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Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday. It is the name of a celebration that takes place on the day before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of the 40-day period of Lent. Mardi Gras is the final day of a three-day period, which starts on the Sun

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By Greg Flakus Washington, DC 28 February 2006 watch Carnival Cleanup report Carnival Cleanup The Carnival season has drawn thousands of people to the streets of New Orleans over the past week. The ce

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By Greg Flakus New Orleans 19 February 2006 A float in New Orleans' Mardi Gras parade The first major parades of the Mardi Gras season rolled through the streets of New Orleans Saturday. The celebrati

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NAIROBI, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Berlin marathon champions Geoffrey Mutai and Dubai marathon silver medalist Lucy Kabuu will headline the elite field at this year's RAK Half-Marathon in the United Arab Emirates. The event, seventh edition, which will be r

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By Greg Flakus Houston 21 February 2007 The annual carnival celebration known as Mardi Gras came to an end in New Orleans Tuesday with parades and parties. Crowds were much larger than last year and local officials say this has helped the city's eff

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-Mardi Gras is a traditional holiday celebrated in many of the southern states of the USA. The most famous celebration takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana. The people there enjoy this celebration by going to parades where they catch beads, doubloon

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Around the world, women are far more likely than men to be poor, ill-housed, under-educated and victimized by war and discrimination. To help women help themselves and their communities, the Global Fund for Women, or GFW, a San Francisco-based organ

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a good night's sleep
adipoin
anwan
asbestoid, asbestoidal
auricular tourniquet
basiation
blow cleaner
bonus bond
by's
canales spiralis cochleae
catwomen
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chrysanthemum lavandulaefolium makino
construction design
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corven
do no wrong
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doud
eight-seventeen
elaeagnus henryi arb.
epoxidized ester
estuary harbour
Euphorbia soongarica
evolution programming
extra-musical
genus Samia
godemiche
gormagon
gradient liquid chromatography
gramineous plants
hakkinen
hemimelus
herring-bone antenna
high-speed drilling attachment
histamine cephalalgia
house-hunt
hydroxyevodiamine
indirect interchange diffusion
insured object
katepimeron
Kell-E
Konsuloff's tests
kuniuling series
kuznets
leadened
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light wave rangefinder
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lube refining
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manducated
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multi-national
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non-commercial wells
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phosphorimidic acid
photoelectric color analyzer
plicae epigastrica
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pregnant antimony solution
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pressurized canopy
pun on
quartz-crystal subaqueous microphone
quitclaiming
rawles
reverse field process
road freight
rollerboard
snapping of the peroneal tendon
source version
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standard Hall specimen
stick test
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superquantization
synodus englemani
ta ling kuan ch'ang
textile products
threshold of adverse effect
to bury the hatchet
traffic control in park
transmit power control
two terminal series-parallel network
U.S. income tax liability
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Volterra integral equation of the first kind
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weight declared
X-ray scattering
zigzag chute