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  2. Order of the Defender of the Realm - Wikipedia

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    Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Malaysia [2] Ribbon of the Order. The Most Esteemed Order of the Defender of the Realm ( Malay: Darjah Yang Mulia Pangkuan Negara) is a Malaysian federal award presented for meritorious service to the country. The Order Motto are 'Dipeliharakan Allah-Pangkuan Negara' (By the Grace of God-Defender of the Realm).

  3. Neuschwanstein Castle - Wikipedia

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    Neuschwanstein Castle ( German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [ˈʃlɔs nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn]; Southern Bavarian: Schloss Neischwanstoa) is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany, near the border with Austria. It is located in the Swabia region of Bavaria, in the ...

  4. Perfluorooctanoic acid - Wikipedia

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    Perfluorooctanoic acid ( PFOA; conjugate base perfluorooctanoate; also known colloquially as C8, for its 8-carbon chain structure) is a perfluorinated carboxylic acid produced and used worldwide as an industrial surfactant in chemical processes and as a material feedstock. PFOA is considered a surfactant, or fluorosurfactant, due to its ...

  5. Person of Interest (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Person of Interest is an American science fiction crime drama [2] television series that aired on CBS from September 22, 2011, [3] to June 21, 2016, [4] with its five seasons consisting of 103 episodes. The series was created by Jonathan Nolan; executive producers were Nolan, J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Greg Plageman, Denise Thé, and Chris Fisher .

  6. Order of the British Empire - Wikipedia

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    The star is an eight-pointed silver star used by only Knights and Dames Grand Cross and Knights and Dames Commander. It is worn pinned to the left breast. Varying in size depending on class, it bears a crimson ring with the motto of the order inscribed. Within the ring, a figure of Britannia was originally shown.

  7. Battle of Waterloo - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Waterloo ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋaːtərloː] ⓘ) was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium ), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition.

  8. Machine Gun Kelly (musician) - Wikipedia

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    Colson Baker [2] (born April 22, 1990), known professionally as MGK (stylized mgk and formerly Machine Gun Kelly ), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor. He is noted for his genre duality across alternative rock with hip hop . MGK released four mixtapes between 2007 and 2010 before signing with Puff Daddy 's Bad Boy Records, an ...

  9. Pol Pot - Wikipedia

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    Pol Pot [a] (born Saloth Sâr; [b] 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian communist revolutionary, politician and a dictator who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a communist and a Khmer ethnonationalist, he was a leading member of Cambodia's communist movement, the Khmer Rouge ...