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  2. MIT Blackjack Team - Wikipedia

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    The newly capitalized "bank" of the MIT Blackjack Team started on 1 August 1980. The investment stake was $89,000, with both outside investors and players putting up the capital. Ten players, including Kaplan, Massar, Jonathan, Goose, and "Big Dave" (aka "coach", to distinguish from the other Dave from the first round) played on this bank.

  3. Stefano della Bella - Wikipedia

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    Known for. Engraver. Movement. Baroque. Stefano della Bella (17 May 1610 [1] – 12 July 1664) was an Italian draughtsman and printmaker known for etchings of a great variety of subjects, including military and court scenes, landscapes, and lively genre scenes. He left 1052 prints, and several thousand drawings, but only one known painting. [2]

  4. Second tithe - Wikipedia

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    The practice of the ma'aser sheni. The second tithe is a distinct tithing obligation of 10% of the produce after terumah and the first tithe were separated. If any of these tithes were not separated, the produce was known as tevel and forbidden for consumption. [6] The owner of the produce was required to separate tithe, of any kind, after the ...

  5. Masar (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Masar ( Masár, Masař) are occupational surnames literally meaning butcher in some Slavic languages. Notable people with the surname include: Dušan Masár (born 1962), Czech former wrestler. Ella Masar (born 1986), American-Canadian soccer player. Felix Masár (born 1955), Czechoslovak canoeist. Vladimír Masár (born 1958), Slovak economist.

  6. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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    On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of ...

  7. Masar (horse) - Wikipedia

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    Masar (horse) Masar (foaled 16 April 2015) is an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse, best known for winning the 2018 Epsom Derby. He was highly tried as a two-year-old, finishing third in the Chesham Stakes and winning the Solario Stakes before contesting major races in France and the United States. After racing unsuccessfully in Dubai he ...

  8. Dakar Region - Wikipedia

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    Dakar Region. /  14.750°N 17.333°W  / 14.750; -17.333. Dakar Region ( French: Région de Dakar) is the smallest and most populated Region of Senegal, encompassing the capital city of the country, Dakar, and all its suburbs along the Cap–Vert Peninsula, Africa 's most westerly point.

  9. Page (servant) - Wikipedia

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    Page (servant) Lord Patten, robed as Chancellor of Oxford University, assisted by a page. A page or page boy is traditionally a young male attendant or servant, but may also have been a messenger in the service of a nobleman . During wedding ceremonies, a page boy is often used as a symbolic attendant to carry the rings.