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after another winter coaching in india and practising his bowling, kilner took 145 first @ - @ class wickets at 13 @. @ 28 during the 1924 english summer, placing him second in the national averages behind his teammate george macaulay. his batting suffered a decline ; he scored 731 runs at 20 @. @ 88, the lowest aggregate of his career and his first sub @ - @ 1 @, @ 000 total since 1912. kilner took 33 wickets in the first six matches of the season, and his form earned selection for a test trial match. in this game, he took three for 49 in
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vanvleet, who was dealing with hamstring issues, rolled his right ankle and saw only 3 minutes of action in the season opener against the charleston southern buccaneers on november 13. although he played in the next game against tulsa, he aggravated his hamstring in the game and was expected to miss the next few games. without a healthy vanvleet, < unk > state fell to two games below. 500 for the first time since the 2008 β 09 shockers team and endured their first three @ - @ game losing streak since vanvleet was coming off the bench as a freshman for the 2012
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lockett entered his senior season as a preseason all @ - @ big 12 selection as well as a walter camp award, maxwell award, paul hornung award and biletnikoff award watchlist candidate. on september 25, he was named one of 62 fbs semifinalists for the william v. campbell trophy. he posted his first 100 @ - @ yard game of the season against iowa state on september 6, in kansas state ' s second game when he tallied 136 receiving yards on 6 receptions. on september 18, he was named one of 30 candidates for the senior class award. on september 27, lockett posted two
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the season opened up to critical acclaim with many critics calling it " one of the best shows on tv " and was included in the top ten for numerous 2006 " best of television " lists. also the fame of the show skyrocketed during the season the a. v. club called the show a " < unk > " and " one of the best tv shows around, burning through plot points at a furious clip, swooning romanticism, at embracing the kind of deeply earnest, intensely felt romance that made the show β s relationships so great. meredith β s famous " pick me, choose me, love me
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following their 1991 performance, the 1992 tigers were ivy league favorites. in a game that was believed to be a deciding factor in the conference championship outcome, elias had 114 yards on opening day against cornell in a 22 β 20 victory on september 19. the following week on september 26, elias established the princeton single @ - @ game rushing record with a 299 @ - @ yard four @ - @ touchdown effort in a 38 β 35 victory against the lehigh, surpassing homer smith ' s 40 @ - @ year @ - @ old 273 @ - @ yard record. elias received his second ivy league offensive player of the week award after the match
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the majority of media attention, however, was focussed on the aftermath of the collision between schumacher and hill on lap 46. tension between the two had already been intensified by an incident during the french grand prix, where schumacher had accused hill of brake @ - @ testing him. after the crash, schumacher blamed hill, saying that : " i think what damon did was both stupid and totally unnecessary. there was no room for two cars there, and it ' s not an overtaking place. if i hadn ' t been there, i think he ' d have gone straight on into the gravel. he just came from nowhere. even
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flight day seven was their third and final day on the lunar surface, returning to orbit to rejoin mattingly in the command / service module following the day ' s moonwalk. during the third and final lunar excursion, they were to explore north ray crater, the largest of any of the craters any apollo expedition had visited. after exiting orion, the pair drove the lunar rover 0 @. @ 8 km ( 0 @. @ 50 mi ) away from the lm before adjusting their heading to travel 1 @. @ 4 km ( 0 @. @ 87 mi ) to north ray crater. the drive was smoother than that of
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jackson has a mezzo @ - @ soprano vocal range. over the course of her career, she has received frequent criticism for the limits of her vocal capabilities, especially in comparison to contemporary artists such as whitney houston and mariah carey. in comparing her vocal technique to houston and aretha franklin, vocal coach roger love states that " [ w ] hen janet sings, she allows a tremendous amount of air to come through. she ' s obviously aiming for a sexy, sultry effect, and on one level that works nicely. but actually, it ' s fairly limited. " he adds that while her voice is suitable for studio recording
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michigan began the month with a loss to indiana on february 2. the team rebounded against nebraska on february 5 with its largest conference @ - @ game victory margin ( 79 β 50 ) under john beilein and its largest conference @ - @ game victory margin since defeating indiana 112 β 64 on february 22, 1998. on february 8 the wolverines played poorly against ( # 17, # 13 ) iowa, losing 85 β 67 and surrendering the most points in a non @ - @ overtime game since december 12, 2007 ( against oakland ). it was the team ' s biggest point deficit since its loss to wisconsin by 18 on
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flowering has been recorded between january and october, with a peak in autumn and early winter ( april to june ). the inflorescences, or flower spikes, arise from the end of 1 to 5 year old branchlets, and often have a whorl of branchlets arising from the node or base. measuring 5 β 15 cm ( 2 @. @ 0 β 5 @. @ 9 in ) high and 4 cm ( 1 @. @ 6 in ) wide, the yellow spikes often have blue @ - @ grey tinged limbs in bud, though occasionally pinkish, mauve or mauve @ - @ blue limbs are
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penn state received the opening kickoff, and on their first play from scrimmage, featured six offensive linemen ( albeit unsuccessfully, as bill belton rushed for a one @ - @ yard loss ), before driving down the field on a 13 @ - @ play, 75 @ - @ yard drive that culminated with belton rushing for a five @ - @ yard touchdown ; he carried the load on the drive, rushing the ball eight times for 36 yards. penn state would never relinquish that lead. purdue subsequently went three @ - @ and @ - @ out, and penn state responded with another long drive ( 10
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harvey represented the australian cricket team between early 1948 and early 1963. he was the vice captain of the team from 1957 until his retirement. an attacking left @ - @ handed batsman, sharp fielder and occasional off @ - @ spin bowler, harvey was the senior batsman in the australian team for much of the 1950s and was regarded by wisden as the finest fielder of his era. harvey followed his elder brother merv in making his test debut in january 1948, aged 19 and three months. in his second match, he became the youngest australian to score a test century, a record that as of july 2010, still stands. he was
