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  2. List of kigo - Wikipedia

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    List of kigo. This is a list of kigo, which are words or phrases that are associated with a particular season in Japanese poetry. They provide an economy of expression that is especially valuable in the very short haiku, as well as the longer linked-verse forms renku and renga, to indicate the season referenced in the poem or stanza . Cherry ...

  3. Islam in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex - Wikipedia

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    There is a notable population of American Muslims in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Dallas-Fort Worth is home to sixty-two Sunni mosques and five Shia mosques. [1] [2] According to Abdel Rahman Murphy, a Chicago-born, Irving-based Islamic teacher and Muslim community leader, other U.S.-based Muslims now refer to Dallas as the "Medina of ...

  4. Battle of Midway - Wikipedia

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    3,057 killed [6] 37 captured [7] The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan 's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.

  5. Hiram M. Chittenden - Wikipedia

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    Hiram Martin Chittenden was born on October 25, 1858, in Yorkshire Township, New York, near Buffalo. He was the oldest child of William Fletcher Chittenden (1835–1923) and Mary Jane Wheeler Chittenden (1836–1924), who owned a farm. Chittenden had a younger brother, Clyde (1860–1953), and a sister, Ida (1864–1954). [3]

  6. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Wikipedia

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    Website. vu.nl. The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [a] (abbreviated as VU Amsterdam or simply VU when in context) [6] is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

  7. Micropoetry - Wikipedia

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    Micropoetry. Micropoetry is a genre of poetic verse including tweetku (also known as twihaiku, twaiku, or twitter poetry) and captcha poetry, which is characterized by text generated through CAPTCHA anti-spamming software. The novelist W. G. Sebald may have been the first to use the term "micropoem", in reference to the poems of about 20 words ...

  8. Epic Center - Wikipedia

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    Epic Center. /  37.69028°N 97.33861°W  / 37.69028; -97.33861. The Epic Center is a high-rise building or skyscraper located at 301 N. Main St. in Wichita, Kansas. At 320 feet (top floor)/385 feet (tip), [2] it is the tallest building in the state of Kansas. The tallest structure in the state is the KWCH 12 Tower which stands 1,504 feet ...

  9. Judith Faulkner - Wikipedia

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    Judith Faulkner. Judith R. Faulkner (born August 11, 1943) is an American billionaire businesswoman who is the CEO and founder of Epic Systems, a healthcare software company located in Verona, Wisconsin. [2] Faulkner founded Epic Systems in 1979, with the original name of Human Services Computing. [3] In 2013, Forbes called her "the most ...