List: Cleanup from August 2007

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•  Aegadian Islands

  The Aegadian Islands, are a group of small mountainous islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Sicily, Italy, near the city of Trapani, with a total area of 14.46 square miles (37.45 km). Favignana (Aegusa), the largest, lies 10 miles (16 km) south west of Trapani; Levanzo (Phorbantia) 8 miles (13 km) west; while Marettimo, the ancient Iera Nesos, 15 miles (24 km) west of Trapani, is now reckoned as a part of the group.

  

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•  History of the Central African Republic

  The history of the Central African Republic.

  

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•  Electronic Data Interchange

  Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) refers to the structured transmission of data between organizations by electronic means. It is used to transfer electronic documents from one computer system to another, i.e. from one trading partner to another trading partner. It is more than mere E-mail; for instance, organizations might replace bills of lading and even Cheques with appropriate EDI messages. It also refers specifically to a family of standards, including the X12 series.

  

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•  Foreign relations of France

  France File:Armoiries république française.

  

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•  Fugue state

  A fugue state, formally Dissociative Fugue (previously called Psychogenic Fugue), is a rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality. The state is usually short-lived (hours to days), but can last months or longer. Dissociative fugue usually involves unplanned travel or wandering, and is sometimes accompanied by the establishment of a new identity.

  

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•  Outcome-based education

  Outcome-based education (OBE) is a recurring education reform model. It is a student-centered learning philosophy that focuses on empirically measuring student performance, which are called outcomes. OBE contrasts with traditional education, which primarily focuses on the resources that are available to the student, which are called inputs.

  

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•  Victoria University, Australia

  Victoria University (VU) is a multi-sector tertiary institution (higher education and TAFE) based in Melbourne, Australia with 10 campuses. VU offers qualifications in higher education, vocational education (TAFE), as well as short courses. VU also offers learning pathways enabling students to move from a certificate course through to an advanced diploma, degree, or postgraduate qualification by coursework or research.

  

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•  White Dwarf (magazine)

  White Dwarf is a magazine published by British games manufacturer Games Workshop. Initially covering a wide variety of fantasy and science-fiction role-playing and board games, the magazine is now dedicated exclusively to the miniature wargames produced by Games Workshop, mainly the core systems of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.

  

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•  Wing Chun

  Wing Chun, also romanized as Ving Tsun or "Wing Tsun" (and sometimes substituted with the characters for "") is a concept-based Chinese martial art that specializes in close-range combat. The characters (永春) "forever spring" are also associated with some other southern Chinese martial arts, including Jee Shim Weng Chun (Yong Chun) and White Crane Weng Chun (Yong Chun).

  

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•  Service Corporation International

  Service Corporation International is North America’s largest provider of end-of-life arrangements and services. Based in Houston, Texas, United States, SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries in 43 states, eight Canadian provinces, and Puerto Rico.

  

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•  Business

  A business (also called a company, enterprise or firm) is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit that will increase the wealth of its owners and grow the business itself. The owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives the receipt or generation of a financial return in exchange for work and acceptance of risk.

  

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•  Industrial sociology

  Ramo da Sociologia que interessa-se sobre os fenômenos sociológicos relacionados com o trabalho. A Sociologia Industrial surgiu devido à necessidade de estudar-se as mudanças estruturais que ocorreram, não apenas, nas organizações de trabalho como também na sociedade; Vem a surgir após a Revolução Industrial - que teve a Inglaterra como sua progenitora, muito embora tal estudo da sociologia tenha vindo a surgir nos Estados Unidos.

  

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•  Eadwig of England

  Eadwig, more rarely Edwy (941? – 1 October 959), sometimes nicknamed All-Fair or the Fair, was King of England from 955 until his death four years later. The eldest son of King Edmund and Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, Eadwig was chosen by the nobility to succeed his uncle Eadred as King. His short reign was marked by ongoing conflicts with his family, thegns, and especially the Church, under the leadership of Saint Dunstan and Archbishop Odo.

  

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•  County seat

  A county seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there. Parts of the Canadian Maritimes also use the term shire town. In England, Wales and Ireland, the term county town is used.

  

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•  Sitges

  Sitges, Catalonia, Spain is a small city about 35 kilometres southwest of Barcelona renowned worldwide for its Film Festival and Carnival. Between the hills and the sea, it is known for its much-frequented beaches, nightspots, and historical sites.

  

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•  Calcium deficiency (plant disorder)

  Calcium (Ca) deficiency is a plant disorder that can be caused by insufficient calcium in the growing medium, but is more frequently a product of low transpiration of the whole plant or more commonly the affected tissue. Plants are susceptible to such localised calcium defieciences in low or non transpiring tissues because calcium is not transported in the phloem.

  

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•  History of ice hockey in Slovakia

  In 1929 the first official tournament took place in Slovakia. The Tatra Cup is the second oldest tournament in Europe, after the Spengler Cup in Switzerland. The first organization of Slovak ice hockey was established under the name of Slovenská župa kanadského ľadového hokeja as a part of the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation in what was then Czechoslovakia. The first organized competition was held in 1930.

  

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•  YWCA USA

  The YWCA USA (Young Women's Christian Association USA) is the United States branch of a women's membership movement that strives to create opportunities for women's growth, leadership and power in order to attain a common vision—to eliminate racism and empower women. The YWCA is a non-profit organization, the first of which was founded in the UK in 1855. The umbrella organization for the national associations is the World YWCA, based in Geneva, Switzerland.

  

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•  List of German expressions in English

  This is a list of German expressions used in English; some relatively common, most comparatively rare. In many cases, the German borrowing in English has assumed a meaning substantially different from its German forebear. English and German both descended from the West Germanic languages, though their relationship has been obscured by the great influx of Norman French words to English as a consequence of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and the High German consonant shift.

  

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•  Ringtone

  A ringtone or ring tone is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call or text message. Not literally a tone, the term is most often used today to refer to customizable sounds used on mobile phones.

  

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•  Maurice Blanchot

  Maurice Blanchot (September 22, 1907, Devrouze, Saône-et-Loire – February 20, 2003) was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. His work had a strong influence on later post-structuralist theorists such as Jacques Derrida.

  

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•  Wikibooks

  Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a Wiki hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content that anyone can edit.

  

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•  Life and Energy

  Life and Energy is one of Isaac Asimov's most famous and popular scientific books. Life and Energy is about the biological and physical world, and their contrasts and comparisons. The first chapters deal with the common questions of the distinctions between living and inanimate objects. Asimov then explains in a step by step manner about the physical world first through slow, but interesting chapters.

  

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•  Bhuj

  Bhuj (ભુજ) is a city and a municipality in Kachchh district in the state of Gujarat, India. It was established by Rao Hamirji in 1510 and was made the state capital by Rao Khengarji I in 1549. Its foundation stone as state capital laid formally on Vikram Samvat 1604 Maagha 5th (Approx. 25th January 1548). Its Presently, it is the district headquarter of the Kachchh district, the second largest district in India. Bhuj is home to one of the first Swaminarayan Sampraday temples, built in 1822.

  

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•  Anishinaabe

  Anishinaabe or Anishinabe—or more properly Anishinaabeg or Anishinabek, which is the plural form of the word—is the autonym often used by the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Algonkin peoples. They all speak closely related Anishinaabemowin/Anishinaabe languages, of the Algonquian-language family. The meaning of Anishnaabeg is "First-" or "Original-Peoples".

  

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