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jardine was the centre of attention at the start of the tour. he began the tour with three consecutive hundreds and was seen as one of the main english threats. in his first hundred, the crowd engaged in some good @ - @ natured joking at jardine ' s expense, but he was jeered by the crowd in his second hundred for batting too slowly. his third hundred was described by bradman as one of the finest exhibitions of strokeplay that he had seen ; jardine accelerated after another slow start, during which he was again barracked, to play some excellent shots. the crowds took an increasing dislike to
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cedar point built the first giga coaster, millennium force, in 2000. when it debuted, it was the tallest and fastest complete circuit coaster in the world, reaching speeds of 93 miles per hour ( 150 km / h ) and heights of 310 ft ( 94 m ). in 2002, wicked twister opened as the first second @ - @ generation intamin inverted impulse roller coaster. today, wicked twister is the tallest ( 215 ft ) and fastest 72 miles per hour ( 116 km / h ) inverted impulse roller coaster in the world. top thrill dragster debuted as the first strata coaster in 2003 and was the tallest
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plans were made in 1964 to realign pa 321 to follow hacker street in kane to access the kinzua road, avoiding the downtown area along us 6. on january 12, 1965, a meeting was held between kane borough officials, local government and planning commission officials, and funk and chief engineer robert < unk > regarding the construction of pa 321, including improving the road between wilcox and kane, building a bypass to the east of kane, and constructing the road north to pa 59. at this time, no plans existed to improve us 6 / pa 321 on fraley street in kane. in this meeting, it was announced
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beginning early in 1968, the group largely retired from touring, instead focusing on work in the studio. as the band was not available to promote their material, subsequent releases met with little success. the kinks ' next single, " wonderboy ", released in the spring of 1968, stalled at number 36 and became the band ' s first single not to make the uk top twenty since their early covers. despite this, it became a favourite of john lennon of the beatles. according to ray davies, " someone had seen john lennon in a club and he kept on asking the disc jockey to play ' wonder boy ' [ sic ]
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having just repelled the serbian incursion into bosnia, the austro @ - @ hungarian army regrouped and positioned itself for one final invasion before winter set in. potiorek was again placed in charge of austro @ - @ hungarian forces and was given command of the austro @ - @ hungarian 6th army. the austro @ - @ hungarian 5th army was commanded by < unk > ritter von frank. in total, the austro @ - @ hungarians had 450 @, @ 000 troops at their disposal. the serbian army had 400 @, @ 000 soldiers ready to face the austro @ - @ hungarian advance. in mid @
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peter horton, expressed that his plan of developing chandra wilson ' s character, miranda bailey, was to focus on the similarities between her and the actress, noting that " there ' s not a mean bone in her body, but she ' s solid and steady, like a rock. " wilson herself noted a significant evolution in her character ' s personality, noting a transition from the cold attitude that was characteristic to her in the past, to a maternal outlook on her interns. she also noted a number of similarities between her and her character, describing how considers miranda bailey an alter ego of hers, rather than someone living inside her.
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" bad blood " received largely positive reviews from critics. in a 2000 review of season five for the new straits times, francis dass called the episode " an absolute gem. the most hilarious x @ - @ files episode i have ever seen. " rebecca traister of salon. com called it " possibly the best x @ - @ files episode of all time ". in a 2008 review of the revelations dvd, which contained " bad blood ", erik henriksen of the portland mercury praised the way the writers " managed to tweak their genre formulas " and said of the episode, " it ' s witty and quick
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stone described her character as " a daddy ' s girl " who is very responsible and protective of her family and loves science. she said of her character, " she offers parker a world of stability, of a family unit not marred with parental loss and, beyond physical allure, the two forge an intellectual connection over their shared love of science. " her character, she explained, " is stuck between [ her father ] the captain and peter parker and spider @ - @ man, who have different ways about going about finding justice in their lives " which she felt was a fun thing to explore. dana stevens of slate described her character
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endoparasites known to infect wolves include protozoans and helminths ( flukes, tapeworms, roundworms and thorny @ - @ headed worms ). of 30 @, @ 000 protozoan species, only a few have been recorded to infect wolves : isospora, toxoplasma, < unk >, < unk >, and giardia. wolves may carry < unk > caninum, which is of particular concern to farmers, as the disease can be spread to livestock, with infected animals being 3 β 13 times more likely to miscar
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burrell became the phillies ' longest tenured player in 2007 with the departure of lieberthal via free agency. he hit only one home run in april but had a. 292 batting average. on april 6, he homered and had four rbi ( including the game @ - @ winner ) in an 8 β 2 victory over florida. he began to slump after april, batting < unk > over the next two months. once again, manuel began benching him, using greg dobbs, jayson werth, or michael bourn in left field. on may 11, burrell hit two home runs and had five
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much of tifa ' s reception regarded her sex appeal. in 1998, the new york times featured her as the pin @ - @ up girl of for the " cyber generation. " that same year, electronic gaming monthly awarded her the " hottest game babe " of 1997, calling her " as well @ - @ proportioned as they come, " and praising her as a viable alternative to lara croft. ugo ranked her as 24th in their 2008 list of " videogame hotties, " adding they could not " get over how much better she looks in each subsequent game release. " that same year, gamedaily ranked
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five games into the 2010 β 11 season, he suffered a bruised foot while blocking a shot during a contest against the carolina hurricanes on october 17, 2010. the injury caused him to miss eight games. after returning to the line @ - @ up, he scored his first goal as a canuck β an empty @ - @ netter in the final minute of a 5 β 3 win against the toronto maple leafs on november 13. later in the season, hamhuis suffered a concussion during a game against the anaheim ducks on february 9, 2011. after making a pass from behind his net, he received a bodycheck from
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the 1992 hooters 500, the final race of the 1992 season, is considered one of the most eventful races in nascar history. it was the final race for richard petty and the first for jeff gordon. six drivers were close enough in the points standings to win the championship that day. allison led second @ - @ place kulwicki by 30 points, bill elliott by 40, harry gant by 97, and kyle petty by 98 and needed to finish sixth or better to clinch the championship. kulwicki received approval from nascar and ford to change the " thunderbird " lettering on his bumper for the race
