| Albert Camus Villeblevin, France Albert_Camus
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| American Quarter Horse The American Quarter Horse is an American breed of horse that excels at sprinting short distances. Its name came from its ability to outdistance other breeds of horse in races of a quarter mile or less, where some individuals have been clocked at speeds up to 55 mph. American_Quarter_Horse
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| Berber languages The Berber languages (Berber: , Tamazight) are a group of closely related languages mainly spoken in Morocco, Algeria, Niger, Mali and Libya. A relatively sparse population extends into the whole Sahara and the northern part of the Sahel. Berber_languages
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| Double bass The double bass is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument used in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a standard member of the string section of the symphony orchestra The Orchestra: A User's Manual, Andrew Hugill with the Philharmonia Orchestra and smaller string ensembles Chamber Music in the Vienna Double Bass Archive, Alfred Planyavsky in Western classical music. Double_bass
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| False friend False friends (or faux amis) are pairs of words in two languages or dialects (or letters in two alphabets) that look and/or sound similar, but differ in meaning. False_friend
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| Team handball Handball (also known as team handball, field handball, European handball, or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball to throw it into the goal of the opposing team. Team_handball
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| Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, France) Jean-Paul_Sartre
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| Kerguelen Islands The Kerguelen Islands (in French: commonly Îles Kerguelen or Archipel de Kerguelen but officially Archipel des Kerguelen or Archipel Kerguelen), also known as Desolation Island, is a group of islands in the southern Indian Ocean. It is a territory of France. Kerguelen_Islands
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| Naturism Naturism or nudism is a cultural and political movement advocating and defending social nudity in private and in public. It may also be a lifestyle based on personal, family and/or social nudism. Naturism
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| History of Senegal The History of Senegal is commonly divided into a number of periods, encompassing the prehistoric era, the precolonial period, colonialism, and the contemporary era. History_of_Senegal
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| Jean Reno | birthplace = Casablanca, Morocco Jean_Reno
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| Natalie Portman Natalie_Portman
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| Murphy's law Murphy's law is an adage in Western culture that broadly states, "if anything can go wrong, it will." It is also cited as: "If there's more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence, then somebody will do it that way"; "Anything that can go wrong, will," the similar "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong"; or, "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way". Murphy's_law
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| King Ottokar's Sceptre King Ottokar's Sceptre (French: Le Sceptre d'Ottokar) is the eighth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring the young reporter Tintin. It was first serialized as a black-and-white comic strip in Le Petit Vingtième on 4th August 1938. King_Ottokar's_Sceptre
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| Technical (fighting vehicle) A technical is a type of improvised fighting vehicle, typically a civilian or military non-combat vehicle, modified to provide an offensive capability. It is usually an open-backed civilian pickup truck or 4x4 on which is mounted a recoilless rifle, a machine gun, a light anti-aircraft gun, or another relatively small weapons system. Technical_(fighting_vehicle)
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| Military of Algeria | exports= Military_of_Algeria
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| Haganah Talk:Haganah
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| Tahiti | country admin divisions title 1 = Tahiti
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| Timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict/references Talk:Timeline_of_the_Israeli-Palestinian_conflict/references
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| Tarascon Tarascon, sometimes referred to as Tarascon-sur-Rhône, is a town and commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône département, in the south of France. Tarascon
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| John Willie John Alexander Scott Coutts (December 9 1902 - August 5 1962), better known as John Willie, was a pioneering fetish photographer and bondage artist. John_Willie
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| Phocis Phocis (Greek, Modern: Φωκίδα, , Ancient/Katharevousa: Φωκίς, ) is an ancient district and a modern prefecture of Greece, located in Central Greece, stretching from the western mountainsides of Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth. Phocis
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| Autechre Autechre are an English electronic music group consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both natives of Rochdale, England. The group is one of the most prominent acts signed with Warp Records, a label known for its pioneering electronic music artists. Autechre
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| Tuareg |rels=Sunni Islam] Tuareg
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| Tintin and Alph-Art Tintin and Alph-Art (French: Tintin et l'alph-art) is the twenty-fourth and final book in the Tintin series, created by Belgian comics artist Hergé. It is a striking departure from the earlier books in tone and subject, as well as in some parts of the style; rather than being set in a usual exotic and action-packed environment this story is largely played out in the world of modern art. Tintin_and_Alph-Art
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| Auguste Comte Montpellier, France Auguste_Comte
