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 Lists of people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of people with entries in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
List of eponyms or names derived from people
Lists of people by belief, religious belief or philosophy
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 List of trivia lists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although these lists may be considered "trivial" by several people, trivial does not always mean poorly constructed lists.
List of names in English with non-intuitive pronunciations
List of cities claiming to be built on seven hills
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 Talk:Condom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While some people flush them down the toilet, this practice is generally discouraged as the condoms may block up the pipe.
Most rational people don't consider condoms to be "anti-life".
I wouldn't get too worked up by people displaying their biases on the talk page if I were you; it's hard enough getting everyone to refrain from it on the article itself.
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 Chinese Inventions and Remedies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After being rinsed in river water, it is again steamed and boiled for another ten days before being ground into pieces and put into a pool of pure water.
After creating many medicines (such as herbal medicines like an Euryale seed which treated urination problems and animal organs, like the pig's liver, that helped someone's eyesight) which were discovered during the rush to make an elixir of life, Tsou Yen, a pharmacologist, formed a theory on how he thought diseases were caused.
The people thought this because a famous doctor named Bian Que had brought a prince "back to life" in the year 201 B.C. This happened when he went to the state called Guo, and he saw a funeral of a prince going on in the state.
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 Inventions List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Famous Inventions - A - History of Inventions - A list of articles related to the invention and the history of alternative, earth-friendly energy sources.
List of inventions named after people: Information From Answers.com - List of inventions named after people This is a list of inventions followed by name of the inventor (or whom it is named after)
Edison, His Life and Inventions - LIST OF UNITED STATES PATENTS - List of United States patents granted to Thomas A. Edison, arranged according to dates of execution of applications for such patents.
www.new-inventions.info /inventions-list.html   (482 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of inventors
For a List of scientists, see: List of anthropologists List of astronomers List of biologists List of chemists List of computer scientists List of economists List of engineers List of geologists List of inventors List of mathematicians List of meteorologists List of physicists List of psychologists List of geneticists and biochemists...
This is a list of inventions followed by name of the inventor (or whom it is named after).
Freon is a trade name for a group of chlorofluorocarbons used primarily as a refrigerant.
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 WQED Pittsburgh: Pittsburghers of the Century: December 1999
On the list are the Drue Heinz Lectures, the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, the Drue Heinz Study Center for Drawings and Prints at the National Design Museum and the Heinz Gallery in London.
She starred in the movie of the same name and Cabin in the Sky, both in the '40s, both of which made her extremely well-known.
Before coming to the Penguins, he was perhaps the most influential name in amateur hockey, coaching U.S. Olympians and generally serving as a coach/ambassador for a number of college hockey teams.
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 News & Opinion: Cap'n O's Top 10 (Weekly Alibi . 01-10-00)
Before this amazing invention came along alcoholics and heavy beer drinkers had a horrible time of it when they were out on a boat, in the woods, in the basement or in a dark closet without their pointy, steel can openers.
This invention changed that, and now beer-drinking boozers will never again be in a panic about being unable to press their quivering lips to frosty cans of carbonated, fermented malt beverage -- except when they run out of beer.
And then people complain, and the stuff has to be scraped up and new stuff laid down, and now road builders have lifetime jobs and they make millions laying down asphalt on the same stretch of road every couple of years.
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 RFA-AI-05-001: Leadership for HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks
The CPCRA involves people living with HIV/AIDS and their primary care providers in all aspects of clinical trial design and implementation, and is a leader in long-term strategy trials that evaluate combination antiretroviral therapies, structured treatment interruption and other approaches easily exportable to primary care clinical settings.
Current estimates are that 38 million people were living with HIV infection at the end of 2003 and that the epidemic continues to expand in almost all regions of the world, with approximately 4.8 million new infections in 2003 (UNAIDS 2004 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic).
List of all participating institutions and key investigators/personnel at each of the included components, noting component with which they are affiliated.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Samuel F. B. Morse
He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child of geographer and pastor Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann Breese Morse.
After attending Phillips Academy as a child, he attended college at 14.
Lists: List of inventors, List of people on stamps of the United States, List of painters, Timeline of communication technology, List of famous cemeteries, Timeline of invention, Transatlantic telegraph cable, List of inventions named after people, List of inventors, List of Unitarian Universalists
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 List Of Inventions By Black People - FullPatents.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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The list of inventions created by fls is.....innovations and inventions created by fl people all across the world.
