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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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The vrykolakas (Greek βρυκόλακας pronounced "vree-KO-la-kahss", IPA [vri'kolakas]) is a monster from modern Greek folklore. It has similarities to many different legendary creatures. For example, it is like a ghost, in that it is a haunting spirit of the dead. Legends also say it crushes or suffocates the sleeping by sitting on them, much like a mara or incubus (cf. sleep paralysis). It also has many affinities with the werewolf (see below). But the legendary cre ...

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Yambol (Bulgarian: Ямбол, also transliterated as Jambol) is the principal town in Yambol Province, Bulgaria, located on the Tundzha River. Other related archivesBulgaria, Bulgarian, Yambol Province, town

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The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from February 4 to 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. The delegations were headed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin respectively. Yalta Conference - Conference. It was a continuation of the series of meetings begun at the Casablanca Conference (January 14 to 24, 1943) althou ...

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In European mythology, a dragon is a serpent-like legendary creature. The Latin word draco, as in the constellation Draco, comes directly from Greek δράκων, drákōn. The word for dragon in Germanic mythology and its descendants is worm (Old English: wyrm, Old High German: wurm, Old Norse: ormr), meaning snake or serpent. In Old English wyrm means "serpent", draca means "dragon". Though a winged creature, the dragon is generally to be found in its underground lair, a cave t ...

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Constantinople1 (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολις) was the earlier name of the modern city of İstanbul in Turkey in its role over more than a millennium as capital, first of the Eastern Roman Empire, subsequently of the Byzantine Empire. The last imperial designation reveals the city's even more ancient Greek name: Byzantium. Constantinople was located strategically between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe met Asia, and was highly ...

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The Jiu (Hungarian: Zsil) is a river of southern Romania. It is formed near Petroşani by the confluence of two streams: the western and the eastern Jiu (which rise from the Vâlcan and Parâng Mountains) It flows southward through the Romanian counties Hunedoara, Gorj and Dolj before flowing into the Danube a few kilometers upstream from the Bulgarian city of Oryakhovo, 331 kilometers from its sources. It has a basin of 10,070 km². Jiu River - Towns and cities. Petroşani ...

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Abd-ul-aziz (Arabic: عبد العزيز ) (February 9, 1830 – 1876) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1861 to May 30, 1876. He was the son of Sultan Mahmud II and succeeded his brother Abd-ul-Mejid in 1861. His personal interference in government affairs was not very marked, and extended to little more than taking astute advantage of the constant issue of state loans during his reign to acquire wealth, which was squandered in building useless palaces and in other futile ways: he is even said to have profited, by means of bear sales, from the default on the Turki ...

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Mico may refer to: a Bulgarian tsar - see Mitso Asen a type of monkeys - see Marmoset a Canadian melodic rock band - see Mico (band) Other related archivesBulgarian, Marmoset, Mitso Asen

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Peter is a popular male given name. Peter comes from the Greek word πέτρα (read petra, in Latin used as petro-), meaning rock. According to the New Testament, Jesus gave the Apostle Peter (whose given name was Simon) the name Rock (Kephas or Cephas in Aramaic; Petros or "bedros" (Greek). The name was transliterated into Latin as Petrus, from ...

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This article is about a city in Bulgaria. See Varna (caste) for the Indian caste system. Varna (Bulgarian: Варна) is the third largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 350,000. It is the capital of Varna Province and an important port in the eastern part of the country, located on the Black Sea coast. It is referred to as the sea capital or the summer capital of Bulgaria. The city was named Stalin after the Soviet leader for a brief period from 1949 ...

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Thomas was not a Biblical given name, but originated from the Aramaic designation תום or Tôm. The meaning of the name is "twin", and in the New Testament the designation was applied to Judas Thomas, "Jude the Twin" who was venerated as Saint Thomas the Apostle. The name "Thomas" was not very popular until the 12th century, after the martyrdom of Thomas à Becket. However, in recent centuries the name has lost what religious sense that it held. All the notable people who had the first name or last name of "Thomas" are too numerous to list here, see ...

