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June 2 - Battle of Morat: The Swiss again defeat Charles.

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July 26 - Battle of Valea Albă: The Moldavians are defeated by the Ottoman army of Mehmed the Conqueror.

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December - Vlad III the Impaler manages to become reigning Prince of Wallachia for the third and last time, before being killed by the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Bucharest. His head is sent to his old enemy Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire.

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Births
Births
Births

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June 28 - Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)

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August 28 - Kano Motonobu, Japanese painter (d. 1559)

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date unknown - Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (d. 1526)

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deaths
deaths
deaths

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January 14 -John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (b. 1444)

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June 8 - George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (b. c. 1432)

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July 6 - Regiomontanus, German astronomer (b. 1436)

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# November 28 - James of the Marches, Franciscan friar

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December

* Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1431)

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Isabella Neville, Duchess of Clarence (b. 1451)

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December 12 - Frederick I, Elector Palatine (b. 1425)

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December 26 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (assassinated) (b. 1444)

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The Julian calendar was a reform of the Roman calendar which was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and came into force in 45 BC (709 ab urbe condita). It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus. It has a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months, and a leap day is added to February every four years. Hence the Julian year is on average 365.25 days long. The Julian calendar remained in use into the 20th century in some countries as a national calendar, but it has generally been replaced by the modern Gregorian calendar. It is still used by the Berber people of North Africa, on Mount Athos and by many national Orthodox churches. Orthodox Churches no longer using the Julian calendar typically use the Revised Julian calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar. The notation "Old Style" (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian calendar, as opposed to "New Style" (NS), which either represents the Julian date with the start of the year as 1 January or a full mapping onto the Gregorian calendar.

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The original Roman calendar is believed to have been a lunar calendar, which may have been based on one of the Greek lunar calendars. As the time between new moons averages 29.5 days, its months would have been either hollow (29 days) or full (30 days). Full months were considered powerful and therefore auspicious; hollow months were unlucky. Roman traditions claimed that the calendar was invented by Romulus, the founder of Rome about 753 BC.

Unlike our dates, which are numbered sequentially from the beginning of the month, the Romans counted backwards from three fixed points - the Nones, the Ides, and the Kalends of the following month. This system originated in the practice of "calling" the new month when the crescent was first observed in the west after sunset. From the shape and orientation of the new moon the number of days remaining to the nones would be proclaimed. The earliest known version contained ten months, and started at the vernal equinox; however, the months by this time were no longer 'lunar':

* Martius (31 days)
* Aprilis (30 days)
* Maius (31 days)
* Iunius (30 days)
* Quintilis (31 days)
* Sextilis (30 days)
* September (30 days)
* October (31 days)
* November (30 days) and
* December (30 days)


The calendar year lasted 304 days and there were about 61 days of winter that did not fall within the calendar.

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March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven months with a length of 31 days.

March in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of September in the Northern Hemisphere.

The name of March comes from ancient Rome, when March was the first month of the year and called Martius after Mars, the Roman god of war. In Rome, where the climate is Mediterranean, March is the first month of spring, a logical point for the beginning of the year as well as the start of the military campaign season. The numbered year began on March 1 in Russia until the end of the fifteenth century. Great Britain and her colonies continued to use March 25 until 1752, the same year they finally adopted the Gregorian calendar. Many other cultures and religions still celebrate the beginning of the New Year in March.

In Finnish, the month is called maaliskuu, which originates from maallinen kuu meaning earthy month. This is because in maaliskuu earth started to show from under the snow. Historical names for March include Saxon: Lenctmonat, named for the equinox and eventual lengthening of days and the eventual namesake of Lent. Saxons also called March Rhed-monat or Hreth-monath (for their goddess Rhedam/Hreth), and Angles called it Hyld-monath

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The month is a unit of time, used with calendars, which is approximately as long as some natural period related to the motion of the Moon; month and Moon are cognates. The traditional concept arose with the cycle of moon phases; such months (lunations) are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days. From excavated tally sticks, researchers have deduced that people counted days in relation to the Moon's phases as early as the Paleolithic age. Synodic months are still the basis of many calendars today.
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Time is a component of a measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects. Time has been a major subject of religion, philosophy, and science, but defining time in a non-controversial manner applicable to all fields of study has consistently eluded the greatest scholars.

