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1. 821 relations: A. David Andrews, Achaea, Achilles, Aconcagua, Adolphe Quetelet, Aeneas, Aethusa, Aethusa cynapium, Aetolia, Africa, Agenor, Aiguillon, Lot-et-Garonne, Ajax the Great, Akhenaten, Alan Tower Waterman, Albert I of Belgium, Albizia, Albrecht von Haller, Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Alexander Alekhine, Alexander Deutsch, Alexander Dubyago, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander the Great, Alexandre Schaumasse, Alfred Bohrmann, Alfred Schmitt, Algeria, Algiers, Algoa Bay, Alphonse Borrelly, Alps, Amaryllis, Amaryllis belladonna, Amata, Amazon River, Anchises, Ancient Rome, Andes, André Gide, André Patry, André-Louis Danjon, Andrei Sakharov, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, Angara, Angola, Ankara, Annie Jump Cannon, Anselm Feuerbach, Anteros, ... Expand index (771 more) » « Shrink index

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Achaea

Achaea or Achaia, sometimes transliterated from Greek as Akhaia (Αχαΐα, Akhaïa), is one of the regional units of Greece.

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Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus (Achilleús) was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors.

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Aconcagua

Aconcagua is a mountain in the Principal Cordillera of the Andes mountain range, in Mendoza Province, Argentina.

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Adolphe Quetelet

Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences.

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Aeneas

In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (from) was a Trojan hero, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite (equivalent to the Roman Venus).

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Aethusa

In Greek mythology, Aethusa (Ancient Greek: Αἵθουσα) was a daughter of Poseidon and the Pleiad Alcyone, daughter of Atlas.

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Aethusa cynapium

Aethusa cynapium (fool's parsley, fool's cicely, or poison parsley) is an annual (rarely biennial) herb in the flowering plant family Apiaceae, native to Europe, western Asia, and northwest Africa.

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Aetolia

Aetolia (Aitōlía) is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Agenor

Agenor (Ancient Greek: Ἀγήνωρ or Αγήνορας Agēnor; English translation: "heroic, manly") was in Greek mythology and history a Phoenician king of Tyre or Sidon.

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Aiguillon, Lot-et-Garonne

Aiguillon (Gulhon) is a commune of the Lot-et-Garonne department in southwestern France.

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Ajax the Great

Ajax or Aias (Aíās, Αἴαντος Aíantos; archaic ΑΣϜΑϺ) is a Greek mythological hero, the son of King Telamon and Periboea, and the half-brother of Teucer.

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Akhenaten

Akhenaten (pronounced), also spelled Akhenaton or Echnaton (ꜣḫ-n-jtn ʾŪḫə-nə-yātəy,, meaning 'Effective for the Aten'), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

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Alan Tower Waterman

Alan Tower Waterman (June 4, 1892 – November 30, 1967) was an American physicist.

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Albert I of Belgium

Albert I (8 April 1875 – 17 February 1934) was King of the Belgians from 23 December 1909 until his death in 1934.

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Albizia

Albizia is a genus of more than 160 species of mostly fast-growing subtropical and tropical trees and shrubs in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae.

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Albrecht von Haller

Albrecht von Haller (also known as Albertus de Haller; 16 October 170812 December 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet.

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Aleksandra Pakhmutova

Aleksandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova (Александра Николаевна Пахмутова; born 9 November 1929) is a Soviet and Russian composer.

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Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine (March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns.

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Alexander Deutsch

Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch (Aleksandr Nikolaevič Dejč; Александр Николаевич Дейч; December 31, 1899 – 22 November 1986) was a Soviet astronomer who worked at Pulkovo Observatory.

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Alexander Dubyago

Alexander Dmitriyevich Dubyago (Александр Дмитриевич Дубяго in Russian) (December 5(18), 1903, Kazan - October 29, 1959, Kazan) was a Soviet astronomer and expert in theoretical astrophysics.

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.

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Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.

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Alexandre Schaumasse

Alexandre Schaumasse (1882–1958) was a French astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets.

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Alfred Bohrmann

Alfred Bohrmann (February 28, 1904 – January 4, 2000) was a German astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Alfred Schmitt

Alfred Schmitt (30 November 1907 – 2 April 1975) was a French astronomer.

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Algeria

Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.

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Algiers

Algiers (al-Jazāʾir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, located in the north-central part of the country.

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Algoa Bay

Algoa Bay is a maritime bay in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

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Alphonse Borrelly

Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly (December 8, 1842 – February 28, 1926) was a French astronomer.

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Alps

The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.

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Amaryllis

Amaryllis is the only genus in the subtribe Amaryllidinae (tribe Amaryllideae).

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Amaryllis belladonna

Amaryllis belladonna, the Jersey lily, belladonna-lily, naked-lady-lily, or March lily, is a plant species native to Cape Province in South Africa but widely cultivated as an ornamental.

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Amata

According to Roman mythology, Amata (also called Palanto) was the wife of Latinus, king of the Latins, and the mother of their only child, Lavinia.

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Amazon River

The Amazon River (Río Amazonas, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the longest or second-longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century the Amazon basin's most distant source until a 2014 study found it to be the headwaters of the Mantaro River on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in Peru.

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Anchises

In Greek and Roman mythology, Anchises (Ankhísēs) was a member of the royal family of Troy.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Andes

The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.

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André Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics.

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André Patry

André Patry (22 November 1902 – 20 June 1960) was a French astronomer and discoverer of 9 minor planets in the late 1930s.

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André-Louis Danjon

André-Louis Danjon (6 April 1890 – 21 April 1967) was a French astronomer born in Caen to Louis Dominique Danjon and Marie Justine Binet.

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Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (p; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.

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Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin

Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (6 February 1865 – 20 September 1939) was an astronomer of French and Huguenot descent who was born in Cushendun, County Antrim, Ireland.

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Angara

The Angara (Ангара́,; Buryat: Ангар, Angar, "Cleft") is a major river in Siberia, which traces a course through Russia's Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

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Ankara

Ankara, historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul, but first by the urban area (4,130 km2).

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Annie Jump Cannon

Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification.

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Anselm Feuerbach

Anselm Feuerbach (12 September 1829 – 4 January 1880) was a German painter.

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Anteros

In Greek mythology, Anteros (Antérōs) is the god of requited love (literally "love returned" or "counter-love") and also the punisher of those who scorn love and the advances of others, or the avenger of unrequited love.

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Antilochus of Pylos

In Greek mythology, Antilochus (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίλοχος Antílokhos) was a prince of Pylos and one of the Achaeans in the Trojan War.

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Antinous

Antinous, also called Antinoös, (Ἀντίνοος; –) was a Greek youth from Bithynia and a favourite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian.

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Antonín Mrkos

Antonín Mrkos (27 January 1918, Střemchoví – 29 May 1996, Prague) was a Czech astronomer.

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Anubis

Anubis (Ἄνουβις), also known as Inpu, Inpw, Jnpw, or Anpu in Ancient Egyptian, is the god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide to the underworld, in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head.

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Aphrodite

Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.

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Apollo

Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.

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Appenzell

Appenzell was a canton in the northeast of Switzerland, and entirely surrounded by the canton of St. Gallen, in existence from 1403 to 1597.

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Aquilegia

Aquilegia (common names: granny's bonnet, columbine) is a genus of about 130 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher elevations throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petalsPuzey, J.R., Gerbode, S.J., Hodges, S.A., Kramer, E.M., Mahadevan, L.

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.

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Arabis

Arabis,Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607 or rockcress, is a genus of flowering plants, within the family Brassicaceae.

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Arcadia (regional unit)

Arcadia (Arkadía) is one of the regional units of Greece.

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Arctic

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

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Aristarkh Belopolsky

Aristarkh Apollonovich Belopolsky (АристархАполлонович Белопольский; – 16 May 1934) was a Russian Empire and later Soviet astronomer.

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Arkady Gaidar

Arkady Petrovich Gaidar (Арка́дий Петро́вич Гайда́р, born Golikov, Го́ликов; – 26 October 1941) was a Russian Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet children, and a Red Army commander.

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Arlon

Arlon (Arel; Aarlen; Arel; Årlon) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in and capital of the province of Luxembourg in the Ardennes, Belgium.

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Armin Otto Leuschner

Armin Otto Leuschner (January 16, 1868 – April 22, 1953) was an American astronomer and educator.

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Armistice of 11 November 1918

The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, at sea, and in the air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany.

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Arnica

Arnica is a genus of perennial, herbaceous plants in the sunflower family (Asteraceae).

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Arno Arthur Wachmann

Arno Arthur Wachmann (8 March 1902 – 24 July 1990) was a German astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who worked for many years at the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg.

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Arosa

Arosa is a town and a municipality in the Plessur Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Artek (camp)

Artek (Арте́к) is an international children's center (a former Young Pioneer camp) on the Black Sea in the town of Gurzuf located on the Crimean Peninsula, near Ayu-Dag.

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Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (15 January 1895 – 11 November 1973) was a Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method".

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Asclepius

Asclepius (Ἀσκληπιός Asklēpiós; Aesculapius) is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology.

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Asta Nielsen

Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen (11 September 1881 – 24 May 1972) was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars.

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Aster (genus)

Aster is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.

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Asteraceae

Asteraceae is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales.

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Astrid of Sweden

Astrid of Sweden (17 November 1905 – 29 August 1935) was a member of the Swedish House of Bernadotte and later became Queen of the Belgians as the first wife of King Leopold III.

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Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.

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Astyanax

In Greek mythology, Astyanax (Ἀστυάναξ Astyánax, "lord of the city") was the son of Hector, the crown prince of Troy, and his wife, Princess Andromache of Cilician Thebe.

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Atami

is a city located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Atlantis

Atlantis (Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος|island of Atlas) is a fictional island mentioned in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias as part of an allegory on the hubris of nations.

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Attica

Attica (Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or, or), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns.

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Attila

Attila, frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death, in early 453.

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August Kopff

August Kopff (February 5, 1882 – April 25, 1960) was a German astronomer and discoverer of several comets and asteroids.

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Auguste Charlois

Auguste Honoré Charlois (November 26, 1864 – March 26, 1910) was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working at the Nice Observatory in southeastern France.

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Aura River (Finland)

The Aura River (Finnish Aurajoki; Swedish Aura å) is a river in south-western Finland.

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Azalea

Azaleas are flowering shrubs in the genus Rhododendron, particularly the former sections Tsutsusi (evergreen) and Pentanthera (deciduous).

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Øresund

Øresund or Öresund (Øresund; Öresund), commonly known in English as the Sound, is a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating Zealand (Denmark) from Scania (Sweden).

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Ľubor Kresák

Ľubor Kresák (23 August 1927 in Topoľčany – 20 January 1994 in Bratislava) was a Slovak astronomer.

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Bad Ragaz

Bad Ragaz is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Sarganserland in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

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Bart Bok

Bartholomeus Jan "Bart" Bok (April 28, 1906 – August 5, 1983) was a Dutch-American astronomer, teacher, and lecturer.

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Battle of Kollaa

The Battle of Kollaa was fought from December 7, 1939, to March 13, 1940, in Ladoga Karelia, Finland, as a part of the Soviet-Finnish Winter War.

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Battle of Majuba Hill

The Battle of Majuba Hill on 27 February 1881 was the final and decisive battle of the First Boer War that was a resounding victory for the Boers.

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Battle of Summa

The Battle of Summa was fought between the Soviet Union and Finland, in two phases, first in December 1939 and then in February 1940.

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Baudouin of Belgium

Baudouin (7 September 1930 – 31 July 1993) was King of the Belgians from 17 July 1951 until his death in 1993.

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Bechuanaland Protectorate

The Bechuanaland Protectorate was a protectorate established on 31 March 1885 in Southern Africa by the United Kingdom.

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Beira, Mozambique

Beira is the capital and largest city of Sofala Province, in the central region of Mozambique.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Belgrade

Belgrade.

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Bengt Strömgren

Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren (21 January 1908 – 4 July 1987) was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist.

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Benguela

Benguela (Umbundu: Luombaka) is a city in western Angola, capital of Benguela Province.