A partial list of inventions by Black people, the inventor's.....and region, and another by topography.
www.fullpatents.com /patent/listofinventionsbyblackpeople.html   (380 words)

  
 Lists of people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
* List of political entities named after people
* List of scientific constants named after people
List of eponymous laws - List of people with laws and adages named after them
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 Belmont Club: January 2004
A few outsiders, some of whom were civilians, attempted to argue, especially after the embassy bombings and the attack on the USS Cole, that something had to be done, only to be faced down by professionals who shoved their campaign ribbons in their faces.
Soon after arriving at Camp Manhattan, Nagl's battalion was the target of mortar attacks by an insurgent who was nicknamed ''the mad mortarman.'' The soldiers were unable to catch him in the act, but counterbattery radars pinpointed the field he was operating from, and Nagl's troops fired artillery and mortars at it one night.
With the development of the internet it becomes possible for arbitrarily large groups of people who are geographically distributed to spontaneously form hive-minds and to communicate with one another at speeds and latencies approaching those which previously only had been possible in direct teamwork.
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 Invention Inventor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Inventors and Inventions for K-12 Education - Biographies of some famous inventors for students.
Benjamin Franklin and His Inventions - It was the scientist in Ben that brought out the inventor.
Here are a few of the major inventions and their inventors from the...
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 Hammorabi: 11/01/2003 - 11/30/2003
After the 1990 uprising against Saddam, he diverted the water from the marshes by producing many major canals and dams, dedicating huge resources to this destruction and despite the overwhelmed economy at the time.
After the fall of Saddam regime the Jordanian media and its government resurrected and escalated the issue.
After decades of hardship and suffering Iraqis everywhere must now unite to build a new free and democratic Iraq which contribute to the welfare of its own people and humanity at large...as it formerly did in its history.
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 Conversational Reading
After all, many of the greatest works of literature are thinly disguised memoirs.
It's kind of ironic; people are thirsty for memoirs because they're supposedly more useful to you than literature is, but they're actually reading literature that's pretending to be a memoir.
After all, owing to what he saw as a lack of accessibility, Vollmann himself thought he had virtually no chance to win the award.
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 Stuff You Can Get Named After Yourself
The most memorable name (in my opinion) is given first, and to the side is a sampling of some other names with which you might be familiar.
Kuiper and Oort may have done well in attaching their names to their respective belt and cloud, but if I credited them I'd be obliged to include every monkey who ever discovered so much as a chunk of granite lying on the ground.
Likewise for physical inventions: the Foucault pendulum is very cool, but it is not abstract enough to differentiate it from the millions of inventions at the Patent Office.
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 Lists of people - Internet-Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Find lists of people and more at Lycos Search.
Read about lists of people in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
Find lists of people at one of the best sites the Internet has to offer!
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 FMC | Policy Conference 2001
He was named to the list of the 100 most important people in the music business in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998, when the list was discontinued.
Named after a bowl of Vietnamese soup, Pho is an organization that meets weekly in numerous cities around the world and is electronically linked by a mailing list.
In March of 1998, the National Law Journal named her as one of the fifty most outstanding women lawyers in the U.S. She is also a member of the American Law Institute and of the Board of Directors for the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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 List of trivia lists - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
List of trivia lists - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about List of trivia lists contains research on
List of trivia lists, Material, General Intellectual, Mathematics, Trivia for mathematicians, Linguistic, English language trivia, Etymological, Social, Protagonists, Trivia relating to people, Geographic / Political, Arts/Recreation, Trivia relating to popular music, Movies, Trivia for television, Humor, Other and Culture lists.
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 Inventions - Online Tips Inventions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
People are coming up with new and innovative ideas every day that are being turned into inventions.
NASA Inventions and Contributions Board (Code D) Office of the NASA Chief En...
Main Menu for Special Inventions This is the Main Menu for Special Inventions, a Web site celebrating inventions and young inventors of the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia.
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 Inventors and Inventions
These are only a few questions inventors are asked about their inventions.
After finding all of the answers, move on to the Big Question to bring your ideas together.
The Frisbee is one of America's favorite pastimes and was named after William Frisbie.
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 inventions - OneLook Dictionary Search
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "inventions" is defined.
inventions : Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
Phrases that include inventions: list of inventions, list of inventions named after people, timeline of inventions
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 List of inventors - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
List of inventors - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Ghulam Sediq Wardak — Afghan with 341 unpatented inventions
List of inventors, Alphabetical list, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Lists of people by occupation, Inventors and History of science.
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 Peter the Great of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1715, at the funeral of a favourite court dwarf, lines of ecclesiastics were followed by 24 pairs of male and female dwarves arranged by height, followed by Peter and his ministers.
Already fascinating by mechanical inventions, he studied government and business models of the West.
In 1697, he accompanied an embassy to European courts as a carpenter named Peter Mikhailov.
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