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A pig-like race in Final Fantasy XII. Despite amazing upper-body strength, powerful defense, and equally speedy movement, the Seeq have a low intellect and can't speak human languages. For the most part they are occupied as mercenaries, guards, or hunters, with a significant amount going into thievery. The Seeq are also attracted by shiny objects. Many compare these creatures to the Moblins of The Legend of Zel ...

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Races of Final Fantasy, Races of Final Fantasy - Al Bhed, Races of Final Fantasy - Bangaa, Races of Final Fantasy - Burmecian, Races of Final Fantasy - Cetra, Races of Final Fantasy - Clavat, Races of Final Fantasy - Dwarf, Races of Final Fantasy - Elvaan, Races of Final Fantasy - Galka, Races of Final Fantasy - Genome, Races of Final Fantasy - Guado, Races of Final Fantasy - Gurgan, Races of Final Fantasy - Hume, Races of Final Fantasy - Hypello, Races of Final Fantasy - Kuluu, Races of Final Fantasy - Lilty, Races of Final Fantasy - Lucavi, Races of Final Fantasy - Lufenian/Lefeinish, Races of Final Fantasy - Lunarian, Races of Final Fantasy - Mithra, Races of Final Fantasy - Moogle, Races of Final Fantasy - Moomba, Races of Final Fantasy - Nu Mou, Races of Final Fantasy - Qu, Races of Final Fantasy - Ronso, Races of Final Fantasy - Seeq, Races of Final Fantasy - Selkie, Races of Final Fantasy - Shumi, Races of Final Fantasy - Tarutaru, Races of Final Fantasy - Tonberry, Races of Final Fantasy - Viera, Races of Final Fantasy - Yuke, Races of Final Fantasy - Zilart

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Main article: Geology of the Grand Teton area The rock units that make up the east face of the Teton Range are around 2500 million years old and made of metamorphosed sandstones, limestones, various shales, and interbeded volcanic deposits. Buried deep under Tertiary volcanic, sedimentary, and glacial deposits in Jackson Hole, these same Precambrian rocks are overlain by Paleozoic and Mesozoic formations that h ...

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Sweden enjoys a mostly temperate climate despite its northern latitude, mainly due to the Gulf Stream. In the south of Sweden leaf-bearing trees are prolific, in the north pines, spruces and hardy birches dominate the landscape. In the mountains of northern Sweden a sub-Arctic climate predominates. North of the Arctic Circle, the sun never sets for part of each summer, and in the winter, night is unending for a corresponding period. The country is similar in size to the U.S ...

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Sweden has one of the world's highest life expectancies. As of approximately 12 August 2004, the total population of Sweden for the first time exceeded 9,000,000, according to Statistics Sweden. The country's population includes some 17,000 indigenous Samis. Some 50,000 of the ethnic Finns of Sweden also constitute an indigenous minority, although many more of the Sweden Finns descend from 20th century immigrants. Sweden has been transformed from a nation of emigration ending after World War I to a nation of immigration from Wo ...

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Before the 11th century, people of Sweden adhered to Norse religion, worshipping Æsir gods, with its centre at the Temple in Uppsala. With Christianisation in the 11th century, the laws of the country were changed, forbidding worship of other deities. After the Protestant Reformation in the 1530s the Church and State were united, abolishing the authority of the Roman Catholic bishops, and in the long run allowing only Lutheranism to prevail. This was not a process completed until the Uppsala Synod 1593. During the era following the R ...

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Sport activities are a national movement with half of the population actively participating. The two main spectator sports are soccer and ice hockey. Some notable soccer stars of Sweden include Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrik Larsson and Fredrik Ljungberg, while some famous Swedish hockey players include Markus Näslund, Peter Forsberg, Mats Sundin, Daniel Alfredsson, Niklas Lidström, Börje Salming and Pelle Lindbergh. Second to soccer, horse sports have the highest number of practitioners, mostly women. Thereafter follow golf, track and ...

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Swedish authors of worldwide recognition include Carolus Linnaeus, Emanuel Swedenborg, August Strindberg, Selma Lagerlöf, Vilhelm Moberg, Harry Martinson and Astrid Lindgren. Many well-known inventions and discoveries, historical and modern, were made by Swedes. Some notable figures are Alfred Nobel, Anders Celsius, Baltzar von Platen, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Jöns Jakob Berzelius, John Ericsson, ...

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Part of the Rocky Mountains, the north-south-trending Teton Range rises from the floor of Jackson Hole without any foothills along a 40 mile (65 km) long by 7 to 9 miles (11 to 15 km) wide active fault-block mountain front system. In addition to 13,770 foot (4197 m) high Grand Teton, another twelve peaks are over 12,000 ft (3660 m) above sea level. Seven of these peaks between Avalanche and Cascade ...

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The characteristic distribution of vegetation on the mountains of Afghanistan is worthy of attention. The great mass of it is confined to the main ranges and their immediate off-shoots, whilst on the more distant and terminal prolongations it is almost entirely absent; in fact, these are naked rock and stone. Take, for example, the Safed Koh. On the alpine range itself and its immediate branches, at a height of 6000 to 10,000 ft (1,800 to 3,000 m), we have abundant growth of large forest trees, among which conifers are the most noble ...