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Benjamin Apthorp Gould

Benjamin Apthorp Gould (September 27, 1824 – November 26, 1896) was a pioneering American astronomer.

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Benjamin Jekhowsky

Benjamin Jekhowsky (Вениамин Павлович Жеховский, born 1881 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia), died in 1975, Encausse-les-Thermes (France)) was a Russian–French astronomer, born in Saint-Petersburg in a noble family of a Russian railroad official.

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Berlin Observatory

The Berlin Observatory (Berliner Sternwarte) is a German astronomical institution with a series of observatories and related organizations in and around the city of Berlin in Germany, starting from the 18th century.

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Bern

Bern, or Berne,Bärn; Bèrna; Berna; Berna.

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Bernhard Schmidt

Bernhard Woldemar Schmidt (Nargen, Estonia – 1 December 1935, Hamburg) was an Estonian optician.

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Bertil Lindblad

Bertil Lindblad (Örebro, 26 November 1895 – Saltsjöbaden, outside Stockholm, 25 June 1965) was a Swedish astronomer.

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Bianca Castafiore

Bianca Castafiore, nicknamed the "Milanese Nightingale", is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Bibliotheca Corviniana

Bibliotheca Corviniana was one of the most renowned libraries of the Renaissance world, established by Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, in Buda Castle between 1458 and 1490.

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Bjarmaland

Bjarmaland (also spelled Bjarmland and Bjarmia; Biarmia; Beormaland, Biarmia, Old Permic) was a territory mentioned in Norse sagas since the Viking Age and in geographical accounts until the 16th century.

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Bolivia

Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.

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Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Bouzaréah

Bouzareah or Bouzaréah (būzareah) is a suburb of Algiers, Algeria.

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Brian G. Marsden

Brian Geoffrey Marsden (5 August 1937 – 18 November 2010) was a British astronomer and the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Center for Astrophysics ! Harvard & Smithsonian (director emeritus from 2006 to 2010).

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Broederstroom

Broederstroom is a village situated beside the R512 road on the Daspoortrand (former Pretoria district) in the Witwatersrand, the southern foothills of the Magaliesberg in North West Province, South Africa.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Camille Flammarion

Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author.

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Campanula

Campanula is the type genus of the Campanulaceae family of flowering plants.

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Camphor

Camphor is a waxy, colorless solid with a strong aroma.

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Canton of Glarus

The canton of Glarus (Kanton Glarus Chantun Glaruna; Canton de Glaris; Canton Glarona) is a canton in east central Switzerland.

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Cape Province

The Province of the Cape of Good Hope (Provinsie Kaap die Goeie Hoop), commonly referred to as the Cape Province (Kaapprovinsie) and colloquially as The Cape (Die Kaap), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa.

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Captain Nemo

Captain Nemo (also known as Prince Dakkar) is a character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905).

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Carex

Carex is a vast genus of over 2,000 species of grass-like plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books).

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß; Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 177723 February 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science.

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Carl Otto Lampland

Carl Otto Lampland (December 29, 1873 – December 14, 1951) was an American astronomer.

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Carl Zeiss

Carl Zeiss (11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman.

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Carlos Torres (astronomer)

Carlos Torres (1929–2011) was a Chilean astronomer of the University of Chile and an individual member of the International Astronomical Union on several commissions.

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Carlos Ulrrico Cesco

Carlos Ulrrico Cesco (died 1987) was an Argentine astronomer.

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Catalonia

Catalonia (Catalunya; Cataluña; Catalonha) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.

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Caupolicán

Caupolicán (meaning ‘polished flint’ (queupu) or ‘blue quartz stone’ (Kallfulikan) in Mapudungun) was a toqui or war leader of the Mapuche people, who led the resistance of his people against the Spanish Conquistadors who invaded the territory of today's Chile during the sixteenth century.

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Cévennes

The Cévennes (Cevenas) is a cultural region and range of mountains in south-central France, on the south-east edge of the Massif Central.

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Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams

The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) is the official international clearing house for information relating to transient astronomical events.

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Cerberus

In Greek mythology, Cerberus (or; Κέρβερος Kérberos), often referred to as the hound of Hades, is a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving.

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Charles T. Kowal

Charles Thomas Kowal (November 8, 1940 – November 28, 2011) was an American astronomer known for his observations and discoveries in the Solar System.

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Chester Burleigh Watts

Chester Burleigh Watts (October 27, 1889 – July 17, 1971) was an American astronomer.

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Chimay

Chimay (Chimai) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chiny

Chiny (Tchini) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium.

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Cimbrian language

Cimbrian (zimbar,; Zimbrisch; cimbro) is any of several local Upper German varieties spoken in parts of the Italian regions of Trentino and Veneto.

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Cimmerians

The Cimmerians were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia.

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Cincinnati Observatory

The Cincinnati Observatory, known locally as Mt.

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Clematis

Clematis is a genus of about 380 species within the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae.

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Clyde Tombaugh

Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer.

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Colchis

In classical antiquity and Greco-Roman geography, Colchis was an exonym for the Georgian polity of Egrisi (ეგრისი) located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia.

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Colocolo (tribal chief)

Colocolo (from Mapudungun "colocolo", mountain cat) was a Mapuche leader ("cacique lonco") in the early period of the Arauco War.

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Comet Arend–Roland

Comet Arend–Roland was discovered on November 8, 1956, by Belgian astronomers Sylvain Arend and Georges Roland on photographic plates.

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Cornelis Johannes van Houten

Cornelis Johannes van Houten (18 February 1920 – 24 August 2002) was a Dutch astronomer, sometimes referred to as Kees van Houten.

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Crimea

Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.

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Crimean Astrophysical Observatory

The Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO, obs. code: 095) is located at Nauchnij research campus, near the Central Crimean city of Bakhchysarai, on the Crimean peninsula.

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Crocus

Crocus (plural: crocuses or croci) is a genus of seasonal flowering plants in the family Iridaceae (iris family) comprising about 100 species of perennials growing from corms.

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Cuno Hoffmeister

Cuno Hoffmeister (2 February 1892 – 2 January 1968) was a German astronomer, observer and discoverer of variable stars, comets and minor planets, and founder of Sonneberg Observatory.

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Cyperaceae

The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges.

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Cyril Jackson (astronomer)

Cyril V. Jackson (5 December 1903 – February 1988) was a South African astronomer, known for discovering 72 asteroids and a number of comets.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Daedalus

In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Greek: Δαίδαλος; Latin: Daedalus; Etruscan: Taitale) was a skillful architect and craftsman, seen as a symbol of wisdom, knowledge and power.

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Daniel Kirkwood

Daniel Kirkwood (September 27, 1814 – June 11, 1895) was an American astronomer.

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Datura stramonium

Datura stramonium, known by the common names thornapple, jimsonweed (jimson weed), or devil's trumpet, is a poisonous flowering plant in the Daturae tribe of the nightshade family Solanaceae.

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Deiphobus

In Greek mythology, Deiphobus (Δηΐφοβος|Dēḯphobos) was a son of Priam and Hecuba.

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Deira

Deira (Old Welsh/Deywr or Deifr; Derenrice or Dere) was an area of Post-Roman Britain, and a later Anglian kingdom.

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Demeter

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter (Attic: Δημήτηρ Dēmḗtēr; Doric: Δαμάτηρ Dāmā́tēr) is the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Diomedes

Diomedes (Jones, Daniel; Roach, Peter, James Hartman and Jane Setter, eds. Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary. 17th edition. Cambridge UP, 2006.) or Diomede (god-like cunning" or "advised by Zeus) is a hero in Greek mythology, known for his participation in the Trojan War.

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Dipsacaceae

The Dipsacaceae were recognized as a family (the teasel family) of the order Dipsacales containing 350 species of perennial or biennial herbs and shrubs in eleven genera.

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Dirk Brouwer

Dirk Brouwer (September 1, 1902 – January 31, 1966) was a Dutch-American astronomer.

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Disa (plant)

Disa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orchidaceae.

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Dmitry Karbyshev

Dmitry Mikhaylovich Karbyshev (Дмитрий Михайлович Карбышев; — 18 February 1945) was an officer of the Russian Imperial Army, a Red Army general, professor of the Soviet General Staff Academy (Doctor of Military Sciences), and Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).

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Dolores Ibárruri

Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (9 December 189512 November 1989), also known as Pasionaria, "the passionate one" or Passion flower", was a Spanish Republican politician of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and a communist known for her slogan ¡No Pasarán! ("They shall not pass!") issued during the Battle for Madrid in November 1936.

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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (born Domingo Faustino Fidel Valentín Sarmiento y Albarracín; 15 February 1811 – 11 September 1888) was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and President of Argentina.

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Donald Howard Menzel

Donald Howard Menzel (April 11, 1901 – December 14, 1976) was one of the first theoretical astronomers and astrophysicists in the United States.

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Dorothea Klumpke

Dorothea Klumpke Roberts (August 9, 1861 in San Francisco – October 5, 1942 in San Francisco) was an American astronomer.

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Drakensberg

The Drakensberg (Zulu: uKhahlamba, Sotho: Maloti, Afrikaans: Drakensberge) is the eastern portion of the Great Escarpment, which encloses the central Southern African plateau.

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Duchy of Brabant

The Duchy of Brabant, a state of the Holy Roman Empire, was established in 1183.

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Duchy of Lorraine

The Duchy of Lorraine (Lorraine; Lothringen), originally Upper Lorraine, was a duchy now included in the larger present-day region of Lorraine in northeastern France.

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Earl C. Slipher

Earl Carl Slipher (March 25, 1883 – August 7, 1964) was an American astronomer and politician.

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Edward Tuck

Edward Tuck (August 24, 1842 – April 30, 1938) was an American banker, diplomat, and philanthropist.

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Ejnar Hertzsprung

Ejnar Hertzsprung (8 October 1873 – 21 October 1967) was a Danish chemist and astronomer.

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Electron microscope

An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of electrons as a source of illumination.

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Elis Strömgren

Svante Elis Strömgren (31 May 1870 – 5 April 1947) was a Swedish–Danish astronomer.

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Elizabeth Roemer

Elizabeth "Pat" Roemer (September 4, 1929April 8, 2016) was an American astronomer and educator who specialized in astronomy with a particular focus on comets and minor planets.

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Emma Vyssotsky

Emma Vyssotsky (October 23, 1894 – May 12, 1975, née Emma T. R. Williams) was an American astronomer who was honored with the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy in 1946.

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Emperor

The word emperor (from imperator, via empereor) can mean the male ruler of an empire.

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Epimetheus

In Greek mythology, Epimetheus (afterthought) is the twin brother of Prometheus, the pair serving "as representatives of mankind".

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Erfurt

Erfurt is the capital and largest city of the Central German state of Thuringia.

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Ernest Esclangon

Ernest Benjamin Esclangon (17 March 1876 – 28 January 1954) was a French astronomer and mathematician.

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Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Ernest I (Ernst Anton Karl Ludwig; 2 January 178429 January 1844) served as the last sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (as Ernest III) from 1806 to 1826 and the first sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1826 to 1844.

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Ernest Leonard Johnson

Ernest Leonard Johnson (1891–1977) was a South African astronomer and a former staff member of the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics.

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Ernest William Brown

Ernest William Brown FRS (29 November 1866 – 22 July 1938) was an English mathematician and astronomer, who spent the majority of his career working in the United States and became a naturalised American citizen in 1923.

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Ernst Leonard Lindelöf

Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (7 March 1870 – 4 June 1946) was a Finnish mathematician, who made contributions in real analysis, complex analysis and topology.

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Ernst Ruska

Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (25 December 1906 – 27 May 1988) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Euboea

Euboea (Εὔβοια Eúboia), also known by its modern spelling Evia, is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete, and the sixth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Eugène Joseph Delporte

Eugène Joseph Delporte (10 January 1882 – 19 October 1955) was a Belgian astronomer born in Genappe.

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Eva Perón

María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952), better known as just Eva Perón or by the nickname Evita, was an Argentine politician, activist, actress, and philanthropist who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her death in July 1952, as the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974).

