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Collie

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The collie is a distinctive type of herding dog, including many related landraces and standardised breeds. [1]

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Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune (December 21, 1872 – February 18, 1942) was an American author, dog breeder, and journalist.

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American frontier

The American frontier comprises the geography, history, folklore, and cultural expression of life in the forward wave of American expansion that began with English colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last mainland territories as states in 1912.

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Antibiotic

An antibiotic (from ancient Greek αντιβιοτικά, antibiotiká), also called an antibacterial, is a type of antimicrobial drug used in the treatment and prevention of bacterial infections.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Cattle Dog

The Australian Cattle Dog (ACD), or simply Cattle Dog, is a breed of herding dog originally developed in Australia for droving cattle over long distances across rough terrain.

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Australian Kelpie

The Australian Kelpie, or simply Kelpie, is an Australian sheep dog successful at mustering and droving with little or no guidance.

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Australian Shepherd

The Australian Shepherd, often known simply as the "Aussie", is a medium-sized breed of dog that was, despite its name, developed on ranches in the Western United States during the 19th century.

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Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog

The Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog is a naturally bobtailed or tailless, medium-sized breed of Cattle Dog (not to be confused with the Australian Cattle Dog, aka "Queensland Heeler").

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Babe (film)

Babe is a 1995 Australian-American comedy-drama film directed by Chris Noonan, produced by George Miller, and written by both.

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Bearded Collie

The Bearded Collie, or Beardie, is a herding breed of dog once used primarily by Scottish shepherds, but now mostly a popular family companion.

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Bessy (comics)

Bessy was a long-running Belgian comics series created by Willy Vandersteen and Karel Verschuere in 1952.

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Blue Lacy

The Lacy Dog or Blue Lacy Dog is a breed of working dog that originated in Texas in the mid-19th century.

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Bobbie the Wonder Dog

Bobbie the Wonder Dog (1921–1927) was a dog who covered on his own to return home to Silverton, Oregon after he was lost while his owners were visiting family in Wolcott, Indiana.

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Border Collie

The Border Collie is a working and herding dog breed developed in the Anglo-Scottish border region for herding livestock, especially sheep.

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Breed standard

A breed standard (also called bench standard or standard of points) in animal fancy and animal husbandry is a set of guidelines which is used to ensure that the animals produced by a breeder or breeding facility conform to the specifics of the standardized breed.

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Cattle

Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

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Coat (dog)

The coat of the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) refers to the hair that covers its body.

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Conformation show

A conformation show, also referred to as a breed show, is a kind of dog show in which a judge familiar with a specific dog breed evaluates individual purebred dogs for how well the dogs conform to the established breed type for their breed, as described in a breed's individual breed standard.

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Cortisol

Cortisol is a steroid hormone, in the glucocorticoid class of hormones.

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Cumberland Sheepdog

The Cumberland sheepdog is an extinct dog breed related to the border collie and other old working collie types.

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Cyclic neutropenia

Cyclic neutropenia (or cyclical neutropenia) is a form of neutropenia that tends to occur every three weeks and lasting three to six days at a time due to changing rates of cell production by the bone marrow.

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Dingo

The dingo (Canis familiaris or Canis familiaris dingo or Canis lupus dingo or Canis dingo) is a type of feral dog native to Australia.

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Disc dog

Disc dog (commonly called Frisbee dog) is a dog sport.

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Dog agility

Dog agility is a dog sport in which a handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy.

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Dog breed

Dog breeds are dogs that have relatively uniform physical characteristics developed under controlled conditions by humans, with breeding animals selected for phenotypic traits such as size, coat color, structure, and behavior.

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Dog type

Dog types are broad categories of dogs based on form, function or style of work, lineage, or appearance.

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English Shepherd

The English Shepherd is an extremely versatile breed of working dog of the collie lineage, developed in the United States from farm dogs brought by English and Scottish settlers in the 17th through 19th centuries before pedigrees became fashionable around the end of the 19th century.

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Enid Blyton

Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies.

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Eric Knight

Eric Mowbray Knight (April 10, 1897 – January 15, 1943) was an English novelist and screenwriter, who is mainly known for his 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home, which introduced the fictional collie Lassie.

