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Go to Wikipedia and click on the 'Random article' link on the left side of the home page. Post the subject and the first line of definition...

NASCRAG - NASCRAG is the National society of crazed gamers.
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Giovanni Codrington (born 17 July 1988) is a Dutch athlete, who competes in the sprint with a personal best time of 10.38 seconds at the 100 m and 21.02 seconds at the 200 m event.
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Wallamba River - a watercourse of the Great Lakes system, is located in the Mid North Coast district of New South Wales, Australia.

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Steve Donlan ( 4 September 1954 (age 61)[1]) born in Leigh, Lancashire, is an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s, 
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John Rogers - was a senior naval officer in the United States Navy who served under six Presidents for nearly four decades during its formative years in the 1790s through the late 1830s, committing the bulk of his adult life to his country.
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Béarnese is a dialect of Gascon spoken in Béarn (in the French department of the Pyrénées Atlantiques, in southwestern France).


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Little princess statue:

The original 50 cm statuette of the Little Princess (Kiskirálylány) statue sitting on the railings of the Danube promenade in Budapest, Hungary was created by László Marton (1925–2008) Munkácsy- and Kossuth Prize-winning sculptor in 1972.
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Herbert Scott (equestrian)

Herbert Stuart Lauriston Scott (born 29 December 1885 - died ?) was a British horse rider who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.


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Tonkotsu (豚骨?) is a type of pork bone.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyrgis_ruscia

Thyrgis ruscia is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It was described by Druce in 1895. It is found in Bolivia and Ecuador.[1]
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Polycyclohexylenedimethylene terephthalate (PCT) is a thermoplastic polyester formed from the polycondensation of terephthalic acid and cyclohexylene-dimethanol. Thus the chemical structure is similar to that of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), with which it shares properties like dimensional stability and chemical resistance. PCT is also particularly resistant to high temperatures and hydrolysis. The melting point is 545 °F (285 °C). ]]).

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Chen Yuanlin (陈远林 Guilin, 1957) is a Chinese electronic composer based in America.[1] He is a guest lecturer at The for Electronic Music of China (CEMC) founded in 1993 by Professor Zhang Xiaofu at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) Beijing.[2]
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This reminds me of a game a friend of mine posted on facebook a few years back:
1 - Go to wikipedia and hit random. The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 - Go to quotationspage.com and hit random. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. 3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”. Third picture no matter what it is, will be your album cover. 4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

This was mine:


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that would leave me now with the following:

band name: Databricks
title: the last small twig has grown (I actually love that album title)
album cover photo (too lazy to combine the photo with title and band name)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95787103@N07/20772126491/


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Hahaha, that album title actually gives nice meaning to the photo Jean.
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Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Hahaha, that album title actually gives nice meaning to the photo Jean.

yes, I thought the same. a lucky coincidence


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Lynette Fromme

Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) is an American would-be assassin best known for attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975.
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Upsilon Aquilae

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Upsilon Aquilae
Diagram showing star positions and boundaries of the Aquila constellation and its surroundings
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Location of υ Aquilae (circled)
Observation data
Epoch J2000      Equinox J2000
Constellation Aquila
Right ascension 19h 45m 39.94763s[1]
Declination +07° 36′ 47.3717″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) +5.889[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type A3 IV[3]
U−B color index +0.09[4]
B−V color index +0.18[4]
Astrometry

Radial velocity (Rv) –29.9[5] km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: +54.10[1] mas/yr
Dec.: +0.50[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π) 18.65 ± 0.41[1] mas
Distance 175 ± 4 ly
(54 ± 1 pc)

Details

Surface gravity (log g) 4.21[2] cgs
Temperature 7,906[2] K
Metallicity [Fe/H] –0.05[2] dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i) 42[6] km/s

Other designations
49 Aquilae, BD+07 4210, HD 186689, HIP 97229, HR 7519, SAO 125032.[7]

Upsilon Aquilae (υ Aql, υ Aquilae) is the Bayer designation for a star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. With an apparent visual magnitude of +5.91[4] it is a faint star but visible to the naked eye from suburban skies. It has an annual parallax shift of 18.65 milliarcsecond,[1] indicating a distance of around 175 light-years (54 parsecs).

Upsilon Aquilae is a subgiant star with a stellar classification of A3 IV.[3] The outer atmosphere is radiating energy into space at an effective temperature of 7,906 K,[2] which gives it the white-hot glow of an A-type star. It is spinning relatively quickly with a projected rotational velocity of 42 km/s.[6]


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Hubert Broad:

Captain Hubert Standford Broad MBE AFC (1897–1975) was an English First World War aviator and notable sports and test pilot.
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