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F. J. M. Stratton

Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick John Marrian Stratton PRAS (16 October 1881 – 2 September 1960) was a British astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer.

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Fabiola of Belgium

Fabiola Fernanda María-de-las-Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón (11 June 1928 – 5 December 2014) was Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Baudouin from their marriage in 1960 until his death in 1993.

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Fantasy (psychology)

In psychology, fantasy is a broad range of mental experiences, mediated by the faculty of imagination in the human brain, and marked by an expression of certain desires through vivid mental imagery.

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Félix Aguilar Observatory

Félix Aguilar Observatory (Observatorio Astronómico Félix Aguilar; OAFA) is an astronomical observatory.

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Felix Timmermans

Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans (5 July 1886 – 24 January 1947) is a much translated author from Flanders.

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Feodosia

Feodosia (Феодосія, Теодосія, Feodosiia, Teodosiia; Феодосия, Feodosiya), also called in English Theodosia (from), is a city on the Crimean coast of the Black Sea.

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Fernand Rigaux

Fernand Rigaux (1905 – 21 September 1962) was a Belgian astronomer and observer of variable stars, minor planets and comets at the Royal Observatory at Uccle, Belgium.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Forsythia

Forsythia, is a genus of flowering plants in the olive family Oleaceae.

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Fragaria

Fragaria is a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, commonly known as strawberries for their edible fruits.

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François Arago

Dominique François Jean Arago (Domènec Francesc Joan Aragó), known simply as François Arago (Catalan: Francesc Aragó,; 26 February 17862 October 1853), was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the Carbonari revolutionaries and politician.

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François Gonnessiat

François Gonnessiat (May 22, 1856 (Nurieux-Volognat)–October 18, 1934) was a French astronomer, observer of comets and discoverer of two minor planets.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Frank K. Edmondson

Frank Kelley Edmondson (August 1, 1912 – December 8, 2008) was an American astronomer.

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Frank Schlesinger

Frank Schlesinger (May 11, 1871 – July 10, 1943) was an American astronomer.

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Frank Watson Dyson

Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS, FRSE (8 January 1868 – 25 May 1939) was an English astronomer and the ninth Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity.

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Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Frans Eemil Sillanpää (16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964) was a Finnish author.

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Franz Xaver von Zach

Baron Franz Xaver von Zach (Franz Xaver Freiherr von Zach; 4 June 1754 – 2 September 1832) was a Hungarian astronomer born at Pest, Hungary (now Budapest in Hungary).

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Frédéric Sy

Frédéric Sy (1861-1917) was a French astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Fred Lawrence Whipple

Fred Lawrence Whipple (November 5, 1906 – August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years.

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Frederick Barbarossa

Frederick Barbarossa (December 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick I (Friedrich I; Federico I), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death 35 years later in 1190.

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Frederik Kaiser

Frederik Kaiser (Amsterdam, 10 June 1808 – Leiden, 28 July 1872) was a Dutch astronomer.

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Free State (province)

The Free State (Freistata; Vrystaat; iFreyistata; Foreistata; iFuleyisitata), formerly known as the Orange Free State, is a province of South Africa.

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French Riviera

The French Riviera, known in French as the i (Còsta d'Azur), is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander

Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (22 March 1799 – 17 February 1875) was a German astronomer.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist.

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Friesland

Friesland (official Fryslân), historically and traditionally known as Frisia, named after the Frisians, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part.

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Fritz Zwicky

Fritz Zwicky (February 14, 1898 – February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer.

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Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Honoré Marcel (7 December 1889 – 8 October 1973) was a French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist.

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Galanthus

Galanthus (from Ancient Greek, ("milk") + ("flower")), or snowdrop, is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae.

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Gällivare

Gällivare (Jällivaara; Jiellevárri or Váhčir; Jiellevárre. or Váhtjer; Jellivaara) is a locality and the seat of Gällivare Municipality in Norrbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with 8,449 inhabitants in 2010.

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Gdańsk

Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

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Gelderland

Gelderland, also known as Guelders in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country.

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George Darwin

Sir George Howard Darwin, (9 July 1845 – 7 December 1912) was an English barrister and astronomer, the second son and fifth child of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin.

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George Ellery Hale

George Ellery Hale (June 29, 1868 – February 21, 1938) was an American astrophysicist, best known for his discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots, and as the leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes; namely, the 40-inch refracting telescope at Yerkes Observatory, 60-inch Hale reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, 100-inch Hooker reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson, and the 200-inch Hale reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory.

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George Van Biesbroeck

George A. Van Biesbroeck (or Georges-Achille Van Biesbroeck,, January 21, 1880 – February 23, 1974) was a Belgian–American astronomer.

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George William Hill

George William Hill (March 3, 1838 – April 16, 1914) was an American astronomer and mathematician.

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Georges Lemaître

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Georgy Dobrovolsky

Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky (Георгий Тимофеевич Добровольский; 1 June 192830 June 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft.

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Geraniaceae

Geraniaceae is a family of flowering plants placed in the order Geraniales.

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Geranium

Geranium is a genus of 422 species of annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as geraniums or cranesbills.

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Gerard Kuiper

Gerard Peter Kuiper (born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper,; 7 December 1905 – 23 December 1973) was a Dutch-American astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor.

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Gerrit Pels

Gerrit Pels (1893, Woerden – 1966, Leiden?) was a Dutch astronomer, a lifelong member of the scientific staff of the Leiden Observatory.

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Ghent University

Ghent University (Universiteit Gent, abbreviated as UGent) is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium.

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Gien

Gien is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.

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Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh (𒀭𒄑𒂆𒈦|translit.

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Goethe Link Observatory

The Goethe Link Observatory, observatory code 760, is an astronomical observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana, United States.

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Gondola

The gondola (góndoła) is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon.

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Gotha

Gotha is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000.

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Granada

Granada is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.

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Grigory Neujmin

Grigory Nikolayevich Neujmin (Григорий Николаевич Неуймин; – 17 December 1946) was a Georgian–Russian astronomer, native of Tbilisi in Georgia, and a discoverer of numerous minor planets as well as 6 periodic and a hyperbolic comet at the Pulkovo and Simeiz Observatories during the first half of the 20th century.

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Grigory Shajn

Grigory Abramovich Shajn (Григорий Абрамович Шайн) (April 19, 1892 – August 4, 1956) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer.

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Griqua people

The Griquas are a subgroup of mixed-race heterogeneous formerly Xiri-speaking nations in South Africa with a unique origin in the early history of the Dutch Cape Colony.

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Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (25 April 187420 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, electrical engineer, and politician, known for his creation of a practical radio wave–based wireless telegraph system.

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Guido Gezelle

Guido Pieter Theodorus Josephus Gezelle (1 May 1830 – 27 November 1899) was an influential writer and poet and a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium.

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Guillaume Henri Dufour

Guillaume Henri Dufour (15 September 178714 July 1875) was a Swiss military officer, structural engineer and topographer.

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Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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Gunnar Malmquist

Karl Gunnar Malmquist (21 February 1893 – 27 June 1982) was a Swedish astronomer.

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Gustaf Komppa

Gustaf Komppa (28 July 1867 in Viipuri – 20 January 1949 in Helsinki) was a Finnish chemist best known for a world-first in commercializing total synthesis, that of camphor in 1903.

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György Kulin

György Kulin (28 January 1905 – 22 April 1989) was a Hungarian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Hakone

is a town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Halti

Halti (Halti, rarely Haltiatunturi., Háldičohkka, Haldefjäll) is a fell at the border between Norway and Finland.

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Hamburg Observatory

Hamburg Observatory (Hamburger Sternwarte) is an astronomical observatory located in the Bergedorf borough of the city of Hamburg in northern Germany.

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Hannes Alfvén

Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD).

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Harlow Shapley

Harlow Shapley (November 2, 1885 – October 20, 1972) was an American scientist, head of the Harvard College Observatory (1921–1952), and political activist during the latter New Deal and Fair Deal.

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Harry Edwin Wood

Harry Edwin Wood (3 February 1881 – 27 February 1946) was an English astronomer, director of the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, and discoverer of minor planets.

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Hector

In Greek mythology, Hector (label) is a Trojan prince, a hero and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War.

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Hedera

Hedera, commonly called ivy (plural ivies), is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to Western Europe, Central Europe, Southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia east to Japan and Taiwan.

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Heidelberg University

Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Heikki A. Alikoski

Heikki A. Alikoski (1912, in Oulu – 28 December 1997, in Turku) was a Finnish astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (11 October 1758 – 2 March 1840) was a German astronomer.

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Helenus of Troy

In Greek mythology, Helenus (Ἕλενος, Helenos, Helenus) was a gentle and clever seer.

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Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.

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Hendrik van Gent

Hendrik van Gent (14 September 1899, Pernis – March 29, 1947, Amsterdam) was a Dutch astronomer.

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Henri Guisan

Henri Guisan (21 October 1874 – 7 April 1960) was a Swiss military officer who held the office of General of the Swiss Armed Forces during the Second World War.

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Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin

Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (December 19, 1845 – February 29, 1904) was a French astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Henrik Johan Walbeck

Henrik Johan Walbeck (11 October 1793 – 23 October 1822) was a Finnish geodesist and astronomer who studied the size and figure of the Earth by means of arc measurements.

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Henry Dunant

Henry Dunant (born Jean-Henri Dunant; 8 May 182830 October 1910), also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss Christian, humanitarian, businessman, social activist, and co-founder of the Red Cross.

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Henry L. Giclas

Henry Lee Giclas (December 9, 1910 – April 2, 2007) was an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.

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Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell ForMemRS HFRSE FRAS (October 25, 1877 – February 18, 1957) was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910).

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Herbert Hall Turner

Herbert Hall Turner (13 August 1861 – 20 August 1930) was a British astronomer and seismologist.

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933.

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Herero people

The Herero (Ovaherero) are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa.

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Hergé

Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé, from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials RG, was a Belgian comic strip artist.

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Herman Heijermans

Herman Heijermans (3 December 1864 – 22 November 1924), was a Dutch playwright, novelist and sketch story writer, who is considered to be the greatest Dutch dramatist of the modern era.

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Hermann Goldschmidt

Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt (June 17, 1802 – August 30 or September 10 1866) was a German-French astronomer and painter who spent much of his life in France.

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Hetaira

A,, also, (ἑταίρα, 'companion';: ἑταῖραι; hetaera;: hetaerae), was a type of courtesan or prostitute in ancient Greece, who served as an artist, entertainer and conversationalist in addition to providing sexual service.

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High Fens

The High Fens (Hohes Venn; Hautes Fagnes; Hoge Venen), which were declared a nature reserve in 1957, are an upland area, a plateau region in Liège Province, in the east of Belgium and adjoining parts of Germany, between the Ardennes and the Eifel highlands.

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High Tatras

The High Tatras or High Tatra Mountains (Hohe Tatra; Slovak: Vysoké Tatry; Высокі Татри, Vysoki Tatry; Tatry Wysokie; Magas-Tátra), are a mountain range along the border of northern Slovakia in the Prešov Region, and southern Poland in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

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HM Nautical Almanac Office

His Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office (HMNAO), now part of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, was established in 1832 on the site of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG), where The Nautical Almanac had been published since 1767.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Horus

Horus, also known as Hor, in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as the god of kingship, healing, protection, the sun, and the sky.

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House of Savoy

The House of Savoy (Casa Savoia) is an Italian royal house (formally a dynasty) that was established in 1003 in the historical Savoy region.

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Howard Grubb

Sir Howard Grubb (28 July 1844 – 16 September 1931) was an Irish optical engineer.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Huns

The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th centuries AD.

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Hyperborea

In Greek mythology, the Hyperboreans (hyperbóre(i)oi,; Hyperborei) were a mythical people who lived in the far northern part of the known world.

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Icarus

In Greek mythology, Icarus (Íkaros) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete.

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Iguazu Falls

Iguazú Falls or Iguaçu Falls (Chororõ Yguasu, Cataratas del Iguazú; Cataratas do Iguaçu) are waterfalls of the Iguazu River on the border of the Argentine province of Misiones and the Brazilian state of Paraná.

