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  • 111adjacent — [15] Adjacent and adjective come from the same source, the Latin verb jacere ‘throw’. The intransitive form of this, jacēre, literally ‘be thrown down’, was used for ‘lie’. With the addition of the prefix ad , here in the sense ‘near to’, was… …

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  • 112Tropical cyclone — Hurricane redirects here. For other uses, see Hurricane (disambiguation). Hurricane Isabel (2003) as seen from orbit during Expedition 7 of the International Space Station. The eye, eyewall and surrounding rainbands that are characteristics of… …

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  • 113Gaborone —   City   From top to bottom: skyline view of Gaborone, statue of Seretse Khama, the city centre of Gaborone, bird s eye view of Gaborone …

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  • 114Livermore, California — For the California wine region, see Livermore Valley AVA. City of Livermore   City   …

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  • 115Kota Gelanggi — is a potential archaeological site believed to be the first capital of the ancient Malay Empire of Srivijaya ca. 650 900 and one of the oldest pre Islamic Malay Kingdoms on the Malay Peninsula.Its existence was announced dramatically as a… …

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  • 116North Carolina Highway 54 — NC 54 Route information Maintained by NCDOT Length: 58 mi (93 km) Existed …

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  • 117Flaming Mountains — The Flaming Mountains (Chinese: 火焰山; pinyin: huǒyànshān) are barren, eroded, red sandstone hills in the Tian Shan Mountain range in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. They lie near the northern rim of the Taklamakan Desert and east of the… …

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  • 118Banī Suwayf — ▪ Egypt also spelled  Beni Suef         city, capital of Banī Suwayf muḥāfaẓah (governorate), northern Upper Egypt. It is an important agricultural trade centre on the west bank of the Nile River, 70 miles (110 km) south of Cairo.       In the… …

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  • 119Stellar kinematics — is the study of the movement of stars without needing to understand how they acquired their motion. This differs from stellar dynamics, which takes into account gravitational effects. The motion of a star relative to the Sun can provide useful… …

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  • 120Ngaro people — The Ngaro People were a seafaring Australian Aborigine group of people that inhabited the Whitsunday Islands and coastal regions of Queensland from at least 7000 BC until 1870.[1][2] Ngaro society was destroyed by warfare with traders, colonists …

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