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  • also the political, economic, and cultural center of the country. Due to its ... the conquest, Christians occupied the center of the city, while Muslims ...
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  • black youth culture for glorifying basketball over education. In 1992 ... New York Public Library, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Aspen Institute, the ...
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  • She attended Tremont High School, where she was an all-star basketball ... by a masked man at a Nashville shopping center, driven 80 miles south in ...
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  • geographically significant location at the center of the continent. Throughout ... to the south within this divide. In the center part of Tarim Basin stretches ...
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  • The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment ... twentieth century, the city became a world center for industry, commerce, and ...
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  • Guangdong was far away from the center of ancient Chinese civilization ... contact with the West, Guangdong was the center of anti-Manchu and anti-imperialist ...
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  • is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of the ... became the home of the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest ...
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  • The location of the islands, in the center of the East China Sea relatively ... Basketball *Ryukyu Kings (Naha) In addition, several baseball teams ...
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  • is now Jiangsu was far removed from the center of Chinese civilization, ... that south Jiangsu emerged as a major center of trade. From then on, south ...
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  • it was the heart and administrative center of China, a gathering place ... the political, educational, and cultural center of the PRC, while Shanghai ...
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  • the Memorial Day weekend, and a strong basketball tradition, often called ... The South Bend metropolitan area in north central Indiana is the center ...
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  • quot;), xictli ("navel," "center," "middle" ... North America. From east to west at the center, the country is crossed by ...
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  • James A. Naismith's invention of basketball was also on the rise, having ... sideout, 4) the attacker is called for a center line violation, or 5) the ...
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  • position was first base. He became a basketball standout in high school ... 19 he hit the first-ever homer into the center field bleachers at Yankee Stadium. ...
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  • most important financial and economic center of the Iberian Peninsula ... of Portugal, Lisbon is the political center of the country, as well as ...
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  • If seen as a cross, the four lines emanate from the center to the ... [[Image:Native American basketball team.jpg|right|thumb|Native American ...
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  • Denver is located in the center of the Front Range Urban Corridor ... to design not only parks such as Civic Center Park, but many city parkways ...
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  • administrative, financial, and political center of Colombia. As with many ... Press, 2002, ISBN 0838755097). It was the center of their civilization before ...
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  • One common model has four steps.Scott M. Cutlip, Allen H. Center, ... communication; Evaluation."Allen H. Center and Patrick Jackson, Public ...
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  • East. In the Middle Ages, it was the center of a flourishing craft industry ... on, a modern administrative and commercial center began to spring up to the ...
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  • country with one of the busiest call-center industries in Asia, generating ... The most commonly played sport there is basketball. There is also a wide ...
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  • Omaha had become an important industrial and meat-packing center in ... dramatically in the mid-1950s. A system of center-pivot sprinkler devices, ...
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  • a cultural, political and educational center of the country and economic ... the city became a cultural and academic center, renowned for poetry. The ...
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  • connected by about 400 bridges. In the old center, the canals serve the function ... Serving as the center of the Roman civilization for centuries, Italy ...
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  • During the American Civil War, The Bahamas prospered as a center of ... and became an off-shore financial services center with a reputation for a tolerant ...
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  • The center of Tanzania is a large plateau, with grasslands and national ... a more temperate climate in the elevated center of the country. Tanzania ...
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  • !colspan="3" align="center"| Ethnic groups in ... * Chinese Basketball Association ** Liaoning Panpan Hunters ...
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  • The center of population of Montana is located in Meagher County, ... Indian Industrial School began playing basketball and traveled throughout ...
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  • Musial also played basketball and was offered an athletic scholarship ... duty at the United States Naval Training Center Bainbridge. In June 1945 ...
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  • He was on the Skagit County championship basketball team. By that time, the ... After Murrow's death in 1965, Edward R. Murrow Center of Public ...
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  • * Shawmari Reserve—a breeding center for some of the most endangered ... of 2,125,400, it is a regional commercial center as well as an Arabic cultural ...
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  • third baseman, shortstop, left fielder, center fielder, and right fielder ... The three outfielders, left fielder, center fielder, and right fielder ...
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  • country. It is also known to be a major center of overseas language education ... Smaller parks also close to the city center are Albert Park, Myers Park ...