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Illyria

In classical and late antiquity, Illyria (Ἰλλυρία, Illyría or Ἰλλυρίς, Illyrís; Illyria, Illyricum) was a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula inhabited by numerous tribes of people collectively known as the Illyrians.

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Imatra

Imatra is a town in Finland, located in the southeastern interior of the country.

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Imhotep

Imhotep (ỉỉ-m-ḥtp "(the one who) comes in peace") was an Egyptian chancellor to the Pharaoh Djoser, possible architect of Djoser's step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis.

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Impala

The impala or rooibok (Aepyceros melampus) is a medium-sized antelope found in eastern and southern Africa.

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Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal

Inanda or eNanda (isiZulu: pleasant place, also possibly, level-topped hill) is a township in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa that is situated 21 km north-west of Durban.

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Indiana University Bloomington

Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, or simply Indiana) is a public research university in Bloomington, Indiana.

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Ingria

Ingria (Ингрия, Ингерманландия, Ижорская земля; Inkeri, Inkerinmaa; Ingermanland; Ingeri, Ingerimaa) is a historical region in what is now northwestern European Russia.

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Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld

Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (21 October 1921 – 30 March 2015) was a Dutch astronomer.

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International Astronomical Union

The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development through global cooperation.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.

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Iridaceae

Iridaceae is a family of plants in order Asparagales, taking its name from the irises.

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Iso-Heikkilä

Iso-Heikkilä (Finnish; Storheikkilä in Swedish) is a district of the city of Turku, in Finland.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Ithaca (island)

Ithaca, Ithaki or Ithaka (Greek: Ιθάκη, Ithaki; Ancient Greek: Ἰθάκη, Ithakē) is a Greek island located in the Ionian Sea, off the northeast coast of Kefalonia and to the west of continental Greece.

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Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Иван Петрович Павлов,; 27 February 1936) was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs.

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Jacobus Golius

Jacob Golius, born Jacob van Gool (1596 – September 28, 1667), was an Orientalist and mathematician based at the Leiden University in the Netherlands.

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James Ferguson (American astronomer)

James Ferguson (August 31, 1797 – September 26, 1867) was a Scottish-born American astronomer and engineer, who made the first discovery of an asteroid from North America (31 Euphrosyne).

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James Lick

James Lick (August 25, 1796 – October 1, 1876) was an American real estate investor, carpenter, piano builder, land baron, and patron of the sciences.

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Jan Śniadecki

Jan Śniadecki (29 August 1756 – 9 November 1830) was a Polish mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Jan Hus

Jan Hus (1370 – 6 July 1415), sometimes anglicized as John Hus or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as Iohannes Hus or Johannes Huss, was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer and the inspiration of Hussitism, a key predecessor to Protestantism, and a seminal figure in the Bohemian Reformation.

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Jan Neruda

Jan Nepomuk Neruda (Czech: ˈjan ˈnɛpomuk ˈnɛruda; 10 July 1834 – 22 August 1891) was a Czech journalist, writer, poet and art critic; one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of the "May School".

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Jan Oort

Jan Hendrik Oort (or; 28 April 1900 – 5 November 1992) was a Dutch astronomer who made significant contributions to the understanding of the Milky Way and who was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy.

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Jan Palach

Jan Palach (11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969) was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague.

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Jan Smuts

Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, (baptismal name Jan Christiaan Smuts, 24 May 1870 11 September 1950) was a South African statesman, military leader and philosopher.

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Jan Woltjer (astronomer)

Jan Woltjer (3 August 1891, Amsterdam – 28 January 1946, Leiden) was a Dutch astronomer.

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Jarosław

Jarosław (Yaroslav,; Yareslov; Jaroslau) is a town in southeastern Poland, situated on the San River.

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János Bolyai

János Bolyai (15 December 1802 – 27 January 1860) or Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician who developed absolute geometry—a geometry that includes both Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic geometry.

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Jean Chacornac

Jean Chacornac (21 June 1823 – 23 September 1873) was a French astronomer and discoverer of a comet and several asteroids.

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Jean Sibelius

Jean Sibelius (born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods.

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Jena

Jena is a city in Germany and the second largest city in Thuringia.

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Joanny-Philippe Lagrula

Joanny-Philippe Lagrula (1870–1941) was a French astronomer.

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Jodoigne

Jodoigne (Geldenaken; Djodogne) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium.

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Joensuu

Joensuu (Jovensuu) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of North Karelia.

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Johann Daniel Titius

Johann Daniel Titius (born Johann Daniel Tietz(e), 2 January 1729 – 16 December 1796) was a German astronomer and a professor at Wittenberg.

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Johann Leonhard Rost

Johann Leonhard Rost (12 February 1688 – 22 March 1727) was a German astronomer and author from Nuremberg.

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Johann Palisa

Johann Palisa (6 December 1848 – 2 May 1925) was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau, Austrian Silesia, now Czech Republic.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period.

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Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler (27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music.

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John Amos Comenius

John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komenský; Jan Amos Komeński; Johann Amos Comenius; Latinized: Ioannes Amos Comenius; 28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) was a Moravian philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education.

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John Couch Adams

John Couch Adams (5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer.

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John Russell Hind

John Russell Hind FRS FRSE LLD (12 May 1823 – 23 December 1895) was an English astronomer.

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Josep Comas i Solà

Josep Comas i Solà (Barcelona 17 December 1868 – 2 December 1937) was a Spanish astronomer, of Catalan origin, discoverer of minor planets, comets, and double stars.

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Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Joseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia, Encyclopædia Britannica or Giuseppe Ludovico De la Grange Tournier; 25 January 1736 – 10 April 1813), also reported as Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange or Lagrangia, was an Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer, later naturalized French.

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Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz (Јосип Броз,; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (Тито), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980.

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Jugurtha

Jugurtha or Jugurthen (Libyco-Berber Yugurten or Yugarten, c. 160 – 104 BC) was a king of Numidia.

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Julie Vinter Hansen

Julie Marie Vinter Hansen (20 July 1890 – 27 July 1960) was a Danish astronomer.

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Julius Caesar (play)

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar), often abbreviated as Julius Caesar, is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599.

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Jyväskylä

Jyväskylä is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Central Finland.

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Kajaani

Kajaani, historically known as Cajanaburg (Kajana), is a town in Finland and the regional capital of Kainuu.

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Kalahari Desert

The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for, covering much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.

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Kalevala

The Kalevala is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and antagonists, as well as the construction and robbery of the epic mythical wealth-making machine Sampo.

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Kama (river)

The Kama (Ка́ма,; Чулман; Кам) is a long, Russian State Water Registry river in Russia.

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Kampala

Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda.

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Kantō region

The is a geographical region of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek (9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist.

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Karelia

Karelia (Karelian and Karjala; Kareliya, historically Коре́ла, Korela; Karelen) is an area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Russia (including the Soviet era), Finland, and Sweden.

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Karl Guthe Jansky

Karl Guthe Jansky (October 22, 1905 – February 14, 1950) was an American physicist and radio engineer who in April 1933 first announced his discovery of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius.

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Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth

Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (4 April 1892 in Heidelberg – 6 May 1979 in Heidelberg) was a German astronomer and a prolific discoverer of 395 minor planets.

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Katanga Province

Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914.

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Kazan

Kazan is the largest city and capital of Tatarstan, Russia.

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Kemi

Kemi (Giepma; Kiemâ; Ǩeeʹmm) is a town and municipality of Finland.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Khama III

Khama III (c. 1837 – 21 February, 1923), referred to by missionaries as Khama the Good also called Khama the Great, was the Kgosi (meaning king) of the Bangwato people.

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Kirkwood Observatory

Kirkwood Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Indiana University.

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Kiyotsugu Hirayama

was a Japanese astronomer, best known for his discovery that many asteroid orbits were more similar to one another than chance would allow, leading to the concept of asteroid families, now called "Hirayama families" in his honour.

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Kleť Observatory

Kleť Observatory (Hvězdárna Kleť; obs. code: 046) is an astronomical observatory in the Czech Republic.

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Knights of the Round Table

The Knights of the Round Table (Marchogion y Ford Gron, Marghekyon an Moos Krenn, Marc'hegien an Daol Grenn) are the legendary knights of the fellowship of King Arthur that first appeared in the Matter of Britain literature in the mid-12th century.

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Knut Lundmark

Knut Emil Lundmark (14 June 1889 in Älvsbyn, Sweden – 23 April 1958 in Lund, Sweden), was a Swedish astronomer, professor of astronomy and head of the observatory at Lund University from 1929 to 1955.

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Knysna

Knysna is a town with 76,150 inhabitants (2019 mid-year estimates) in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Kokkola

Kokkola (Karleby) is a town in Finland and the regional capital of Central Ostrobothnia.

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Konkoly Observatory

Konkoly Observatory (HUN-REN Csillagászati és Földtudományi Kutatóközpont Konkoly Thege Miklós Csillagászati Intézet; obs. code: 053) is an astronomical observatory located in Budapest, Hungary is part of the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (Csillagászati és Földtudományi Kutatóközpont) and belongs to the.

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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (a; – 19 September 1935) was a Russian rocket scientist who pioneered astronautics.

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Kuopio

Kuopio is a city in Finland and the regional capital of North Savo.

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Kutaisi

Kutaisi (ქუთაისი) is a city in the Imereti region of the Republic of Georgia.

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KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal (also referred to as KZN; nicknamed "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province.

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L. L. Zamenhof

L.

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La Belle Otero

Agustina del Carmen Otero Iglesias (4 November 1868 – 10 April 1965), better known as Carolina Otero or La Belle Otero, was a Spanish actress, dancer and courtesan.

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La Paz

La Paz, officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz, is the seat of government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.

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La Plata

La Plata is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

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La Plata Astronomical Observatory

The La Plata Astronomical Observatory (Observatorio Astronómico de La Plata) is an observatory located in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Lahti

Lahti (Lahtis) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Päijät-Häme.

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Lake Inari

Lake Inari (Inarijärvi/Inarinjärvi, Anárjávri, Aanaarjävri, Aanarjäuʹrr, Enare träsk, Enaresjøen) is the largest lake in Sápmi and the third-largest lake in Finland.

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Lake Kariba

Lake Kariba is the world's largest artificial lake and reservoir by volume.

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Lake Päijänne

Lake Päijänne is the second largest lake in Finland.

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Lake Titicaca

Lake Titicaca (Lago Titicaca; Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru.

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Laodamia

In Greek mythology, the name Laodamia (Ancient Greek: Λαοδάμεια Laodámeia) referred to.

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Lappeenranta

Lappeenranta (Villmanstrand) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of South Karelia.

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Laputa

Laputa is a flying island described in the 1726 book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

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Larissa

Larissa (Λάρισα) is the capital and largest city of the Thessaly region in Greece.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Latvia

Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Lausanne

Lausanne (Losena) is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French-speaking canton of Vaud.

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Lautaro

Lautaro (Anglicized as 'Levtaru') (Lef-Traru "swift hawk") (1534 – April 29, 1557) was a young Mapuche toqui known for leading the indigenous resistance against Spanish conquest in Chile and developing the tactics that would continue to be employed by the Mapuche during the long-running Arauco War.

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Le Soir

Le Soir is a French-language Belgian daily newspaper.

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Leiden

Leiden (in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

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Leiden Observatory

Leiden Observatory (Sterrewacht Leiden) is an astronomical institute of Leiden University, in the Netherlands.

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Leiden University

Leiden University (abbreviated as LEI; Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands.

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Leland Cunningham

Leland Erskin Cunningham (February 10, 1904, in Wiscasset, Maine – May 31, 1989, in Richmond, California) was an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Leopold III of Belgium

Leopold III (3 November 1901 – 25 September 1983) was King of the Belgians from 23 February 1934 until his abdication on 16 July 1951.

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Liberia

Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.

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Libya

Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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Liisi Oterma

Liisi Oterma (6 January 1915 – 4 April 2001) was a Finnish astronomer, the first woman to get a Ph.D. degree in astronomy in Finland.

