See also: Boston transportation Greater Boston - Highways. Central Artery/Tunnel Project (Interstate 93 within Boston) Interstate 95: North to New Hampshire and Maine; south to Providence, Rhode Island and beyond US Route 1 Interstate 93: North to New Hampshire; south to Canton US Route 3 Massachusetts Route 2: Northwest and west The Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90): West to Framingham, Massachusetts and beyond Massachusetts ...

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The primary objectives of the Viking orbiters were to transport the landers to Mars, perform reconnaissance to locate and certify landing sites, act as a communications relays for the landers, and to perform their own scientific investigations. The orbiter, based on the earlier Mariner 9 spacecraft, was an octagon approximately 2.5 m across. The total launch mass was 2328 kg, of which 1445 kg were propellant and attitude control gas. The eight faces of the ring-like structure were 0.4572 m high and were alternately 1.397 and 0.508 m wide. Th ...

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On January 18, 2001, he addressed the nation one last time on television from the Oval Office of the White House, two days before handing over the presidency to George W. Bush, whose father he had defeated in 1992. Like many former American presidents, Clinton has engaged in a career as a public speaker on a variety of issues. In these, he continues to comment on aspects of contemporary politics. One notable theme is his advocacy of multilateral solutions to problems facing the world. Clinton's close relationship with the African Amer ...

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Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton - Early years, Bill Clinton - Arkansas political career and education, Bill Clinton - Presidency, Bill Clinton - Presidential campaign, Bill Clinton - Significant events, Bill Clinton - Legislation and programs, Bill Clinton - Cabinet, Bill Clinton - Supreme Court appointments, Bill Clinton - The economy, Bill Clinton - Trade, Bill Clinton - Foreign policy, Bill Clinton - Impeachment and controversies, Bill Clinton - Timeline, Bill Clinton - Public approval, Bill Clinton - Public image, Bill Clinton - Post-presidential career, Bill Clinton - Trivia

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The Port of Boston, centered on Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest seaport in Massachusetts as well as a major seaport along the United States east coast. The port contains facilities located along Boston Harbor, notably in Charlestown, Massachusetts, East Boston, and South Boston. Port of Boston - Geography. The port facilities are located along Boston Harbor, 42.36° N 71.042° W, a major estuary in the northeastern United States near Boston. Constituting the western extremity of Massachusett ...

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• Port of Boston - Cargo and statistics
• Port of Boston - Port facilities
• Port of Boston - Ground transportation
• Port of Boston - Massport facilities
• Port of Boston - Non-Massport facilites
• Port of Boston - History
• Port of Boston - External link

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Sacramento California - Geography. Elevation: 25 feet (8 m). Latitude: 38° 31' N. – Longitude: 121° 30' W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 257.0 km² (99.2 mi²). 251.6 km² (97.2 mi²) of it is land and 5.4 km² (2.1 mi²) of it is water; 2.1% of the area is water. The population in 2000 was 407,018; the 1980 population was 275, ...

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Sacramento California, Sacramento California - History, Sacramento California - The lost frontier, Sacramento California - From pioneers to gold fever, Sacramento California - Capital city, Sacramento California - The modern era, Sacramento California - Geography and climate, Sacramento California - Geography, Sacramento California - Climate, Sacramento California - Neighborhoods, Sacramento California - Demographics, Sacramento California - Education, Sacramento California - Culture, Sacramento California - Sports and recreation, Sacramento California - Notable residents, Sacramento California - Arts, Sacramento California - Transportation, Sacramento California - Amtrak service, Sacramento California - Other transportation options, Sacramento California - Sister cities

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Gascony - Origins. In pre-Roman times, the inhabitants of Gascony were the Aquitanians (Latin: Aquitani), who spoke a language related to the old Basque language. The Aquitanians inhabited a territory limited to the north and east by the Garonne River, to the south by the Pyrenees mountain range, and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean. The Romans called this territory Aquitania, either from the Latin word aqua (meaning "water"), in reference to the many rivers flowing from the Pyrenees through the area, or ...

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BS 1363 - Fusing. All plugs with the exception of some plug top power supply units are fused. This is in addition to the fuses or circuit breakers in consumer units/distribution boards. Prior to the introduction of the 13 amp plug the BS546 2 A, 5 A and 15 A plugs were used. With this system the only fuses were in the consumer unit. 15 A sockets were generally given a dedicated 15 A circuit. 5 A sockets might be on a 15 A circuit with multiple sockets or on a dedicated 5 A circuit. 2 A sockets were general ...

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BS 1363, BS 1363 - Safety measures, BS 1363 - Fusing, BS 1363 - Shuttering, BS 1363 - Pin insulation, BS 1363 - Others, BS 1363 - Euro converter plugs, BS 1363 - Countries of use, BS 1363 - Variants, BS 1363 - Humour, BS 1363 - Other devices covered by BS 1363

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1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. 1998 - Events. January 1998 - A massive ice storm, caused by El Niño, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths. January 1 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants. January 2 - Russia begins to circulate new rubl ...

