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  • 21Olmec alternative origin speculations — San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan Colossal Head 6, a 3 meter high Olmec sculpture with lips and nose said to resemble African facial features. Olmec alternative origin speculations are explanations that have been suggested for the formation of Olmec… …

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  • 22Pre-history and origin of Stockholm — The pre history of Stockholm is the continuous development and series of events that made the mouth of Lake Mälaren strategically important; a location which by the mid 13th century had become the centre of the newly consolidated Swedish kingdom …

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  • 23List of geographic names of Iranian origin — This is a list of geographic names of Iranian origin. This list also includes geographic names which are in part derived from Iranic languages.Africaomalia;Bandar Beyla:;Bandar Qaasim:Caucasus;Arran;Kura River: The name Kura is taken from the… …

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  • 24Team Origin — Americascup shortname = TEAMORIGIN Fullname = TEAMORIGIN club = Royal Thames Yacht Club nat = UK owner = flagicon|UK Sir Keith Mills skip = flagicon|UK Ben Ainslie year = 2007 wins = None boats = GBR 75Team Origin is Great Britain s bid to… …

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  • 25Swastika origin theories — The earliest archaeological evidence of a swastika motif dates from the Upper Paleolithic period (ca. 10,000 BC). It appears on birds carved from mammoth tusk and the motif is etched at the spot where the bird s feet should be. This carving is… …

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  • 26Trocadero (name origin) — Trocadero is the name of several restaurants and clubs throughout the world. The name dates to the Battle of Trocadero in southern Spain, in which a citadel held by liberal Spanish forces that was taken by the French troops sent by Charles X, in… …

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  • 27St Kilda, Scotland — Infobox Scottish island latitude=57.8 longitude= 8.6 GridReference=NF095995 celtic name=Hiort norse name=Possibly Skildir meaning of name= Unknown, possibly Gaelic for westland area= 854.6 ha area rank= highest elevation= Conachair 430 m… …

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  • 28COLOPHON — COLOPHON, inscription at the end of a manuscript, of a book or part of a book written by the copyist, in which he records details of his work. Colophons were not added to every manuscript, and many of them have been lost because usually the last… …

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  • 29Hippocratic Corpus — Vaticanus graecus 277, 10v 11r: Table of contents in a fourteenth century Hippocratic Corpus manuscript. Marcus Fabius Calvus owned this manuscript, transcribed it in his own hand, and used it in the preparation of his 1525 Latin translation. The …

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  • 30History of Laos to 1945 — Note: this article follows the system for transliterating Lao names used in Martin Stuart Fox s History of Laos . It may differ from systems used in other articles. The Lao state dates only from 1945. The idea of a separate Lao nationality was… …

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