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  • 11Balked — Balk Balk, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Balked} (b[add]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Balking}.] [From {Balk} a beam; orig. to put a balk or beam in one s way, in order to stop or hinder. Cf., for sense 2, AS. on balcan legan to lay in heaps.] [1913 Webster] 1.… …

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  • 13January 2003 — January 2003: ← January February March April May June July August September October November DecemberEventsJanuary 1, 2003*The first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar *Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva ( Lula ) becomes the 37th president of the… …

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  • 14Guarded suspension — In concurrent programming, guarded suspension [cite book|last=Lea first=Doug authorlink=Doug Lea title=Concurrent Programming in Java Second Edition publisher=Addison Wesley location=Reading, MA year=2000 id = ISBN 0 201 31009 0] is a software… …

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  • 15Read/write lock pattern — A read/write lock pattern or simply RWL is a software design pattern that allows concurrent read access to an object but requires exclusive access for write operations.In this pattern, multiple readers can read the data in parallel but an… …

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  • 16Brigitte Boisselier — A series of articles on the Raëlian Movement …

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  • 17National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama — NAACP v. Alabama Supreme Court of the United States Argued January 15–16, 1958 Decided June 30, 1958 …

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  • 18Drudge Report — Type Private Founded 1997[1] Founder …

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  • 19Le Père Goriot — Title page engraving from an 1897 edition of Le Père Goriot, by an unknown artist; published by George Barrie Son in Philadelphia Le Père Goriot (French pronunciation: [lə pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], Old Goriot or Father Goriot) is an 1835 novel by French… …

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  • 20Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — Founded 1979, San Francisco, California, United States Area served Global Focus LGBT activism Method …

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