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Maicon Douglas Sisenando

Maicon Douglas Sisenando (born 26 July 1981 in Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul), commonly known as Maicon, is a Brazilian football player, currently playing for Italian Serie A club F.C. Internazionale Milano. Dunga may have had an abundance of quality right-wingbacks at his disposal since assuming the Brazil reins, but that has not prevented Maicon from making the No2 …

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Which is the world’s largest city?

For many years, Tokyo and Shanghai headed the world league table of the largest cities, but in the early 1980s Mexico City pulled ahead. Present forecasts suggest that it will have 30 million people by AD 2000. The expansion of Mexico City is part of a trend throughout developing countries for poor people to leave the hard life in the …

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Where would you find pearls?

Pearls come from mollusks-a group of animals, which includes squids, clams, and oysters. Under its shell the mollusk has a mantle, or outer-skin. When a particle of dirt, or tiny marine creature gets stuck in this mantle, a hard substance forms around it. This makes the pearl. It is formed of the same material as the mollusk shell-nacre or mother-of-pearl. …

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K. C. S. Paniker

K. C. S. Paniker (1911-1977) was one of the best metaphysical and abstract painters in India, took to interpreting the country’s age-old metaphysical and spiritual knowledge in the 60s, when Indian art was still under the influence of the western painters. “That was the time when a few Indian artists were trying to break out of this Western influence and …

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Jeffrey Preston Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born on January 12th 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His family had acquired a 250,000 acre ranch in Cotulla, where Bezos spent most of his childhood summers working with his grandfather. At a young age Bezos started displaying his interests when he converted his parents’ garage into a laboratory for his science projects. The Bezos family …

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What’s unique about the Rio Grande River?

Rio Grande in Spanish means big river. Two different rivers bear the above name: the first is the river flowing through the eastern part of Jamaica, and the second, the river originating in the US and flowing through the southern United States and Mexico. Rio Grande of Jamaica is the largest source of fresh water in Jamaica and provides water …

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