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Farm collie

Farm collie or farmcollie is an informal term for a class of herding dog, of the broader collie type.

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FIFA World Cup Trophy

The World Cup is a gold trophy that is awarded to the winners of the FIFA World Cup association football tournament.

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Flyball

Flyball is a dog sport in which teams of dogs race against each other from a start/finish line, over a line of hurdles, to a box that releases a tennis ball to be caught when the dog presses the spring-loaded pad, then back to their handlers while carrying the ball.

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Footrot Flats

Footrot Flats is a comic strip by New Zealand cartoonist Murray Ball.

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Gene

In biology, a gene is a sequence of DNA or RNA that codes for a molecule that has a function.

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German Shepherd

The German Shepherd (Deutscher Schäferhund) is a breed of medium to large-sized working dog that originated in Germany.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Greyhound

The Greyhound is a breed of dog; a sighthound which has been bred for coursing game and Greyhound racing.

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Herding

Herding is the act of bringing individual animals together into a group (herd), maintaining the group, and moving the group from place to place—or any combination of those.

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Herding dog

A herding dog, also known as a stock dog or working dog, is a type of pastoral dog that either has been trained in herding or belongs to breeds developed for herding.

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Humble Pie

Humble Pie were an English rock band formed by Peter Frampton in Essex during 1969.

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Huntaway

The Huntaway (also known as a New Zealand Huntaway) is a large, strongly built breed of dog used for general sheep herding tasks in New Zealand, where they originate.

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Icelandic Sheepdog

The Icelandic Sheepdog is a breed of dog of spitz type originating from the dogs brought to Iceland by the Vikings.

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Ivermectin

Ivermectin is a medication that is effective against many types of parasites.

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Kennel club

A kennel club (known as a kennel council or canine council in some countries) is an organization for canine affairs that concerns itself with the breeding, showing and promotion of more than one breed of dog.

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Koolie

The Koolie (also known as the Australian Koolie or by the misnomer German Coolie) is an Australian dog breed.

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Lad, A Dog

Lad: A Dog is a 1919 American novel written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by E. P. Dutton.

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Landrace

A landrace is a domesticated, locally adapted, traditional variety of a species of animal or plant that has developed over time, through adaptation to its natural and cultural environment of agriculture and pastoralism, and due to isolation from other populations of the species.

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Lassie

Lassie is a fictional character created by Eric Knight; she is a female Rough Collie dog, and is featured in a short story that was later expanded to a full-length novel called Lassie Come-Home.

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Lassie (1954 TV series)

Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie dog named Lassie and her companions, both human and animal.

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Lassie Come-Home

Lassie Come-Home is a novel written by Eric Knight about a rough collie’s trek over many miles to be reunited with the boy she loves.

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List of dog sports

Dog sports are sports in which dogs participate.

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Livestock

Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Lurcher

The lurcher is the offspring of a sighthound mated with another breed, most commonly a pastoral breed or a terrier type of dog.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.

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McNab dog

The McNab Dog - commonly called McNab Shepherd or McNab Collie - is a herding dog that originated in the Mendocino region of Northern California.

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Meddle

Meddle is the sixth studio album by English progressive rock group Pink Floyd, released on 31 October 1971 by Harvest Records.

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Merle (dog coat)

Merle is a pattern in a dog's coat.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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New Zealand Heading Dog

The New Zealand Heading Dog is a working and herding dog that uses its visual prowess and quick movement to control sheep.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Northern England

Northern England, also known simply as the North, is the northern part of England, considered as a single cultural area.

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Old English Sheepdog

The Old English Sheepdog (OES) is a large breed of dog which was developed in England from early herding types of dog.

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Opioid

Opioids are substances that act on opioid receptors to produce morphine-like effects.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.

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P-glycoprotein

P-glycoprotein 1 (permeability glycoprotein, abbreviated as P-gp or Pgp) also known as multidrug resistance protein 1 (MDR1) or ATP-binding cassette sub-family B member 1 (ABCB1) or cluster of differentiation 243 (CD243) is an important protein of the cell membrane that pumps many foreign substances out of cells.

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Pal (dog)

Pal (June 4, 1940 – June 1958) was a male Rough Collie performer and the first in a line of such dogs to portray the fictional female collie Lassie in film and television.

