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    stan (Persian: ستان stân, estân or istân) has the meaning of "a place abounding in" or "a place where anything abounds" as a suffix. It is widely used...
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    Free content, libre content, libre information, or free information is any kind of creative work, such as a work of art, a book, a software program, or...
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    In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22...
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    Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining...
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    Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals, lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar, backing vocals)...
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    In Western astrology, astrological signs are the twelve 30-degree sectors that make up Earth's 360-degree orbit around the Sun. The signs enumerate from...
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  • Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was...
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    The Pantheon (UK: /ˈpænθiən/, US: /-ɒn/; Latin: Pantheum, from Ancient Greek Πάνθειον (Pantheion) '[temple] of all the gods') is a former Roman temple...
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    A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the...
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  • The bibcode (also known as the refcode) is a compact identifier used by several astronomical data systems to uniquely specify literature references. The...
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