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ATV can refer to: all-terrain vehicle, the land equivalent of a personal watercraft or jet ski amateur television, a broadcast-quality television service for amateur radio operators analog television América Televisión, a Peruvian television network ATV (Canada), former name of a CTV-affiliated regional television service for the maritime provinces Associated Television Network, British commercial television broadcaster between 1955 and 1981 Asia Television Limited,

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Aurora is a city located in St. Louis County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1,850. Aurora Minnesota - Geography. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.2 km² (3.9 mi²). 9.8 km² (3.8 mi²) of it is land and 0.4 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 3.56% water. It is surrounded by mixed coniferous/deciduous forest and is near man lakes. Aurora Minnesota - Economy. Aurora is located ...

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• Aurora Minnesota - Geography
• Aurora Minnesota - Economy
• Aurora Minnesota - Recreation
• Aurora Minnesota - Demographics

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Bullseye was a British game show made by ATV and Central Television between 1981 and 1995, and hosted by Jim Bowen. In its prime, it was watched by around 15 million viewers on Sunday evenings. Centred around darts, the show placed three pairs of contestants against one another to win prizes ranging from a new car or a speedboat to the consolation prize of a set of darts, a tankard (silver goblet for lady con ...

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• Bullseye British game show - Catchphrases

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24 is a current U.S. television action/drama series, produced by the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide. It is named 24 because the action on the show ostensibly occurs in "real time", with each season covering the events of one day in the life of federal agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland). The show also follows Jack's colleagues at the Counter Terrorist Unit in Los Angeles, as well as the actions of both various terrorists and the White House. Every episode in a season covers the events of one hour in that day (henc ...

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• 24 television - Overview
• 24 television - Season synopses
• 24 television - Season 1
• 24 television - Season 2
• 24 television - Season 3
• 24 television - Season 4
• 24 television - Season 5
• 24 television - Behind-the-scenes information
• 24 television - General trivia
• 24 television - Fan phone
• 24 television - Main cast
• 24 television - Broadcasters
• 24 television - DVD releases
• 24 television - Region 1
• 24 television - Region 2
• 24 television - Region 3

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The Bong Recreational Area is a managed prairie held as a state recreation area by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. It is located west of Brighton, Wisconsin. It covers an area of 4,515 acres (18 km²) and contains 8.3 miles (13 km) of mountain bike trails. Other recreational activities include high power rocketry, dogsledding, falconry, ATV sports, land sailing, horseback riding, hunting, camping with amenities and ultralight aviation. There is a wildlife preserve. Whooping cranes and Great Egrets are known to nest ther

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The United States Border Patrol (USBP), a Federal police force, is the mobile uniformed law enforcement arm of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a bureau of the Department of Homeland Security. The Border Patrol was originally founded on May 28, 1924 as an agency of the United States Department of Labor. Prior to 2003, the Border Patrol was part of the Immigration and Naturalizati ...

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• United States Border Patrol - Strategy
• United States Border Patrol - 1986 - Employer Sanctions and Interior Enforcement
• United States Border Patrol - Deterrence becomes the new strategy
• United States Border Patrol - El Paso Sector's Operation Hold the Line
• United States Border Patrol - San Diego Sector's Operation Gatekeeper
• United States Border Patrol - Tucson Sector's Operation Safeguard
• United States Border Patrol - The New Border Patrol Strategy
• United States Border Patrol - A Growing Agency
• United States Border Patrol - Specialized Units
• United States Border Patrol - Tactical Teams
• United States Border Patrol - Search and Rescue
• United States Border Patrol - Other Units
• United States Border Patrol - Newton-Azrak Award

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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers very large cash prizes for correctly answering successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. The maximum cash prize (in the original UK version) is one million pounds. The programme originated in the United Kingdom, where it is hosted by Chris Tarrant. It is based on a format devised by David Briggs, who, along with Steve Knight and Mike Whitehill, devised a number of the promotional games for Chris Tarrant's breakfast show on Capital FM rad ...

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• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - UK version
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - Format
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - Text Game Walkaway
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - Specials
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - The Major Charles Ingram affair
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - United States version
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - Rule changes
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - Other information
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - Other national variants
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - Million winners

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UFO was a British television science fiction series created by Gerry Anderson and produced by Anderson's and Lew Grade's Century 21 Productions for Grade's ITC Entertainment company. Anderson had previously made a number of very successful marionette-based children's science fiction series including Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet. He had also made one live-action science fiction movie, Doppelgänger, also known as Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, and now felt ready to move into ...

