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    He made his international debut against Zambia in July 2000 and scored his first goal two years later against Mauritania at the Stade de Kégué. Adebayor's only international hat-trick came against Swaziland (now Eswatini ) in October 2008, in which he scored four goals during a match in Accra , Ghana.

  3. Future of rail transport in India - Wikipedia

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    Electrification of all routes to save on the imported fuel costs and improve running speed, IR launched "Mission Electrification" in 2017 to electrify 100% or the remaining 38,000 km of the broad gauge network in five years from fy2017-18 to fy2022-23, [51] Railways annual fuel bill is ₹ 32,000 crore (US$3.83 billion or €3.92 billion ...

  4. Ready Player Two - Wikipedia

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    Ready Player Two is a 2020 science fiction novel by American author Ernest Cline.It is the sequel to his 2011 debut novel Ready Player One.Plans for a Ready Player One sequel were first announced in 2015, though Cline did not begin writing the book until late 2017.

  5. United States Semiquincentennial - Wikipedia

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    On November 16, 2018, the 33 members of the United States Semiquincentennial were sworn in at Independence Hall in Philadelphia and convened their first organizing meeting to begin eight years of planning and organizing for the 250th national birthday celebration. Dilella estimated that the group would meet three or four times a year. [45]

  6. Environmental protection - Wikipedia

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    Environmental protection has been made a fundamental duty of every citizen of India under Article 51-A (g) of the constitution which says "It shall be the duty of every citizen of India to protect and improve the natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers, and wildlife and to have compassion for living creatures". [34]

  7. Terminology of homosexuality - Wikipedia

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    The first element of the word, the Greek root homo-, means 'same'; it is unrelated to Latin homo, 'person'. In almost all languages where the words homophile and homosexual were both in use (i.e., their cognate equivalents: German Homophil and Homosexuell, Italian omofilo and omosessuale, etc.), homosexual won out as the modern conventional ...

  8. Year 2000 problem - Wikipedia

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    The term year 2000 problem, [1] or simply Y2K, refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000. Many programs represented four-digit years with only the final two digits, making the year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900. Computer systems' inability to distinguish ...

  9. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...