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• 1998 - February
• 1998 - March
• 1998 - April
• 1998 - May
• 1998 - June
• 1998 - July
• 1998 - August
• 1998 - September
• 1998 - October
• 1998 - November
• 1998 - December
• 1998 - Unknown Dates
• 1998 - Births
• 1998 - Deaths
• 1998 - January-February
• 1998 - March-July
• 1998 - August-December
• 1998 - Unknown date
• 1998 - Nobel Prizes
• 1998 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• 1998 - Fields Medalists
• 1998 - Templeton Prize

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Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929 – ca. March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Her family had moved to Amsterdam after the Nazis gained power in Germany but were trapped when the Nazi occupation extended into The Netherlands. As persecutions against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in Otto Frank's office building. A ...

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• Anne Frank - Early life
• Anne Frank - The period chronicled in the diary
• Anne Frank - Life in the Achterhuis
• Anne Frank - Arrest and concentration camps
• Anne Frank - The Diary of A Young Girl
• Anne Frank - Publication of the diary
• Anne Frank - Praise for Anne Frank and the Diary
• Anne Frank - Denials and legal action
• Anne Frank - Legacy
• Anne Frank - Anne Frank related
• Anne Frank - Holocaust and World War II related
• Anne Frank - Anne Frank in popular culture

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The term beat generation was introduced by Jack Kerouac in approximately 1948 to describe his social circle to the novelist John Clellon Holmes (who published an early novel about the beat generation, titled Go, in 1952, along with a manifesto of sorts in the New York Times Magazine: "This is the beat generation"). The adjective "beat" (introduced by Herbert Huncke) had the connotations of "tired" or "down and out", but Kerouac added the paradoxical connotations of "upbeat", "beatific ...

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• Beat generation - History
• Beat generation - Women of the Beat Generation
• Beat generation - The Beatnik stereotype
• Beat generation - Influences on Western culture
• Beat generation - Transition to the Hippie era
• Beat generation - Drug usage
• Beat generation - Historical context
• Beat generation - Criticism
• Beat generation - Principal writings of the Beat Generation
• Beat generation - Some proto-beat writings
• Beat generation - Quotes
• Beat generation - Film

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Certain drugs can affect the subjective qualities of perception, thought or emotion, resulting in altered interpretations of sensory input, alternate states of consciousness, or hallucinations. This general group of pharmacological agents can be divided into three broad categories: psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants. All of these agents act as neurotransmitter mimics, often as agonists or antagonists at neurotransmitter receptors. Their primary effects are markedly different from those of st ...

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• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Dissociatives
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Deliriants
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Etymology and alternative terms
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - History of use
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Early scientific investigations
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Hallucinogens after World War II
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Social status of hallucinogens
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Legal status
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Pharmacology
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Pharmacological classes of hallucinogens
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Psychedelics serotonin 5-HT_2A receptor agonists
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Dissociatives
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Deliriants anticholinergics
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Hallucinogenic plants, fungi, and animals
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Plants
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Fungi
• Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants - Animals

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This page refers to the year 1979. For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). 1979 (MCMLXXIX) is a common year starting on Monday. 1979 - Events. 1979 energy crisis - occurred in the wake of the Iranian Revolution January 1 - United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the "International Year of the Child." Many musicians donate to the "Music for UNICEF" fund. January 1 - Sino-American relations: United States and ...

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• 1979 - February
• 1979 - March
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• 1979 - October
• 1979 - November
• 1979 - December
• 1979 - Unknown dates
• 1979 - Births
• 1979 - Deaths
• 1979 - January-March
• 1979 - April-September
• 1979 - October-December
• 1979 - Fictional
• 1979 - Nobel Prizes
• 1979 - Templeton Prize

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The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. It lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) north-northeast of London and is surrounded by a number of smaller towns and villages. It is also at the heart of Silicon Fen, which has a reputation as the leading high-technology centre of Britain, mostly because both Acorn Computers and Sinclair were founded there, and is one of the majo ...

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• Cambridge - Beginnings of the University
• Cambridge - Cambridge today
• Cambridge - Government
• Cambridge - Local government
• Cambridge - MPs
• Cambridge - Transport
• Cambridge - Roads
• Cambridge - Rail
• Cambridge - Air
• Cambridge - Cycling
• Cambridge - Sport
• Cambridge - Fiction

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Usāmah bin Muhammad bin `Awad bin Lādin (born March 10, 1957; Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن), commonly known as Osama bin Laden, or Usama bin Laden, (Arabic: أسامة بن لادن), is the founder of the militant organization al-Qaeda. There is strong evidence linking Osama and al-Qaeda to several terrorist acts worldwide, most particularly the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., which ...