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Measurement is the process of estimating the magnitude of some attribute of an object, such as its length or weight, relative to some standard (unit of measurement), such as a meter or a kilogram. The term is also used to indicate the number that results from that process. Metrology is the scientific study of measurement. The act of measuring usually involves using a measuring instrument, such as a ruler, weighing scale, thermometer, speedometer, or voltmeter, which is calibrated to compare the measured attribute to a measurement unit. Any kind of attributes can be measured,[1] including physical quantities such as distance, velocity, energy, temperature, or time. The assessment of attitudes or perception in surveys, or the testing of aptitudes of individuals are also considered to be measurements. Indeed, surveys and tests are considered to be "measurement instruments".

Measurements always have errors and therefore uncertainties. In fact, the reduction —not necessarily the elimination— of uncertainty is central to the concept of measurement. Measurement errors are often assumed to be normally distributed about the true value of the measured quantity. Under this assumption, every measurement has three components: the estimate, the margin of error or uncertainty or error bound, and the confidence level — that is the probability that the actual magnitude lies within the margin of error. For example, a measurement of the length of a plank might result in an estimate of 2.53 meters plus or minus 0.01 meter, with a level of confidence of 99%.

The initial state of uncertainty, prior to any observations, is necessary to assess when using statistical methods that rely on prior knowledge (Bayesian methods). This can be done with calibrated probability assessment.

Measurement is fundamental in science; it is one of the things that distinguish science from pseudoscience. It is easy to come up with a theory about nature, hard to come up with a scientific theory that predicts measurements with great accuracy. Measurement is also essential in industry, commerce, engineering, construction, manufacturing, pharmaceutical production, and electronics.

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Allison, which may come from a medieval Norman nickname for Alice, meaning "noble", or from the Irish name "Iseult", meaning "fair lady".

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Anglicized form of the Latin given name Justinus, a derivative of Justus. Justinus was the name borne by various early saints, notably a 2nd-century Christian apologist and a (possibly spurious) boy martyr of the 3rd century. As an English name, Justin has enjoyed considerable popularity in the second part of the 20th century.

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Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, (Arabic: الأردنّ‎ al-Urdunn) is a country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba. It shares borders with Syria to the north, Iraq to the north-east, Israel and the disputed Palestinian territories to the west, and Saudi Arabia to the east and south. It shares control of the Dead Sea with Israel, and the coastline of the Gulf of Aqaba with Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Much of Jordan is covered by desert land, particularly the Arabian Desert, however the north-western area, with the sacred Jordan River is regarded as part of the Fertile Crescent.

The capital city, Amman, is in the north-west. Jordan has a rich history, its location in the central Middle East has long made it a prized possession. During its long history, Jordan has seen numerous civilisations, including such ancient eastern civilisations as the Sumerian, Akkadian, Israelite, Babylonian, Assyrian, Mesopotamian and Persian empires. Jordan was for a time part of Pharaonic Egypt and spawned the native Nabatean civilisation who left rich archaeological remains at Petra. Cultures from the west also left their mark such as the Macedonian, Roman and Byzantine empires. Since the seventh century the area has been under Muslim and Arab cultures, with the exception of a brief period under British rule.

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Independence
- End of British League of Nations mandate
25 May 1946

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Population
- July 2008 estimate 6,198,677 (110th)
- July 2004 census 5,611,202
- Density 64/km² (131st)
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In sociology and biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular species. A population shares a particular characteristic of interest most often that of living in a given geographic area. In taxonomy population is a low-level taxonomic rank.

Human populations can be defined by many characteristics such as mortality, migration, family (marriage and divorce), public health, work and the labor force, and family planning. Various aspects of human behavior in populations are also studied in sociology, economics, and geography.

Study of populations is almost always governed by the laws of probability, and the conclusions of the studies may thus not always be applicable to some individuals. This odd factor may be reduced by statistical means, but such a generalization may be too vague to imply anything. Demography is used extensively in marketing, which relates to economic units, such as retailers, to potential customers. For example, a coffee shop that wants to sell to a younger audience looks at the demographics of an area to be able to appeal to this younger audience.

