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The Da Vinci Code is a novel written by American author Dan Brown and published in 2003 by Doubleday Fiction (ISBN 0385504209). It is a worldwide bestseller with 36 million copies in print (as of August 2005) and has been translated into 44 languages. Combining the detective, thriller and conspiracy theory genres, the novel has helped generate popular interest in certain theories concerning the Holy Grail legend and the role of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity — theories that Christians typically consider heretic ...

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• The Da Vinci Code - Description
• The Da Vinci Code - Characters
• The Da Vinci Code - Summary of spoilers
• The Da Vinci Code - Secret of the Holy Grail
• The Da Vinci Code - The mystery within the mystery
• The Da Vinci Code - Inspiration and influences
• The Da Vinci Code - Reception
• The Da Vinci Code - Acclaim
• The Da Vinci Code - Criticism
• The Da Vinci Code - Motion picture adaptation
• The Da Vinci Code - Parodies
• The Da Vinci Code - Books
• The Da Vinci Code - Other

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AN is: The obsolete NATO digram for Andorra The IATA code for Ansett Australia (now defunct) A prefix in Army-Navy Equipment Code Designators The AAR reporting mark for Apalachicola Northern Railroad The ISO country code for the Netherlands Antilles An is: An indefinite article in the English language; see A, an The god An in Sumerian mythology A Chinese personal name The personal name of Dr. An Wang, the Chinese American comp ...

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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC) is an international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The treaty aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gas in order to combat global warming. The treaty as originally framed set no mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions for individual nations and contained no enforcement provisions; it is there ...

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• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Annex I and Annex II Countries and Developing Countries
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Annex I countries
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Annex II countries
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - COP-1 The Berlin Mandate
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - COP-2 Geneva Switzerland
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - COP-3 The Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - COP-4 Buenos Aires
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - COP-5 Bonn Germany
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - COP-6 The Hague Netherlands
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - COP-6 bis Bonn Germany
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - COP-7 Marrakech Morocco
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - COP-8 New Delhi India
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - COP-9 Milan Italy
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - COP-10 Buenos Aires Argentina
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - COP-11 Montreal Canada

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And and AND have various meanings: for the coordinating conjunction and, see Grammatical conjunction for the logical operator, see Logical conjunction for the bitwise operator used in computer programming, see Binary and for the usage in electronics, see Logic gate AND is the ISO 3-letter and NATO country code for Andorra And is the standard abbreviation for the constellation Andromeda for the logogram of and (&), see Amper

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Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. Formerly, people used local solar time, originally apparent and then mean solar time. Their difference is the equation of time. Mean solar time is the average over the course of a year of apparent solar time (sundial time). With the expansion of the railways and as telecommunications improved this became increasingly awkward because clocks in a given town would differ from those in any other by an amount correspond ...

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• Time zone - History
• Time zone - Trivia
• Time zone - List of time zones and contained areas
• Time zone - UTC − 12 Y
• Time zone - UTC − 11 X
• Time zone - UTC − 10 W
• Time zone - UTC − 9:30 V*
• Time zone - UTC − 9 V
• Time zone - UTC − 8 U
• Time zone - UTC − 7 T
• Time zone - UTC − 6 S
• Time zone - UTC − 5 R
• Time zone - UTC − 4 Q
• Time zone - UTC − 3:30 P*
• Time zone - UTC − 3 P
• Time zone - UTC − 2 O
• Time zone - UTC − 1 N
• Time zone - UTC Z
• Time zone - UTC + 1 A
• Time zone - UTC + 2 B
• Time zone - UTC + 3 C
• Time zone - UTC + 3:30 C*
• Time zone - UTC + 4 D
• Time zone - UTC + 4:30 D*
• Time zone - UTC + 5 E
• Time zone - UTC + 5:30 E*
• Time zone - UTC + 5:45 E‡
• Time zone - UTC + 6 F
• Time zone - UTC + 6:30 F*
• Time zone - UTC + 7 G
• Time zone - UTC + 8 H
• Time zone - UTC + 8:45 H‡
• Time zone - UTC + 9 I
• Time zone - UTC + 9:30 I*
• Time zone - UTC + 10 K
• Time zone - UTC + 10:30 K*
• Time zone - UTC + 11 L
• Time zone - UTC + 11:30 L*
• Time zone - UTC + 12 M
• Time zone - UTC + 12:45 M‡
• Time zone - UTC + 13 M*
• Time zone - UTC + 14 M†

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A principality is a monarchial feudatory or sovereign state, whose monarch is a prince or princess. The term is also sometimes used as a general term for other small sovereign states led by lesser royalty, as for instance grand duchies, whose monarch is a Grand Duke or Duchess. No sovereign duchy currently exists, but Luxembourg is a surviving example of a sovereign grand duchy. Principalities have existed in ancient and modern civilizations of Africa, Asia (the Indian princely states were ruled by kings called Princes by the B ...

