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Science & nature · Accessible

Erdbeerkopf

The Erdbeerkopf is an 847.7 m-high mountain in the High Harz in central Germany, northeast of Schierke in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. To the north and east, the forested summit is bordered by the Wormsgraben, the va

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Everyday life · Accessible

Pylos (board game)

Pylos (, , or sometimes ) is a board game invented by David G. Royffe and published by Gigamic. Royffe first conceived the game in 1964 using his family’s snooker balls. He took his idea to the 1994 Essen game fair in Ge

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Shaw Hall factory

Shaw Hall factory was a 19th century cotton mill in lower Matley, Hyde, Greater Manchester in which nearly 200 people worked. The mill is marked as Shawhall Mill and Mount Pleasant Mill in maps of 1898 and 1910, respecti

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William Lowell Sr.

William Lowell Sr. (1863 – June 24, 1954) was a dentist and an inventor of a wooden golf tee. William Lowell was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, and lived in Maplewood, New Jersey, and had a son, William Lowell Jr. (1

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Lippijn

Lippijn is a Middle Dutch sotternie or farce. It is known from the Van Hulthem Manuscript, in which it follows the "able play" Esmoreit. It consists of 199 lines in rhyme. The farce describes the older man Lippijn who sp

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