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Dictionary and Reference Lookup with Emacs

Posted in Wikipedia on November 2, 2008

This page shows you how to use emacs as a dictionary application, that allows you to lookup the definitions of a word under cursor, or any general reference such as Wikipedia or Google. Looking Up Word Under Cursor

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Guy Fawkes Night - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Posted in Wikipedia on November 2, 2008

bushfires during hot Novembers, since the ban, private (and therefore illegal) fireworks have become increasingly popular on New Years Eve, an even more dangerous time for bushfires. Guy Fawkes Night - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Wikipedia:Public_domain_resources

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More information about Wikipedia:Public_domain_resources can be found here.

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Revolution in Holland, some numbers

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Groningen city had http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen_(gemeente) 181.613 people in 2006, which means it is home to 4 of those local governments (or a larger merged government), leaving 9 local governments for the rest of the

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Petrocurrency

Posted in Wikipedia on November 2, 2008

Its just from wikipedia, but gives good insight into how oil is traded. Since the other 0’s article talked about the petro dollar, I decided to read up on it again. some interesting stuff, check it out and see how you think Iraq and the

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Internet collaboration still in infancy: Wikipedia founder

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The 42-year-old web guru, in an effort to show Wikipedia’s impact thus far, referenced a recent trip to a slum in India where he “met this young man on the street who told me that he had used Wikipedia to pass his 11th grade exams.”

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Alle Parlamentarier auf Wikipedia

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Nach einem Schlusseffort von einigen ehrenamtlichen Autoren gibt es seit heute zu allen amtierenden National- und Ständeräten einen Wikipedia-Eintrag. Natürlich sind viele von ihnen erst mit rudimentären Informationen ausgestattet

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8 Tweets | Day of the Dead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Auto Description ] Day of the Dead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Day of the Dead From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, s…

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Walter F. Timilty

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This page was last modified on 21 January 2007, at 16:40. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,

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Staggering Stories Podcast #32: Jumping to Doomsday

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Wikipedia: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The Shatner Project. Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday. Wikipedia: Captain Jack Harkness. Wikipedia: Captain Jack Sparrow. The Man from the Diogenes Club. The Secret Files of the Diogenes

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