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Lili Boulanger

Marie-Juliette Olga "Lili" Boulanger (21 August 189315 March 1918) was a French composer and the first female winner of the Prix de Rome composition prize.

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Lilium

Lilium is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large and often prominent flowers.

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Limpopo River

The Limpopo River rises in South Africa and flows generally eastward through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.

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Linz

Linz (Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria.

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List of cities and towns in the Northern Cape

This is a list of cities and towns in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.

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Lobelia

Lobelia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae comprising 415 species, with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate regions.

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Locarno

Locarno (Ticinese: Locarno; formerly in Luggarus) is a southern Swiss town and municipality in the district Locarno (of which it is the capital), located on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore at its northeastern tip in the canton of Ticino at the southern foot of the Swiss Alps.

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Lotharingia

Lotharingia was a medieval successor kingdom of the Carolingian Empire.

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Louis Botha

Louis Botha (27 September 1862 – 27 August 1919) was a South African politician who was the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, the forerunner of the modern South African state.

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Louis Boyer (astronomer)

Louis Boyer (1901–1999) was a French astronomer who worked at the Algiers Observatory, North Africa, where he discovered 40 asteroids between 1930 and 1952.

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Louis G. Henyey

Louis George Henyey (February 3, 1910 – February 18, 1970) was an American astronomer.

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Luanda

Luanda (/luˈændə, -ˈɑːn-/, Portuguese) is the capital and largest city of Angola.

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Luboš Kohoutek

Luboš Kohoutek (29 January 1935 – 30 December 2023) was a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, including Comet Kohoutek which was visible to the naked eye in 1973.

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Lucerne

Lucerne (High Alemannic: Lozärn) or LuzernOther languages: label; Lucerna; Lucerna.

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Lucifer

The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Lugano

Lugano (Lügán) is a city and municipality within the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

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Lunaria

Lunaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae.

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Lymphocyte

A lymphocyte is a type of white blood cell (leukocyte) in the immune system of most vertebrates.

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Magnolia

Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 to 340The number of species in the genus Magnolia depends on the taxonomic view that one takes up.

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Malva

Malva is a genus of herbaceous annual, biennial, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae.

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Mapuche

The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia.

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Marcel Minnaert

Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert (12 February 1893 – 26 October 1970) was a Belgian-Dutch astronomer.

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Maria Mitchell

Maria Mitchell (/məˈraɪə/; August 1, 1818 – June 28, 1889) was an American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator.

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Marlene Dietrich

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva; however, Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name.

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Matthias Corvinus

Matthias Corvinus (Hunyadi Mátyás; Matia/Matei Corvin; Matija/Matijaš Korvin; Matej Korvín; Matyáš Korvín) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490, as Matthias I. After conducting several military campaigns, he was elected King of Bohemia in 1469 and adopted the title Duke of Austria in 1487.

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Max Planck

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.

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Max Wolf

Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (21 June 1863 – 3 October 1932) was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography.

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Mátra

The Mátra (Matra) is a mountain range in northern Hungary, between the towns Gyöngyös and Eger.

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Menelaus

In Greek mythology, Menelaus (Μενέλαος, 'wrath of the people') was a Greek king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta.

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Mentha

Mentha (also known as mint, from Greek μίνθα, Linear B mi-ta) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae (mint family).

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Meteorite

A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon.

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Michel Giacobini

Michel Giacobini (1873–1938) was a French astronomer.

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Midas

Midas (Μίδας) was the name of a king in Phrygia with whom many myths became associated, as well as two later members of the Phrygian royal house.

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Miguel Itzigsohn

Miguel Itzigsohn (1908–1978) was an Argentine astronomer and observer of comets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 15 asteroids between 1948 and 1954.

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Mikhail Lomonosov

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (ləmɐˈnosəf|a.

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Mikkeli

Mikkeli (S:t Michel; Michaelia; Mikhel) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of South Savo.

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Milorad B. Protić

Milorad B. Protić (Милорад Б.; 19 September 1911, Belgrade – 29 October 2001, Belgrade) was a Serbian astronomer, discoverer of comets and minor planets, and three times director of the Belgrade Observatory.

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Milutin Milanković

Milutin Milanković (sometimes anglicised as Milutin Milankovitch; Милутин Миланковић,; 28 May 1879 – 12 December 1958) was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer and popularizer of science.

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Mimosa

Mimosa is a genus of about 600 species of herbs and shrubs, in the mimosoid clade of the legume family Fabaceae.

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Minor Planet Center

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

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Mitaka, Tokyo

Inokashira Park in Mitaka is a city in the Western Tokyo region of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan.

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Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (In his day, the name was written Модестъ Петровичъ Мусоргскій.|Modest Petrovich Musorgsky|mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj|Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; –) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five".

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Mombasa

Mombasa is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean.

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Moravia

Moravia (Morava; Mähren) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.

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Mount Fuji

is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.

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Mthatha

Mthatha;, alternatively rendered Umtata, is the main town of the King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality in Eastern Cape province of South Africa and the capital of OR Tambo District Municipality.

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Muonio

Muonio (previously called Muonionniska, Muoná) is a municipality of Finland.

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Muses

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Muses (Moûsai, Múses) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts.

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Musina

Musina, also known as Messina, is the northernmost town in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

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Naantali

Naantali (Nådendal) is a town in Southwest Finland, and, as a resort town during the summer, an important centre of tourism in the country.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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National University of Cuyo

The National University of Cuyo (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, UNCuyo) is the largest center of higher education in the province of Mendoza, Argentina.

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Naum Idelson

Naum Ilyich Idelson (Наум Ильич Идельсон) (March 1(13), 1885, Saint Petersburg - July 14, 1951, Leningrad) was a Soviet theoretical astronomer and expert in history of physics and mathematics.

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Näsijärvi

Näsijärvi is a lake above sea level, in the Pirkanmaa region of southern Finland.

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Ndola

Ndola is the third largest city in Zambia and third in terms of size and population, with a population of 475,194 (2010 census provisional), after the capital, Lusaka, and Kitwe, and the second largest in terms of infrastructure development after Lusaka.

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Neckar

The Neckar is a river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse.

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Nefertiti

Nefertiti was a queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten.

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Neith

Neith (Νηΐθ, a borrowing of the Demotic form nt, likely originally to have been nrt "the terrifying one"; also spelled Nit, Net, or Neit) was an early berber deity that was worshipped by Libyans as well as ancient Egyptians alike She was adopted from Libya (or She was a divinity of the local Libyan population in Egypt in Sais where her oracle was located.

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Nerine

Nerine (nerines, Guernsey lily, Jersey lily, spider lily) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Neuruppin

Neuruppin (North Brandenburgisch: Reppin) is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, the administrative seat of Ostprignitz-Ruppin district.

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Neva

The Neva (a) is a river in northwestern Russia flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast (historical region of Ingria) to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nice Observatory

The Nice Observatory (Observatoire de Nice) is an astronomical observatory located in Nice, France on the summit of Mount Gros.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.

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Nikkō

is a city in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

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Nikolai Lobachevsky

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (a; –) was a Russian mathematician and geometer, known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry, otherwise known as Lobachevskian geometry, and also for his fundamental study on Dirichlet integrals, known as the Lobachevsky integral formula.

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Nikolai Morozov (revolutionary)

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Morozov (7 July 1854, Borok – 30 July 1946) was a Russian revolutionary who spent about 25 years in prison for revolutionary activities against the Tsarist government.

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Nocera Superiore

Nocera Superiore (Nucèrë or Nucèrä Superiórë) is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.

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Nongoma

Nongoma is a town in Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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Noricum

Noricum is the Latin name for the kingdom or federation of tribes that included most of modern Austria and part of Slovenia.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Norns

The Norns (norn, plural: nornir) are deities in Norse mythology responsible for shaping the course of human destinies.

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Numidia

Numidia was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians in northwest Africa, initially comprising the territory that now makes up Algeria, but later expanding across what is today known as Tunisia and Libya.

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Nyanza Province

Nyanza Province (Mkoa wa Nyanza) was one of Kenya's eight administrative provinces before the formation of the 47 counties under the 2010 constitution.

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Observatory of Strasbourg

The Observatory of Strasbourg is an astronomical observatory in Strasbourg, France.

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Odette Bancilhon

Odette Bancilhon (22 September 1908 – 1998) was a French astronomer.

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Odysseus

In Greek and Roman mythology, Odysseus (Odyseús), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (Ulixes), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.

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Okavango River

The Okavango River (formerly spelt Okovango or Okovanggo), is a river in southwest Africa.

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Olonets

Olonets (Оло́нец; Anus, Anuksenlinnu; Aunus, Aunuksenkaupunki or Aunuksenlinna) is a town and the administrative center of Olonetsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the Olonka River to the east of Lake Ladoga.

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Ophiuchus

Ophiuchus is a large constellation straddling the celestial equator.

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Orchid

Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.

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Orchis

Orchis is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), occurring mainly in Europe and Northwest Africa, and ranging as far as Tibet, Mongolia, and Xinjiang.

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Osiris

Osiris (from Egyptian wsjr) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.

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Ossett

Ossett is a market town in West Yorkshire, England.

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Otto Heckmann

Otto Hermann Leopold Heckmann (June 23, 1901 – May 13, 1983) was a German mathematician and astronomer, director of the Hamburg Observatory from 1941 to 1962, after which he became the first director of the European Southern Observatory.

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Oulu

Oulu (Uleåborg) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of North Ostrobothnia.

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Paavo Nurmi

Paavo Johannes Nurmi (13 June 1897 – 2 October 1973) was a Finnish middle-distance and long-distance runner.

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Pannonia

Pannonia was a province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia.

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Paraná River

The Paraná River (Rio Paraná; Río Paraná; Ysyry Parana) is a river in south-central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina for some."Parana River". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012.

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Paul Henry and Prosper Henry

Paul-Pierre Henry (21 August 1848 – 4 January 1905) and his brother Prosper-Mathieu Henry (10 December 1849 – 25 July 1903) were French opticians and astronomers.

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Paul Wild (Swiss astronomer)

Paul Wild (5 October 1925 – 2 July 2014) was a Swiss astronomer and director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern, who discovered numerous comets, asteroids and supernovae.

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Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt is a five-act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen.

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Pelageya Shajn

Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn, née Sannikova (Пелагея Фёдоровна Шайн) (22 September 1894 – 27 August 1956), was a Russian astronomer in the Soviet Union, and the first woman credited with the discovery of a minor planet, at the Simeiz Observatory in 1928.

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Pemba Island

Pemba Island (الجزيرة الخضراء al-Jazīra al-khadrāʔ, literally "The Green Island"; Pemba kisiwa) is a Tanzanian island forming part of the Zanzibar Archipelago, lying within the Swahili Coast in the Indian Ocean.

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Peony

The peony or paeony is any flowering plant in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae.

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Per Brahe the Younger

Count Per Brahe the Younger (18 February 1602 – 12 September 1680) was a Swedish soldier, statesman, and author.

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Percival Lowell

Percival Lowell (March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered theories of a ninth planet within the Solar System.

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Perth Observatory

The Perth Observatory is the name of two astronomical observatories located in Western Australia (WA).

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Petar Đurković

Petar Đurković (Петар Ђурковић, 1908–1981) was a Serbian astronomer known for discovering two asteroids in 1936 and 1940, respectively.

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Peter van de Kamp

Piet van de Kamp (December 26, 1901 – May 18, 1995), known as Peter van de Kamp in the United States, was a Dutch astronomer who lived in the United States most of his life.

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Petrorhagia

Petrorhagia is a small genus of annual and perennial plants of the family Caryophyllaceae, mostly native to the Mediterranean region.

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Pharaoh

Pharaoh (Egyptian: pr ꜥꜣ; ⲡⲣ̄ⲣⲟ|Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: Parʿō) is the vernacular term often used for the monarchs of ancient Egypt, who ruled from the First Dynasty until the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Republic in 30 BCE.

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Philip Herbert Cowell

Philip Herbert Cowell FRS (1870 – 1949) was a British astronomer.