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in september, the corps reached its peak of 11 @, @ 197 members. several skirmishes occurred between the 1st regiment and the partisans in the zvornik and valjevo areas that month. on 7 / 8 september, the 2nd regiment fought partisans at the ibar river, trying to deny them crossing. on 9 september, elements of the 3rd regiment moved to pozega and on 11 september to cacak. on 20 september, the 1st regiment fought a group of partisans south of loznica. major combat between the 1st regiment and partisans erupted in loznica itself on 23 september, causing the regiment to
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amy discovers that kyle ' s adoptive parents have died. she and victoria attend the funeral to see if kyle is there but they see him at the wake with his adoptive grandmother, joanie wright ( denise black ). when kyle drops his toy, amy tries to tell joanie but she does not hear her so amy keeps it. the next day, amy returns and a barmaid tells her where joanie lives. amy plans to return the toy but changes her mind at the last minute and leaves. needing to see kyle, she persuades andy to let her take baby jack to kyle ' s playgroup and makes friends with joan
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at the start of the indian season, harbhajan took 2 / 32 and 4 / 31 as the rest of india defeated delhi in the irani trophy. this was followed by the first test against australia in bangalore. harbhajan took ponting ' s wicket in taking 1 / 103 in the first innings, but not before the australian captain had scored 123. in reply to australia ' s 430, india were in trouble at 195 / 6 when harbhajan came in to bat. he scored a rearguard 54, putting on 80 with fellow bowler zaheer khan, to reduce india ' s deficit to
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the daily telegraph ' s robbie collin awarded the film five stars out of five, likening the experience of watching it to rediscovering a favorite childhood cartoon. he praised del toro for investing his own affection for the genre and sense of artistry into the project in such a way that the viewer found themselves immersed in the film rather than watching from afar, noting the director had catered to younger and older audiences alike and expressed surprise that the film could rise above the sum of its parts. todd mccarthy of the hollywood reporter gave a positive review, describing the film as the sum of the potential every monster film had ever tried
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however, american alligators do not normally reach such extreme sizes. in mature males, most specimens grow up to about 3 @. @ 4 m ( 11 ft ) in length, and will weigh up to 227 kg ( 500 lb ), while in females, the mature size is normally around 2 @. @ 6 m ( 8 @. @ 5 ft ), with a body weight of up to 91 kg ( 201 lb ). in < unk > lake, florida, adult males averaged 73 @. @ 2 kg ( 161 lb ) in mass and measured 2 @. @ 47 m ( 8 @. @ 1 ft
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dot receives a police visit, informing her that nick has died. one of the police officers returns later to tell her that he is actually her grandson charlie cotton ( declan bennett ), a child of nick ' s dot had not known existed. a devastated dot holds a funeral for nick and grows close to charlie in the aftermath as he moves in with dot, causing fatboy to move out. however it is later revealed that charlie is being dishonest and although he is nick ' s son, he is not a policeman but a caretaker and that he has helped nick stage his own death to avoid being arrested following a robbery. nick
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despite hammond ' s best attempts, mccabe was able to gain the strike and runs came quickly. mccabe reached his century in 140 minutes and england declined to take the new ball while he was batting. by lunch, he and barnett had added 67 in only 50 minutes, although the latter had made only 20 of these ; the total was 6 / 261, with mccabe on 105. having reached his century, mccabe lifted his scoring rate, scoring his last 132 runs in 95 minutes. boundaries came much more readily and he took 44 runs from a three over spell by leg spinner doug wright. as he ran out of
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saturday ' s afternoon qualifying session lasted for an hour. each driver was limited to twelve laps, with the grid order decided by the drivers ' fastest laps. during this session, the 107 % rule was in effect, which necessitated each driver set a time within 107 % of the quickest lap to qualify for the race. the qualifying session was held in dry and hot weather conditions. the air temperature ranged between 27 β 28 Β° c ( 81 β 82 Β° f ) and the track temperature ranged from 33 β 35 Β° c ( 91 β 95 Β° f ). michael schumacher clinched his fourth pole position of the season, his third at
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steins ; gate has four main theme songs, the opening theme " sky clad observer " ( < unk >, < unk > < unk > no < unk > ), the first ending theme " another heaven ", the second ending theme " unmei no < unk > " ( < unk >, unmei no < unk > ), and the insert song " technovision ". the third song is sung by yui sakakibara while the other ones are sung by kanako ito. ito ' s " technovision " was included in her " stargate " album which was
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part of the legacy associated with the fu is its use as a form of sociopolitical protest, such as the theme of the loyal minister who has been unjustly exiled by the ruler or those in power at the court, rather than receiving the promotion and respect which he truly deserves. in the verses of chu, one of the works attributed to qu yuan is the " li sao ", which is one of the earliest known works in this tradition, both as ancestral to the fu as well as its incorporation of political criticism as a theme of poetry. the theme of unjust exile is related to the development of < unk
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" redux " received mixed to negative reviews from critics. todd vanderwerff, writing for the a. v. club, awarded the first episode a c + rating and wrote that " ' redux [ part 1 ] ' was a pretty good episode back in 1997. it β s not a very good episode now ". vanderwerff noted that the idea that mulder had killed himself was not effective because the show ' s audience knew that a movie had been scheduled for release in the summer of 1998. finally, he called the episode ' s ending " one of the show β s weaker cliffhangers "
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the sticky & sweet tour broke many records in terms of its ticket sales, commercial gross and audience attendance. on september 11, 2008, madonna performed to a sell @ - @ out crowd of over 74 @, @ 000 fans and grossed over $ 12 million usd, surpassing all previous grosses at both the old and the new wembley stadiums. since that date u2 with their 360 Β° tour has broken the attendance record at wembley stadium with a crowd of 88 @, @ 000 people. this performance followed the zurich performance, which was in front of 72 @, @ 000 people, the largest audience ever for a concert in switzerland. the
