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Technology & inventions · Challenging

SportVU

SportVU is a camera system that collects data 25 times per second. Its main objective is to follow the ball and all players on the court. SportVU provides statistics such as real-time player and ball positioning through

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Language & communication · Challenging

A Bitter Fate

A Bitter Fate (, ), also translated as A Bitter Lot, is an 1859 realistic play by Aleksey Pisemsky. It is a story of a peasant woman, who, while her husband was away for quitrent works, had been seduced by a young pomesh

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History & culture · Developing

Battle of Bicske

The Battle of Bicske happened on June 26, 1578, between the Ottoman army and the Habsburgs near Bicske. The Ottomans were victorious. On June 26, the Hungarian noblemen, Ferenc Nádasdy and Pálffy Miklós, launched a raid

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Everyday life · Accessible

Jeux de hocs

The jeux de hocs are a family of French card games in which the aim is to be first to shed all one's hand cards to sequences laid out in rows on the table. They all feature cards known as 'stops' or hocs: cards that end

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Language & communication · Developing

Pearl Lowe

English singer-songwriter, fashion and textiles designer (born 1968)

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Technology & inventions · Accessible

John Bull (1815 ship)

John Bull was built in 1815 at Fort Gloster, Calcutta. She carried convicts from India to Mauritius and Sydney, and traded between India and Mauritius and New South Wales. She was sold in New South Wales in 1824. Until m

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