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Geography of Afghanistan, Geography of Afghanistan - Borders, Geography of Afghanistan - Terrain and agriculture, Geography of Afghanistan - Natural resources, Geography of Afghanistan - Mountain systems, Geography of Afghanistan - Climate, Geography of Afghanistan - Vegetation, Geography of Afghanistan - Sources

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The final destination of a E911 call (where the 911 operator sits) is a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). There may be multiple PSAPs within the same exchange or one PSAP may cover multiple exchanges. The territories covered by a single PSAP is based more on historical and legal police considerations rather than telecommunications issues. Most PSAPs have a regional ESN, a number identifying the PSAP. The location information provided is normally integrated into emergency dispatch center's computer-assisted dispatch or CAD system, ...

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Dwarf - Tolkien's dwarves. See Dwarves (Middle-earth) Traditionally, the plural of dwarf was "dwarfs", especially when referring to actual humans with dwarfism, but ever since J. R. R. Tolkien used dwarves in his fantasy epic novel called "The Hobbit" or "There and back Again" and the subsequent three-volume novel, The Lord of the Rings, the plural forms "dwarfs" and "dwarves" have been used interchangeably. (When discussin ...

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Stories of dwarves may have a historical background: during the Bronze Age, tin miners from southern and southeastern Europe slowly migrated northwest, since the relatively rare tin, which is needed to make bronze, was more common in the north. Being southerners, they generally were of shorter stature than northern Europeans and had darker skin, hair and beards. Their knowledge of metallurgy might have seemed magical to the northerners, whose lifestyle was still neolithic; the southerners' superior weapons and armour might well have been per ...

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In 1982, Buckner and Garcia recorded a song titled "The Defender", using sound effects from the game, and released it on the album Pac-Man Fever. In the same year, R. Cade and the Video Victims recorded a song titled "Defender Contender", and released it on the album "Get Victimized!", a lesser-known video game song album. ...

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A second phase of Enhanced 911 service is to allow a wireless or mobile telephone to be located geographically using some form of radiolocation from the cellular network, or by using a Global Positioning System built into the phone itself. Radiolocation in cellular telephony uses base stations. Most often, this is done through triangulation between radio towers. The location of the caller or handset can be determined several ways: angle of arrival (AOA) requires at least two towers, locating the caller at th ...

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Initial implementations of Voice over IP telephone systems were not integreated with the 911 system at all, meaning that customers could not even dial 911 in the event of an emergency. However, the Federal Communications Commission has mandated all VoIP providers to provide 911 service, including the E911 feature. On June 3, 2005, the FCC adopted rules requiring providers of VoIP services that connect with the traditional telephone network to supply E911 capabilities to their customers. The E911 hookup may be directly with the Wirelin ...

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The dominant mountain system of Afghanistan is the Hindu Kush, and that extension westwards of its water-divide which reindicated by the Koh-i-Baba to the north-west of Kabul, and by the Firozkhoi plateau (Karjistan), which merges still farther to the west by gentle gradients into the Paropamisus, and which may be traced across the Hari Rud to Mashad. The culminating peaks of the Koh-i-Baba overlooking the sources of the Hari Rud, the Helmand, the Kunduz and the Kabul very nearly reach 17,000 ft (over 5,000 m) i ...

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Geography of Afghanistan, Geography of Afghanistan - Borders, Geography of Afghanistan - Terrain and agriculture, Geography of Afghanistan - Natural resources, Geography of Afghanistan - Mountain systems, Geography of Afghanistan - Climate, Geography of Afghanistan - Vegetation, Geography of Afghanistan - Sources

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Italy's main exports are in the fields of food, clothing, and luxury cars. Famous Italian foods have been brought to the rest of the world through Italian emigration, especially to the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Italian foods include a multitude of pasta dishes (originating in 1500s Italy), pizza (born in 1800s Naples), ice cream, parma ham, rice, parmesan cheese and wine. The most famous Italian wines are proba ...

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The northern part of Italy produces primarily grains, rice, corn, sugarbeets, soybeans, meat, and dairy products, while the south specializes in producing fruits, vegetables, olive oil, wine, and durum wheat. Even though much of its mountainous terrain is unsuitable for farming, Italy has a large work force (1.4 million) employed in farming. Most farms are small, with the average farm only 7 hectares. ...

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Main articles: History of Korea and History of South Korea At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into the Soviet Union-occupied northern half and the United States-occupied southern half, each forming its own government in 1948. In June 1950, the Korean War broke out. The United Nations-backed South and the Communist-backed North eventually reached a stalemate and an armistice was signed in 1953, splitting the peninsula along the demilitarised zone ...

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World War I is infamous for the protracted stalemate of trench warfare along the Western Front, embodied within a system of opposing manned trenches and fortifications (separated by a "No man's land") running from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland. Hostilities were also prosecuted, however, by more dynamic invasion and battle, by fighting at sea and - for the first time - in and from the air. More than 9 million soldiers died on the various battlefields, and nearly that many more in the participating countries' home fronts on accoun ...

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World War I - Ottoman Empire. Main articles: Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]See also:

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World War I - Hopes and fears. In 1914, the perception of war was romanticized by many people, and its declaration was met with great enthusiasm by these people. The common view on both sides was that it would be a short war of manoeuvre, with a few sharp actions (to "teach the enemy a lesson") and would end with a victorious entry into the enemy capital, then home for a victory parade or two and back to "normal" life. Many thought it would have finished by Christmas of that year. Others, however, regarded the co ...

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