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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1894 - Events. January 7 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. January 8 - A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois causes a good deal of damage. January 9 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard (Lexington ...

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• 1894 - Events
• 1894 - Births
• 1894 - April-June
• 1894 - July-September
• 1894 - October-December
• 1894 - Unknown date
• 1894 - Deaths
• 1894 - Marriages
• 1894 - Fictional events of the year

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Ariel "Arik" Sharon ▶ (help·info) (Hebrew: אריאל שרון) (born February 27, 1928) is the eleventh and current Prime Minister of Israel, serving from March 2001. A long-serving Israeli political and military leader, he was a founding member and former head of the Likud party, and previously served for over thirty years in the Israeli Defense Forces, rising to the rank of Major General, and achieving fame within Israel for his actions in the 1967 Six Day ...

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• Ariel Sharon - Early life
• Ariel Sharon - Mitla incident
• Ariel Sharon - Six-Day War and Yom Kippur War
• Ariel Sharon - Sabra and Shatila massacre
• Ariel Sharon - Political career
• Ariel Sharon - Gaza evacuation
• Ariel Sharon - Founding of Kadima
• Ariel Sharon - Health problems

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2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → August 2005 - Deaths in August. August 31: Michael Sheard August 26: Lord Fitt August 24: Jack Slipper August 24: Maurice Cowling August 24: Dr. Tom Pashby August 23: Brock Peters August 22: Lord Lane August 21: Robert Moog August 19: Mo Mowlam August 18: Gao Xiumin August 16: Frère Roger August ...

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• August 2005 - Deaths in August
• August 2005 - 31 August 2005 Wednesday
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• August 2005 - Events by month
• August 2005 - News collections and sources

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Amelia Mary Earhart (born 24 July 1897, Atchison, Kansas - missing from 2 July 1937, western Pacific ocean), daughter of Edwin and Amy Earhart, was an American aviator and noted early female pilot who mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigational flight in 1937. Amelia Earhart - Early life. Amelia's grandfather was Alfred Otis, a former federal judge and a leading citizen in Atchison who reportedly was not satisfied with her father Edwin's own success as a lawyer, which is said ...

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• Amelia Earhart - Early life
• Amelia Earhart - Aviation career and marriage to GP
• Amelia Earhart - World Flight 1937
• Amelia Earhart - Legacy
• Amelia Earhart - Books by Earhart
• Amelia Earhart - Fiction by other authors
• Amelia Earhart - Urban legends
• Amelia Earhart - Bibliography

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Air India Flight 182 was a Boeing 747 that exploded on June 23, 1985 while at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland; all 329 on board were killed, of whom eighty two were children and 280 were Canadian citizens. The explosion was caused by a bomb placed in the baggage compartment and was constructed by a Sikh named Inderjit Singh Reyat. On 27 June 2002 the United States designated a Sikh militant ...

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• Air India Flight 182 - Incident timeline
• Air India Flight 182 - The Air India 182 bomb
• Air India Flight 182 - The Narita Airport bomb
• Air India Flight 182 - The Suspects
• Air India Flight 182 - Timeline of the Trials
• Air India Flight 182 - Recent Events
• Air India Flight 182 - What did the Canadian government know?
• Air India Flight 182 - Destroyed Evidence
• Air India Flight 182 - Murdered Witness
• Air India Flight 182 - CSIS Connection
• Air India Flight 182 - The Indian Government Theory

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1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1924 - Events. 1924 - January. January 7 - Great fire in London harbour January 8 - Heavy blizzards in England January 10 - British submarine L-34 sinks in the English Channel - 43 dead. January 12 - Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart - he is arrested so ...

