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Stevenson Drive
Adlai E. Stevenson High School, located in Lincolnshire, Lake County, Illinois, is one of the largest schools in its state and is well known as one of the highest academically ranked schools in the nation. The U.S. Department of Education awarded the
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Non pareils
Nonpareils are a decorative confection of tiny sugar balls, traditionally an opaque white but now available in many colors. Their origin is uncertain, but they may have evolved out of the pharmaceutical use of sugar, as they were a miniature version of comfits. The French name has been interpreted to mean they were "without equal" for intricate decoration of cake
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Ay-carumba!
¡Ay, caramba! (pronounced ; from Spanish ¡ay! (interjection denoting surprise) and caramba, lace worn on the head, (euphemism for carajo, an exclamation of disgust), from Caramba, nickname of María Antonia Fernández, music composer of the 18th century who wore that kind of laces; carajo is of further unknown origin) is a frequently used phrase in the Spanish language.
The phrase has been used by
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Andries van Dam
Andries "Andy" van Dam is a professor of computer science and Vice-President for Research at Brown University in Providence, RI. He was one of the founders of the Brown Computer Science Department and its first chairman from 1979 to 1985. He was the second person to ever receive a Ph.D. in Computer Science.
Van Dam is perhaps most renowned for building the first hypertext system, HES. The term hypertext, however, was
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Non pariels
Nonpareils are a decorative confection of tiny sugar balls, traditionally an opaque white but now available in many colors. Their origin is uncertain, but they may have evolved out of the pharmaceutical use of sugar, as they were a miniature version of comfits. The French name has been interpreted to mean they were "without equal" for intricate decoration of cake
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Capitol Hill, Canberra, ACT
Capital Hill (postcode: 2600) is the location of Parliament House, Canberra, at the south apex of the land axis of the Parliamentary Triangle. The site was selected as the location of the 'National Capital' in Walter Burley Griffin's Canberra design in 1912. The Parliament buildin
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