| Abacus An abacus, also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool used primarily by Asians for performing arithmetic processes. Today, abaci are often constructed as a wooden frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal. Abacus
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| Apuleius Lucius Apuleius Platonicus (c. 123/125-c. Apuleius
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| British and Irish Lions Ian McGeechan (2009 tour) British_and_Irish_Lions
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| Buddy Holly , Lubbock, Texas U.S. Buddy_Holly
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| Boudica Boudica (also spelled Boudicca, formerly known as Boadicea, and known in Welsh culture and legends as "Buddug") (d. AD 60 or 61) was a queen of the Iceni tribe of what is now known as East Anglia who led an uprising of the tribes against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire. Boudica
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| Cornish language The Cornish language (in Cornish: Kernewek/Kernowek in Standard Written Form; also written Kernewek in UC and KK, Kernowek in UCR and Kernowek Standard, Curnoack in RLC) is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages. The language continued to function as a community language in parts of Cornwall until the late 18th century, and there have been attempts to revive the language since the early 20th century. Cornish_language
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| Blue Jam Blue Jam was an ambient radio comedy programme produced by Chris Morris. It aired on BBC Radio 1 in the early hours of the morning from 1997 to 1999. Blue_Jam
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| Fritz Leiber | birthplace = Fritz_Leiber
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| Francis Crick | death_place = San Diego, California, U.S. Francis_Crick
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| Roman Britain Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410. The Romans referred to their province as Britannia. Roman_Britain
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| Iron Age In archaeology, the Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent. The adoption of this material coincided with other changes in some past societies often including differing agricultural practices, religious beliefs and artistic styles, although this was not always the case. Iron_Age
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| Skye |norse name=Skíð Skye
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| Joseph Stalin/Archive 3 Talk:Joseph_Stalin/Archive_3
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| Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde. Jean_Cocteau
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| John Peel |birthplace = Heswall, England John_Peel
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| James D. Watson | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois,, U.S. James_D._Watson
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| Kurt Schwitters | location = Hannover Kurt_Schwitters
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| Loch Ness Monster The Loch Ness Monster (Nessiteras rhombopteryx) is an alleged animal, family and upward incertae sedis, purportedly inhabiting Scotland's Loch Ness. The Loch Ness Monster is one of the best-known cryptids studied by cryptozoology. Loch_Ness_Monster
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| Punk rock Punk rock (often referred to simply as punk) is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. Punk_rock
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| Robert Walker User:Robert_Walker
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| SECAM SECAM, also written SÉCAM (Séquentiel couleur à mémoire, French for "Sequential Color with Memory"), is an analog color television system first used in France. SECAM
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| The Damned The Damned are an English band formed in London in 1976,The Damned at AllmusicThe Damned @ Nostalgia Central notable for being the first punk rock band from England to release a single ("New Rose") and an album (Damned Damned Damned), and to tour the United States. The Damned later evolved as one of the forerunners of the gothic rock genre. The_Damned
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| The Prisoner | location = The_Prisoner
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| Sinclair ZX Spectrum The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, the machine was launched as the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the black-and-white of its predecessor, the Sinclair ZX81. Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum
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| Bristol |subdivision_name1 = England Bristol
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| Diana Wynne Jones | birthplace = London (England) Diana_Wynne_Jones
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| Madness (band) Retrieved on 19 June 2007. Madness_(band)
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| Marcel Duchamp | location = Blainville-Crevon, France Marcel_Duchamp
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| Murasaki Shikibu Murasaki Shikibu ([c. 973–c. Murasaki_Shikibu
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| One Thousand and One Nights One Thousand and One Nights ( - kitāb 'alf layla wa-layla; - Hezār-o yek šab) is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries across the Middle East and South Asia. These collections of tales trace their roots back to ancient Arabia and Yemen, ancient Indian literature and Persian literature (especially the Sassanid era's Pahlavi work Hazār Afsān , lit. One_Thousand_and_One_Nights
