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  2. List of city name changes - Wikipedia

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    La Plata → Ciudad Eva Perón (1952) → La Plata (1955) ... Rand → Des Plaines — in Cook County; Randall → East Galesburg — in Knox County;

  3. List of rivers of Paraguay - Wikipedia

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    1.1 La Plata Basin. 2 See also. 3 References. Toggle the table of contents. List of rivers of Paraguay. 7 languages. ... Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.

  4. City - Wikipedia

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    La Plata in Argentina is based on a perfect square with 5196-meter sides, and was designed in the 1880s as the new capital of Buenos Aires Province. [155] Urban planning, the application of forethought to city design, involves optimizing land use, transportation, utilities, and other basic systems in order to achieve certain objectives.

  5. 12-inch MacBook - Wikipedia

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    The MacBook was announced at an Apple special event on March 9, 2015, and was released a month later on April 10. It employed Intel's Broadwell Core M processors at a TDP of around 4.5 watts to allow for a fanless design and a logic board that is much smaller than in previous MacBooks.

  6. Deaths in May 2020 - Wikipedia

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    Tony Rand, 80, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (1981–1988, 1995–2009), skin and throat cancer. [28] Samuel Rivera, 73, American politician, mayor of Passaic, New Jersey (2001–2008). [29] Antonina Ryzhova, 85, Russian volleyball player, world champion (1956, 1960) and Olympic silver medallist . [30]

  7. Idries Shah - Wikipedia

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    Idries Shah (/ ˈ ɪ d r ɪ s ˈ ʃ ɑː /; Hindi: इदरीस शाह, Pashto: ادريس شاه, Urdu: ادریس شاه; 16 June 1924 – 23 November 1996), also known as Idris Shah, Indries Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi (Arabic: سيد إدريس هاشمي) and by the pen name Arkon Daraul, was an Afghan author, thinker and teacher in the Sufi tradition.

  8. Marine iguana - Wikipedia

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    The marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), also known as the sea iguana, saltwater iguana, or Galápagos marine iguana, is a species of iguana found only on the Galápagos Islands ().

  9. List of plant genera named for people (Q–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Sequoyah, a bronze figure at the US Library of Congress (see Sequoiadendron and Sequoia) Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. Thousands of plants have been named for people, including botanists and their colleagues, plant collectors ...