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  2. Nadir - Wikipedia

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    Nadir also refers to the downward-facing viewing geometry of an orbiting satellite, [2] such as is employed during remote sensing of the atmosphere, as well as when an astronaut faces the Earth while performing a spacewalk. A nadir image is a satellite image or aerial photo of the Earth taken vertically. A satellite ground track represents its ...

  3. Most common words in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    Most of the sources are from the 1990s. Of the 20 million words in the corpus, about one-third (~6,750,000 words) come from transcripts of spoken Spanish: conversations, interviews, lectures, sermons, press conferences, sports broadcasts, and so on. Among the written sources are novels, plays, short stories, letters, essays, newspapers, and the ...

  4. National Database and Registration Authority - Wikipedia

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    The National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) ( Urdu: قومی مقتدرہِ اندراجات و معطیات) is an independent and autonomous agency under the control of the Interior Secretary of Pakistan that regulates Government Databases and statistically manages the sensitive registration database of all the National Citizens of ...

  5. Infante of Spain - Wikipedia

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    Infante of Spain. Heraldic crown of infantes. Infante of Spain (feminine infanta; Spanish: infante de España; f. infanta) is a royal title normally granted at birth to the children of reigning and past Spanish monarchs, and to the children of the heir to the Crown. Individuals holding the title of infante also enjoy the style of Royal Highness .

  6. Don (honorific) - Wikipedia

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    The term Don ( Spanish: [don], roughly ' Lord ') [a] abbreviated as D., is an honorific prefix primarily used in Spain and Hispanic America, and with different connotations also in Italy, Portugal and its former colonies, and formerly in the Philippines . Don is derived from the Latin dominus: a master of a household, a title with background ...

  7. Spanish naming customs - Wikipedia

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    Spanish naming customs. Spanish names are the traditional way of identifying, and the official way of registering, a person in Spain. They are composed of a given name (simple or composite [a]) and two surnames (the first surname of each parent). Traditionally, the first surname is the father's first surname, and the second is the mother's ...

  8. Inverted question and exclamation marks - Wikipedia

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    The inverted question mark, ¿, and inverted exclamation mark, ¡, are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences or clauses in Spanish and some languages which have cultural ties with Spain, such as Asturian and Waray languages. [1] The initial marks are mirrored at the end of the sentence or clause by the ordinary ...

  9. Nador - Wikipedia

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    Nador was founded in the 19th century by local Berber tribes and was under Spanish occupation from 1912 until Morocco's independence in 1956. [2] The Nador Province has over 600,000 inhabitants, predominantly of Rif - Berber ethnicity. Nador is considered the second largest city in the Oriental East after Wejda .