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| T. E. Lawrence – T._E._Lawrence
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| Goldbach's conjecture Goldbach's conjecture is one of the oldest unsolved problems in number theory and in all of mathematics. It states: Goldbach's_conjecture
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| Czech literature Czech literature is the literature of the historical regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and the Czech-speaking part of Silesia, (now part of the Czech Republic, formerly of Czechoslovakia). This most often means literature written by Czechs, in the Czech language, although Old Church Slavonic, Latin, and German were also used, mostly in the early periods. Czech_literature
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| JustinM User:JustinM
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| Hakka Chinese Hakka (also: Kejia) (客家話/客家话, Hak-kâ-fa in Hakka, Kèjiāhuà in Mandarin) is one of the main subdivisions of the Chinese language spoken predominantly in southern China by the Hakka ethnic group and descendants in diaspora throughout East and Southeast Asia and around the world. Hakka_Chinese
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| Willie Rushton | birth_place = Chelsea, London, England Willie_Rushton
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| Tibet Autonomous Region (Tibetan)Bod-rang-skyong-ljongs(Wylie)西藏自治区(Chinese)Xīzàng Zìzhìqū(Pinyin)Tibet Autonomous Region Tibet_Autonomous_Region
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| Scooby-Doo Talk:Scooby-Doo
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| Fractal compression Fractal compression is a lossy image compression method using fractals to achieve high levels of compression. The method is best suited for photographs of natural scenes (trees, mountains, ferns, clouds). Fractal_compression
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| Battle of Maldon The Battle of Maldon took place on 10 August 991 near Maldon beside the River Blackwater in Essex, England, during the reign of Ethelred the Unready. The Anglo-Saxons, led by Byrhtnoth and his thegns, fought against a Viking invasion, a battle which ended in defeat for the Anglo-Saxons. Battle_of_Maldon
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| Tsuguharu Foujita Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (藤田 嗣治 Fujita Tsuguharu, November 27, 1886 – January 29, 1968) was a painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan who applied French oil techniques to Japanese-style paintings. Tsuguharu_Foujita
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| Evelyn Waugh Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh () (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer, best known for such darkly humorous and satirical novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One, as well as for serious works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy, that convey his conservative and Catholic opinions. Evelyn_Waugh
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| Atari 8-bit family The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers manufactured from 1979 to 1992. All are based on the MOS Technology 6502 CPU and were the first home computers designed with custom coprocessor chips, giving them "the most powerful graphic subsystem" of any 8 bit machine. Atari_8-bit_family
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| Ekranoplan An ekranoplan (, ) is a vehicle resembling an aircraft but which operates solely on the principle of ground effect (in Russian эффект экрана effekt ekrana - from which the name derived). Ground effect vehicles (GEV) fly above any flat surface, with the height above ground dependent upon the size of the vehicle. Ekranoplan
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| Digital Audio Tape Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony in the mid 1980s. In appearance it is similar to a compact audio cassette, using 4 mm magnetic tape enclosed in a protective shell, but is roughly half the size at 73 mm × 54 mm × 10. Digital_Audio_Tape
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| BBC Radiophonic Workshop The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, one of the sound effects units of the BBC, was created in 1958 to produce effects and new music for radio, and was closed in March 1998, although much of its traditional work had already been outsourced by 1995. It was based in the BBC's Maida Vale Studios in Delaware Road, London, W9, UK growing outwards from the then-legendary Room 13. BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop
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| Festival of Britain The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition which opened in London and around Britain in May 1951. The official opening was on May 3. Festival_of_Britain
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| Ramsey Campbell | birthplace = Liverpool, England Ramsey_Campbell
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| Daria | format = Animated sitcom Daria
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| Dynamic random access memory Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is a type of random access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit. Since real capacitors leak charge, the information eventually fades unless the capacitor charge is refreshed periodically. Dynamic_random_access_memory
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