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• 1924 - Events
• 1924 - January
• 1924 - February
• 1924 - March
• 1924 - April
• 1924 - May
• 1924 - June
• 1924 - August-October
• 1924 - November
• 1924 - December
• 1924 - Unknown date
• 1924 - Births
• 1924 - January-February
• 1924 - March-May
• 1924 - June-August
• 1924 - September-October
• 1924 - November-December
• 1924 - Deaths
• 1924 - Nobel Prizes

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The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming, transmitting in 43 languages to around 150 million people throughout the world. The English service broadcasts 24 hours a day. Unlike the BBC's main radio and television services, which are primarily funded by a licence fee, the World Service is funded by the British Government through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ...

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• BBC World Service - Statistics and languages
• BBC World Service - History
• BBC World Service - Transmission
• BBC World Service - Interval signals
• BBC World Service - News
• BBC World Service - Foreign Language Broadcasting table

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The Chi-Chi earthquake (also known as 921 earthquake) occurred on September 21, 1999 in central Taiwan at 1:47 am local time (September 20 17:47 GMT) and measured 7.6 on the Richter scale. Its epicenter was at 23.87° N latitude, 120.75° E longitude, which is in the Ji-Ji Township (Chi-Chi by Wade-Giles romanization) in the Nantou County, about 12.5 km west of the Sun Moon Lake. The depth was 7.0 km. Damage caused by the earthquake (According to the National Fire Agency, Ministry of the Interior R.O.C): 2,415 deat ...

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• Chi-Chi earthquake - External Link

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Western European Time (WET) is the time zone covering parts of western and northwestern Europe, including the following countries and regions: Canary Islands (rest of Spain is CET, i.e. UTC+1) Faroe Islands northeastern Greenland (Danmarkshavn and surrounding area) Iceland Portugal (except Azores, minus 1 hour) The Republic of Ireland (where the terms GMT and IST are used) The ...

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Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing points in time. It is widely used not only on Unix-like operating systems but in many other computing systems, including the Java programming language. It is an encoding of UTC, and is sufficiently similar to a linear representation of the passage of time that it is frequently mistaken for one. The main complication is the leap seconds of UTC time. Unix time - Definition. There are two layers of encoding that make up Unix time, and they can be usef ...

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• Unix time - Definition
• Unix time - Encoding time as a number
• Unix time - Representing the number
• Unix time - UTC basis
• Unix time - History
• Unix time - 32-bit overflow
• Unix time - time_t parties

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Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui ("navel of the world"); Polynesian: Te Pito o te Henúa ("Navel of the World") or Mata-ki-te-Rangi ("Eyes [Speaking] from the Heavens"); Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is an island in the south Pacific Ocean, a territory of Chile. Located 3600 km (2,237 statute miles) west of continental Chile and 2075 km (1290 statute miles) east of Pitcairn Island, it is the most isolated inhabited island in the world. It is located at 27°09'S 109°27'W, with a latitude close to that of the Ch ...

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• Easter Island - History
• Easter Island - Early Settlement and overview
• Easter Island - Moai-carving culture ?5th century CE - ?14th/15th century CE
• Easter Island - The Birdman cult ?14th/15th century CE - 18th century CE
• Easter Island - Breakdown of native culture 18th - 20th century CE
• Easter Island - Today
• Easter Island - Ecology
• Easter Island - Cultural artifacts
• Easter Island - The Moai
• Easter Island - Rongorongo
• Easter Island - Demography
• Easter Island - Mythology

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Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is a position fixing technique that was the first system devised to help sailors locate themselves on a featureless ocean. Celestial navigation uses angular measurements (sights) between the horizon and a common celestial object. The Sun is most often measured. Skilled navigators can use the Moon, planets or one of 57 "navigational stars" that are described in nautical almanacs. Sights on the moon, planets and stars allow navigation to occur at night or when clouds obscure ot ...

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• Celestial navigation - How it works
• Celestial navigation - Angular Measurement
• Celestial navigation - Practical Navigation
• Celestial navigation - Latitude
• Celestial navigation - Longitude
• Celestial navigation - Modern Celestial Navigation

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CERN is the Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research ), the world's largest particle physics laboratory, situated on the border between France and Switzerland, just west of Geneva. It is also known for being the birthplace of the World Wide Web. The convention establishing it was signed on September 29, 1954. From the original 12 signatories of the CERN convention, membership ...