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Philoctetes

Philoctetes (Φιλοκτήτης. Philoktētēs; English pronunciation:, stressed on the third syllable, -tet-), or Philocthetes, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Poeas, king of Meliboea in Thessaly, and Demonassa or Methone.

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Phryne

Phryne (Phrū́nē, 371 BC – after 316 BC) was an ancient Greek (courtesan).

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Piešťany

Piešťany (Pistyan, Pöstyén, Pieszczany, Píšťany) is a town in Slovakia.

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Pieksämäki

Pieksämäki is a town and municipality of Finland.

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Pielinen

Pielinen (Pielisjärvi) is the fourth largest lake of Finland, with a drainage basin area of equally distributed between eastern Finland and Russia.

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Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti (pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud; 14 January 1850 – 10 June 1923) was a French naval officer and novelist, known for his exotic novels and short stories.

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Pluto

Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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Pol Swings

Pol F. Swings (24 September 1906 – 28 October 1983) was a Belgian astrophysicist who was known for his studies of the composition and structure of stars and comets.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Pori

Pori (Björneborg; Arctopolis) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Satakunta.

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Porvoo

Porvoo (Borgå; Borgoa) is a city in Finland.

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Potomac River

The Potomac River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States that flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

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Poznań

Poznań is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region.

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Predappio

Predappio (La Pré or Dviais) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Forlì-Cesena, in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, with a population of 6,135 as of 1 January 2021.

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Primula auricula

Primula auricula, often known as auricula, mountain cowslip or bear's ear (from the shape of its leaves), is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae, that grows on basic rocks in the mountain ranges of central Europe, including the western Alps, Jura Mountains, the Vosges, the Black Forest and the Tatra Mountains.

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Primulaceae

The Primulaceae, commonly known as the primrose family (but not related to the evening primrose family), are a family of herbaceous and woody flowering plants including some favourite garden plants and wildflowers.

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Prometheus

In Greek mythology, Prometheus (possibly meaning "forethought")Smith,.

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Province of Limburg (1815–1839)

Limburg (Provincie Limburg, Province de Limbourg) was one of the provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and later Belgium.

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Pulkovo Observatory

The Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory (Pulkovskaya astronomicheskaya observatoriya), officially named the Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pulkovo, is the principal astronomical observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Punkaharju

Punkaharju is a former municipality of Finland.

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Pyrola

Pyrola is a genus of evergreen herbaceous plants in the family Ericaceae.

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Queen of Sheba

The Queen of Sheba, also called Bilqis (Yemeni and Islamic tradition) and Makeda (Ethiopian tradition), is a figure first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

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Quince

The quince (Cydonia oblonga) is the sole member of the genus Cydonia in the Malinae subtribe (which also contains apples and pears, among other fruits) of the Rosaceae family.

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Raahe

Raahe (Brahestad) is a town in Finland, located on the western coast of the country.

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Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879.

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Rauma, Finland

Rauma (Raumo) is a town in Finland, located on the western coast of the country.

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Regensburg

Regensburg (historically known in English as Ratisbon) is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers, Danube's northernmost point.

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Reni, Ukraine

Reni (Рені,; Reni) is a small city in Izmail Raion, Odesa Oblast, southern Ukraine.

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Republic of Karelia

The Republic of Karelia, Karjala or Karelia (Каре́лия, Ка́рьяла; Karjala) is a republic of Russia situated in the northwest of the country.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Reseda (plant)

Reseda, also known as the mignonette, is a genus of fragrant herbaceous plants native to Europe, southwest Asia and North Africa, from the Canary Islands and Iberia east to northwest India.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.

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Rhodesia

Rhodesia (Rodizha), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979.

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Rhododendron

Rhododendron (rhododendra) is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae).

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Richard Schorr

Richard Reinhard Emil Schorr (20 August 1867, Kassel – 21 September 1951, Badgastein, Salzburg), was a German astronomer.

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Riga

Riga is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia, as well as one of the most populous cities in the Baltic States.

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Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (16 July 1872 –) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.

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Robert d'Escourt Atkinson

Robert d'Escourt Atkinson (born 11 April 1898, Rhayader, Wales – died 28 October 1982, Bloomington, Indiana) was a British astronomer, physicist and inventor.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer.

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Robert Luther

Karl Theodor Robert Luther (16 April 1822, Świdnica – 15 February 1900 Düsseldorf), normally published as Robert Luther, was a German astronomer.

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Robert Raynolds McMath

Robert Raynolds McMath (May 11, 1891 – January 2, 1962) was an American solar astronomer.

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Robert T. A. Innes

Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes FRSE FRAS (10 November 1861 – 13 March 1933) was a British-born South African astronomer best known for discovering Proxima Centauri in 1915, and numerous binary stars.

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Rolf Nevanlinna

Rolf Herman Nevanlinna (né Neovius; 22 October 1895 – 28 May 1980) was a Finnish mathematician who made significant contributions to complex analysis.

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Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Rovaniemi

Rovaniemi (Roavvenjárga; Ruávinjargâ; Ruäʹvnjargg) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Lapland.

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Royal Observatory of Belgium

The Royal Observatory of Belgium (Observatoire Royal de Belgique; Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België) has been situated in the Uccle municipality of Brussels since 1890.

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Royal Observatory, Greenwich

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG; known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, temporarily moved south from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north.

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Ruanda-Urundi

Ruanda-Urundi, later Rwanda-Burundi, was a colonial territory, once part of German East Africa, that was occupied by troops from the Belgian Congo during the East African campaign in World War I and was administered by Belgium under military occupation from 1916 to 1922.

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Rumpelstiltskin

"Rumpelstiltskin" (Rumpelstilzchen) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales.

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Rupert Wildt

Rupert Wildt (June 25, 1905 – January 9, 1976) was an American astronomer.

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Russian language

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.

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Rutherford, New Jersey

Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Ruvuma River

Ruvuma River, formerly also known as the Rovuma River, is a river in the African Great Lakes region.

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Rymättylä

Rymättylä (Rimito) is a former municipality of Finland.

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Saga

Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia.

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Saimaa

Saimaa (Saimen) is a lake located in the Finnish Lakeland area in southeastern Finland.

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Saldanha Bay

Saldanha Bay (Saldanhabaai) is a natural harbour on the south-western coast of South Africa.

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Salerno

Salerno (Salierno) is an ancient city and comune (municipality) in Campania, southwestern Italy, and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after Naples.

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Salonta

Salonta (Nagyszalonta, colloquially,; Großsalontha) is a city in Bihor County, in the geographical region of Crișana, north-western Romania, near the Hungarian border.

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Salvia officinalis

Salvia officinalis, the common sage or sage, is a perennial, evergreen subshrub, with woody stems, grayish leaves, and blue to purplish flowers.

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Savonia (historical province)

Savonia (Savo, Savolax) is a historical province in the east of Finland.

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Savonlinna

Savonlinna (lit) is a town in Finland, located in the eastern interior of the country.

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Scabiosa

Scabiosa is a genus in the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae) of flowering plants.

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Schmidt camera

A Schmidt camera, also referred to as the Schmidt telescope, is a catadioptric astrophotographic telescope designed to provide wide fields of view with limited aberrations.

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Sea of Marmara

The Sea of Marmara, also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, is a small inland sea located entirely within the borders of Turkey.

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Seinäjoki

Seinäjoki ("Wall River"; Wegelia, formerly Östermyra) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of South Ostrobothnia.

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Sequoia National Park

Sequoia National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California.

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Serbia

Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.

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Serge Koussevitzky

Serge Koussevitzky (born Sergey Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky;Koussevitzky's original Russian forename is usually transliterated into English as either "Sergei" or "Sergey"; however, he himself adopted the French spelling "Serge", using it in his signature. (See. Retrieved 5 November 2009.) His surname can be transliterated variously as "Koussevitzky", "Koussevitsky", "Kussevitzky", "Kusevitsky", or, into Polish, as "Kusewicki"; however, he himself chose to use "Koussevitzky".

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Sergei Korolev

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov,; Serhii Pavlovych Koroliov,; 14 January 1966) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Sergey Belyavsky

Sergey Ivanovich Belyavsky (Серге́й Ива́нович Беля́вский; December 7, 1883 (Julian calendar: November 25) – October 13, 1953) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and a discoverer of 36 numbered minor planets.

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Seth Barnes Nicholson

Seth Barnes Nicholson (November 12, 1891 – July 2, 1963) was an American astronomer.

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Shaka

Shaka kaSenzangakhona (–24 September 1828), also known as Shaka Zulu and Sigidi kaSenzangakhona, was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 to 1828.

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Shakuntala (play)

Abhijñānaśākuntalam (Devanagari: अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम्, IAST: Abhijñānaśākuntalam), also known as Shakuntala, The Recognition of Shakuntala, The Sign of Shakuntala, and many other variants, is a Sanskrit play by the ancient Indian poet Kālidāsa, dramatizing the story of Śakuntalā told in the epic Mahābhārata and regarded as the best of Kālidāsa's works.

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Shiva

Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis.

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Shizuoka Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu.

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Shona people

The Shona people are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa, primarily living in Zimbabwe where they form the majority of the population, as well as Mozambique, South Africa, and a worldwide diaspora.

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Shota Rustaveli

Shota Rustaveli (შოთა რუსთაველი, – after c. 1220), mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Sidney Jones (composer)

James Sidney Jones (17 June 1861 – 29 January 1946), usually credited as Sidney Jones, was an English conductor and composer, who was most famous for composing the musical scores for a series of musical comedy hits in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.

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Silvretta Alps

The Silvretta Alps are a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps shared by Tirol, Vorarlberg (both in Austria) and Graubünden (Switzerland).

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Simeiz

Simeiz (Сімеїз, Симеи́з, Simeiz) is a resort town, an urban-type settlement in Yalta Municipality in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.

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Simeiz Observatory

Simeiz Observatory (also spelled Simeis or Simeïs) was an astronomy research observatory until the mid-1950s.

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Siren (mythology)

In Greek mythology, sirens (label; plural) are humanlike beings with alluring voices; they appear in a scene in the Odyssey in which Odysseus saves his crew's lives.

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Sisyphus

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus or Sisyphos (Ancient Greek: Σίσυφος Sísyphos) was the founder and king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth).

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Skuld

Skuld ("debt" or "obligation"; sharing etymology with the English "should") is a Norn in Norse mythology.

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Slovakia

Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe.

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Sofala Province

Sofala is a province of Mozambique.

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Sofya Kovalevskaya

Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Софья Васильевна Ковалевская), born Korvin-Krukovskaya (– 10 February 1891), was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics.

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Solar eclipse

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially.

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Solomon Pikelner

Solomon Borisovich Pikelner (Соломон Борисович Пикельнер; February 6, 1921 – November 19, 1975) was a Soviet astronomer who made a significant contribution to the theory of the interstellar medium, solar plasma physics, stellar atmospheres, and magnetohydrodynamics.

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Somalia

Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.

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Sonneberg

Sonneberg in Thuringia, Germany, is the seat of the Sonneberg district.

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Sonneberg Observatory

Sonneberg Observatory (Sternwarte Sonneberg) is an astronomical observatory located at 638 m altitude on Erbisbühl in the Neufang district of Sonneberg.

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Soyuz 11

Soyuz 11 (lit) was the only crewed mission to board the world's first space station, Salyut 1.

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Spiraea

Spiraea, sometimes spelled spirea in common names, and commonly known as meadowsweets or steeplebushes, is a genus of about 80 to 100 species Flora of China.

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St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

The St.

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Stavropol

Stavropol (Ставрополь), known as Voroshilovsk from 1935 until 1943, is a city and the administrative centre of Stavropol Krai, in southern Russia.

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Stjerneborg

Stjerneborg ("Star Castle" in English) was Tycho Brahe's underground observatory next to his palace-observatory Uraniborg, located on the island of Ven in the Öresund between Denmark and Sweden.

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Strawberry

The garden strawberry (or simply strawberry; Fragaria × ananassa) is a widely grown hybrid species of the genus Fragaria in the rose family, Rosaceae, collectively known as the strawberries, which are cultivated worldwide for their fruit.

