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  • 21Don't Make a Wave Committee — The Don t Make a Wave Committee was the name of the anti nuclear organization which later evolved into Greenpeace, a global environmental organization. The Don t Make a Wave Committee was founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to protest… …

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  • 22Operation Tidal Wave — Part of Oil Campaign of World War II A B 24 Liberator called Sandman during a bomb run over th …

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  • 23First European colonization wave (15th century–19th century) — The first European colonization wave took place from the early 15th century until the early 19th century, and primarily involved the European colonization of the Americas, though it also included the creation of European colonies in India and… …

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  • 24Mundaka wave — Mundaka s port …

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  • 25Sierra Wave — The Sierra Wave is a type of lenticular cloud created by winds that lift off the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range [cite website|title=The Sierra Wave|url=http://www.yosemite.org/naturenotes/sierrawave.htm|work=Nature Notes|publisher=Yosemite… …

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  • 26Disasters — ▪ 2009 Introduction Aviation       January 23, Poland. A Spanish built CASA transport plane carrying members of the Polish air force home from a conference on flight safety in Warsaw crashes near the town of Miroslawiec; all 20 aboard are killed …

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  • 27France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …

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  • 28performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …

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  • 29United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 30motion picture, history of the — Introduction       history of the medium from the 19th century to the present. Early years, 1830–1910 Origins       The illusion of motion pictures is based on the optical phenomena known as persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon. The first …

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