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  2. Milan Rastislav Štefánik - Wikipedia

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    The French team had the objectives of photographing the solar corona and conducting spectroscopic studies. They set up in a location near Passa Quatro (Minas Gerais), where they joined the main team of the National Observatory's expedition. In the city of Passa Quatro, there is a bust in honor of the astronomer Milan Rastislav Štefánik.

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    James A. Adkins, retired major general, Adjutant General of Maryland (2008–2015) [1]; Donna Feigley Barbisch, retired major general [3]; Donald M. Campbell Jr., retired lieutenant general [1]

  4. Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition

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    The Quatro-Centennial Committee of the Senate (i.e. commemorating the 400th anniversary of Columbus's first voyage to the New World) approved the Fair Bill naming Chicago as the site. When the bill was sent to the House of Representatives, William McKendree Springer attached an amendment to create a Board of Lady Managers.

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    Jimmy Carter Bill Clinton Barack Obama. Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), Governor of Georgia (1971–1975), Georgia State Senator from District 14 (1963–1967), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 [1]

  6. The Sign of the Four - Wikipedia

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    The 1892 cloth-bound cover of The Sign of Four after it was compiled as a single book. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described how he was commissioned to write the story over a dinner with Joseph Marshall Stoddart, managing editor of the American publication Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, at the Langham Hotel in London on 30 August 1889.

  7. Subitizing - Wikipedia

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    Together, these findings support the idea that subitizing is a general perceptual mechanism extending to auditory and tactile processing. Enumerating afterimages

  8. List of World Rally Championship Drivers' champions - Wikipedia

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    The World Rally Championship (WRC) is a rallying series administered by Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. [1] The series currently consists of 13 three-day events driven on surfaces that range from gravel and tarmac to snow and ice.

  9. Four-letter word - Wikipedia

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    The term four-letter word serves as a euphemism for words that are often considered profane or offensive.. The designation "four-letter" arises from the observation that many (though not all) popular or slang terms related to excretory functions, sexual activity, genitalia, blasphemies, and terms linked to Hell or damnation are incidentally four-character monosyllables.