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А (А, а) is the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It arose directly from the Greek letter alpha. In the Early Cyrillic Alphabet its name was azǔ and it had numerical value of one. In many languages that use Cyrillic, such as Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian, it is pronounced as /a/. It may also represent /ɑ/ and / ...

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The Games of the XXIV Olympiad were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. The host was chosen in the September 1981 vote, ahead of the Japanese city of Nagoya. After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Seoul Games were again boycotted, led by North Korea and followed by Cuba; the basis of the boycott was South Korea's refusal to co-host the Olympics with North Korea, which rejected all compromise. However it was an early, visible triumph of nordpolitik that no other Communist natio ...

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Ă (upper case) or ă (lower case) is a letter used in standard Romanian language and Vietnamese language orthographies. In Romanian, it is used to represent the mid-central unrounded vowel, while in Vietnamese it represents the short a sound. It is the second letter of both the Romanian and the Vietnamese alphabets. Ă - Romanian. The sound represented in Romanian by ă, although called a schwa (misleadingly suggesting an unstressed lax sound), is a vowel in its own right. Unli ...

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apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( 〈 〉 ) colon ( : ) comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) ( ... ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interrobang ( Including:

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1002 - Events. November 13 - English king Ethelred gives order to kill all Danes in England, leading to the St. Brice's Day Massacre. Brian Boru rises to power in Ireland, taking the title of High King. All-out war breaks out between Byzantine Emperor Basil II and Bulgarian tsar Samuil. Henry II succeeds Otto III as king of Germany. With a new group of colonists, an epidemic hits the Viking colony in Greenland. Danegeld is paid. 1002 ...

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Events February 14 - Pope Benedict VIII recognizes Henry of Bavaria as King of Germany July 29 - Battle of Kleidion: Basil II inflicts not only a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, but his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock, and earns Basil II the title 'Voulgaroktonos' (Bulgar-slayer). Henry II of Germany crowned Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Benedict VIII (ruled since 1003) Following the death of Sweyn I, Ethelre ...

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The Luxor Massacre took place on 17 November 1997, at Deir el-Bahri, an archaelogical site located across the River Nile from Luxor in Egypt. Deir el-Bahri is one of Egypt's top tourist attractions, most notably for the spectacular Memorial Temple of 18th-dynasty female pharoah Hatshepsut, known as "Djeser-Djeseru". In the mid-morning attack, Islamist militants from Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya ("The Islamic Group") and Jihad Talaat al-Fath ("Holy War of the Vanguard of the Conquest"), both of which are suspected of having ties to al ...

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1396 - Events. September 25 - Bayazid I defeats Sigismund of Hungary and John of Nevers at the Battle of Nicopolis. The Ottomans capture the Bdin (Vidin) Empire, the only remaining independent Bulgarian state. 1396 - Births. July 31 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (died 1467) Alfonso V of Aragon (died 1458) John de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros (died 1421) Elizabeth Gousell, English noblewoman (died 1491) Ambroise de Lore, ...

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The tambura is a type of musical instrument found in different versions in different places around the world; most are plucked lutes. Tambura - Bulgaria. The Bulgarian tambura is a long-necked, fretted, bouzouki-like string instrument that comes in two styles: eight-string (four pairs) and four-string (two pairs), played with a plectrum. The Bulgarian tambura is played two ways. As an accompaniment instrument, it is tuned similarly to the first four strings of a guitar and played as such. As a melody ...

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Abd-ul-Hamid II also Abdulhamid, Abdülhamit, Abdul Hamid, Abd al-Hamid II, or Abdul-Hamid (Arabic: عبد الحميد الثاني) (September 21, 1842 – February 10, 1918) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from August 31, 1876 – April 27, 1909. He was the son of Sultan Abd-ul-Mejid, and succeeded to the throne on the deposition of his brother Murad V on August 31, 1876. He accompanied his uncle Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz on his visit to England and France in 1867. At his accession spectator ...

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