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• CERN - The acronym
• CERN - The accelerator complex
• CERN - Scientific Achievements
• CERN - The accelerator of the future: the LHC
• CERN - Decommissioned accelerators
• CERN - CERN sites
• CERN - Computer Science and CERN
• CERN - Member States
• CERN - Public exhibits
• CERN - In Fiction

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Notable events of 2005 in computer and video games. See also history of computer and video games. 2005 in video gaming - Events. March 6 — The television show 60 Minutes tackles issues within video game controversy. This segment of 60 Minutes has been criticized by video game players for encouraging video game censorship. March 7 - March 11 — Game Developers Conference; Nintendo keynote speech: "The Heart of the Gamer" by Satoru Iwata, president of Nin ...

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• 2005 in video gaming - Events
• 2005 in video gaming - Business
• 2005 in video gaming - Notable releases
• 2005 in video gaming - Trends
• 2005 in video gaming - Video game systems
• 2005 in video gaming - Handheld game systems
• 2005 in video gaming - Video game sales

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This is a list of television-related events in 1991. 1990 in film 1991 in film 1992 in film 1990 in home video 1991 in home video 1992 in home video 1990 in television 1991 in television 1992 in television For the United States network television schedule, see 1991-92 United States network television schedule. 1991 in television - Events.

Abu Dhabi (Arabic: أبو ظبي ʼAbū Ẓaby) is the largest of the seven emirates that comprise the United Arab Emirates and was also the largest of the former Trucial States. Abu Dhabi is also a city of the same name within the Emirate that is the capital of the country, in north central UAE. The city lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western coast. An estimated 1,000,000 lived there in 2000, with about an 80% expatriate population. Abu Dhabi city is located at 24.4667° N ...

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• Abu Dhabi - History
• Abu Dhabi - Current ruler
• Abu Dhabi - Postal History
• Abu Dhabi - Climate
• Abu Dhabi - Transport
• Abu Dhabi - Trivia

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Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. In almost all forms of Commonwealth English, the letter is named zed, reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta (see below). Other European languages use a similar form, e.g. the French zède, Spanish and Italian zeta, and Dutch zet. The American English form zee derives from an English late 17th-century dialectal form, now obsolete in England (although it allows the letter to rhyme with "V" in the "Alphabet song" nurser ...

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• Z - Codes for computing
• Z - Meanings for Z
• Z - External link

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September 11 2001 attacks timeline for September - Wednesday September 12. 2:30 AM, CBS reports that a van packed with explosives has been stopped on the George Washington Bridge. The New Jersey police claim there were enough explosives to destroy the entire bridge. Apparently the FBI has denied the report. According to a later report, three men have been arrested but there were no explosives involved. They were arrested because they had been seen celebrating the attack. Before See also:

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TLA is a three-letter abbreviation itself; the term was almost certainly coined with a certain degree of self-referential humor in mind. Likewise, the following acronyms are sometimes used for four-letter abbreviations: FLAB (Four Letter ABbreviation) ETLA or XTLA (Enhanced or eXtended TLA) LFLA (Longer Four Letter Abbreviation) TLA/E ( ...

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TLA, TLA - Background, TLA - Description, TLA - Usage, TLA - Common categories of TLAs, TLA - Lists of TLAs, TLA - Trivia

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This incident stands as the only peacetime attack on a U.S. naval vessel not investigated by Congress. The survivors want a full Congressional hearing; they hold that a proper investigation has never taken place and that all previous reports are incomplete, mention the incident in passing, and either that they are intended to exonerate Israel or that they do not even question the culpability of the attack (instead, they hold, it focuse ...

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USS Liberty incident, USS Liberty incident - The attack on the Liberty, USS Liberty incident - Investigations of the attack, USS Liberty incident - Israeli investigations, USS Liberty incident - American investigations, USS Liberty incident - Ongoing controversy, USS Liberty incident - Details in dispute, USS Liberty incident - Books

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