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banksia aemula is generally a gnarled shrub or small tree to 8 m ( 26 ft ), although usually smaller. conversely, individual wallum banksias have been measured at 8 @. @ 3 β 12 @. @ 1 m ( 27 β 40 ft ) high, with a maximum diameter at breast height of 44 cm ( 17 in ) in forest on north stradbroke island. the trunk has thick orange @ - @ brown wrinkled and warty bark, and the new growth is hairy but becomes smooth as it ages. new shoot growth is in spring and summer. the shiny green leaves are obova
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following a three @ - @ year absence from the big screen, gosling starred in five movies in 2010 and 2011. " i β ve never had more energy, β gosling has said. β i β m more excited to make films than i used to be. i used to kind of dread it. it was so emotional and taxing. but i β ve found a way to have fun while doing it. and i think that translates into the films. β he has also spoken of feeling depressed when not working. in 2010, he co @ - @ starred with michelle williams in derek cianfrance ' s directorial
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business loop interstate 94 ( bl i @ - @ 94 ) is a 10 1 β 4 @ - @ mile @ - @ long ( 16 @. @ 5 km ) state trunkline highway that serves as a business loop from the i @ - @ 94 freeway through downtown jackson. the western end is at exit 138 on i @ - @ 94 west of jackson in blackman township. this interchange is also the eastern terminus of m @ - @ 60 and the two run concurrently southward along a section of four @ - @ lane freeway west of the jackson county airport. bl i @ - @ 94 / m @ - @
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at the 2009 world aquatics championships, phelps won a total of 6 medals, 5 golds and 1 silver. in his first event, the 4 Γ 100 @ - @ meter freestyle relay, phelps swam the lead @ - @ off leg in 47 @. @ 78, well off his 47 @. @ 51 performance in beijing, but the american team was able to edge out russia and france for the gold. for his second race, the 200 @ - @ meter freestyle, phelps lost his first race in four years to germany ' s paul biedermann. phelps touched second in 1 : 43 @. @ 22, but
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after a few days delay caused by heavy snowfalls, the attack commenced at 02 : 45 on 12 february. during the approach march to the foot of the cuklahohe, some men disappeared up to their neck in snow due to the many snow @ - @ filled depressions and the depth of the snow. this meant that the march to the bottom of the channel took two hours instead of the thirty minutes mikl had estimated. when they reached the bottom of the channel, they had to climb a 3 m ( 9 @. @ 8 ft ) high smooth ice wall to enter the gutter, which even highly experienced
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throughout australasia and europe, the song managed to peak within the top five in several countries. in australia, " touch my body " debuted at number twenty on the singles chart, during the week of april 4, 2008. the following week, the song reached its peak of number seventeen, where it spent two weeks, and had a total chart trajectory of ten weeks. on april 11, 2008, " touch my body " debuted at number forty @ - @ five on the o3 austria top 40 chart. the song peaked at number ten, and fell out of the chart in its tenth week, while it was at fifty
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the adult double drummer is the largest australian species of cicada, the male and female averaging 4 @. @ 75 and 5 @. @ 12 cm ( 1 @. @ 87 and 2 @. @ 02 in ) long respectively. the thorax is 2 cm ( 0 @. @ 79 in ) in diameter, its sides distended when compared with the thorax of other australian cicadas. the forewings are 5 β 6 @. @ 6 cm ( 2 @. @ 0 β 2 @. @ 6 in ) long. the largest collected specimen has a wingspan of 15 @. @ 1 cm ( 5
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2008 : in early march, favre announces that he is retiring from the green bay packers. at a news conference he said " i know i can play, but i don ' t think i want to. it ' s been a great career for me, but it ' s over. as they say, all good things must come to an end. i look forward to whatever the future may hold for me. " later in the month favre has second thoughts and wants to return. according to the milwaukee journal sentinel, favre backed out of a meeting with packers management two days before re @ - @ entry talks were to
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in 2000, henry was sent to ohio valley wrestling ( ovw ) to improve his conditioning and wrestling skills. in ovw, he teamed with nick dinsmore to compete in a tournament for the ovw southern tag team championship in mid @ - @ 2001. later that year, henry ' s mother died, causing him to go on hiatus from wrestling. he felt he had to compete in the " super bowl of weight lifting " β the arnold strongman classic β in honor of his mother, who gave him his first weight set when he was a child. four months prior to the contest, henry began lifting
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the first missions over the battle zone in front of perekop and over the crimea were flown on 17 october 1941, either flying ju 87 escort missions or combat air patrols. on two separate missions that day, gollob claimed two i @ - @ 61s and one i @ - @ 16 shot down. on 18 october 1941, the 11. armee ( 11th army ) began its attack on the isthmus of perekop and < unk >. ii. gruppe flew a number of combat air patrols that day and reported 16 aerial victories for the loss of two bf 109s damaged in combat. go
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speculation ignited that ponting was an outsider to be selected for the australian squad on their 1993 tour to england. of the speculation, ponting said " at the start of the season i was wondering whether or not i ' d play shield cricket this year and all of a sudden there ' s talk in the papers that i ' m a chance go on an australian tour of england. i think it ' s way out of reach β there are blokes like [ south australian ] jamie siddons who have scored 20 or 30 first @ - @ class centuries who are ahead of me. nevertheless, shipperd thought ponting
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when belfast was first opened to the public, visitors were limited to the upper decks and forward superstructure. as of 2011, nine decks are open to the public. access to the ship is via a walkway which connects the quarterdeck with the pedestrianised footpath on the south bank of the river thames. the imperial war museum ' s guidebook to hms belfast divides the ship into three broad sections. the first of these, ' life on board the ship ', focuses on the experience of serving at sea. restored compartments, some populated with dressed figures, illustrate the crew ' s living conditions and the ship ' s various facilities such as
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although polar bears are extraordinarily powerful, its primary prey species, the ringed seal, is much smaller than itself, and many of the seals hunted are pups rather than adults. ringed seals are born weighing 5 @. @ 4 kg ( 12 lb ) and grown to an estimated average weight of only 60 kg ( 130 lb ). they also in places prey heavily upon the harp seal ( pusa < unk > ) or the harbor seal. the bearded seal, on the other hand, can be nearly the same size as the bear itself, averaging 270 kg ( 600 lb ). adult male bearded seals