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Sociology (from Latin: socius, "companion"; and the suffix -ology, "the study of", from Greek λόγος, lógos, "knowledge" [1]) is the scientific or systematic study of society, including patterns of social relations, social stratification, social interaction, and culture[2]. Areas studied in sociology range from the analysis of brief contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social interaction. Numerous fields within the discipline concentrate on how and why people are organized in society, either as individuals or as members of associations, groups, and institutions. Sociology is considered a branch of the social sciences.

Sociological research provides educators, planners, lawmakers, administrators, developers, business leaders, and people interested in resolving social problems and formulating public policy with rationales for the actions that they take.

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Ricard "Ricky" Rubio Vives (born October 21, 1990 in El Masnou, Barcelona) is a Spanish professional basketball player. Considered a child prodigy in basketball, Rubio became the youngest player ever to play in the Spanish ACB League, which is considered by some to be the top domestic league in Europe,[1][2] on October 15, 2005.[3] The 1.92-metre (6 ft 3.6 in)-tall Rubio is playing the point guard position for Joventut Badalona in both the ACB and the Euroleague, which is regarded as the world's top professional club annual basketball competition outside of the NBA.

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October 21st events

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1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.

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# 1520 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.

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1600 - Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate, who in effect rule Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.

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1774 - First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.

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1797 - In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.

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1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signalled the virtual end of French maritime power and left Britain navally unchallenged until the twentieth century.

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1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at Ulm, reaping Napoleon over 30,000 prisoners and inflicting 10,000 casualties on the losers. Ulm was considered to be one of Napoleon's finest hours.

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1816 - The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.

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1824 - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.

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1854 - Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.

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1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff - Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.

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# 1867 - Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty - Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma.

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1879 - Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).

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1892 - Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition were held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.

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1895 - The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.

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# 1902 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.

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1921 - President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.

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1941 - 7000 Serbs were shot in Kragujevac, Serbia by Nazi Germans.

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1944 - The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.

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1945 - Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.

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1945 - Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón married actress Evita.

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1959 - In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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1965 - Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.

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1966 - Aberfan disaster: A coal tip falls on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.

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1967 - Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, DC. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility (event lasts until October 23; 683 people were arrested). Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.

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1969 - A coup d'état in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power.

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1973 - John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.

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1973 - Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.

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1977 - The European Patent Institute is founded.

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1978 - Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.

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1983 - The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

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1986 - In Lebanon, pro-Iranian kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he was released in August 1991).

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# 1990 - The first Apple Day, is held in Covent Garden, London.

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1994 - North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.

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1994 - In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.

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1995 - Dayton Agreement The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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2001 - "United We Stand" benefit concert for September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims, held at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. Event organized and headlined by Michael Jackson, also featuring pop stars Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, The Backstreet Boys, and others.

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2003 - Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.

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Eris (pronounced /ˈɪərɪs/, also /ˈɛrɪs/ as in Greek Έρις),[7] formally designated 136199 Eris and prior to that 2003 UB313 (see minor planet names), is the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth largest body known to orbit the Sun directly. It is approximately 2,500 kilometres in diameter and 27% more massive than Pluto.[8][5]

Eris was first spotted in 2003 by a Palomar Observatory-based team led by Mike Brown but not identified until 2005. It is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) native to a region of space beyond the Kuiper belt known as the scattered disc. Eris has one moon, Dysnomia; recent observations have found no evidence of further satellites. The current distance from the Sun is 96.7 AU, roughly three times that of Pluto. With the exception of some comets the pair are the most distant known natural objects in the Solar System.[9]

Because Eris is larger than Pluto, its discoverers and NASA called it the Solar system’s tenth planet. This, along with the prospect of other similarly sized objects being discovered in the future, motivated the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define the term "planet" for the first time. Under a new definition approved on August 24, 2006, Eris is a "dwarf planet" along with Pluto, Ceres, and Makemake.[10]

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The pronunciation of English words in Wikipedia is most often given in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The goal is that interpretation should not depend on the reader's dialect, and therefore a broad transcription is generally used.

For a more complete key to the IPA, which covers sounds that do not occur in English, see Help:IPA.

