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  • 21USS Trepang (SSN-674) — USS Trepang (SSN 674), a Sturgeon class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the trepang, a marine animal having a long, tough, muscular body, sometimes called a sea slug or a sea cucumber , found on the coral… …

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  • 22Dream Theater — at High Voltage 2011 Dream Theater with new drummer Mike Mangini performing at the 2011 High Voltage Festival in Victoria Park, London. Background information …

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  • 23USS Tattnall (DDG-19) — during transit of the Suez Canal in August, 1990 the first U.S. Navy vessel to transit the canal after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Career (US) …

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  • 24Warrant Officer (United States) — In the United States military, a Warrant Officer (grade W 1 to W 5) is ranked as an officer above the senior most enlisted ranks, as well as officer cadets and candidates, but below the officer grade of O 1 ( NATO: OF 1 ). Warrant officers are… …

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  • 25Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …

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  • 26Western sculpture — ▪ art Introduction       three dimensional artistic forms produced in what is now Europe and later in non European areas dominated by European culture (such as North America) from the Metal Ages (Europe, history of) to the present.       Like… …

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  • 27Warrant officer (United States) — For other uses of warrant officer, see warrant officer. In the United States military, the rank of warrant officer (grade W 1 to W 5) is rated as an officer above the senior most enlisted ranks, as well as officer cadets and candidates, but below …

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  • 28USS America (CV-66) — The third USS America (CV 66), formerly CVA 66, was a Kitty Hawk class supercarrier of the United States Navy that served from 1965 to 1996.Construction and shakedownOriginally ordered as an Enterprise class nuclear carrier, the ballooning costs… …

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  • 29Street unicycling — The aim of the sport is to use natural/urban/specially made obstacles such as curbs, ledges, handrails and stairs in a given area to perform tricks that look good. The emphasis falls into two categories: technical proficiency and style. Technical …

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  • 30Menuhin, Yehudi, Lord Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon — born April 22, 1916, New York, N.Y., U.S. died March 12, 1999, Berlin, Ger. U.S. born British violinist and conductor. Raised in San Francisco, he made his debut at age seven. In 1927 he studied with George Enescu (1881–1955) in Paris; he… …

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