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  • Events from the year 2004 in Russia. President: Vladimir Putin Prime Minister: Mikhail Kasyanov to February 24 Viktor Khristenko as Acting Prime Minister...
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    The Dean of Kilfenora was based at the Cathedral Church of St Fachnan (also known as St Fachtna) in Kilfenora, Clare in the small Diocese of Kilfenora...
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    Kornelimünster Abbey (German: Benediktinerabtei Kornelimünster), also known as Abbey of the Abbot Saint Benedict of Aniane and Pope Cornelius, is a Benedictine...
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    The papal conclave held from 2 to 28 September 1823 ended with the election of Annibale della Genga to succeed the death recently deceased Pius VII as...
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    The capture of Porrentruy was a siege of the Swiss town of Porrentruy. The town was held by Austria and attacked by the French. The event occurred on 28...
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  • Mary Cadogan (née Summersby) (30 May 1928 – 29 September 2014) was an English author. She wrote extensively on popular and children's fiction including...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ur (cuneiform). The cuneiform sign ur (𒌨) is a common-use sign in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Amarna letters, and...
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  • Edward Butler, 2nd Viscount Galmoye (c. 1627– after 24 October 1667) was the son of Piers Butler of Duiske and Margaret Netterville, daughter of Nicholas...
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  • The Yelverton case was a famous 19th-century Irish law case, which eventually resulted in a change to the law on mixed religion marriages in Ireland. Under...
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  • Thumbnail for Kurt Weber
    Kurt Weber (24 May 1928 – 4 June 2015) was a Polish cinematographer known for working on comedic and dramatic filmse from the 1950s to the 1980s, primarily...
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    In modern Tamil Shaiva tradition, Jyoti is sometimes considered to be the personification of the female principle, an embodied representation of the vel...
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  • Saint Ina is thought to be a fifth century Welsh saint and a member of the royal house of Gwynedd. Ina was the daughter of Ceredig ab Cunedda Wledig (c...
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  • Margaret Dorothy Louise Daniels MBE (1 August 1916 – 27 June 1981) was a New Zealand ballet teacher and director. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand...
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  • Richard S. Fraser (30 June 1913 – 27 November 1988) was an American Trotskyist and the principal theoretician of the doctrine of revolutionary integrationism...
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    Skaryszew Park (pronounced Sca-ri-chef) is an urban, monumental park located in the Praga-Południe (South Praga) district of Warsaw, Poland. The park was...
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  • Howard Allison Sturtzel (1894–1985) was an American writer, including of popular children's books. He wrote books with his wife, under the name Jane and...
    4 KB (365 words) - 18:26, 21 April 2023
  • Doina Badea (6 January 1940, Craiova - 4 March 1977, Bucharest) was a Romanian singer of popular music. In 1960 she made her debut at the musical theatre...
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  • Mary M. Duggan (March 22, 1921 – March 6, 2009) was an American children's book author. She was born in 1921 in Belleview, Missouri. Her father was a teacher...
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  • Divorce in Norway can be obtained on several grounds. There are several grounds of divorce described in The Marriage Act. Either spouse may demand a legal...
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  • The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls is a 2015 documentary film by Polish filmmaker and director Krzysztof Kopczyński. The film tells the story of a conflict...
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