Since this key accommodates standard American, British, and Australian pronunciations, not all of the distinctions shown here will be relevant to your dialect. If, for example, you pronounce cot and caught the same, you can ignore the difference between the symbols /ɒ/ and /ɔː/. In many dialects /r/ occurs only before a vowel; if you speak such a dialect, simply ignore /r/ in the pronunciation guides where you would not pronounce it.

On the other hand, this key does not encode the difference between the vowels of bad and lad in Australian English, nor between those in fir, fur, and fern in Scottish English, as those distinctions are seldom made in Wikipedia articles.

The IPA stress mark (ˈ) comes before the syllable that has the stress, in contrast to some other methods of describing pronunciation used in English dictionaries.

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James Edward Kelly (born February 14, 1960 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania[1][2][3]) is a former American football quarterback in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills.

Kelly was drafted in the 1983 NFL Draft, rated just behind John Elway on at least one NFL draft list. Employing the K-Gun offense known for its hurry up shotgun formations and used by later teams like Peyton Manning's Indianapolis Colts and leading one of the great NFL scoring juggernauts in the Buffalo Bills, Kelly led the Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls in 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993, though the Bills lost all four of them. In 2002, in his first year of eligibility, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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Big Brother failure

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# 2008 - Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 24 casualties; 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injured.

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The Northern Illinois University shooting was an incident that took place on February 14, 2008, during which a gunman shot multiple people on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, killing six and wounding eighteen.

The incident happened on the campus's Cole Hall at approximately 3:05 p.m. local time.[3] The school placed the campus on lockdown; students and teachers were advised to head to a secure location, take cover, and avoid the scene and all buildings in the vicinity of the area.[4] Six people died in the incident, including the perpetrator, making it the fourth-deadliest university shooting in United States history, after the Virginia Tech massacre, the University of Texas Clock Tower shooting, and the California State University, Fullerton library massacre.[5][6]

After the incident, the university administration cancelled all classes until February 25.

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Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public university located in DeKalb, Illinois. It was founded on May 22, 1895 by Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld as a satellite campus for what is now Illinois State University. The DeKalb campus was originally called Northern Illinois State Normal School. Today named Northern Illinois University, it is an independent public university and has grown larger than its parent school with a student enrollment of more than 25,000.[1] NIU is a member of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges[2] and is the second largest university in the state of Illinois after University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. NIU's main campus is located approximately 65 miles (104 km) west of Chicago. The university has satellite centers in Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Rockford, and Oregon.

Over the past three decades NIU has undergone tremendous expansion, including the addition of its College of Law in 1979. Today, the university is composed of seven degree-granting colleges that together offer 54 undergraduate and 74 graduate programs, as well as 12 doctoral programs. Consequently, NIU has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a "National University" (a school conducting significant research and awarding degrees up to the doctoral level)[3] in its fourth-tier rankings—i.e., within the lower 25 percent of schools in the National University category.[4][5][6][7]

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DeKalb is a city in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. The population was 39,018 at the 2000 census. The city's name (as well as the name of DeKalb County, where it is located) is IPA: /dɨˈkælb/ "di-KALB" with the L sound, unlike similarly spelled locations where the L is silent, such as DeKalb County, Georgia. The city is named after decorated German war hero Johann De Kalb who gave his life for American Independence during the American Revolutionary War.

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DeKalb County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2000, the population was 88,969. As of 2007, the population is estimated at 103,729. Its county seat is Sycamore, Illinois[1]. DeKalb County is part of the Chicago metropolitan statistical area.

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A county is generally a sub-unit of regional self-government within a larger jurisdiction.

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James was the most common male name in the United States in 1990.[1] Likewise, in Northern Ireland, the name has appeared among the 10 most popular for the last quarter of the 20th Century and into the 21st.[2]

"James" is derived from the same Hebrew name as Jacob, meaning "holds the heel" (in the Genesis narrative, Jacob was born grasping Esau's heel and later bought his birthright).

The name came into English language from the French variation of Gemmes of the Late Latin name Iacomus, a dialect variant of Iacobus, from the New Testament Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iakōbos), from Hebrew word יעקב (Yaʻaqov). Cognates include Jacob. The development Iacobus > Iacomus is likely a result of nasalization of the o and assimilation to the following b (i.e., intermediate *Iacombus) followed by simplification of the cluster mb through loss of the b.