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most neolithic settlements were situated on the banks of rivers and lakes in the proposed original homeland of the uralic peoples, but no houses have been excavated there. the local inhabitants primarily used tools made of stone β especially jasper from the southern urals β, bone and wood, but baked clay vessels decorated with broken or wavy lines were also found. their economy was based on fishing, hunting, and gathering. the basic hungarian words connected to these activities β < unk > ( net ), < unk > ( bow ), < unk > ( arrow ), < unk > ( bowstring ), and mony
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nelson ' s passage from sicily to alexandria was uneventful, the journey taking six days. due to his lack of frigates, nelson was unable to scout to the flanks of his advance and as a result only spoke with three merchant ships, none of which had useful information about the french fleet. the lack of frigates had already had a decisive effect on 22 june, when the british fleet sighted four sails to the southeast. although captain thomas thompson of hms leander requested permission to investigate the strangers, nelson refused and ordered his fleet to continue on their current heading, believing the french to be five days ahead and wishing to reach alexandria as
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following the all @ - @ star game, wade recorded 50 points on 56 @. @ 6 % shooting and added 5 rebounds and 5 assists in a blow @ - @ out loss against the orlando magic. wade became the fourth player in nba history to score at least 50 points while his team lost by at least 20 in a game. the following game, wade recorded a career @ - @ high 16 assists and added 31 points and 7 rebounds in a 103 β 91 win against the detroit pistons. wade became the second player to record 15 or more assists after scoring at least 50 points since wilt chamberlain did so in 1968. two
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in may 1982, three phantoms from 29 squadron were forward deployed to raf wideawake on ascension island to provide air cover during the raf ' s operations as part of operation corporate, replacing harriers of 1 squadron, which were transiting to the war zone. in august 1982, following the end of the conflict and the reconstruction of the runway, 29 squadron detached a number of its aircraft to raf stanley to provide air defence for the falkland islands. late the following year, 23 squadron took up the role, remaining stationed there until october 1988, when they were replaced by 1435 flight. to make up for the loss of
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orton began feuding with the mcmahon family on the january 19, 2009 episode of raw when he confronted both mr. mcmahon and stephanie, claiming that he was worth more than her, and that she had become " worthless ". this infuriated mr. mcmahon, who demanded that orton apologize, or he ' d terminate him on the spot. as mr. mcmahon was about to fire him, orton attacked him and viciously punted him in the head, leading to him being carried out of the arena on a stretcher. on january 25, orton won the royal rumble match, last eliminating triple h. the next night on
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in december, the naismith memorial basketball hall of fame named pressey as a cousy award nominee. in the december 22, 2012 < unk > ' rights game against illinois he posted 11 assists and 12 points for his third career double @ - @ double. in missouri ' s subsequent game on december 28, 2012, he recorded another double @ - @ double with 19 assists and 19 points against ucla tying the southeastern conference single @ - @ game assist record ( kenny higgs, 1976 @ - @ 77 lsu ; bill hann, 1967 @ - @ 68 tennessee ). on january 5, pressey established a
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the a. v. club reviewer zack handlen called adventure time " a terrific show [ that ] fits beautifully in that gray area between kid and adult entertainment in a way that manages to satisfy both a desire for sophisticated ( i. e., weird ) writing and plain old silliness ". he concluded that the show was " basically what would happen if you asked a bunch of 12 @ - @ year @ - @ olds to make a cartoon, only it ' s the best possible version of that, like if all the 12 @ - @ year @ - @ olds were super geniuses and some of them were stan lee
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" mother knows best " has garnered universal acclaim from both film and music critics, several of whom were rather unimpressed with the majority of the film ' s songs but admitted to having enjoyed " mother knows best ". writing for the blade, kirk baird opined that most of the songs " aren ' t particularly memorable ", except for " mother knows best ". likewise, lindsey ward of canoe. ca wrote, " the musical numbers aren ' t the best things in tangled - - the exception being ' mother knows best ', a brash track that scene @ - @ stealing tony @ - @ winner murphy alone turns into a
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in the early years the chicago marathon was held in august. it has from its inception with 4 @, @ 200 runners and 2 @, @ 128 finishers been one of the nation ' s largest marathons. the 2000 running was second only to new york. the 1979 and 1980 events, however, continued to be gatherings of amateur runners. by 1982, the race finally had sufficient prize money to attract world class athletes. the 1982 was the first with world class times such as the 2 : 10 : 59 by greg meyer, the last american @ - @ born male to win the race. by 1983, the chicago marathon had
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besides its success in the united states, " we belong together " achieved strong charting throughout europe and australia. on the aria charts, the song debuted atop the singles chart in australia during the week dated july 3, 2005. the following week, it held the number one spot for a second week, and stayed on the chart for a total of eleven weeks. to date, " we belong together " was certified platinum by the australian recording industry association ( aria ), denoting shipments of 70 @, @ 000 units. the song finished at number seventeen on the 2005 australian year @ - @ end chart. in both flemish and wallonia
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the video premiered on may 4, 2010 on e! news. the video received generally positive reviews from critics. it also received numerous comparisons to videos by britney spears and lady gaga, though cyrus said she " wanted it to be something different for a female artist ". cristina gibson of e! described the video as " edgy ", similar to cyrus ' video for " party in the u. s. a. ", but " on steroids ". tina warren of mtv news said the video was a good step toward ridding cyrus of her good @ - @ girl image and gave the video a positive review, calling it
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on august 23, a moderate tropical storm developed 200 miles ( 323 km ) east of sint maarten. operationally, the system was treated as an easterly wave until it moved through the bahamas. it is believed that the system originated near the cape verde islands. on august 24, the tropical storm passed north of the leeward islands and san juan, puerto rico, and then strengthened to a minimal hurricane with 75 mph ( 120 km / h ) winds on august 25. subsequently, it strengthened rapidly, and the cyclone was noted as " well developed " when it passed near nassau with 115 mph ( 185 km / h