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• Principality - Development
• Principality - Renaissance
• Principality - Consolidation
• Principality - Nationalism
• Principality - Micronations claiming to be principalities

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The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Atlanta was selected in September 1990 in Tokyo Japan, above Athens, Belgrade, Manchester, Melbourne and Toronto. Athens was the sentimental favorite around the world and for this reason hoped to organise the games conmemoring the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games. The IOC's vote for Atlanta was therefore slig ...

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• 1996 Summer Olympics - Highlights
• 1996 Summer Olympics - Medals awarded
• 1996 Summer Olympics - Nations
• 1996 Summer Olympics - Medal count

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AD or ad may stand for: .ad, the ccTLD (Internet Top Level Domain) for Andorra AD, the 2-letter ISO 3166-1 country code for Andorra Assistant director Alzheimer's disease Artium Doctor (Doctor of Arts) Media Arrested Development (TV Series), a Fox Network TV program Algemeen Dagblad, a Dutch newspaper. History Civilization of 'Ad, mentioned in the Quran.

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For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1278 - Events. August 26 - Kings Rudolph I of Germany and Ladislaus IV of Hungary defeat King Otakar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield, a match of over 80,000 men and the largest battle of knights in the middle ages. The battle ends a power struggle between Rudolph and Otakar over the fate of central Europe, and Rudolph's Habsburg family will continue to rule Austria and other captured territories until the end of World War I ...

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• 1278 - Events
• 1278 - Births
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1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. 1958 - Events. 1958 - January. January 1 - Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented. January 3 - The West Indies Federation is formed. January 4 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4, 1957). January 8 - 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship. January 13 - 9235 scientists publish a plea to ...

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• 1958 - Events
• 1958 - January
• 1958 - February
• 1958 - March
• 1958 - April
• 1958 - May
• 1958 - June
• 1958 - July
• 1958 - August
• 1958 - September
• 1958 - October
• 1958 - November
• 1958 - December
• 1958 - unknown date
• 1958 - Births
• 1958 - January
• 1958 - February
• 1958 - March
• 1958 - April
• 1958 - May
• 1958 - June
• 1958 - July
• 1958 - August
• 1958 - September-December
• 1958 - Deaths
• 1958 - Nobel Prizes
• 1958 - Fields Medalists

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1607 - Events. January 20 - Tidal wave swept along the Bristol Channel, killing 2000 people. (Possibly tsunami) April 25 - Battle of Gibraltar Dutch fleet destroys anchored Spanish fleet April 26 - English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the United States. August 13 - Ship Gift of God of the Plymouth Company arrives at the mouth of the modern-day Kennebec River in ...

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• 1607 - Events
• 1607 - Births
• 1607 - Deaths

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.ad is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Andorra. It is administered by Servei de Telecommunications d'Andorra. Other related archivesAndorra, Internet, ccTLD, country code, top-level domain

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The Games of the XXII Olympiad were held in Moscow, Soviet Union. Another candidate in the bid to organise the Olympics was Los Angeles. The choice between them was made on October 23, 1974 on the 75th IOC session. Moscow defeated Los Angeles by 39 votes to 20. The yachting events were held in Tallinn; preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football (soccer) tournament were held, besides Moscow, at the stadiums of Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk. 1980 Summer Olympics - Highlights. Although approxima ...

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• 1980 Summer Olympics - Highlights
• 1980 Summer Olympics - Medals awarded
• 1980 Summer Olympics - Medal count
• 1980 Summer Olympics - Nations

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Land borders - List of countries and territories. Land borders - by length of land borders. no land border - see list of borderless countries 0 km to 5,000 km (acsending order) - Macau, Vatican City (Holy See), Monaco, 5,000 km to 10,000 km - Central African Republic, Chad 10,000 km to 15,000 km - 15,000 km to 20,000 km - more than 20,000 km - shortest - Macau (0.34km, SAR boundary of the People's Republic of China), Vatic ...

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Land borders, Land borders - Land borders, Land borders - A-C, Land borders - D-F, Land borders - G-I, Land borders - J-L, Land borders - M-O, Land borders - P-S, Land borders - T-V, Land borders - W-Z, Land borders - Extremes, Land borders - List of countries and territories, Land borders - by length of land borders, Land borders - by number of neighbours, Land borders - Sources

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Historically, being landlocked was regarded as a disadvantageous position. It cuts the country off from sea resources such as fishing, but more importantly cuts off access to seaborne trade which even today makes up a large percentage of international trade. Around the world, coastal regions tend to be wealthier and more heavily populated than inland ones. Countries thus have made particular efforts to avoid being landlocked. The International Congo Society, which owned the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, was given a thin ...

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Landlocked, Landlocked - Significance of a country being landlocked, Landlocked - Landlocked countries, Landlocked - Landlocked sub-national and dependent territories and unrecognised countries, Landlocked - Doubly landlocked countries, Landlocked - Corridors, Landlocked - Railway missing links

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Observer parties: Partido Movimiento Libertario (Costa Rica) LIBRA (Croatia) Partido Liberal Democratico (Angola) Partido Solidaridad Democratica (Cuba) Movimiento Fuerza Ecuador (Ecuador) Liberalerna på Åland (Finland) Progressive Democrats (Ireland) Federazione dei Liberali Italiani (Italy) Partia Liberale e Kosoves (Kosovo) New Union/Social Liberals (Lithuania) < ...