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Pet

A pet or companion animal is an animal kept primarily for a person's company, protection, or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or laboratory animal.

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Pickles (dog)

Pickles (born 1962 or 1963; died 1967) was a black and white collie dog, known for his role in finding the stolen Jules Rimet Trophy in March 1966, four months before the 1966 FIFA World Cup was scheduled to kick off in England.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Poaching

Poaching has been defined as the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.

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Reveille (dog)

Reveille is the official mascot of Texas A&M University.

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Road Rovers

Road Rovers is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation that premiered on Kids' WB for the 1996 Fall Season on September 7, 1996.

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Rough Collie

The Rough Collie (also known as the Long-Haired Collie) is a long-coated breed of medium to large size dog that in its original form was a type of collie used and bred for herding in Scotland.

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Scotch Collie

The Scotch Collie is a landrace breed of dog which originated from the highland regions of Scotland.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Scots language

Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots).

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Scottish Blackface

The Scottish Blackface is the most common breed of domestic sheep in the United Kingdom.

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Seamus (song)

"Seamus" is the fifth song on Pink Floyd's 1971 album Meddle.

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Sheep

Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Sheepdog trial

A sheepdog trial (also herding event, stock dog trial or simply dog trial) is a competitive dog sport in which herding dogs move sheep around a field, fences, gates, or enclosures as directed by their handlers.

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Shep (British dog)

Shep (1 May 1971 – 17 January 1987) was a famous Blue Peter dog, a border collie.

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Shetland

Shetland (Old Norse: Hjaltland), also called the Shetland Islands, is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies northeast of Great Britain.

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Shetland Sheepdog

The Shetland Sheepdog, also known as the Sheltie, is a breed of herding dog that originated in the Shetland Islands.

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Show dog

A show dog might refer to any dog entered into a dog show.

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Sighthound

Sighthounds, also called gazehounds, primarily hunt by sight and speed, rather than by scent and endurance as scent hounds do.

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Silverton, Oregon

Silverton is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States.

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Smithfield (dog)

The Smithfield, Smithfield Collie or Smithfield Sheepdog is a type of herding dog.

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Smithfield, London

Smithfield is a locality in the ward of Farringdon Without situated at the City of London's northwest in central London, England.

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Smooth Collie

The Smooth Collie is a breed of dog developed originally for herding.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Spitz

Spitz (also pluralized spitzes or, borrowing from German, Spitzen) are a type of domestic dog characterized by long, thick, and often white fur, and pointed ears and muzzles.

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Stanley Coren

Stanley Coren (born 1942) is a psychology professor and neuropsychological researcher who has become best known to the general public for his best selling and award-winning books regarding the intelligence, mental abilities and history of dogs.

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Stem cell

Stem cells are biological cells that can differentiate into other types of cells and can divide to produce more of the same type of stem cells.

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Steroid

A steroid is a biologically active organic compound with four rings arranged in a specific molecular configuration.

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Steve Marriott

Stephen Peter Marriott (30 January 1947 – 20 April 1991) was an English musician, songwriter and frontman of two notable rock and roll bands, spanning over two decades.

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Terrier

A terrier is a dog of any one of many breeds or landraces of the terrier type, which are typically small, wiry and fearless.

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Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University (Texas A&M or A&M) is a coeducational public research university in College Station, Texas, United States.

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The Intelligence of Dogs

The Intelligence of Dogs is a book on dog intelligence by Stanley Coren, a professor of canine psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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Toy dog

Toy dog traditionally refers to a very small dog or a grouping of small and very small breeds of dog.

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Verband für das Deutsche Hundewesen

Verband für das Deutsche Hundewesen (VDH) is Germany's Kennel club for dogs and represents the world federation Fédération Cynologique Internationale.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Welsh Sheepdog

The Welsh Sheepdog (Ci Defaid Cymreig) is a landrace of herding dog from Wales.

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Western United States

The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West, the Far West, or simply the West, traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States.

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1966 FIFA World Cup

The 1966 FIFA World Cup (officially: World Championship-Jules Rimet Cup-England 1966) was the eighth World Cup and it was held in England from 11 to 30 July.

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