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saturday ' s afternoon qualifying session lasted for one hour. each driver was limited to twelve laps, with the grid order decided by the drivers ' fastest laps. during this session, the 107 % rule was in effect, which necessitated each driver set a time within 107 % of the quickest lap to qualify for the race. the session was held in dry conditions ; the air temperature was 22 Β° c ( 72 Β° f ) and the track temperature was 34 Β° c ( 93 Β° f ). michael schumacher achieved his sixth pole position of the season, his second at monza, with a time of 1 : 23 @. @ 770
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the album garnered mainly positive reviews from critics. sarah bardeen of rhapsody said the album established queen as " the voice for women ", complimenting her " self @ - @ assured delivery ". she claimed that the tracks in which featured guest artists " get the sense that the guys she ' s trading verses with are trying to keep up with her and not the other way around, " noting that the platinum edition " launched the monster hit " quiero bailar ". rachel devitt, also writing for rhapsody, categorized the album as " urban latin " music. michael endelman of entertainment weekly called the album their number one pick
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in 1978, rajinikanth went on to star in 20 different films across tamil, telugu, and kannada. his first film of the year was p. madhavan ' s shankar salim simon. following that he was seen in the kannada film < unk > < unk > co @ - @ starring vishnuvardhan, who was then a leading actor in kannada. his next release < unk > < unk > saw him playing the second lead with krishna. rajinikanth had reprised his role in the kannada original. he then played an important role in < unk > < unk > which was to
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" all i want for christmas is you " was critically acclaimed by music critics. parisien called the song " a year @ - @ long banger ", complimenting its instrumentation and melody. steve morse, editor of the boston globe, wrote that carey sang with a lot of soul. according to barry schwartz from stylus magazine, " to say this song is an instant classic somehow doesn ' t capture its < unk > ; it ' s a modern standard : joyous, exhilarating, loud, with even a hint of longing. " schwartz praised the song ' s lyrics as well, describing them as " beautifully
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the houston chronicle ' s joey guerra felt all of the album ' s tracks were strong, and wrote " every track plays like a potential hit single, and that ' s exactly what fans will love about ' e = mc Β² '. expect it to soundtrack much of the summer and beyond. " los angeles times staff writer, richard cromelin, gave the album two out of four stars, noting its " alternatives to the glass @ - @ shattering flamboyance of her early ' 90s youth. " he concluded in his mixed review of the album, " of course, consistency isn ' t so important when an album is
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timbaland began his producing career for r & b acts. in the mid @ - @ 1990s, he produced a few songs for r & b acts such as jodeci and sista. in 1996, he made his mainstream breakthrough by producing the majority of both aaliyah ' s second album one in a million and ginuwine ' s debut album ginuwine... the bachelor. this included the major hit singles " if your girl only knew " by aaliyah and " pony " by ginuwine. while timbaland was initially producing for r & b artists, his trademark sound was very
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frazier made his sophomore debut on november 7, 2010, in an exhibition game against east stroudsburg. he added 10 points, 6 assists, and two steals. frazier also recorded a team @ - @ high 4 turnovers. dechellis commented, " offensively we were poor tonight and we had too many turnovers... something we ' ve struggled with in practice. " on november 12, 2010, frazier made his second appearance as a sophomore with 6 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, and 1 steal. he shot 1 @ - @ of @ - @ 5 on field goals, while going a perfect 4
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on the night of the 1st of february many gentlemen eminent for their rank and character were, by the invitation of the reverend mr. aldrich, of clerkenwell, assembled at his house, for the examination of the noises supposed to be made by a departed spirit, for the detection of some enormous crime. about ten at night the gentlemen met in the chamber in which the girl, supposed to be disturbed by a spirit, had, with proper caution, been put to bed by several ladies. they sat rather more than an hour, and hearing nothing, went down stairs, when they interrogated the father of the girl, who
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after only a few hours worth of airplay, " touch my body " entered the billboard hot r & b / hip @ - @ hop songs chart at number seventy @ - @ eight the chart week of february 23, 2008. in its second week within the chart, it leaped to number twenty, before reaching its peak of number two. in its first complete week of radio airplay, the song garnered 46 million audience impressions, making its debut at number twenty @ - @ three on the billboard hot 100 airplay. the song made its debut at number fifty @ - @ seven on the billboard hot 100 as the " hot shot " of the
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regarding her involvement in a sequel to the silence of the lambs, foster confirmed to larry king in 1997 that she " would definitely be part of it ". she told entertainment weekly magazine in 1997 that " anthony hopkins always talks about it. i mean, everybody wants to do it. every time i see him, it ' s like : ' when is it going to happen? when is it going to happen? ' " de laurentiis thought foster would decline once she read the book, even believing the final film was better for it. hopkins also had doubts foster would be involved, saying he had a " hunch "
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he made his major league debut on may 24, 1994. in the game, hamilton allowed three runs and five hits in six innings but ended up winning the game 6 β 3 after phil clark hit a three β run home run. overall, hamilton went 9 β 6 with a 2 @. @ 69 era in 1082 β 3 innings pitched. he was fifth in the major league baseball rookie of the year award voting for the national league. in 1995, hamilton went 6 β 9 with a 3 @. @ 08 era in 30 starts and 2041 β 3 innings pitched. hamilton gave up 189 hits and 70 earned runs ( 89
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prism made its official debut in ireland, where it charted atop the charts. in the united states, the album opened at the top spot on the us billboard 200, becoming her second consecutive number one album in the country. the album sold 286 @, @ 000 copies in its first week. prism acquired the largest first week sum by a female artist for 2013, surpassing miley cyrus ' bangerz ( 270 @, @ 000 copies ). however, this feat was surpassed by beyonce ' s self @ - @ titled fifth album, beyonce ( 617 @, @ 213 digital copies ), released in december 2013. at the
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banksia scabrella grows as a low shrub to 2 m ( 7 ft ) in height and 3 m ( 10 ft ) across, with a spreading habit. its lateral branches are low and often rest on the ground. the small linear leaves measure 0 @. @ 8 to 2 @. @ 8 cm in length and 0 @. @ 1 cm in width and are crowded along the stems. george recorded flowering as occurring in spring and summer ( september to january ), but the banksia atlas recorded the species in bloom in april. flowers occur in " flower spikes ", or inflorescences, made up of hundreds
