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  • The 2005 World Women's Curling Championship was held from March 19–27, 2005 at the Lagoon Leisure Centre in Paisley, Scotland. The tournament was the first...
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    Strathbungo is a mainly residential area of southern Glasgow, Scotland, bordered by the neighbourhoods of Crossmyloof to the south, Govanhill to the east...
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  • The 2003 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as 2003 Ford World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held at the Winnipeg...
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  • The Offaly Express is an online newspaper and former print newspaper in Ireland that serves County Offaly. The paper is part of the Iconic Newspapers Group...
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  • Bere Alston or Beeralston was a parliamentary borough in Devon, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1584 until 1832...
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  • Patrick Joseph Whelahan (born 1945 in Banagher, County Offaly), better known as Pad Joe Whelahan, is an Irish hurling manager and former player. He played...
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  • King Henry VIII Grammar School, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire was one of a series of schools founded during the Reformation in England and Wales in 1542 from...
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  • Annesley South Junction Halt is a former halt on the Great Central Railway on the section between Nottingham Victoria and Sheffield Victoria. The halt...
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  • Gilla Críst Ua Máel Eóin (anglicised as Christian Malone; died 1127) was an Irish historian and Abbot of Clonmacnoise. Ó Maoil Eoin (now anglicised as...
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    Westminster College, originally the Westminster Training College, was a teacher training college and college of higher education in England. The college...
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  • The Synod of Birr, held at Birr in modern County Offaly, Ireland in 697 was a meeting of churchmen and secular notables. Best remembered as the occasion...
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  • In September 1939, the British Army was in process of expanding their anti-aircraft and mobile (including armoured) assets. Among these new changes was...
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    Ruotsinsalmi sea fortress (Finnish: Ruotsinsalmen merilinnoitus, Swedish: Svensksund, Russian: Морская крепость Руотсинсальми; both names meaning Swedish...
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  • Emil Martinsson, sometimes known as Emil Andersson (born 14 November 1979) is a Swedish running target sport shooter who won several medals at the ISSF...
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  • Gripwood Quarry (grid reference ST822603) is a 2.9 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England, notified...
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    Vera Florence Annie Woodhouse, Lady Terrington (née Bousher; 11 January 1889 – 19 May 1973) was a British Liberal Party politician, and one of the first...
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  • The Shireburn or Sherburne Baronetcy, of Stonyhurst in the County of Lancaster, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 4 February...
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  • Bernard John Scudder (29 August 1954 – 15 October 2007) was a British translator from Icelandic into English. His translations include the work of best-selling...
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    Sir George Bourchier (c.1535–1605) was an English soldier who fought and settled in Ireland. He was a member of the Privy Council of Ireland, and a Member...
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  • Jan Gunnar Faye Mohr (10 January 1921 – 17 March 2009) was a Norwegian-Danish physician and geneticist, known for his discovery of the first cases of autosomal...
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