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• UFO TV series - Plot overview
• UFO TV series - Characters
• UFO TV series - Commander Ed Straker Ed Bishop
• UFO TV series - Col. Paul Foster Michael Billington
• UFO TV series - Lt. Gay Ellis Gabrielle Drake
• UFO TV series - Col. Alec Freeman George Sewell
• UFO TV series - General James Henderson Grant Taylor
• UFO TV series - Col. Virginia Lake Wanda Ventham
• UFO TV series - Captain Peter Carlin Peter Gordeno
• UFO TV series - Lt. Nina Barry Dolores Mantez
• UFO TV series - Captain Lew Waterman Gary Myers
• UFO TV series - Lt. Keith Ford Keith Alexander
• UFO TV series - Lt. Ayshea Johnson Ayshea Brough
• UFO TV series - Dr. Doug Jackson Vladek Sheybal
• UFO TV series - Lt. Joan Harrington Antonia Ellis
• UFO TV series - Miss Ealand Norma Ronald
• UFO TV series - Lt. Mark Bradley Harry Baird
• UFO TV series - Trivia
• UFO TV series - Predictions
• UFO TV series - Episodes
• UFO TV series - Revivals

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Crossroads was a British television soap opera set in a motel near Birmingham, England. It was first broadcast on ITV between 2 November 1964 and 4 April 1988. Crossroads soap opera - ATV series. Crossroads first aired five days a week, until the ITA decreed that it would go to four airings a week in 1967. In 1979, it moved to three times a week. The location of the Crossroads Motel was a fictional outskirt of Birmingham, "King's Oak" (there are real suburbs Kings Norton and Selly Oak). ...

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• Crossroads soap opera - ATV series
• Crossroads soap opera - Central TV series
• Crossroads soap opera - Crossroads Locations
• Crossroads soap opera - Carlton series
• Crossroads soap opera - Trivia

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Carlton Television Limited is the United Kingdom Channel 3 (ITV) licencee for London and the surrounding areas, Monday 9:25am, to Friday, 5:15pm. It is owned by ITV plc. It is managed with London Weekend Television as a single entity, ITV London. Major programmes include London Tonight, The London Programme and London Soccer Night. Christy Swords is the company's managing director Carlton Television - History. Carlton Television was originally a company set up by Michael Green's Carlton Communicatio ...

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• Carlton Television - History
• Carlton Television - ITV London
• Carlton Television - External link

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A crossroads (the word rarely appears in singular) is another word for road junction, where two or more roads meet (there are three or more arms). It is also an alternate name for a hamlet located at such a junction. The word is more often used as an abstraction of places or occasions where people meet. The Latin word trivia (literally "three roads") is a place where three roads meet, and has given name to the ki ...

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Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇) (November/December 260 BC-September 10, 210 BC), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BC to 221 BC, and then the first emperor of a unified China from 221 BC to 210 BC, ruling under the name First Emperor. Having unified China, he and his prime minister Li Si passed a series of major reforms aimed at cementing the unification, and they undertook some gargantuan construction projects, most notably the precursor version of the current Great Wall of China. For a ...

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• Qin Shi Huang - Naming conventions
• Qin Shi Huang - Youth and King of Qin: the conqueror
• Qin Shi Huang - Unification of China
• Qin Shi Huang - Death and aftermath
• Qin Shi Huang - Qin Shi Huang in historiography
• Qin Shi Huang - Qin Shi Huang in fiction
• Qin Shi Huang - Miscellaneous

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Central is the name of several places: Central — a region of Scotland Central — another name for the Blue Nile state of Sudan Central — an area in Hong Kong, part of Central and Western District Central — a department of Paraguay Central City — a city in Nebraska Central — a town in Pickens County, South Carolina Central — the MTR Central railway station in Hong Kong Central — a district in Delhi Central — a census-designated place in Tennessee. Central is one name for the ma

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The Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, also known as the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference of the WTO and abbreviated as MC6, was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wan Chai, Hong Kong from 13th to 18th December 2005. Representatives from 148 countries were expected to attend the event, as well as over 10,000 protestors led by the Hong Kong People’s Alliance on WTO and made up of largely South Korean farmers. Wan Chai Sports Ground and Wan Chai Cargo Handling Basin in Wan ...

