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  • Thumbnail for Lithuania at the Olympics
    Lithuania, after declaring restoration of independence in 1918, sent its athletes to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris for the first time. At first it...
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    Thomas Highs (1718–1803), of Leigh, Lancashire, was a reed-maker and manufacturer of cotton carding and spinning engines in the 1780s, during the Industrial...
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  • The Edinburgh Art Festival is an annual visual arts festival, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, during August and coincides with the Edinburgh International...
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  • Stephen Simmons (born 27 February 1982) is a Scottish professional footballer. Simmons started his senior career with Heart of Midlothian in 1998, having...
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  • Blackfen School for Girls is a girls' secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Blackfen in the London Borough of Bexley, England...
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    Georg Prahl Harbitz (26 June 1802 – 22 November 1889) was a Norwegian priest and politician. He was a Member of Parliament for multiple terms and served...
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  • Kaskenmoor School was a mixed gender comprehensive secondary school for 11- to 16-year-old children in the Hollinwood area of Oldham in Greater Manchester...
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  • PJ Cuddy was a hurling player with Laois and Camross. He was voted on the "Laois Team of the Millennium", and has been called "the best full forward of...
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  • Polyclinics in England were intended to offer a greater range of services than were offered by current general practitioner (GP) practices and local health...
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    The Cambrian Coast Express is an old named passenger train of the Great Western Railway (GWR), and later British Rail, running from London Paddington via...
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  • The Leitch Review of Skills was an independent review by Lord Sandy Leitch, the Chairman of the National Employment Panel, commissioned by the British...
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    Lintzford is a small village on the border of County Durham and Tyne and Wear, England. Situated on the River Derwent in the countryside near the town...
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    Mind:state is an electronic music one man act from Sweden that popped up in the late 1990s. Influenced by electronic bands like Front 242, Assemblage 23...
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