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Liberal International, Liberal International - Members, Liberal International - Former members

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Main article: China and the United Nations The Republic of China was one of the five original founders of the UN in 1945. However, at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the Kuomintang-controlled ROC government fled to Taiwan, with the Communist government of the newly-declared People's Republic of China taking control of most of the territory of China. Representatives of the Nationalist government continued to represent China at the UN, though it was often alleged that this was somewhat unfair, given the size of the ROC' ...

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United Nations member states, United Nations member states - Current members, United Nations member states - Seat of China, United Nations member states - Observer states and non-members, United Nations member states - Former members, United Nations member states - Naming conventions and notes

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L'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie has an observer status at the UN General Assembly. La Francophonie - Summits. Summits of the Francophonie are held every two years, at which time the leaders of the member states have an opportunity to meet and develop strategies and goals for the organisation. Although it is thought to be incorrect, the original founde ...

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La Francophonie, La Francophonie - Structure, La Francophonie - Summits, La Francophonie - Ministerial conferences, La Francophonie - Permanent council, La Francophonie - Intergovernmental agency, La Francophonie - Members, La Francophonie - Europe, La Francophonie - North and South America, La Francophonie - Africa, La Francophonie - Asia, La Francophonie - Oceania

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The United Nations member states may all become member countries of the UPU. The 191 United Nations member states are all UPU member countries except Andorra, Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau whose situation with regard to the UPU has not yet been settled. A non-member state of the United Nations may also become a UPU member if two-thirds of the UPU member countries approve its request. Vatican City is a UPU member country and a non-mem ...

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Universal Postal Union, Universal Postal Union - Member countries, Universal Postal Union - A, Universal Postal Union - B, Universal Postal Union - C, Universal Postal Union - D, Universal Postal Union - E, Universal Postal Union - F, Universal Postal Union - G, Universal Postal Union - H, Universal Postal Union - I, Universal Postal Union - J, Universal Postal Union - K, Universal Postal Union - L, Universal Postal Union - M, Universal Postal Union - N, Universal Postal Union - O, Universal Postal Union - P, Universal Postal Union - Q, Universal Postal Union - R, Universal Postal Union - S, Universal Postal Union - T, Universal Postal Union - U, Universal Postal Union - V, Universal Postal Union - Y, Universal Postal Union - Z, Universal Postal Union - External link

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List of cultural and regional genres of music - By country. Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil ...

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List of cultural and regional genres of music, List of cultural and regional genres of music - Cultural genres, List of cultural and regional genres of music - By ethnicity or origin, List of cultural and regional genres of music - Indigenous Caribbean Mexican South and Central American people, List of cultural and regional genres of music - By religion, List of cultural and regional genres of music - By language, List of cultural and regional genres of music - By occupation purpose or occasion, List of cultural and regional genres of music - Geographic genres, List of cultural and regional genres of music - By country, List of cultural and regional genres of music - By continent or other international region, List of cultural and regional genres of music - By province region or other sub-national entity, List of cultural and regional genres of music - Kazakhstan, List of cultural and regional genres of music - Historical genres

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The preservation of cultural and linguistic diversity in today's world is a major concern to many scientists, artists, writers, politicians, and leaders of linguistic communities. Up to one half of the 6000 languages currently spoken in the world are estimated to be in danger of disappearing during the 21st century. Many factors affect the existence and usage of any given human language, including the size of the native speaking population, its use in formal communication, and the geographical dispersion and the socio-economic weight of its speakers. National language policies can either mitigate or exac ...

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Language policy, Language policy - Overview, Language policy - Assimilation policies, Language policy - Non-intervention policies, Language policy - Differentiated legal statute policies, Language policy - Valorization of the official language policies, Language policy - Sectorial Policies, Language policy - Bilingualism or trilingualism policies, Language policy - Based on non-territorialized individual rights, Language policy - Based on territorialized individual rights, Language policy - Based on territorial rights, Language policy - Strategic multilingualism policies, Language policy - Linguistic internationalization policies, Language policy - Mixed linguistic policies, Language policy - Language boards, Language policy - Source

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Between brackets is the Swiss Football League in the season 2004/2005. 34: FC Vaduz (Challenge League) 11: FC Balzers (2. Liga Interregional) 8: FC Triesen (3. Liga) 4: USV Eschen/Mauren (2. Liga Interregional) 3: FC Schaan (3. Liga) 0: FC Ruggell (3. Liga) Allthough five times in the final 0: FC Triesenberg (3. Liga) Never made it to the final. ...

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Liechtenstein football Cup, Liechtenstein football Cup - Number of Cups, Liechtenstein football Cup - Liechtenstein Cupwinners

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