spaniards - Military, List of Spaniards - Musicians, List of Spaniards - Classical, List of Spaniards - Singers, List of Spaniards - Philosophers and humanists, List of Spaniards - Science and technology, List of Spaniards - Social scientists, List of Spaniards - Sports, List of Spaniards - Others

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In the film, Henry Hill, played by Ray Liotta, becomes involved in the mafia at a young age: as he says in the film, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." As a boy, Henry idolized the Lucchese crime family gangsters in his blue-collar New York City neighborhood, and in 1955 quit school and went to work for them at a local cab stand, much to the dismay of his working-class parents. The local Lucchese mob captain, Paul Cicero (Paul Sorvino), (based on the actual Lucchese mobster Paul Vario) and Cicero's asso ...

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Goodfellas, Goodfellas - Story, Goodfellas - Themes, Goodfellas - Awards and recognition

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