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  2. Xavier Phillips - Wikipedia

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    Xavier Phillips started learning the cello at the age of 6. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1986 and studied with Philippe Muller. He obtained the First Prize of the Conservatory in 1989. After a third prize at the Rostropovich Competition in 1989, he continued his training with Mstislav Rostropovitch, who particularly noticed him.

  3. Jess Phillips - Wikipedia

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    jessphillips .net. Jessica Rose Phillips ( née Trainor; born 9 October 1981) is a British politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she was Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding in Keir Starmer 's Opposition frontbench from 2020 to 2023.

  4. Paresky Commons - Wikipedia

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    Paresky Commons (colloquially known as " Commons") is Phillips Academy's main dining facility. Designed by architect Charles Platt and constructed by Thompson Starrett, Commons was built in the 1920s Colonial Revival style. [1] Located in Flagstaff Quadrangle (designed by the Olmsted brothers ), it is the social hub of Andover.

  5. Caste system in India - Wikipedia

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    Caste system in India. Mahatma Gandhi visiting Madras (now Chennai) in 1933 on an India-wide tour for Dalit (he used Harijan) causes. His writings, and speeches during such tours, discussed the discriminated-against castes of India. The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes.

  6. Philips - Wikipedia

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    Gerard Philips (1858–1942), founder. The Philips Company was founded in 1891, by Dutch entrepreneur Gerard Philips and his father Frederik Philips. Frederik, a banker based in Zaltbommel, financed the purchase and setup of an empty factory building in Eindhoven, where the company started the production of carbon-filament lamps and other electro-technical products in 1892.

  7. No. 4 Electronic Switching System - Wikipedia

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    The No. 4 Electronic Switching System ( 4ESS) is a class 4 telephone electronic switching system that was the first digital electronic toll switch introduced by Western Electric for long-distance switching. It was introduced in Chicago in January 1976, to replace the 4A crossbar switch. [1] The last of the 145 systems in the AT&T network was ...

  8. Trump wins the Missouri caucuses. Republicans in Michigan and ...

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    March 2, 2024 at 1:14 PM. Donald Trump won Missouri's Republican caucuses, one of three events Saturday that will award delegates for the GOP presidential nomination. The former president, who is ...

  9. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia [note 3] is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki -based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.