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banksia violacea grows as a shrub up to 1 @. @ 5 m ( 5 ft ) tall, with narrow leaves 1 β 2 cm ( 0 @. @ 4 β 0 @. @ 8 in ) long and about 0 @. @ 15 cm ( 0 @. @ 06 in ) wide. new growth occurs in summer, and flowering ranges from november to april with a peak in february, but can be irregular in timing. flowers arise from typical banksia " flower spikes ", and the inflorescences are made up of hundreds of pairs of flowers densely packed in a spiral around a woody axis. roughly spherical
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three distinct construction phases are evident on the exterior of this pyramid. the first version of this pyramid was built in the latter half of the 3rd century ad ; it was built in a forerunner of the talud @ - @ tablero style and had three levels. it stood 7 metres ( 23 ft ) tall with sides that measured 21 metres ( 69 ft ) at the base. it featured vertical unframed tableros that were painted black and a stairway flanked by balustrades. the stairway rose at an angle of 49 Β° and projected 3 @. @ 3 metres ( 11 ft ) from the pyramid base. three more construction
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on march 29 against kansas, burke recorded his fourth career double @ - @ double, with 23 points and 10 assists. he scored all 23 points in the second half and overtime, including a game @ - @ tying deep three @ - @ pointer with 4 @. @ 2 seconds remaining. burke describes the 28 @ - @ foot ( 8 @. @ 5 m ) shot as "... probably the biggest shot i ever made and definitely a shot i ' ll always remember. " he also scored a layup with his team trailing by 5 points with 21 seconds remaining. burke scored eight points in the final 1 : 15
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corpus christi, which was founded as a trading post on the southeastern shore in 1839, is believed to be the first permanent settlement on the bay. it soon grew into a major texas port with a population of 277 @, @ 454 at the time of the 2000 census. in 1852, a settlement was finally established at the confluence of the nueces river and nueces bay by henry kinney, who also founded corpus christi. the community was referred to as the motts by german and english settlers for nearby tree clusters, but was officially known as nuecestown. it was raided by mexican bandits in 1875,
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s. freyi ants are small, measuring 4 millimetres ( 0 @. @ 16 in ). the mandibles are wasp @ - @ like, its 12 @ - @ segmented antennae are far apart from each other and the second funicular segment is longer than all the other segments. this is unusual for ants, but such case occurs in nothomyrmecia macrops. the scapes are very short at 0 @. @ 57 millimetres ( 0 @. @ 022 in ). the compound eyes are very long and convex, situated on the middle side of the head. the clypeus ( one of
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critical reception to the episode was largely positive. television without pity ranked " patient x " the eighth most nightmare @ - @ inducing episode of the show, citing, in particular the abuse of dmitri. the article noted that " if the x @ - @ files has taught us anything, it β s that if a g @ - @ man asks us if we know anything about anything and we foolishly say yes, our mouths and eyelids will be sewn shut and we will be brainwashed to kill on demand. " the a. v. club reviewer todd vanderwerff gave " patient x " a b +, and wrote
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construction began in april 1963 on his brawner building ( 888 17th street nw ), a 12 @ - @ story office building on farragut square which incorporated dark bronze panels and solarized windows much as his 1234 19th street building had. by the late 1960s, it was one of his best @ - @ known designs. in january 1964, koubek designed what was then the d. c. metropolitan region ' s tallest office building, the 19 @ - @ story steel @ - @ and @ - @ black glass clad barlow building ( < unk > wisconsin avenue ). in august, the freed family
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at the end of the 2008 β 09 season, myrie @ - @ williams was released by bristol city. in june 2009, he joined dundee united on a free transfer, signing a two @ - @ year deal with the scottish premier league club. dundee united manager craig levein stated " i am excited about the signing and i am sure he will develop into a real talent. jennison is a player i ' ve known about and admired for some time and up to about two years ago i would have said he was one of the brightest prospects in the country. he is a player who will not only excite the fans
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in april 2013, cielo confirmed his place in the 2013 world aquatics championships, in barcelona, in the 50 @ - @ metre freestyle, with the second best time in the world of the year : 21 @. @ 57 seconds. he also qualified for the 50 @ - @ metre butterfly. due to his operation in both knees, cielo did not compete in the 100 @ - @ metre freestyle and the brazilian relays. in the competition, cielo became two @ - @ time world champion of the 50 @ - @ metre butterfly. the semifinals were the strongest stage of the race, with five swimmers earning times below 23
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prior to the start of the 2011 β 12 season, bostwick scored in stevenage ' s 2 β 1 pre @ - @ season victory at dagenham & redbridge on 30 july 2011. a week later, he started in stevenage ' s first ever league one fixture, a 0 β 0 draw against exeter city. three days after the draw, on 9 august, bostwick scored his first goal of the campaign in a 4 β 3 extra @ - @ time defeat to championship side peterborough united, scoring with a 25 @ - @ yard shot that took the game to extra @ - @ time. in steven
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catholic theology sees conscience as the last practical " judgment of reason which at the appropriate moment enjoins [ a person ] to do good and to avoid evil ". thus, conscience is not like the will, nor a habit like prudence, but " the interior space in which we can listen to and hear the truth, the good, the voice of god. it is the inner place of our relationship with him, who speaks to our heart and helps us to discern, to understand the path we ought to take, and once the decision is made, to move forward, to remain faithful " in terms of logic, conscience
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on the august 22 episode of raw, miz and r @ - @ truth attacked santino marella before his match. they then cut a promo agreeing there was a conspiracy in the wwe keeping both of them out of the main event picture, and declared they would, together, seize any future opportunity. they began referring to themselves as " the awesome truth ". on the august 29 episode of raw, truth interfered in miz ' s match and the duo attacked cm punk. at night of champions, after the referee was distracted while the miz attempted a pin, miz assaulted him, causing awesome truth to lose a wwe
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sports journalists damien cox and stephen brunt wrote about bure during the 1994 stanley cup playoffs that he was a " two @ - @ way dynamo, " accounting for " several bodychecks he handed out on the night " and for his defensive abilities as he stayed on the ice in the final minutes of a one @ - @ goal playoff match against the toronto maple leafs. they spoke highly of his creativity as well, recognizing him as " someone who sees in his game a world of possibilities that just never occur to others, " praising his " sheer elegance and imagination " and characterizing his hockey sense as " ho @ - @
