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11Bon Jovi — Infobox musical artist | Name = Bon Jovi Img capt = Bon Jovi in Montreal, November 2007 Img size = 250 Landscape = Yes Background = group or band Origin = Sayreville, New Jersey, United States Years active = 1983 ndash;present Label = Island,… …
12Jon Bon Jovi — Infobox musical artist | Name = Jon Bon Jovi Img size = 250 Img capt = Jon Bon Jovi in Montreal, November 2007 Landscape = yes Background = solo singer Birth name = John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. Alias = Born = birth date and age|mf=yes|1962|3|2… …
13The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief — Studio album by Monty Python Released …
14Fijian mercenaries in Bougainville — Relationships between Fiji and Papua New Guinea became strained in November 2005 in the wake of revelations that 9 Fijian mercenaries had entered Papua New Guinea illegally and were arming and training a private militia on the island of… …
15ECONOMIC AFFAIRS — THE PRE MANDATE (LATE OTTOMAN) PERIOD Geography and Borders In September 1923 a new political entity was formally recognized by the international community. Palestine, or Ereẓ Israel as Jews have continued to refer to it for 2,000 years,… …
16japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …
17Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …
18RUSSIA — RUSSIA, former empire in Eastern Europe; from 1918 the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (R.S.F.S.R.), from 1923 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.); from 1990 the Russian Federation. Until 1772 ORIGINS The penetration… …
19HISTORY — For Prehistory see archaeology ; for Biblical and Second Temple periods, see history . Destruction of the Second Temple until the Arab Conquest (70–640 C.E.) THE EFFECTS OF THE WAR OF 66–70 C.E. The Jewish war against the Romans, which lasted… …
20French Campaign in Egypt and Syria — This article is about the land campaign. For the naval campaign and wider strategic setting, see Mediterranean campaign of 1798. Egyptian Campaign Part of the French Revolutionary Wars …