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David Heymann — Hawaiian architecture — Moana Hotel — Presidio of Santa Barbara — Sears Catalog Home - (6 articles)

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Carolingian Gospel Book (British Library, MS Add. 11848) — Drawing — Schuttern Gospels — - (4 articles)

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Canaletto — Werner, Anton Alexander von - (7 articles)

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Fremantle Prison — - (2 articles)

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Hero of the Russian Federation — - (2 articles)

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Victoria Cross - (1 articles)

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Ammonite — Atlantic herring — Australian Ringneck — Carcinus maenas — Crustacean — Drosera anglica — Galerina — Oceanic Whitetip Shark — Sequoia — Tiktaalik — Tuatara - (20 articles)

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Gage, Phineas — - (6 articles)

Arp2/3 complex — Eukaryote — Lipid — Photosynthetic reaction centre — Prion — Protein — Stem cell — - (18 articles)

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Alternation of generations — Evolution of sex — Fitness landscape — Mitochondrial Eve — Punctuated equilibrium - (5 articles)

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Lavoisier, Antoine - (1 articles)

[edit] Chemicals

Caesium fluoride — Calcium chloride — Chlorine — Copper(I) chloride — Formic acid — Gold(III) chloride — Iron(III) chloride — Lead(II) nitrate — Lithium aluminium hydride — Menthol — Phosphorus tribromide — Phosphorus trichloride — Phosphoryl chloride — Potassium iodide — Rhodium(III) chloride — sodium hydroxide — Sodium sulfate — Tin(II) chloride — Toluene — Zinc chloride - (33 articles)

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History of chemistry — Quantum chemistry - (3 articles)

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Damascus steel — Electron beam welding — Fiberglass — - (7 articles)

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Brute force attack - (1 articles)

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MacBook — Model M Keyboard - (4 articles)

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Imperative programming - (3 articles)

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Thomas Edison — - (3 articles)

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Benjamin of Tudela — Ibn Battuta - (2 articles)

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Urbanization - (2 articles)

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Fort de Chartres — - (3 articles)

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Black Sea deluge theory — Boltysh crater — Dorset (geology of) — Eruption column — Iceland hotspot — Post-glacial rebound — Sandur — Volcanic pipe — - (16 articles)

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Crystallographic defects in diamond — Pyrite - (5 articles)

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Hydatius — Procopius — - (4 articles)

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Abdi-Heba — al-Ghamdi, Saeed — al-Hazmi, Salem — al-Mihdhar, Khalid — al-Shehhi, Marwan — Baldwin I of Jerusalem — Banihammad, Fayez — Hanjour, Hani — Labaya — Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon — Ramesses II — Tiridates I of Armenia — Zara Yaqob — - (23 articles)

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Operation Entebbe — Trans-Saharan trade — Vandals - (5 articles)

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Boston molasses disaster — Cleveland Torso Murderer — Inca Empire — Manifest Destiny — Maritime history of Florida — Million Worker March — New Jersey in the 20th century — New York World's Fair (1964) — Ursuline Convent Riots - (23 articles)

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Illawarra Steam Navigation Company — Sino-Roman relations - (6 articles)

Dark Ages — Great Famine of 1315–1317 — Kalmar Union — Kipchaks in Georgia — Sino-Roman relations — SkÃ¥neland — Vandals — - (22 articles)

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Fremantle Prison — Nevada-tan - (5 articles)

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Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. - (4 articles)

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Dickinson, Emily — Pushkin, Aleksandr — - (11 articles)

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Allegory in the Middle Ages — Ars moriendi — Floris and Blancheflour — Shigin — The CIA and September 11 (book) — The Western Star — Treasure Island - (11 articles)

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Linear algebra — Nash equilibrium — - (7 articles)

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Bale, Christian — Bynes, Amanda — Clark, Robert — Cuthbert, Elisha — Jenner, Edward — Jovovich, Milla — Knightley, Keira — Oleynik, Larisa — Otto, Miranda — Page, Bettie — Roberts, Emma — Robinson, Andrew — - (17 articles)

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Seigenthaler Sr., John - (1 articles)

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American Idol — Josie and the Pussycats — Stargate (device) — - (14 articles)

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Atonality — Bluegrass music — Bossa nova — Burgundian School — Classic female blues — Garage (dance music) — Italo disco — Music of the trecento — Outlaw country — Ragtime — Reggae — Reggaeton — Renaissance music — Ska — Soukous - (22 articles)