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The Horse (馬) is the seventh of the 12 animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Horse is associated with the earthly branch symbol 午.

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41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.

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1327 - Edward III becomes King of England.

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1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.

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1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.

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São Paulo ([sɐ̃ʊ̯̃ ˈpaʊ̯lʊ] (help·info)) is the capital of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The city is the largest in Brazil and first in South America by population. [1] It is located in the South East of the country. It is also the richest city of Brazil. The name means Saint Paul in Portuguese. The city has an area of 1,523 square kilometres (588 sq mi)[2] and a population of 10,990,000,[3] which makes it the most populous in Brazil, in South America and in the southern hemisphere. [4] Greater São Paulo, which includes adjacent municipalities, has a population close to 20 million, making it the second largest in the Americas, and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world.[5]

People from the city of São Paulo are known as paulistanos, while paulistas designates anyone from the whole of São Paulo state, including the paulistanos. The city's Latin motto is Non ducor, duco, which translates as "I am not led, I lead". A famous nickname for the city is "Sampa". São Paulo is also known for its unreliable weather, the sheer size of its helicopter fleet, architecture and multitude of skyscrapers.[6] The São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport connects São Paulo with many Brazilian cities and also operates international flights.

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A capital is the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status; it is almost always the city which physically encompasses the offices and meeting places of the seat of government and fixed by law, but there are a number of exceptions. Alternate terms include capital city and political capital; the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital".

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The seat of government is the location of the government for a political entity. The seat of government is usually located in the capital. In some countries the seat of government differs from the capital, e.g. in the Netherlands where The Hague is the seat of government and Amsterdam is the Capital of the Netherlands.

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Australia

The seat of government and national capital is Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, a territory excised from New South Wales in accordance with the Constitution and the Seat of Government Act of 1908. However, until 1927 the de facto capital was Melbourne.

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United States

The seat of government of the United States was established by the United States Constitution in article I, section 8, clause 17:

The Congress shall have power ... to exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful buildings; ...

The seat of government of the United States has been in Washington, D.C. since 1800. Before 1800, Congress met in eight different locations.

Other seats of governments:

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A state is a political association with effective sovereignty over a geographic area and representing a population. These may be nation states, sub-national states or multinational states. A state usually includes the set of institutions that claim the authority to make the rules that govern the exercise of coercive violence for the people of the society in that territory, though its status as a state often depends in part on being recognized by a number of other states as having internal and external sovereignty over it. In sociology, the state is normally identified with these institutions: in Max Weber's influential definition, it is that organization that "(successfully) claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory," which may include the armed forces, civil service or state bureaucracy, courts, and police.

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, North Carolina, or simply Carolina)[13] is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. The university is the oldest in, and flagship of, the University of North Carolina system. First enrolling students in 1795, UNC is the oldest public university in the United States and is one of the original eight schools known as a Public Ivy.

Academically, all undergraduates receive a liberal arts education and have the option to pursue a major within the professional schools of the university later in their undergraduate career. In both teaching and research, UNC has been highly ranked by publications such as BusinessWeek and U.S. News & World Report. Along with Duke University in Durham and North Carolina State University in Raleigh, the university forms one of the corners of the Research Triangle.

UNC has a strong history in athletics, most notably in men's basketball and women's soccer. The North Carolina Tar Heels share rivalries with other Tobacco Road schools and have provided many olympians to United States teams. The student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel has won national awards for collegiate media, while the student radio station WXYC provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.

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John Michael Carney (born April 20, 1964 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American football placekicker for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent in 1987. He played college football at Notre Dame.

Carney has also been a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, San Diego Chargers, Los Angeles Rams, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars and Kansas City Chiefs. He was a Pro Bowl selection with the Chargers in 1994.

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YouTube - Big Brother 9 Natalie can lactate when she is not pregnant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh-9YmVync0&feature=related)

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1303 - The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.

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1534 - Jacques Cartier begins his voyage, in which he will discover Canada and Labrador.

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680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as Aashurah.

