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  2. Castle of Rocca Calascio - Wikipedia

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    The Castle of Rocca Calascio is a mountaintop fortress or rocca in the municipality of Calascio, in the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. At an elevation of around 1,460 metres (4,790 ft), the castle is the highest fortress in the Apennines. Built of stone and masonry exclusively for military purposes and intended only to accommodate troops ...

  3. Boeing 777 - Wikipedia

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    The 777 is a low-wing twinjet; the original -200 is the shortest variant. The Boeing 777, commonly referred to as the Triple Seven, is an American long-range wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The 777 is the world's largest twinjet and the most-built wide-body airliner.

  4. Alaska Purchase - Wikipedia

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    The purchase price was set at $7.2 million (equivalent to $129 million in 2023), or about 2 cents per acre ($4.74/km 2). American ownership. The Russian name for the Alaska Peninsula was Alyaska ("Аляска") or Alyeska, from an Aleut word, alashka or alaesksu, meaning "great land" or "mainland".. The United States chose the name "Alaska" to ...

  5. State Farm Stadium - Wikipedia

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    State Farm Stadium is a multi-purpose retractable roof stadium in Glendale, Arizona, United States, west of Phoenix. It is the home of the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) and the annual Fiesta Bowl. It replaced Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe as the home of the Cardinals, and is adjacent to Desert Diamond Arena, former home ...

  6. Dailymotion - Wikipedia

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    Current status. Active. Head office: 140 Boulevard Malesherbes in Paris. Dailymotion is a French online video sharing platform owned by Vivendi. [2] North American launch partners included Vice Media, Bloomberg, and Hearst Digital Media. [3] It is among the earliest known platforms to support HD ( 720p) resolution video.

  7. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare ( c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4] [5] [6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").

  8. Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Women's suffrage, or the right to vote, was established in the United States over the course of more than half a century, first in various states and localities, sometimes on a limited basis, and then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

  9. Oregon governor wants tolling plan on 2 Portland-area ...

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    Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek wants to scrap a plan to implement tolls on large sections of two Portland-area interstates, she said Monday. Kotek sent a letter to the Oregon Transportation Commission on ...