1873 - January - April. January 71 - Indian Wars: First Battle of the Stronghold during the Modoc War. February 11 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I and proclaims the First Spanish Republic. February 12 - Former foreign minister Emilio Cistelar y Ripoli becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Republic. February 20 - The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California March 1 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, New York start prod ...

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1873 - January-March. January 2 - Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, Roman Catholic nun (d. 1897) January 7 - Adolph Zukor, Austrian-born film studio pioneer (d. 1976) January 10 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958) January 12 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner (d. 1940) January 20 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950) January 28 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954) February 2 - Maurice Tourneur, French film director (d. 1961) ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calaber). 1873 - Events. January 71 - Indian Wars: First Battle of the Stronghold during the Modoc War. February 11 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I and proclaims the First Spanish Republic. February 12 - Former foreign minister Emilio Cistelar y Ripoli becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Re ...

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• 1873 - April-June
• 1873 - July-September
• 1873 - October-December
• 1873 - Unknown
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CBS - Early years. CBS can trace its origins to the creation, in 1927 of the "United Independent Broadcasters" network. Begun by New York talent agent Arthur Judson, it went on the air in October of that year with 47 affiliates. The first year was a struggle, and United soon looked for additional investors; the Columbia Phonographic Manufacturing Company (also owners of Columbia Records), rescued the company in 1928, and as a result, the network was renamed "Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System." Later in 19 ...

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Columbia Lake forms the Columbia's headwaters in the Canadian Rockies of southern British Columbia. The river then flows through Windermere Lake and the town of Invermere, then northwest to Golden and into Kinbasket Lake. The river then turns (the "Big Bend") south through Revelstoke Lake and the Arrow Lakes to the BC–Washington border. The river then flows through the east-central portion of Washington State. The last 300 miles (480 km) of the Columbia form the Washington-Oregon boundary. The river goes into the Pacific Ocean at Ilwaco, Washington a ...

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Like the majority of the states, Colorado's current constitution provides for three branches of government: the legislative, executive and judicial branches. The legislative body is the General Assembly made up of two houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate. The House of Representatives has 65 members and the Senate has 35. Currently, Democrats are in control of both chambers of the General Assembly. The 2005 Colorado General Assembly is the first to ...

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The mainstream of the Columbia River has 11 dams and 8 locks. Nearly half of all hydroelectricity in the United States comes from the Columbia and its tributaries. The largest of the 150 hydroelectric projects, the Grand Coulee Dam and the Chief Joseph Dam, are also the largest in the United States. The Grand Coulee Dam is the third largest hydroelectric dam in the world. The dams also provide a secondary benefit in flood control and irrigation. On its north-south stretch through Eastern Washington, the Columbia spans a large desert c ...

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Exodus is the second book of the Torah (the Pentateuch) and also the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible), and Christian Old Testament. The major events of the book concern the Exodus, a departure of Hebrew slaves from Egypt, under the leadership of Moses. Jews call the book by its first words Ve-eleh shemoth (i.e., "and these are the names") or simply "Shemoth" שמות. The Septuagint designates the second book of the Pentateuch as "Exodus", meaning "departure" or "out-going". The Latin translation adopted the name, ...

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• Exodus - Summary
• Exodus - The Israelites and their escape from slavery 1-14
• Exodus - The journey through the wilderness to Mount Sinai 13-18
• Exodus - The Covenant and its Laws 19-24
• Exodus - The Instructions for a Tabernacle vestments and associated ritual objects 25-31
• Exodus - The golden calf and regiving of the law 32-34
• Exodus - The Construction of a Tabernacle vestments and associated ritual objects 35-40
• Exodus - Dating
• Exodus - Authorship
• Exodus - Translations identifying sources
• Exodus - Related articles

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Ken Salazar (D) Colorado is a western state in the central part of the country. Colorado is best known as the home of the highest peaks of the Rocky Mountains, which dominate the western half of the state; eastern Colorado is mostly High Plains (prairie) and sparsely populated. The state capital and largest city is Denver, Colorado; the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area contains over half of the state's population (2.5 million out of 4.3 million). The state was named after the Spanish word "Colorado" which means "reddish colored" that presumably refers to the red sandstone formations in the are ...

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• Colorado - Law and government
• Colorado - Geography
• Colorado - Economy
• Colorado - Demographics
• Colorado - Population
• Colorado - Race and ancestry
• Colorado - Religion
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• Colorado - Important cities and towns
• Colorado - 25 Richest Places in Colorado
• Colorado - Colorado tourism and recreation
• Colorado - National parks
• Colorado - National monuments
• Colorado - National recreational areas
• Colorado - National forests
• Colorado - National grasslands
• Colorado - Wilderness areas
• Colorado - National historic sites
• Colorado - Education
• Colorado - Colleges and universities
• Colorado - Professional sports teams
• Colorado - Major league teams
• Colorado - Other teams
• Colorado - Major highways

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Alpine is a common adjective prefixed to place and technical names and so may refer to: Alpine (goat), a breed of goat. Alpine (car), a manufacturer of racing cars and sports cars in France. Sunbeam Alpine, a sports car from Sunbeam. Chrysler Alpine, a compact car from Chrysler. Alpine car audio, a manufacturer of car audio and navigation systems in Japan. Alpine program, a peer-to-peer network program. Alpine, Australia, a place in Australia. Alpine, M

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Yellow grease is a term from the rendering industry. It usually means used frying oils from deep fryers and restaurants' grease traps. It can also refer to lower-quality grades of tallow from rendering plants. Yellow grease is recovered, traded as a marginally valuable commodity, and has traditionally been used to spray on roads as dust control, or as animal feed additive. But waste restaurant grease has recently become more desirable as one source of biodiesel fuel for cars. Although most biodiesel is developed from renewable ...