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| SIGABA In the history of cryptography, the ECM Mark II was a rotor machine used by the United States from World War II (WWII) until the 1950s. The machine was also known as the SIGABA or Converter M-134 by the Army, or CSP-888/889 by the Navy, and a modified Navy version was termed the CSP-2900. SIGABA
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| Oran Oran (Arabic:, pronounced Wahran; also transliterated as Ouahran, Spanish: Orán. From the Berber word Wahran, the plural of Wahra, i. Oran
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| Department for Protection and Security Department for Protection and Security (DPS) or Département Protection et Sécurité is the "security" branch of the National Front (FN) political party of France, which depends directly from the FN's president and is now led by Eric StaelensHistorique - Front National - Jean-Marie Le Pen. Department_for_Protection_and_Security
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| Watermill This article is about a type of structure. For other locational uses see Milldam. Watermill
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| Octave Mirbeau | birthplace = Trévières, France Octave_Mirbeau
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| Anti-Flag Anti-Flag is an American punk band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Anti-Flag
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| Matra Alice The Matra & Hachette Ordinateur Alice was a home computer sold in France beginning in 1983. It was a clone of the TRS-80 MC-10, produced through a collaboration between Matra and Hachette in France and Tandy Corporation in the United States. Matra_Alice
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| Snake (video game) Snake is a video game that came out in the late 1970s and has maintained popularity since then, becoming somewhat of a classic. The player controls a long, thin creature, resembling a snake, which roams around on a bordered plane, picking up food (or some other item), trying to avoid hitting its own tail or the "walls" that surround the playing area. Snake_(video_game)
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| Simca France Simca
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| La Ruche La Ruche (literally the beehive) is an artist's residence in Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France. La_Ruche
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| Weather Report Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining jazz and latin jazz with art music, ethnic music, r&b, funk, and rock elements (in heavily varying proportions during the years), often demonstrating high levels of compositional and improvisational skills. Weather_Report
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| RER The RER (Réseau Express Régional, , "Regional Express Network") is a rapid transit system in France serving Paris and its suburbs. The RER is an integration of a modern city-centre subway and a pre-existing set of regional rail lines. RER
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| Amin Maalouf Amin Maalouf (), born 25 February, 1949 in Beirut, is a Lebanese author. He writes in French, and his works have been translated into many languages. Amin_Maalouf
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| Thyristor The thyristor is a solid-state semiconductor device with four layers of alternating N and P-type material. They act as bistable switches, conducting when their gate receives a current pulse, and continue to conduct for as long as they are forward biased (that is, as long as the voltage across the device has not reversed). Thyristor
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| Biefeld–Brown effect The Biefeld–Brown effect is an effect that was discovered by Thomas Townsend Brown (USA) and Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld (CH). Biefeld–Brown_effect
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| Ibn Khaldun Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (full name, , , (May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH – March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH), was a famous North African Arab polymathLiat Radcliffe, Newsweek (cf. The Polymath by Bensalem Himmich, The Complete Review). Ibn_Khaldun
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| Mathematics of paper folding The art of paper folding, or origami, has received a considerable amount of mathematical study. Fields of interest include a given paper model's flat-foldability (whether the model can be flattened without damaging it) and the use of paper folds to solve mathematical equations. Mathematics_of_paper_folding
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| Harry Potter in translation Talk:Harry_Potter_in_translation
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| Joe Dassin | Died = Joe_Dassin
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| Death in Venice The novella Death in Venice was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig. It was first published in English in 1925 as Death in Venice and Other Stories, translated by Kenneth Burke - W. Death_in_Venice
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| Counts of Toulouse The first comites (counts) of Toulouse were the administrators of the city and its environs under the Merovingians. No succession of such royal appointees is known, though a few names survive to the present. Counts_of_Toulouse
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| Gasification Gasification is a process that converts carbonaceous materials, such as coal, petroleum, or biomass, into carbon monoxide and hydrogen by reacting the raw material at high temperatures with a controlled amount of oxygen and/or steam. The resulting gas mixture is called synthesis gas or syngas and is itself a fuel. Gasification
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| Citroën DS Talk:Citroën_DS
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| Mixed franking In philately, a mixed franking is an occurrence of the postage stamps of more than one country or issuing entity on a single cover. Since nearly all countries of the world have agreed to deliver each other's mail, it is unusual to need more than the stamps of the originating country; valid mixed frankings are uncommon and valued by collectors. Mixed_franking
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