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• Osama bin Laden - Background
• Osama bin Laden - Family and childhood
• Osama bin Laden - Turn towards extremism
• Osama bin Laden - Appearance and manner
• Osama bin Laden - Names
• Osama bin Laden - Whereabouts

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Sahir Ludhianvi, whose real name was Abdul Hayee (October 25, 1921-1980) was a popular Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms but mostly known for being one of the most important Bollywood lyricists. Sahir Ludhianvi - Early Years. Sahir was born in Ludhiana, in the present day Indian Punjab. He belonged to a wealthy family but when his father married for the second time, Sahir and his mother left his father, both living a life of poverty. Sahir went to Khalsa High School in Ludhiana and later to Gover ...

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• Sahir Ludhianvi - Early Years
• Sahir Ludhianvi - Poetry lyrics and Bollywood
• Sahir Ludhianvi - Famous works
• Sahir Ludhianvi - Bollywood songs
• Sahir Ludhianvi - Published collections of Urdu poetry

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1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1950s - Events and trends. The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the baby boom from returning GIs who went to college under the G.I. Bill and settled in suburban America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlie ...

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• 1950s - Events and trends
• 1950s - Science
• 1950s - War, peace, and politics
• 1950s - Economics
• 1950s - Culture, religion
• 1950s - Others
• 1950s - People
• 1950s - World leaders
• 1950s - Entertainers
• 1950s - Sports figures

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Alice A. Bailey (16th June,1880 ‑ 15th December,1949), writer and lecturer on neo-theosophy, was born in England in 1880 as Alice LaTrobe Bateman. After spells as an evangelical Christian and a member of the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society, Alice Bailey founded the Arcane School in 1923. Her 26 books popularized notions such as the coming New Age and the New Group of World Servers, whose triangles she initiated in 1937. They include the mantram known as “The Great Invocation” used ...

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Wayanad District, in the north-east of Kerala, India, was formed on November 1, 1980 as the 12th district, carved out of Kozhikode and Kannur districts. Though the etymology of the word Wayanad is popularly known to be Vayal (paddy) Naad (land); 'Land of Paddy Fields', the scholars disagree. The region was known as Mayakshetra (Maya's land) in the earliest records. Mayakshetra evolved into Mayanad and finally to Wayanad. There are many indigenous tribals in this area. It is set high on the majestic Western Ghats w ...

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• Wayanad - Basic information
• Wayanad - History
• Wayanad - People
• Wayanad - Economy
• Wayanad - Geographical details
• Wayanad - Climate
• Wayanad - Access
• Wayanad - Places of importance

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A compiler is a computer program that translates a series of statements written in one computer language (called the source code) into a resulting output in another computer language (often called the object or target language). Most compilers translate a source code text file, written in a high level language to object code or machine language, e.g. into an executable .EXE or .COM file that may run on a computer or a virtual machine. However, translation from a low level language to a high level one is also possible; this is n ...

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• Compiler - History
• Compiler - Types of compilers
• Compiler - Native versus cross compiler
• Compiler - One-pass versus multi-pass compilers
• Compiler - Compiled versus interpreted languages
• Compiler - Compiler design
• Compiler - Compiler front end
• Compiler - Compiler back end
• Compiler - Notes

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Christo (born Hristo Yavashev, Bulgarian: Христо Явашев) and Jeanne-Claude are an artistic duo known best for wrapping objects and buildings, as well as other types of environmental art. Married since November 28, 1962, they are arguably the best-known practitioners of what is called installation art. Some of their works include the wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin with aluminized polypropylene fabric, and the Pont Neuf in Paris with golden sandstone polyamide fabric, and "Running Fence" (1976) a 24-mile-long rib ...

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• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Early life and works
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Christo
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Jeanne-Claude
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - The Couple
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Later works
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Documenta 4
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Wrapped Coast
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Valley Curtain
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Running Fence
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Wrapped Walk Ways
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Surrounded Islands
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Pont Neuf
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Umbrellas
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - The Reichstag
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Verhüllte Bäume Wrapped Trees
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Wrapped Snoopy House
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - The Gates
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Bibliography

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3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine, or MDA, is a psychedelic hallucinogenic drug and Empathogen/Entactogen of the phenethylamine family. It was first synthesized by G. Mannish and W. Jacobson in 1910. There are about 20 different synthetic routes described in the literature for its preparation. 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine - Medical use. MDA was first used in animal tests in 1939, and human trials began in 1941 in the exploration of possible therapies for Parkinson's disease. From 1949 to 1957, mo ...

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• 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine - Medical use
• 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine - Recreational use
• 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine - Effects
• 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine - Legality
• 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine - Categorization

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Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries (with Jean-Paul Sartre) of existentialism. Camus was the second youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (after Rudyard Kipling) when he received the award in 1957. He is also the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in a car crash 3 years after receiving the award. Albert Camus - Early years. Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria to a Fre ...

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• Albert Camus - Early years
• Albert Camus - Literary career
• Albert Camus - Summary of Absurdism
• Albert Camus - Famous works
• Albert Camus - Novels
• Albert Camus - Short stories
• Albert Camus - Non-fiction
• Albert Camus - Plays
• Albert Camus - Collections
• Albert Camus - Movies
• Albert Camus - Bibliography

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