[edit] Instruments

Recorder — String instrument — Suikinkutsu — - (8 articles)

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[edit] Performers and composers

Billie Holiday — Brand New — Dru Hill — Eazy-E — Garbage (band) — Henry Rollins — Howie Day — Hugo Wolf — Impossible Princess — JoJo — Queen (band) — Sonny Rollins — Sparks (band) — - (40 articles)

[edit] Recordings and compositions

1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) — Bringin' on the Heartbreak — Chill Out — Dido and Aeneas — Doctorin' the Tardis — I Believe in You — It's Grim Up North — Justified and Ancient — Nine Million Bicycles — Shadow — The KLF discography — The Rite of Spring — Venus and Adonis (opera) — "Where Did Our Love Go" - (24 articles)

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Analytical Marxism — Eliminative materialism — - (6 articles)

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Flamsteed, John — - (2 articles)

[edit] Astronomy

Caloris Basin — Comet White-Ortiz-Bolelli — Cosmic inflation — Diffuse interstellar band — Great Comet of 1882 — Great Red Spot — HD 217107 — Hubble's law — Leo — Pleiades (star cluster) — Scattered disc — Shackleton (crater) — Warner and Swasey Observatory - (24 articles)

HD 209458 b — HD 217107 b — HD 217107 c — PSR B1620-26c - (8 articles)

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Cyclone Percy — Hurricane Andrew — Hurricane Claudette (2003) — Hurricane Felix (1995) — Hurricane Nora (1997) — Red rain in Kerala - (14 articles)

Casimir effect — Isospin — Physical paradox — Quark — Schrödinger equation — Sound — - (11 articles)

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Brown, Gordon — Franklin D. Roosevelt — Mahone, William — Reagan, John Henninger — Sam Houston — Seigenthaler Sr., John — Jackson, Andrew - (17 articles)

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Alberta general elections, List of — Diplomacy — Social contract (Malaysia) — - (5 articles)

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Democratic Action Party — Stop the War Coalition — United for Peace and Justice — - (7 articles)

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High Court of Australia — - (5 articles)

ECHELON — - (4 articles)

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Stanford prison experiment - (5 articles)

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Caperton, Idit Harel — Skinner, Burrhus Frederic - (3 articles)

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Chinese Rites controversy - (1 articles)

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Farrar, Janet — - (8 articles)

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Kalachakra — Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago — Shentong — Stregheria — - (11 articles)

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Merseburg Incantations — Peshitta — - (5 articles)

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Coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI - (1 articles)

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Władysław IV Vasa - (2 articles)

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Allen, Marcus — Bradshaw, Terry — Brady, Tom — Mantle, Mickey — Tatum, Jack - (9 articles)

Charmander — King's Knight — Mega Man weapons — Mega Man X (character) — Video game crash of 1983 — Weedle — Zero (Mega Man) - (28 articles)

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[edit] Games

Poker - (4 articles)

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Medieval hunting — Palio di Siena — - (5 articles)

[edit] Sports teams

Georgetown Hoyas — - (6 articles)

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2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal — - (2 articles)

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[edit] Maritime transport

Gowanus Canal — - (2 articles)

[edit] Railroad transport

Algoma Central Railway — Atlantic Coast Line Railroad — Autorack — Beeching Axe — Bourbonnais train accident — Chicago and North Western Railway — Cyrus K. Holliday — Danske Statsbaner — Disneyland Railroad — Graniteville train disaster — Liverpool and Manchester Railway — Novelty (locomotive) — Overseas Railroad — Railway post office — Rainhill Trials — RER — San Diegan — San Diego and Arizona Railway — San Diego Electric Railway — Scott Special — Snaefell Mountain Railway — Stourbridge Lion — The Canadian — Trans-Siberian Railway — Western Railway Corridor — Weyauwega derailment — Winston Tunnel - (48 articles)

[edit] Railway bridges and train stations

Chepstow Bridge — Forth Bridge (railway) — Jordanhill railway station — Tay Rail Bridge - (5 articles)

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Lexus LS — Lincoln (automobile) — MINI (BMW) — - (10 articles)

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Jomsvikings — Sassanid army - (3 articles)

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Ellsberg, Daniel — von Boeselager, Georg - (6 articles)

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Battle of Lechaeum — Hood event — Norman conquest of England — Operation Opera — Toledo War — Wars of Castro — - (26 articles)

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Tripoli Agreement - (3 articles)

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Tsar Bomba - (6 articles)