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  2. Bachelor party - Wikipedia

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    Bachelor party. A bachelor party (in the United States and in Canada), also known as a stag weekend, stag do or stag party (in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth countries, and Ireland), or a buck's night (in Australia), [1] is a party held/arranged by the man who is shortly to enter marriage . A stag night is usually planned by the groom's ...

  3. Lucanus cervus - Wikipedia

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    Lucanus cervus. Scarabaeus tridentatus Linnaeus, 1758 (partim.) Lucanus cervus, known as the European stag beetle, or the greater stag beetle, is one of the best-known species of stag beetle (family Lucanidae) in Western Europe, and is the eponymous example of the genus. L. cervus is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN Red List.

  4. Stag beetle - Wikipedia

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    Male stag beetles are known for their oversize mandibles used to wrestle each other for favoured mating sites in a way that parallels the way stags fight over females. Fights may also be over food, such as tree sap and decaying fruits. Despite their often fearsome appearance, they are not normally aggressive to humans.

  5. United Nations Police - Wikipedia

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    The United Nations Police (UNPOL) is an integral part of the United Nations peace operations. [2] Currently, about 11530 UN Police officers from over 90 countries are deployed in 11 UN peacekeeping operations and 6 Special Political Missions. [3] The "mission of the UN Police is to enhance international peace and security by supporting Member ...

  6. STAG2 - Wikipedia

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    STAG2. Cohesin subunit SA-2 ( SA2) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the STAG2 gene. [5] [6] SA2 is a subunit of the Cohesin complex which mediates sister chromatid cohesion, homologous recombination and DNA looping. In somatic cells cohesin is formed of SMC3, SMC1, RAD21 and either SA1 or SA2 whereas in meiosis, cohesin is formed of ...

  7. Hart (deer) - Wikipedia

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    Hart (deer) A hart is a male red deer, synonymous with stag and used in contrast to the female hind; its use may now be considered mostly poetic or archaic. The word comes from Middle English hert, from Old English heorot; compare Frisian hart, Dutch hert, German Hirsch, and Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish hjort, all meaning "deer".

  8. Stag and doe - Wikipedia

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    A stag and doe party, stag and drag party, buck and doe party, a jack and jill party, or a wedding social is a Canadian party and fundraiser for an engaged couple. Canada [ edit ] A stag and doe is a cultural event in Canada, popular mostly in Manitoba , Northern Ontario and rural Southern Ontario under various names to raise money for a couple ...

  9. Palacký University Olomouc - Wikipedia

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    upol.cz. Faculty of Science stairwell. Palacký University Olomouc ( Czech: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci) is the oldest university in Moravia and the second-oldest in the Czech Republic. It was established in 1573 as a public university led by the Jesuit order in Olomouc, which was at that time the capital of Moravia and the seat of the ...