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Saint Cuthbert Mayne (1543-1577), Catholic priest and martyr. He was born at Yorkston, near Barnstaple, in Devon, the son of William Mayne and was baptized on March 20, 1543/4, St Cuthbert's day. The times were not propitious for the Catholic faith and the England of Henry VIII was already in schism. With the ascent to the throne of the boy King Edward VI was to fall into the hands of an overtly Protestant regime. Cuthbert Mayne's uncle was a priest who leaned heavily to the new doctrines. The idea was that the boy, a good-natu ...

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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization has four major science disciplines, concerning biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility. The USGS was founded by Clarence King in March 3, 1879 from disparate regional survey agencies. Since ...

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CBS (formerly an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. One of the pioneer radio networks, from its earliest days CBS established a reputation for quality; prior to the fracturing of the market under cable television, CBS's television network was one of three which dominated broadcasting in the United States. The network was previously owned by the media conglomerate Viacom (itself once a subsidiary of CBS). It and other traditional broadcasting assets became the new CBS Corporation followi ...

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• CBS - Early years
• CBS - The Television Years: Expansion and growth
• CBS - New owners
• CBS - Some criticisms
• CBS - The Eye Device
• CBS - Notes on sources

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Location in the state of Colorado Colorado Springs is a mid-sized city located just east of the geographic center of the state of Colorado in the United States. It has a population of 360,890 (according to the 2000 census) and is the second largest city in Colorado. At elevation 6,035 feet, it is situated near the base of one of the most famous American peaks, Pikes Peak, on the east side of the Rocky Mountains. The capital of Colorado, Denver, is 68 miles to the north. The city is ...

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• Colorado Springs Colorado - History
• Colorado Springs Colorado - Founded as a resort community
• Colorado Springs Colorado - General William Palmer and Spencer Penrose
• Colorado Springs Colorado - Old Colorado City
• Colorado Springs Colorado - Geography and climate
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• Colorado Springs Colorado - Climate
• Colorado Springs Colorado - Demographics
• Colorado Springs Colorado - Attractions and entertainment
• Colorado Springs Colorado - Tourism and attractions
• Colorado Springs Colorado - Sports teams
• Colorado Springs Colorado - Economy Religious Institutions and Education
• Colorado Springs Colorado - Industry and military
• Colorado Springs Colorado - Religious Institutions
• Colorado Springs Colorado - Education
• Colorado Springs Colorado - Trivia
• Colorado Springs Colorado - Sister Cities

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The Colorado Gold Rush was the boom in the prospecting and mining of gold in present-day Colorado in the United States that began in 1859 (when the land was still in the Kansas Territory) and lasted throughout the early 1860s. The gold rush, which followed approximately a decade after the California Gold Rush, was accompanied by a dramatic influx of emigrants into the region of the Rocky Mountains and exemplied by the phrase "Pikes Peak or Bust", a reference to the mountain in the Front Range that guided many early prospectors to the ...

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• Colorado Gold Rush - William Green Russell

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Aquaman as painted by Alex Ross Aquaman is a DC Comics superhero. Created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger, he first appeared in More Fun Comics #73 (1941). Like Marvel Comics’ Sub-Mariner, Aquaman is an undersea hero originating from the mythical kingdom of Atlantis. In the traditional version of his origin, he was Arthur Curry, the son of Tom Curry, a human lighthouse keeper, and Atlanna, an outcast from Atlantis. Recent comics, however, depict Aquaman as an orphan of purely underwater heritage who was ...

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• Aquaman - Golden Age Aquaman
• Aquaman - Silver Age Aquaman
• Aquaman - Modern Age Aquaman
• Aquaman - Crime Syndicate of America version
• Aquaman - Supporting characters
• Aquaman - Aquaman villians
• Aquaman - Adaptations in other media
• Aquaman - Cultural references

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The Columbia River is a river situated in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It is the largest river in volume flowing into the Pacific Ocean from North America, and the second largest in the United States. It is the largest hydroelectric power producing river in North America. From its headwaters to the Pacific Ocean it flows 1,232 miles (2,044 km), and drains 258,000 square miles (415,211 km²). Columbia River - Geography. Columbia Lake forms the Columbia's headwaters in the ...

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• Columbia River - History
• Columbia River - Hydroelectric dams
• Columbia River - Pollution
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First historical mentions of the city of Požega are found in Gesta Hungarorum by an anonymous notary of Bela III (1172-1196) where he reports conquest of three fortifications in Slavonia - as the area between rivers Danube and Sutla was called then: Zagreb, Vlco (Vukovar) and Posega. The fortress of Požega, an elongated hexagonal fortification located on a hill in the present-day city center, was probably built during the 11th century, although the first documents clearly mentioning Požega county dates from 1210, while the city of Požega was documented for the first time in a charte ...

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Tacitus's works contain a wealth of information about his world, but details on his own life are lacking. Even his praenomen (first name) is uncertain. What little we know comes from scattered hints throughout the corpus of his work, the letters of his friend and admirer Pliny the Younger, an inscription found at Mylasa in Caria[1]< ...

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