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to the scientific knowledge about the structure of stars, stellar evolution and black holes.

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Sumer

Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.

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Sumida River

The is a river that flows through central Tokyo, Japan.

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Svein Rosseland

Svein Rosseland (March 31, 1894, in Kvam, Hardanger – January 19, 1985, in Bærum) was a Norwegian astrophysicist and a pioneer in the field of theoretical astrophysics.

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Sylvain Arend

Sylvain Julien Victor Arend (6 August 1902 – 18 February 1992) was a Belgian astronomer born in Robelmont, Luxembourg province, Belgium.

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Syringa

Syringa is a genus of 12 currently recognized species of flowering woody plants in the olive family or Oleaceae called lilacs.

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Tadeáš Hájek

Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku (1 December 1525 in Prague – 1 September 1600 in Prague), also known as Tadeáš Hájek of Hájek, Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayek or Thaddeus Nemicus, was a Czech naturalist, personal physician of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II and an astronomer in the Kingdom of Bohemia.

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Tadeusz Banachiewicz

Tadeusz Julian Banachiewicz (13 February 1882, Warsaw – 17 November 1954, Kraków) was a Polish astronomer, mathematician and geodesist.

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Tama River

The is a major river in Yamanashi, Kanagawa and Tokyo Prefectures on Honshū, Japan.

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Tampere

Tampere (Tammerfors) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa.

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Tana River (Kenya)

The ca.

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Tanga, Tanzania

Tanga (Jiji la Tanga, in Swahili) is a historic city and the capital of Tanga Region.

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Tarkastad

Tarkastad is a Karoo semi-urban settlement situated on the banks of Tarka River in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Tata, Hungary

Tata (Totis; Dotis) is a town in Komárom-Esztergom County, northwestern Hungary, northwest of the county town Tatabánya.

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Tübingen

Tübingen (Dibenga) is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Telamon

In Greek mythology, Telamon (Ancient Greek: Τελαμών, Telamōn means "broad strap") was the son of King Aeacus of Aegina, and Endeïs, a mountain nymph.

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Tenerife

Tenerife (formerly spelled Teneriffe) is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands.

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Teutons

The Teutons (Teutones, Teutoni, Τεύτονες) were an ancient northern European tribe mentioned by Roman authors.

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Tezcatlipoca

Tezcatlipoca (Tēzcatlipōca) or Tezcatl Ipoca was a central deity in Aztec religion.

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Thaïs

Thaïs (Θαΐς) was a Greek who accompanied Alexander the Great on his military campaigns.

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The Geisha

The Geisha, a story of a tea house is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts.

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Theodor von Oppolzer

Theodor von Oppolzer (26 October 1841 – 26 December 1886) was an Austrian astronomer and mathematician of Bohemian origin.

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Theodore Hesburgh

Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC (May 25, 1917 – February 26, 2015) was an American Catholic priest and academic who was a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross.

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Thersites

In Greek mythology, Thersites (Ancient Greek: Θερσίτης) was a soldier of the Greek army during the Trojan War.

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Thessaly

Thessaly (translit; ancient Thessalian: Πετθαλία) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name.

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Thorvald N. Thiele

Thorvald Nicolai Thiele (24 December 1838 – 26 September 1910) was a Danish astronomer and director of the Copenhagen Observatory.

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Tilia

Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees or bushes, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere.

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Till Eulenspiegel

Till Eulenspiegel (Dyl Ulenspegel) is the protagonist of a European narrative tradition.

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Tochigi Prefecture

is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu.

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Tom Gehrels

Anton M.J. "Tom" Gehrels (February 21, 1925 – July 11, 2011) was a Dutch–American astronomer, Professor of Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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Tomáš Masaryk

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (7 March 185014 September 1937) was a Czechoslovak statesman, progressive political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935.

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Tone River

The is a river in the Kantō region of Japan.

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Tornio

Tornio (Torneå; Duortnus; Tuárnus) is a city and municipality in Lapland, Finland.

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Transdanubia

Transdanubia (Dunántúl; Transdanubien, Prekodunavlje or Zadunavlje, Zadunajsko) is a traditional region of Hungary.

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Transkei

Transkei (meaning the area beyond the river Kei), officially the Republic of Transkei (iRiphabliki yeTranskei), was an unrecognised state in the southeastern region of South Africa from 1976 to 1994.

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Transvaal (province)

The Province of the Transvaal (Provinsie van Transvaal), commonly referred to as the Transvaal, was a province of South Africa from 1910 until 1994, when a new constitution subdivided it following the end of apartheid.

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Transylvania

Transylvania (Transilvania or Ardeal; Erdély; Siebenbürgen or Transsilvanien, historically Überwald, also Siweberjen in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania.

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Tristan

Tristan (Latin/Brythonic: Drustanus; Trystan), also known as Tristram, Tristyn or Tristain and similar names, is the hero of the legend of Tristan and Iseult.

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Troilus

Troilus (or; Troïlos; Troilus) is a legendary character associated with the story of the Trojan War.

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Trojan War

The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the 12th or 13th century BC.

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Tswana people

The Tswana (Batswana, singular Motswana) are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa.

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Tugela River

The Tugela River (Thukela; Tugelarivier) is the largest river in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.

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Turku

Turku (Åbo) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland.

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Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe (born Tyge Ottesen Brahe,; 14 December 154624 October 1601), generally called Tycho for short, was a Danish astronomer of the Renaissance, known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly accurate astronomical observations.

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Uccle

Uccle (French) or Ukkel (Dutch) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Union Observatory

Union Observatory also known as Johannesburg Observatory (078) is a defunct astronomical observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa that was operated between 1903 and 1971.

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Union of South Africa

The Union of South Africa (Unie van Zuid-Afrika; Unie van Suid-Afrika) was the historical predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa.

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University of Bern

The University of Bern (Universität Bern, Université de Berne, Universitas Bernensis) is a public research university in the Swiss capital of Bern.

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University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame (ND), is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana.

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University of Paris

The University of Paris (Université de Paris), known metonymically as the Sorbonne, was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution.

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University of Turku

The University of Turku (Turun yliopisto, in Åbo universitet, shortened UTU) is a multidisciplinary public university with eight faculties located in the city of Turku in southwestern Finland.

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Uraniborg

Uraniborg was an astronomical observatory and alchemy laboratory established and operated by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe.

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Urbain Le Verrier

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.

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Utopia

A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members.

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Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.

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Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937) is a Russian engineer, member of the State Duma, and former Soviet cosmonaut.

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Vassar College

Vassar College is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.

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Vatican Library

The Vatican Apostolic Library (Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), more commonly known as the Vatican Library or informally as the Vat, is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City, and is the city-state's national library.

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Veikko Antero Koskenniemi

Veikko Antero Koskenniemi (8 July 1885 – 4 August 1962) was a Finnish poet born in Oulu.

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Ven (Sweden)

Ven (older Swedish spelling Hven), is a Swedish island in the Öresund strait laying between Skåne, Sweden and Zealand, Denmark.

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Vera Figner

Vera Nikolayevna Figner Filippova (Вера Николаевна Фигнер Филиппова; – 25 June 1942) was a Russian revolutionary and political activist.

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Vesto M. Slipher

Vesto Melvin Slipher (November 11, 1875 – November 8, 1969) was an American astronomer who performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies.

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Vicia

Vicia is a genus of over 240 species of flowering plants that are part of the legume family (Fabaceae), and which are commonly known as vetches.

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Viktor Ambartsumian

Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian (Виктор Амазаспович Амбарцумян; Վիկտոր Համազասպի Համբարձումյան, Viktor Hamazaspi Hambardzumyan; 12 August 1996) was a Soviet and Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator.

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Viktor Patsayev

Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (Виктор Иванович Пацаев; 19 June 193330 June 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and was part of the third space crew to die during a space flight.

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Viola (plant)

Viola is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae.

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Virton

Virton (Gaumais: Viertån; Vierton) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium.

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Vladimir Albitsky

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky (Владимир Александрович Альбицкий) (16 June 1891 – 15 June 1952) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Vladimir Komarov

Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (Владимир Михайлович Комаров,; 16 March 1927 – 24 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut.

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Vladislav Volkov

Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov (Владислав Николаевич Волков; 23 November 193530 June 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions.

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Volga

The Volga (p) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of, and a catchment area of., Russian State Water Registry It is also Europe's largest river in terms of average discharge at delta – between and – and of drainage basin.

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Wald, Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Wald is a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland.

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Walhalla (memorial)

The Walhalla is a hall of fame that honours laudable and distinguished people in German history – "politicians, sovereigns, scientists and artists of the German tongue";Official Guide booklet, 2002, p. 3 thus the celebrities honoured are drawn from Greater Germany, a wider area than today's Germany, and even as far away as Britain in the case of several Anglo-Saxon figures.

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Wallace John Eckert

Wallace John Eckert (June 19, 1902 – August 24, 1971) was an American astronomer, who directed the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University which evolved into the research division of IBM.

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Walter Augustin Villiger

Walter Augustin Villiger (1872–1938; his first name is sometimes spelt Walther) was a Swiss astronomer and Carl Zeiss engineer who discovered an asteroid while working in Munich, Germany.

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Walter Baade

Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 – June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959.

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Walther Bauersfeld

Walther Bauersfeld (23 January 1879 – 28 October 1959) was a German engineer.

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Warsaw

Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.

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Wawel Castle

The Wawel Royal Castle (Zamek Królewski na Wawelu) and the Wawel Hill on which it sits constitute the most historically and culturally significant site in Poland.

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Wawel Cathedral

The Wawel Cathedral (Katedra Wawelska), formally titled the Archcathedral Basilica of Saint Stanislaus and Saint Wenceslaus, (Bazylika archikatedralna św.) is a Catholic cathedral situated on Wawel Hill in Kraków, Poland.

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Werra

The Werra, a river in central Germany, is the right-bank headwater of the Weser.

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Wilhelm Gliese

Wilhelm Gliese (English; 21 June 1915 – 12 June 1993) was a German astronomer who specialized in the study and cataloging of nearby stars.

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Willebrord Snellius

Willebrord Snellius (born Willebrord Snel van Royen) (13 June 158030 October 1626) was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician, commonly known as Snell.

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Willem de Sitter

Willem de Sitter (6 May 1872 – 20 November 1934) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.

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Willem Hendrik van den Bos

Willem Hendrik van den Bos (25 September 1896 – 30 March 1974) was a Dutch astronomer who worked at the Union Observatory in South Africa and became its director in 1941.

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Willem Jacob Luyten

Willem Jacob Luyten (March 7, 1899 – November 21, 1994) was a Dutch-American astronomer.

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William D. McElroy

William David McElroy (22 January 1917 – 17 February 1999) was an American biochemist and academic administrator.

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William Hammond Wright

William Hammond Wright (November 4, 1871 – May 16, 1959) was an American astronomer and the director of the Lick Observatory from 1935 until 1942.

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William Herschel

Frederick William Herschel (Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-British astronomer and composer.

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William Stephen Finsen

William Stephen Finsen FRAS (28 July 1905 – 16 May 1979) was a South African astronomer.

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Winter War

The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland.

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Wintergreen

Wintergreen is a group of aromatic plants.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yalta

Yalta (Ялта) is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea.

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Yevgeniya Rudneva

Yevgeniya Maksimovna Rudneva (Евгения Максимовна Руднева; 24 May 1921 – 9 April 1944) was the head navigator of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment posthumously awarded Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Yi Xing

Yi Xing (683–727), born Zhang Sui, was a Chinese astronomer, Buddhist monk, inventor, mathematician, mechanical engineer, and philosopher during the Tang dynasty.

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Yrjö Väisälä

Yrjö Väisälä (6 September 1891 – 21 July 1971) was a Finnish astronomer and physicist.

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Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space.

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Yusuke Hagihara

was a Japanese astronomer noted for his contributions to celestial mechanics.

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Zambezi

The Zambezi (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. Its drainage basin covers, slightly less than half of the Nile's. The river rises in Zambia and flows through eastern Angola, along the north-eastern border of Namibia and the northern border of Botswana, then along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe to Mozambique, where it crosses the country to empty into the Indian Ocean.