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  • 1, 1985, at Maybell.National Climatic Data Center. 2004. [http://lwf.ncdc.noaa ... in the winter.Western Regional Climate Center. [http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/narrativ ...
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  • plains, has gained renown as an education center and pristine nature. The ... which caused a shift of the cultural center of China to the south, benefiting ...
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  • century, developing it into a major urban center and naval base. By the twentieth ... theater scene, positioned as an important center for the Bharatanatyam, a ...
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  • belt running north to south along the center of the country, its mountainous ... considered the most distant point from the center of the Earth, given the ovoidal ...
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  • by the National Drug Intelligence Center, Los Angeles County was then ... Angeles is also the largest manufacturing center in the United States. The ...
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  • area into the new economic and cultural center of China, overtaking Henan ... * Chinese Basketball Association ** Henan Dragons * Chinese Football ...
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  • Obama delivered his acceptance speech, not at the center where the ... preparation of the Thomson Correctional Center, Thomson, Illinois so as ...
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  • the city serves as the administrative center of Ahmedabad district, and ... boom and population increase. A rising center of education, information ...
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  • Major League Soccer, the National Basketball Association and the National ... to touch the ball by taking a snap from center, receiving a hand-off or ...
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  • however, was considered a military center for the Spanish empire, while ... Rugby, basketball and diving are also popular. == Notes == ...
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  • Karachi continues to be an important financial and industrial center ... flows from the east towards the south and center, and the River Lyari, which ...
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  • [[Image:Daejeon Culture and Arts Center.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Daejeon ... companies, much like in baseball or basketball. The fanbases, resembling ...
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  • a leading pharmaceutical and manufacturing center. Still, Puerto Rico continues ... Boxing, baseball, and basketball are popular. They have their own ...
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  • Due to its long history as a center of the American cattle industry ... The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, operated by the National Aeronautics ...
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  • Senegal, from the Atlantic coast to the center of Senegal along the Gambia ... Gambia. The port at Dakar makes it a major trade center. ...
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  • He also was the starting center for the high school basketball team. 29 By the age of 16, Feller possessed what critics judged a high quality ...
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  • the lowest in the country. Long a major center for federal installations ... Atmospheric Administration - Climatic Data Center.[http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/clim ...
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  • NAACP launches separate protests at the Bi-Lo Center and the Carolina Coliseum for hosting the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) ...
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  • destination complete with a large visitor center and the oldest museum in ... facilities such as the Licthenburg Tennis Center, Anderson Rugby Complex, ...
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  • similar to and occasionally exceeding basketball for winter sports fans. ... The forward positions consist of a center and two wingers: a left wing ...
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  • gif NOAA National Climatic Data Center]. Retrieved November 3, 2007. ... South Carolina's center of population is located in Richland ...
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  • bisecting these plains in the center of the country. The scarps ... In the early 1980s, Mauritania had a competitive basketball team, ...
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  • Like in the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball ... feet [61 meters] from home plate to the center field fence). ...
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  • | colspan="2" align="center" | 3 |- ... *In basketball, a shot made from behind the three-point arc is worth ...
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  • Gulf. The capital city, Baghdad, is in the center-east of the country. ... of more than a million, and was the center of learning during the Islamic ...
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  • Putting Democracy in China on Hold]. The Center for Independent Studies, ... Basketball is the most popular spectator sport in China. The Chinese ...
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  • over Lithuania. The leading Lithuanian basketball and football teams are ... 1px; border-collapse: collapse; text-align: center;" ...
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  • Baltimore's Memorial Stadium's center field. Killebrew had a .115 ... to deep left center. The ball landed in the far reaches of the bleachers ...
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  • the 1700s Sierra Leone was an important center of the transatlantic slave ... historically made Sierra Leone the center of trade and colonial administration ...
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  • Over the next 30 years, the city grew into a major urban center, spurred ... houses, are headquartered here. The center of the Hindi movie industry ...
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  • very diverse, including the major business center of São Paulo, the historical ... the air force's Aerospace Technical Center, the Brazilian Agricultural ...
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  • in the central part of the country, the center of Argentina's agricultural ... In 2015, center-right coalition candidate Mauricio Macri became the ...
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  • the territory of present-day Ukraine was a center of medieval East Slavic civilization ... in the east. Some claim the geographical center of Europe is near the small ...