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conflict between the met and the district and the expense of construction delayed the completion of the inner circle. in 1874, frustrated city financiers formed the metropolitan inner circle completion railway company with the aim of finishing the route. the company was supported by the district railway and obtained parliamentary authority on 7 august 1874, but struggled with funding. the time allowed was extended in 1876. a meeting between the district and metropolitan was held in 1877, the met now wishing to access the south eastern railway ( ser ) via the east london railway ( elr ). both companies promoted and obtained an act of parliament in 1879 for the extension and a
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business loop interstate 94 ( bl i @ - @ 94 ) is a state trunkline highway serving as a business loop from i @ - @ 94 through downtown battle creek. the highway begins at exit 92 on i @ - @ 94 near the kalamazoo β calhoun county line. bl i @ - @ 94 runs concurrently along m @ - @ 37 northwesterly from the freeway on the two @ - @ lane columbia avenue on the eastern edge of fort custer. at an intersection south of the w. k. kellogg airport, bl i @ - @ 94 / m @ - @ 37 turns northward on the two @
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at the start of the first @ - @ class season, pathan scored 56 but took a total of only 1 / 91 for the board president ' s xi against the touring australians ahead of the test series, and he was overlooked for test selection as india used only two pacemen. he returned to play for baroda in the ranji trophy. he played in four matches and performed strongly, taking 26 wickets at 16 @. @ 03 and scored 166 runs at 33 @. @ 20. he started the season with 6 / 85 and 1 / 34 in a draw against uttar pradesh, and then took 4 / 42 and 1
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in january 1887 commodore perry owens took office as sheriff of apache county, arizona. he sent two deputies to arrest ike clanton. clanton had instigated the gunfight at the ok corral and was charged with the later ambush shooting of virgil earp. wyatt earp searched for ike clanton in his vendetta, but never found him - ike move north to apache county to continue rustling cattle and killing. owens ' two deputies killed ike clanton ; phin clanton was arrested ; three other gang members were killed ; and the clanton gang was done. then sheriff owens turned his attention to the blev
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guitar hero and other rock music @ - @ based games work with record companies to license each song for its use, costing a per @ - @ song average of $ 25 @, @ 000 for the rights to use a master recording and $ 10 @, @ 000 for the rights to make a cover. the impact of guitar hero and rock band has caused record companies to create dedicated video game liaisons to handle the inclusions of songs in these games. the record and game companies work together to tie in releases of downloadable content with album releases and concert appearances, such as by the simultaneous release of metallica ' s death magnetic album
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on january 5th of 1943, i was on one of what most of us thought was a suicide mission... the japanese were getting ready to mount a large expeditionary force to relieve their garrisons on new guinea, and brigadier general walker, who was the commanding general of the v bomber command there, was flying in the lead ship, and i was flying on his wing. when it was announced that it was going to be done in broad daylight at noontime, as a matter @ - @ of @ - @ fact, at low altitude, something like 5000 feet over the most heavily defended target in the pacific almost...
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opinions about the song have been mixed. allmusic critic thomas ward calls it " one of the great good @ - @ time songs in dylan ' s canon ". ward comments that " dylan sings it as if he is having the time of his life ", adding that " rarely has he sung with such expressiveness ". anthony < unk >, author of the bob dylan albums, similarly praises the song ' s " breadth of feeling " and " unparalleled expressiveness ", noting that " it appears dylan simply improvised the song on the spot, and the passion within him allows the song to flow forth naturally ".
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immediately after the season ended, burke said he was uninterested in declaring for the 2012 nba draft. after the season, burke was recognized as one of the best point guards in the nation by < unk > he was named a second @ - @ team all @ - @ american by the website based on the premise that every team needed a " dribbler ". a few days later, however, the realization that the pool of point guards in the 2012 draft was shallow and burke ' s stock was high led to some deliberation for him and his family : " when you have a season as a freshman like
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the first half of the season produced mixed results as toronto struggled towards the. 500 mark. after the all @ - @ star break, bargnani continued to work on his defence and shooting ( averaging 14 @. @ 3 points per game ( ppg ) and 3 @. @ 9 rebounds per game ( rpg ) in 12 games for the month of february 2007 ), and he was selected as the eastern conference rookie of the month for the second straight time on march 1, 2007. bargnani became the third raptor ever to win the award twice, joining vince carter and damon stoudamire. toronto ended the
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of the primary sources, i. e., those composed by the jesuits themselves during the years 1691 through 1767, those that have been extensively researched ( many as yet have not been thoroughly examined ) are few. the most useful is the monumental historia general de la compania de jesus en la provincia del peru : cronica < unk > de 1600 que < unk > del < unk > y misiones de la compania de jesus en los < unk > de < unk > espanola en la america meridional, vol. ii, edited by francisco mateos
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bure began the 1993 @ - @ 94 season with 7 goals and 13 points in 8 games, but then suffered his first career injury on october 23, 1993, pulling his groin in a match against the san jose sharks. despite the injury, bure was allowed to play the next night against the sharks. he had to be helped off the ice after his first shift because he re @ - @ injured his groin. as a result of the injury, bure ' s production the following two months declined substantially. on october 27, 1993, pat quinn voiced his opinion, stating in regards to bure ' s injury, "
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presidential elections were held in croatia for the first time on 2 august 1992, concurrently with the 1992 parliamentary elections. voter turnout was 74 @. @ 9 percent. the result was a victory for franjo tuΔman of the hdz, who received 57 @. @ 8 percent of the vote in the first round of the election ( ahead of seven other candidates ). drazen budisa, the hsls candidate and runner @ - @ up in the election, received 22 @. @ 3 percent of the vote. the second presidential election in modern croatia was held on 15 june 1997. the incumbent, franjo tuΔ
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