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Form factor Width Largest capacity Platters (Max)
5.25" FH 146 mm 47 GB[13] (1998) 14
5.25" HH 146 mm 19.3 GB[14] (1998) 4[15]
3.5" 102 mm 1.5 TB[6] (2008) 5
2.5" 69.9 mm 500 GB[16] (2008) 3
1.8" (CEATA/ZIF) 54 mm 160 GB[17] (2007) 3
1.3" 43 mm 40 GB[18] (2007) 1
1" (CFII/ZIF/IDE-Flex) 42 mm 20 GB (2006) 1
0.85" 24 mm 8 GB[19] (2004) 1

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Capcom was founded on May 30, 1979

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Osaka (大阪市, Ōsaka-shi?) listen (help·info) is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū.

The city is the capital of Osaka Prefecture. Often dubbed the second city of Japan, Osaka was historically the commercial capital of Japan, and to date the heart of Japan's second largest (and the world's ninth largest) metropolitan area of Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto, whose population is 17,220,000.

A unique title that the city of Osaka holds is the first place in Japan for day to night population ratio of 141%,[1] a depiction of Osaka's economic- and commerce-centric character. While at night time the population ranks third place in the country at 2.6 million, in daytime it surges to 3.7 million, second only after Tokyo.[2]

Osaka is traditionally considered the "nation's kitchen" (天下の台所, tenka no daidokoro?) or the gourmet food capital of Japan.[3][4][5][6]

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worlds most populous metro areas

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1 Tokyo Flag of Japan Japan 32,450,000

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2 Seoul Flag of South Korea South Korea 20,550,000

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3 Mexico City[2] Flag of Mexico Mexico 20,450,000

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4 New York City[3] Flag of the United States United States 19,750,000

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5 Mumbai Flag of India India 19,200,000

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6 Jakarta Flag of Indonesia Indonesia 18,900,000

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7 São Paulo Flag of Brazil Brazil 18,850,000

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8 Delhi Flag of India India 18,600,000

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9 Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Flag of Japan Japan 17,375,000

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10 Shanghai Flag of the People's Republic of China China 16,650,000

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11 Metro Manila Flag of the Philippines Philippines 16,300,000

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12 Hong Kong-Shenzhen[4] Flag of the People's Republic of China China 15,800,000

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13 Los Angeles Flag of the United States United States 15,250,000

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14 Kolkata Flag of India India 15,100,000

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15 Moscow Flag of Russia Russia 15,000,000

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16 Cairo Flag of Egypt Egypt 14,450,000

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17 Buenos Aires Flag of Argentina Argentina 13,170,000

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18 London Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom 12,875,000

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19 Beijing Flag of the People's Republic of China China 12,500,000

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20 Karachi Flag of Pakistan Pakistan 11,800,000

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5 australian cities are above 1 million in population

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1 Sydney New South Wales 4,336,374

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2 Melbourne Victoria 3,806,092

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3 Brisbane Queensland 1,857,594

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4 Perth Western Australia 1,554,769

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5 Adelaide South Australia 1,158,259

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NEW YORK -- The NFL will honor the late Gene Upshaw with his initials and his uniform number stenciled on the field for all 16 games this opening weekend.

The league had announced that all NFL players would wear a patch all season with the initials "GU" and the number 63, his former uniform number, to honor the Hall of Fame guard and longtime union leader, who died two weeks ago.

The league originally announced the initials and number would also would be stenciled on the field for the season opener at Giants Stadium between the Redskins and Giants and for the Broncos-Raiders game at Oakland, where Upshaw played his entire 15 seasons.

It extended that Tuesday to all games. A video tribute to Upshaw will also be shown.

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top 10 population for Belgium

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1 Brussels-Capital Region 1,031,215

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2 Antwerp 466,203

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3 Ghent 235,143

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4 Charleroi 201,550

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5 Liège 188,907

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6 Bruges 116,982

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8 Leuven 91,942

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9 Mons 91,196

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10 Mechelen 78,900

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1 1 Toronto (Mississauga) Ontario CMA 5,113,149

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2 2 Montreal (Laval, Longueuil) Quebec CMA 3,635,571

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3 3 Vancouver (Surrey) British Columbia CMA 2,116,581

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4 4 Ottawa-Gatineau Ontario/Quebec CMA 1,130,761

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5 5 Calgary Alberta CMA 1,079,310