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• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Background
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Doha development agenda
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Possible agenda
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Principles of the negotiations
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - The potential benefits of the success of the MC6
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - The barriers faced by the MC6
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Participations of the member countries
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Pre-conference predictions
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Planning
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Venue
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Security and emergency
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Logistics
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Media
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Finance
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - The participation of NGOs
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Participating parties
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Facilities offered for the NGOs
• WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 - Demonstrations

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Central Independent Television, commonly referred to as Central, is the Independent Television company that succeeded ATV on 1 January 1982. Apart from a new name and logo, the company was essentially a continuation of ATV, having originally applied for the franchise as ATV Midlands Limited. The new name was adopted as one of a set of conditions imposed upon ATV by IBA regulators who believed that the company needed to more fully reflect the area it served. Another condition was that ATV move its headquarters to Birmingham from ...

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TVB enjoys an overwhelming dominance in the television market in Hong Kong; however, its programmes have often been criticised by some television viewers as being in bad taste, superficial, dull, and lacking in creativity. Its programmes have also been criticised for catering solely to the taste of housewives and therefore ignoring the diverse interests of the middle class. Despite such criticism, TVB continues to enjoy high ratings in Hong Kong. Occasionally, TVB also receives praise for its programming from a wide range of demographics (other than housewives), including the middle class, as was the case ...

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Television Broadcasts Limited, Television Broadcasts Limited - Development, Television Broadcasts Limited - Location, Television Broadcasts Limited - News operation, Television Broadcasts Limited - Notable shows from TVB, Television Broadcasts Limited - Notable people, Television Broadcasts Limited - Management and behind the scenes, Television Broadcasts Limited - Actors, Television Broadcasts Limited - Actresses

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At its height, Yarwood's TV shows, which were based on a variety mix of comic sketches, guest musicians, and a swing song sung by Yarwood (introduced by the line, "and this is me", which became the title of the first of his three autobographies), regularly attracted more than 10 million viewers (beating the James Bond film You Only Live Twice in a 'head to head' battle in 1977). Yarwood's show attracted high profile guests such as ex-Beatle Paul McCartney (1977) and chart-topping Eurovision winners ABBA (1978). Am ...

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Mike Yarwood, Mike Yarwood - London Palladium & Tony Hancock, Mike Yarwood - Topping the TV ratings, Mike Yarwood - Characters' catchphrases, Mike Yarwood - Part of the Cotton Crew in the BBC, Mike Yarwood - Decline, Mike Yarwood - Yarwood's most famous shows, Mike Yarwood - Yarwood's Autobiographies

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The rebellion's army was its key strength. It was marked by a high level of discipline and fanaticism. They typically wore a uniform of red jackets with blue trousers and grew their hair long (長毛 Chángmáo). Large numbers of females serving in the army were also a unique feature amongst 19th century armies. The fighting was always bloody and extremely brutal, with little artillery but huge forces equipped with small arms. By 1856, the Taiping armies numbered just over 1 million. Their main strategy of conquest was to take major c ...

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Taiping Rebellion, Taiping Rebellion - Beginning, Taiping Rebellion - Army, Taiping Rebellion - The Kingdom's policies, Taiping Rebellion - Administration, Taiping Rebellion - Climax, Taiping Rebellion - Downfall, Taiping Rebellion - Taiping Rebellion in popular culture

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Prior to its demonstration on December 3, 2001, various reports and rumours of a revolutionary invention could be found in the media, but no details were available. Initial reception was enthusiastic: Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggested that cities will be built around this new method of transportation, and venture capitalist John Doerr predicted sales would reach $1 billion sooner after Segway's launch than any other product's sales had. To cope with the expected demand, the factory in Bedford, New Hampshire was originally designed t ...

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Segway HT, Segway HT - History, Segway HT - Uses, Segway HT - Technology, Segway HT - Models and price, Segway HT - Trivia, Segway HT - Segway in Popular Culture

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A typical Morecambe and Wise show, as scripted by Braben, was effectively a sketch show crossed with a sit-com, although shows could also include the duo appearing "as themselves" on a mock stage in front of curtains emblazoned with an M and W logo (this was usually to open the show). Braben gave the duo characterisations—Wise egotistical but naive, Morecambe child-like and cocky—although at other times they relied on their acting ability to appear as characters in sketches. Wise was essentially the 'straight man' of the duo, with Moreca ...

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Morecambe and Wise, Morecambe and Wise - History, Morecambe and Wise - Collaborators, Morecambe and Wise - The show, Morecambe and Wise - Christmas specials, Morecambe and Wise - Catchphrases and visual gags

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