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Seizure

An epileptic seizure, formally known as a seizure, is a period of symptoms due to abnormally excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. Outward effects vary from uncontrolled shaking movements involving much of the body with loss of consciousness (tonic-clonic seizure), to shaking movements involving only part of the body with variable levels of consciousness (focal seizure), to a subtle momentary loss of […]

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Wesley Autrey

Wesley Autrey is a New York City construction worker and Navy veteran who gained international attention in 2007 by preventing a New York City subway train from hitting Cameron Hollopeter, a film student who had experienced a seizure and fallen into the tracks. He is on Time magazine’s 2007 list of the world’s 100 most

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Svalutation

Svalutation is the 16th album by Italian singer Adriano Celentano, issued in 1976. The word “svalutation” is a mock Englishword coined after the Italian”svalutazione”, which correctly translates to “devaluation”, and the title track ironizes on the Italian economical and political crisis of the time. Released 1976 Genre Pop music Length 34:04 Label Clan Celentano Producer Clan Celentano The album

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Tamara Kolton

Born Tamara Ruth FeldsteinMarch 13, 1970(age 51)Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Religion Judaism Spouse Isaac Kolton Denomination Non-denominational(formerly Humanistic) Jewish leader Website rabbikolton.com Tamara Ruth Kolton is an American non-denominational psychologist. She was the first person ordained as a member of the Humanistic Jewish movement. Over time, her religious position evolved from agnosticism to a more spiritual perspective that drove her away from humanistic Judaism. Kolton later

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Santa Ana Zoo

Date opened 1952 Location Santa Ana, California, United States Coordinates 33°44′38.094″N 117°50′33.11″W Land area 20 acres (8.1 ha) No. of animals 250 Annual visitors 270,000 Major exhibits Amazon’s Edge, Colors of the Amazon Aviary, Crean Family Farm, Monkey Row, Tierra de las Pampas Website www.santaanazoo.org The Santa Ana Zoo at Prentice Park in Santa Ana, California, is a 20-acre (8.1 ha) zoo focusing on the

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Stëblevë

Stëblevë is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County in eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Librazhd. The population at the 2011 census was 809. The municipal unit consists of the villages Borovë, Llangë, Moglicë, Prodan, Sebisht, Steblevë and Zabzun. History In 1900, Vasil Kanchov gathered and compiled statistics on demographics

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Khoy County

Khoy County is located in Iran’s West Azerbaijan Province. The county’s capital is Khoy. Khoy city was fortified at several points during its history, most recently by the Qajar dynasty in the nineteenth century. Khoy was seized by Ottoman soldiers in 1911, and then by Russian troops during World War I, who retreated in 1917.

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Rysa Walker

Rysa Walker is an American science fiction writer. Her first book, Timebound, won the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in 2013. Since then, she has published two series of novels, along with several short stories and other works. Early life Rysa Walker was born in Pensacola, Florida. She lived in several different cities and towns in Florida before finally settling in Wewahitchka, Florida when

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Epargyreus clarus

Epargyreus clarus, the silver-spotted skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is claimed to be the most recognized skipper in North America. E. clarus occurs in fields, gardens, and at forest edges and ranges from southern Canada throughout most of the United States to northern Mexico, but is absent in the Great Basin and western Texas. E. clarus larvae create and reside in unique shelters stuck together with silk, which

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Axtell, Nebraska

Axtell is a village in western Kearney County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Kearney, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. History The first settlement at Axtell was made in the 1870s. Axtell was incorporated as a village in 1885 when the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad was extended to that point. It was named for a railroad worker.

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