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Shadowdance is the third studio album by New Age group Shadowfax, the second for Windham Hill Record

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Gus Schrader

Gus Schrader (22 May 1895 Newhall, Iowa – 19 October 1941 Caddo, Louisiana) was an American racecar driver. He was killed in what was to be his final race prior to retirement.

Career awards

Schrader was inducted in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in its inaugural 1990 class.

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Short gastric veins

The short gastric veins, four or five in number, drain the fundus and left part of the greater curvature of the stomach, and pass between the two layers of the gastrolienal ligament to end in the lienal vein or in one of its large tributaries.

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New York State Route 920P

NY Route 920P

Riverside Drive

Length: 2.20 mi[1] (3.54 km)

West end: NY 30A in Fultonville

Major

junctions: I-90/Thruway in Fultonville

East end: NY 5S in Glen

Counties: Montgomery

Numbered highways in New York

Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

Riverside Drive is a street in the Montgomery County village of Fultonville, New York that serves as the access between exit 28 of the Thruway and Fultonville and surrounding towns via NY 30A and NY 5S.

Riverside Drive was placed under NYSDOT maintenance due to the traffic volume associated with the interchange. Along the route are several truckstops and other businesses, predominately dining, fuel, and lodging. The Fonda Speedway and the Fonda Fairgrounds can be seen across the Mohawk River.

Beginning at NY 30A, the route parallels the Mohawk River for the first 1.4 miles, turning right and heading uphill, crossing over the same Thruway west of the interchange, ending at NY 5S. Auriesville, a New York State Police barracks, and the Montgomery County Correctional Facility are easily accessed from that point.

While inventoried by NYSDOT as Reference Route 920P, the reference markers bear the number 862.

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Windows-1251

Windows-1251 is an 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet such as Russian, Bulgarian and other languages. It is the most widely used for encoding the Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian languages.

In modern applications Unicode is a preferred character set.

Windows-1251 and KOI8-R (or its Ukrainian variant KOI8-U) are much more commonly used than ISO 8859-5, which never really caught on. In the future, both may eventually give way to Unicode.

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Nessa

Nessa is the seventh queen of the Valar in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. She is the sister of Oromë and wife of Tulkas.

Nessa is noted for her agility and speed, able to outrun the deer who follow her in the wild, and for her love of dancing on the ever-green lawns of Valinor.

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Nessa

Nessa is the seventh queen of the Valar in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. She is the sister of Oromë and wife of Tulkas.

Nessa is noted for her agility and speed, able to outrun the deer who follow her in the wild, and for her love of dancing on the ever-green lawns of Valinor.

woohoo i'm a queen

Belafonte at Carnegie Hall

Belafonte at Carnegie Hall is a live album by Harry Belafonte. It is the first of two Belafonte Carnegie Hall albums, and was recorded on April 19 and April 20, 1959.

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Kenpo Kai is a traditional form of Japanese karate.

The name essentially translates to "way of the gathered fists". Though it takes its inspiration from the martial arts of the Shaolin, Kenpo Kai was developed within the Ishizaka family in Japan. A Shaolin monk, in order to avoid the constant burglaries his family was suffering, taught the "Shaolin Kung Fu" to his family members. This art was handed down inside the Chian family and named "Chian Quan" (boxing of the Chian family).

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Coronation

A coronation is a ceremony marking the investment of a monarch with regal power through, amongst other symbolic acts, the placement of a crown upon his or her head. Where the monarch is anointed, the ritual may have religious significance. Coronation remains the norm for the formal installation of the monarch of the Commonwealth Realms.

Formerly, in many kingdoms and empires, the coronation was a highly solemn ceremony in which anointing with holy oil, followed by ratification as the proper occupant of the throne, were important parts. This is still the case in the United Kingdom, one of the few nations that continues formal coronations to this day, and was true for the historical monarchies of France, and many other former kingdoms and empires.

The term 'Coronation' is sometimes used in a semi-ironic sense to refer to uncontested party leadership elections, with all potential party leaders choosing back a single candidate or stay silent rather than stand in an election they are likely to lose[1]. This typically happens where there has been a protracted behind-the-scenes attempt to remove the outgoing leader, leading to a significant amount of time to discover who has the most party support before the election proper.

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Banded White-eye

The Banded White-eye (Zosterops vellalavella) is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family. It is endemic to the Solomon Islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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Firlot

In Scotland, the firlot was a dry measure used until the introduction of Imperial units by the Weights and Measures Act 1824.

By an Act of the Scottish Parliament of 1617, the commissioners' firlot of Linlithgow was made the standard for the whole of Scotland, but in fact two units were defined for different commodities.

The first, which “contained 21 pints and a mutchkin of the water of [the river] Leith,” (approximately 36 litres) was for wheat, pease, beans, rye and white salt, commodities which had been sold by striken, or level measure.

The second firlot, which contained 31 pints of water, was for oats, barley and malt, which had been sold by heaped measure. The pint mentioned is the Scottish Sterling jug.

A firlot was equal to 4 pecks, and the boll was equal to 4 firlots.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firlot"

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Bollocks

"Bollocks" is a word of Anglo Saxon origin, meaning "testicles" in British English and in Hiberno-English. The word is often used figuratively, as a noun to mean "nonsense" or conversely to mean "top quality" or "perfection", an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, and an adjective to mean "poor quality" or "useless". The common phrase "Bollocks to that!" expresses a distaste for a certain task or subject; "the dog's bollocks" expresses the opposite, namely admiration or pleasure.

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Karnataka

Karnataka is a state in the southern part of India. It was created on November 1, 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as the State of Mysore, it was renamed Karnataka in 1973.

Karnataka is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, Goa to the northwest, Maharashtra to the north, Andhra Pradesh to the east, Tamil Nadu to the southeast, and Kerala to the southwest. The state covers an area of 191,791 km² (74,051 sq mi) or 5.83% of the total geographical area of India. It is the eighth largest Indian state by area, the ninth largest by population and comprises 29 districts. Kannada is the official and most widely spoken language.

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Japanese particles

Japanese particles, joshi (助詞, joshi?) or teniwoha (てにをは, teniwoha?), are suffixes or short words in Japanese grammar that immediately follow the modified noun, verb, adjective, or sentence.

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Knollenorgan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The knollenorgan is an electroreceptor organ found in the skin of weakly electric fish of the family Mormyridae from Africa. First described by V. Franz (1920), a German anatomist who was unaware of its function, Knollenorgans are named after "knolle", German for "tuber" or "root" which describes their structure in the skin. The sense organs are embedded in the thickened epidermis. These tuberous electroreceptors characteristically have sensory receptor cells which are modified epithelial cells buried in the deeper layers of the epidermis where they expand into a pocket in the superficial layers of corium. The sense organ is surrounded by a basement membrane which separates corium from epidermis. Epithelial cells form a loose plug over the sensory receptor cells. The receptors are capacitatively coupled to the exterior water. Knollenorgans lack the jelly filled canal leading from sensory receptor cells to the external environment. Knollenorgans are sensitive 20 to 20,000 Hz electric stimuli with electric fields as small as 0.1 mV/cm. The sense organs are used to detect the weak electric organ discharges (EODs) of other electric fish, usually of their own species. The anatomy of Knollenorgans is described by Franz(1920), by Bennett (1965, 1971) and Szabo (1965, 1974).

Edited November 29, 2007 by maryandatif