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  • no more than a few miles outside the city center. At 2,152,782 square feet ... and DPMM is the most important team. In basketball the most prominent competition ...
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  • human rights throughout the world as the center of his foreign policy. ... a variety of causes. He founded the Carter Center, for example, as a forum ...
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  • Cahokia, the center of the pre-Columbian Mississippian culture that ... *Michael Jordan (born 1963), A famous American Basketball player, ...
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  • Republika Srpska entity, as well as the center of the Sarajevo Canton. Other ... has constructed the "Bosmal City Center," which includes the ...
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  • the modern Agrarian party (now called the Center Party). Between 1870 and ... paganism, worshiping Æsir gods, with its center at the Temple in Uppsala ...
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  • The center-right government follows economic policies of reducing ... are mainly soccer, track and field and basketball. Sports such as golf, tennis ...
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  • art museums in the world, the Lakhta Center, the tallest skyscraper in ... Meanwhile, the oblast whose administrative center is also in Saint ...
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  • #039;s industrial, transportation, and cultural center. ... Georgia and Caucasian Albania, and had its center in the Armenian city Dvin ...
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  • Mexico City was the political, administrative, and financial center ... Tenochtitlan was built on an island in the center of the inland lake system ...
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  • and the Seattle Supersonics National Basketball Association (NBA). The ... Kitsap, the Hanford Site, and the Yakima Training Center. ...
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  • 2006, at age 81 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles. According ... It is set in Nashville, Tennessee, the center of country music, and depicts ...
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  • the last nine hundred years Paris was the center of important Western philosophical ... in 1682. A century later, Paris became the center of the French Revolution ...
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  • economic, political and administrative center of Slovenia. It is situated ... The center-right government, elected in October 2004, has pledged ...
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  • #039;s largest, and chief industrial center. Other major cities include ... popular sports in South Korea include basketball, football, golf, tennis ...
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  • people. It is an economic and cultural center, situated 5,900 feet (1800 ... Following the September 11, 2001 attacks in which the World Trade ...
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  • an industrial power. The nation became a center for invention and technological ... (1929–1939). The nation became a center for invention and technological ...
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  • is based in Tehran. It is also a leading center for the sale of carpets and ... table. Main dishes are concentrated in the center, surrounded by smaller dishes ...
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  • located in Anatolia, Ankara is the center of the Turkish Government ... have proposed Anatolia as the hypothetical center from which the Indo-European ...
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  • scientific, economic and governmental center of the Republic of Croatia ... football (soccer), along with handball, basketball, and to some extent water ...
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  • dial Pashto] National Virtual Translation Center. retrieved 18 January 2007 ... Pashtun girls often play volleyball and basketball, especially in urban areas. ...
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  • outdoor terraza much farther from the city center than their indoor winter ... is located on the river Manzanares in the center of the country, between the ...
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  • been cut off from the sea), and dunes. The center and parts of the north lie ... eventually became the foundation and early center of Poland. ...
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  • Sea. Besides being an administrative center, Podgorica is its economic ... mostly around team sports: football, basketball, water polo, volleyball ...
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  • marched out of south Tehran into the city center, where others joined in. ... or went swimming, or skied or played basketball. If some women wish to ...
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  • arts. The territory was a cosmopolitan center for many nations and cultures ... At the competitive level, basketball and football are among Lebanon ...
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  • and a small neolithic passage grave slightly off-center. ... as a young man. He established his center in Armagh, which remained ...
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  • terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. They discussed ... streets. Syria has national soccer and basketball teams. Men attend games ...
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  • century, the Negev Nuclear Research Center has been operational and ... and Sikhs. The Bahá'í World Center is situated in Haifa, attracting ...
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  • century a cultural and commercial center of the Aromanians (Vlachs ... football (soccer), weightlifting, basketball, volleyball, tennis, swimming ...
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  • to be called "Babe", but most center on his being referred to ... gestured, possibly in the direction of center field, and after the next ...
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  • |last=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS ... asp |archive-date=12 December 2008 basketball (Iraklis BC),url=http://www ...
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  • In 1934, Batista and the army, who were the real center of power in ... other sports and pastimes include basketball, volleyball and track. ...
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  • of Serbian origin. Serbs created another center of resistance in Herzegovina ... around team sports: football (soccer), basketball, water polo, volleyball ...
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