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    Baring Head (Māori: Ōrua-pouanui, officially gazetted as Baring Head / Ōrua-pouanui) is a headland, located between Wellington Harbour and Palliser Bay...
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    The bare-headed laughingthrush (Melanocichla calva) is a species of bird in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae. It is endemic to highland forests...
    18 KB (1,659 words) - 13:57, 7 March 2024
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    MIT Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-262-19430-3. Images and movies of the bare-headed rockfowl - ARKive Images and movies of the grey-necked rockfowl - ARKive...
    9 KB (1,006 words) - 23:18, 12 May 2024
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    to storm the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp and attack Fatah al-Islam. He demanded the conflict solved politically. "The Nahr al-Bared camp and Palestinian...
    43 KB (4,580 words) - 11:37, 29 November 2023
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    Baring Head Lighthouse is a concrete lighthouse at Baring Head in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand, with an LED beacon powered...
    4 KB (288 words) - 02:20, 14 April 2024
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    Marabou stork (category Articles with short description)
    would become rapidly clotted with blood and other substances when the bird's head was inside a large corpse, and the bare head is easier to keep clean.[citation...
    15 KB (1,642 words) - 09:35, 8 May 2024
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    Cap of maintenance (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    for his coronation in 2023; he travelled bare-headed in his coach to Westminster Abbey, and stayed bare-headed until he was crowned. The cap was carried...
    10 KB (1,193 words) - 04:32, 27 December 2023
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    Bare-knuckle boxing has seen a resurgence in the 21st century with English promoters such as Bare Knuckle Boxing (BKB) in Coventry and Ultimate Bare Knuckle...
    29 KB (2,934 words) - 03:31, 28 May 2024
  • Singapore. Barings Bank was founded in 1762 as the John and Francis Baring Company by Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, with his older brother John Baring as a...
    35 KB (3,852 words) - 04:33, 22 May 2024
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    Black vulture (category Articles with short description)
    plumage stays visibly cleaner than that of a lighter-colored bird, the bare head is designed for easily digging inside animal carcasses, and the hooked...
    48 KB (5,204 words) - 14:03, 3 June 2024
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    Dave Lowe (atmospheric scientist) (category Articles with short description)
    Zealand atmospheric scientist who was instrumental in setting up the Baring Head atmospheric CO2 programme in 1972. A researcher and educator, Lowe was...
    38 KB (3,499 words) - 10:44, 20 May 2024
  • In the 1970s, Barings expanded this business internationally with offices in the Far East, North America and Europe. In 1989, Barings combined all of...
    10 KB (723 words) - 09:41, 17 January 2024
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    Canossa (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV did penance in 1077 and stood three days bare-headed in the snow to reverse his excommunication by Pope Gregory VII. The Walk...
    5 KB (524 words) - 01:17, 13 May 2024
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    Greater adjutant (category Articles with short description)
    massive wedge-shaped bill, a bare head and a distinctive neck pouch. During the day, it soars in thermals along with vultures with whom it shares the habit...
    46 KB (5,071 words) - 12:13, 31 May 2024
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    Coat of arms of Munich (category Articles with short description)
    has varied slightly, appearing in profile, then later full-faced and bare-headed. By the 19th century the figure was portrayed as youthful and became...
    12 KB (1,311 words) - 23:11, 19 July 2022
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    A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881 (category Articles with short description)
    Sala (bare-headed, in white waistcoat). To the left, behind and immediately to the right of Wilde, are the actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, with Frederick...
    11 KB (1,421 words) - 03:42, 22 May 2024
  • Baron Revelstoke (category Baring family)
    businessman Edward Baring, head of the family firm of Barings Bank and a member of the Baring family. Baring was the son of Henry Baring, third son of Sir...
    5 KB (508 words) - 17:23, 26 April 2024
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    the Panic of 1847, Baring headed an external bimetallist movement hoping to prevent the undue restriction of the currency. Baring was Master of the Mint...
    18 KB (1,293 words) - 08:23, 10 May 2024
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    Kippah (category All articles with dead external links)
    accustomed to going bareheaded, and their priests insist on officiating with bare heads, this constitutes a uniquely non-Jewish practice. Therefore, he posits...
    28 KB (2,718 words) - 18:37, 25 May 2024
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    Leptoptilos (category Articles with short description)
    substances when a scavenging bird's head was inside a large corpse, and the bare head is easier to keep clean. Most storks fly with neck outstretched, but the...
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