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  2. Indonesian language - Wikipedia

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    Indonesian ( Bahasa Indonesia; [baˈhasa indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. [8] It is a standardized variety of Malay, [9] an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries. Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world, with over ...

  3. English language - Wikipedia

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    English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.

  4. Rohingya language - Wikipedia

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    Rohingya (/ r oʊ ˈ ɪ n dʒ ə,-h ɪ n-,-ɪ ŋ j ə /; Hanifi Rohingya: 𐴌𐴗𐴥𐴝𐴙𐴚𐴒𐴙𐴝, Ruáingga, رُحَ࣪ڠۡگَ࣪ࢬ ‎, pronounced [rʊˈɜiɲɟə]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Rohingya people of Rakhine State, Myanmar.

  5. Jiaozi - Wikipedia

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    giyose. Jiaozi ( simplified Chinese: 饺子; traditional Chinese: 餃子; pinyin: jiǎo zi; [tɕjàʊ.tsɹ̩] ⓘ) are a type of Chinese dumpling. Jiaozi typically consist of a ground meat and/or vegetable filling wrapped into a thinly rolled piece of dough, which is then sealed by pressing the edges together. Finished jiaozi can be boiled ...

  6. Lea Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961) [1] is an American actress, singer, dancer, and director. She is best known for her role as Lorraine Baines-McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy (1985–1990), Beverly Switzler in Howard the Duck (1986), and Amanda Jones in Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). Other films for which she is known ...

  7. Peaky Blinders (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Peaky Blinders is a crime drama centred on a family of mixed Irish Traveller and Romani origins based in Birmingham, England, starting in 1919, several months after the end of the First World War. It centres on the Peaky Blinders street gang and their ambitious, cunning crime boss Tommy Shelby.

  8. Blackbeard - Wikipedia

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    Commands. Queen Anne's Revenge, Adventure. Edward Teach (or Thatch; c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen ...

  9. Patty Hearst - Wikipedia

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    Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954) is a member of the Hearst family and granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. She first became known for the events following her 1974 kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. She was found and arrested 19 months after being abducted, by which time she was a ...