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Margarida de Castro e Souza, a 15th century Portuguese noblewoman, was an ancestor of Queen Charlotte, 1744 1818, consort of King George III of the United Kingdom, through her mother Princess Elizabeth Albertine of Saxe Hildburghausen. Margarida…

Athens beat Rome, Cape Town, Stockholm and Buenos Aires to be the host city of the 2004 Paralympic Games. It was the first major competition held under a World Anti-Doping Authority (WADA) compliant, IPC Anti-Doping Code.

I (4ος αι. π.Χ.). Ρήτορας από την Αμφίπολη. Αντίπαλος του Ισοκράτη, έγραψε και ιστορικά βιβλία, κυρίως όμως οφείλει τη φήμη του στις επικρίσεις του εναντίον του Ομήρου (εννέα λόγοι Κατά της Ομήρου ποιήσεως), εξαιτίας των οποίων του απέδωσαν με…

hemi·dys·er·gia (hem″e dis urґje ə) dysergia affecting one side of the body

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Science fiction and fantasy serve as important vehicles for feminist thought, particularly as bridges between theory and practice. No other genres so actively invite representations of the ultimate...

(UK)    The Square Mile is the City, the financial area of London.   (Dorking School Dictionary)

Paintball is a very fun recreational sport that many novices and pro players can enjoy. It can consist of short, contained, and professional games called "Speedball" or be played on your own time and rules in an urban or wooded area. Start...

   Also known as sound photism, sound seeing, and chromatic phonemic synaesthesia. The term phonopsia comes from the Greek words phonème (voice, sound) and opsis (seeing). It is used in * synaesthesia research to denote a hallucinated sound…

Female adult bio name = Lucie Theodorová photo = caption = At the 11th Venus Berlin, October 19, 2007 birth = birth date and age|1982|12|18 location = Studénka, Czechoslovakia birthname = spouse = death = measurements = 86B 61 86 (34B 24 34)…