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Zeeland

Zeeland (Zeêland; historical English exonym Zealand) is the westernmost and least populous province of the Netherlands.

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Zhang Heng

Zhang Heng (AD 78–139), formerly romanized Chang Heng, was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman who lived during the Han dynasty.

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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.

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Zimmerwald

Zimmerwald was an independent municipality in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland until 31 December 2003.

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Zomba, Malawi

Zomba is a city in southern Malawi, in the Shire Highlands.

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Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya (p; September 13, 1923 – November 29, 1941) was a Soviet partisan.

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Zu Chongzhi

Zu Chongzhi (429 – 500), courtesy name Wenyuan, was a Chinese astronomer, inventor, mathematician, politician, and writer during the Liu Song and Southern Qi dynasties.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and Zu Chongzhi

Zulu people

Zulu people (amaZulu) are a native people of Southern Africa of the Nguni.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and Zulu people

Zvezdara

Zvezdara (Звездара) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and Zvezdara

1001 Gaussia

Gaussia (minor planet designation: 1001 Gaussia), provisional designation, is a dark background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 73 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1001 Gaussia

1002 Olbersia

1002 Olbersia (''prov. designation'': or) is a background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1002 Olbersia

1003 Lilofee

Lilofee (minor planet designation: 1003 Lilofee), provisional designation, is a carbonaceous Themistian asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 33 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1003 Lilofee

1004 Belopolskya

Belopolskya (minor planet designation: 1004 Belopolskya), provisional designation, is a dark Cybele asteroid from the outermost region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1004 Belopolskya

1005 Arago

Arago (minor planet designation: 1005 Arago), provisional designation, is a dark asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 55 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1005 Arago

1006 Lagrangea

Lagrangea (minor planet designation: 1006 Lagrangea), provisional designation, is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 30 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1006 Lagrangea

1007 Pawlowia

Pawlowia (minor planet designation: 1007 Pawlowia), provisional designation, is a background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1007 Pawlowia

1008 La Paz

La Paz (minor planet designation: 1008 La Paz), provisional designation, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 40 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1008 La Paz

1009 Sirene

Sirene (minor planet designation: 1009 Sirene), provisional designation, is an eccentric asteroid and sizable Mars-crosser from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1009 Sirene

1010 Marlene

1010 Marlene (''prov. designation'': or) is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 47 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1010 Marlene

1011 Laodamia

Laodamia (minor planet designation: 1011 Laodamia), provisional designation, is a stony asteroid and sizable Mars-crosser near the innermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7.5 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1011 Laodamia

1012 Sarema

1012 Sarema (''prov. designation'': or) is a dark background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1012 Sarema

1013 Tombecka

1013 Tombecka (prov. designation: or) is a metallic Mitidika asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 34 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1013 Tombecka

1014 Semphyra

1014 Semphyra, provisional designation, is a background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 17 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1014 Semphyra

1015 Christa

1015 Christa, provisional designation, is a dark background asteroid from the outermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1015 Christa

1016 Anitra

1016 Anitra, provisional designation, is a stony Florian asteroid and suspected asynchronous binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1016 Anitra

1017 Jacqueline

1017 Jacqueline (''prov. designation'': or) is a dark background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1017 Jacqueline

1018 Arnolda

1018 Arnolda, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 16 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1018 Arnolda

1019 Strackea

1019 Strackea, provisional designation, is a stony Hungaria asteroid of the inner asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1019 Strackea

1020 Arcadia

1020 Arcadia, provisional designation, is a stony Agnia asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1020 Arcadia

1021 Flammario

1021 Flammario, provisional designation, is a dark background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1021 Flammario

1022 Olympiada

1022 Olympiada, provisional designation, is a background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1022 Olympiada

1023 Thomana

1023 Thomana, provisional designation, is a rare-type carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 58 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1023 Thomana

1024 Hale

1024 Hale, provisional designation, is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1024 Hale

1025 Riema

1025 Riema, provisional designation, is a bright Hungaria asteroid from the innermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1025 Riema

1034 Mozartia

1034 Mozartia, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1034 Mozartia

1035 Amata

1035 Amata is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 57 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1035 Amata

1036 Ganymed

1036 Ganymed, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid on a highly eccentric orbit, classified as a near-Earth object of the Amor group.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1036 Ganymed

1073 Gellivara

1073 Gellivara, provisional designation, is a dark Themistian asteroid, approximately in diameter, located in the outer regions of the asteroid belt.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1073 Gellivara

1089 Tama

1089 Tama, provisional designation, is an elongated Florian asteroid and synchronous binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1089 Tama

1108 Demeter

1108 Demeter, provisional designation, is a dark asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1108 Demeter

1130 Skuld

1130 Skuld, provisional designation, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1130 Skuld

1143 Odysseus

1143 Odysseus, provisional designation, is a large Jupiter trojan located in the Greek camp of Jupiter's orbit.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1143 Odysseus

1221 Amor

1221 Amor is an asteroid and near-Earth object on an eccentric orbit, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1221 Amor

1313 Berna

1313 Berna, provisional designation, is a background asteroid and synchronous binary system from the Eunomian region in the central asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1313 Berna

1322 Coppernicus

1322 Coppernicus, provisional designation, is a stony background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1322 Coppernicus

1373 Cincinnati

1373 Cincinnati, provisional designation, is an asteroid in a comet-like orbit from the Cybele region, located at the outermost rim of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1373 Cincinnati

1388 Aphrodite

1388 Aphrodite (''prov. designation'') is an asteroid of the Eos family from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1388 Aphrodite

1500 Jyväskylä

1500 Jyväskylä, provisional designation, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1500 Jyväskylä

1509 Esclangona

1509 Esclangona, provisional designation, is a rare-type Hungaria asteroid and binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1509 Esclangona

1516 Henry

1516 Henry, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1516 Henry

1552 Bessel

1552 Bessel, provisional designation, is a stony Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 18 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1552 Bessel

1566 Icarus

1566 Icarus (provisional designation) is a large near-Earth object of the Apollo group and the lowest numbered potentially hazardous asteroid.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1566 Icarus

1575 Winifred

1575 Winifred, provisional designation, is a stony Phocaea asteroid and slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 9.5 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1575 Winifred

1578 Kirkwood

1578 Kirkwood, provisional designation, is a Hilda asteroid from the outermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 52 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1578 Kirkwood

1602 Indiana

1602 Indiana, provisional designation, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1602 Indiana

1604 Tombaugh

1604 Tombaugh, provisional designation, is a rare-type Eos asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 32 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1604 Tombaugh

1615 Bardwell

1615 Bardwell, provisional designation, is a rare-type Themistian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 27 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1615 Bardwell

1620 Geographos

1620 Geographos (provisional designation) is a highly elongated, stony asteroid, near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, with a mean diameter of approximately.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1620 Geographos

1627 Ivar

1627 Ivar (provisional designation) is an elongated stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 15×6×6 km.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1627 Ivar

1657 Roemera

1657 Roemera, provisional designation, is a stony Phocaea asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1657 Roemera

1685 Toro

1685 Toro (''prov. designation'') is an asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group on an eccentric orbit.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1685 Toro

1695 Walbeck

1695 Walbeck, provisional designation, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 19 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1695 Walbeck

1721 Wells

1721 Wells, provisional designation, is a dark asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 44 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1721 Wells

1728 Goethe Link

1728 Goethe Link, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid and relatively slow rotator from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 16 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1728 Goethe Link

1729 Beryl

1729 Beryl, provisional designation, is a stony background asteroid from the Florian region in the inner asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1729 Beryl

1741 Giclas

1741 Giclas (''prov. designation'') is a stony Koronis asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 13 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1741 Giclas

1743 Schmidt

1743 Schmidt, provisional designation, is a dark background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1743 Schmidt

1746 Brouwer

1746 Brouwer (''prov. designation'') is a Hilda asteroid from the outermost region of the asteroid belt, approximately 64 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1746 Brouwer

1751 Herget

1751 Herget, provisional designation, is a stony Gefionian asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 11 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1751 Herget

1761 Edmondson

1761 Edmondson, provisional designation, is a dark background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 21 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1761 Edmondson

1762 Russell

1762 Russell, provisional designation, is a stony Koronian asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 16 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1762 Russell

1763 Williams

1763 Williams, provisional designation, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1763 Williams

1764 Cogshall

1764 Cogshall, provisional designation, is a carbonaceous Themistian asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 26 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1764 Cogshall

1765 Wrubel

1765 Wrubel, provisional designation, is a dark background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 40 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1765 Wrubel

1766 Slipher

1766 Slipher, provisional designation, is a Paduan asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 18 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1766 Slipher

1767 Lampland

1767 Lampland, provisional designation, is an Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 15 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1767 Lampland

1788 Kiess

1788 Kiess, provisional designation, is a carbonaceous Themistian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1788 Kiess

1798 Watts

1798 Watts, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid and binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1798 Watts

1799 Koussevitzky

1799 Koussevitzky (''prov. designation'') is an asteroid of the Eos family from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1799 Koussevitzky

1810 Epimetheus

1810 Epimetheus, provisional designation, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1810 Epimetheus

1822 Waterman

1822 Waterman, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6.5 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1822 Waterman

1824 Haworth

1824 Haworth (''prov. designation'') is an asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 14 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1824 Haworth

1826 Miller

1826 Miller, provisional designation, is a stony Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 24 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1826 Miller

1827 Atkinson

1827 Atkinson, provisional designation, is a background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 9 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1827 Atkinson

1834 Palach

1834 Palach, provisional designation, is a stony Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 19 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1834 Palach

1840 Hus

1840 Hus (''prov. designation'') is a stony Koronis asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1840 Hus

1852 Carpenter

1852 Carpenter, provisional designation, is an Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1852 Carpenter

1853 McElroy

1853 McElroy, provisional designation, is an asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 21 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1853 McElroy

1862 Apollo

1862 Apollo is a stony asteroid, approximately 1.5 kilometers in diameter, classified as a near-Earth object (NEO).

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1862 Apollo

1863 Antinous

1863 Antinous, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid and near-Earth object, approximately 2–3 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1863 Antinous

1865 Cerberus

1865 Cerberus is a stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 1.6 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1865 Cerberus

1866 Sisyphus

1866 Sisyphus is a binary stony asteroid, near-Earth object and the largest member of the Apollo group, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1866 Sisyphus

1952 Hesburgh

1952 Hesburgh, provisional designation, is a rare-type carbonaceous asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 37 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1952 Hesburgh

1953 Rupertwildt

1953 Rupertwildt, provisionally designated, is an asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 22 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1953 Rupertwildt

1955 McMath

1955 McMath, provisional designation, is a stony Koronis asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1955 McMath

1958 Chandra

1958 Chandra (''prov. designation'') is a dark background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1958 Chandra

1971 Hagihara

1971 Hagihara, provisional designation, is an Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1971 Hagihara

1981 Midas

1981 Midas, provisional designation, is a vestoid asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid, approximately 2 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1981 Midas

1982 Cline

1982 Cline, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1982 Cline

1983 Bok

1983 Bok (''prov. designation'') is a dark background asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1983 Bok

1988 Delores

1988 Delores, provisional designation, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1988 Delores

1992 Galvarino

1992 Galvarino, provisional designation, is an Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1992 Galvarino

1994 Shane

1994 Shane, provisional designation, is a dark Adeonian asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 25 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1994 Shane

1996 Adams

1996 Adams, provisional designation, is a stony Eunomia asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 13 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1996 Adams

1997 Leverrier

1997 Leverrier (''prov. designation'') is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1997 Leverrier

1998 Titius

1998 Titius, provisional designation, is a metallic–carbonaceous asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 14 kilometers in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1998 Titius

1999 Hirayama

1999 Hirayama (''prov. designation'') is a dark background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 1999 Hirayama

2000 Herschel

2000 Herschel, provisional designation, is a stony Phocaea asteroid and a tumbling slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

See Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000 and 2000 Herschel

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings_of_minor-planet_names:_1001–2000

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