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Christmas grotto

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Santa's grotto typically takes the form of an enclosed fantasy style structure whose purpose is to allow children to visit him and is normally located within or near a commercial retail centre such as a shopping mall or garden centre. They serve the purpose of increasing footfall...

Christmas Special 2009

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The Doctor Who Christmas Special is said to be broadcast near Christmas. Rumors have been said that The Master and Donna are set to return. It is the first of a two part special, the last of which David Tennent will star in as the Doctor.Plotthe plot for this episode is not fully...

Christopher B-Lynch

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Christopher B-Lynch (b. 1 October 1947) is a Sierra Leone-born British obstetrician/gynaecological surgeon.BirthHe was born as Christopher Balogun-Lynch in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the son of Prince E. and Jane A. Balogun-Lynch.CareerB-Lynch is best known for his surgical inventio...

Christopher Guerin

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Britain's Brainiest Kid 2002 Chris Guerin, IQ 162, was crowned Britain's Brainiest Kid in 2002 on ITV's television show of the same name. Five years on, Chris is raising money for a round the world tour, during which he will []help the world's most disadvantaged children. Chris w...

Christopher Leadem

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Christopher Leadem is a novelist, writing historical fiction and science fiction/fantasy.Leadem was born in Arlington, Virginia in 1956, the son of an Air Force Intelligence analyst and a schoolteacher. His childhood was spent in Virginia and Colorado, his adolescence in Bucks Co...

Christopher Myers (restaurateur)

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Christopher Myers, along with his wife Joanne Chang, is the owner of Myers + Chang restaurant and Flour Bakery + Cafe. opening Myers+Chang in 2007, he created and co-owned 4 award-winning Boston area restaurants: Rialto, Radius, Via Matta, and Great Bay.In 1985, while working on ...

Christopher P. Burke

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Christopher Patrick Burke (February 1862 - 12 October 1906) was an Irish footballer, athlete, referee, games administrator and dancer. A founder of the GAA in Louth, he was also a founding member of a number of local teams. Outside of football, Christopher Burke competed in vario...

Christopher P. Shore

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Christopher P. Shore is a Specialist in the U.S. military, originally from Winder, Georgia. He was charged with the June 23, 2007 premeditated murder of an Iraqi.Evidence, via Air Scan video footage, was presented at trial that showed four Iraqis placing an IED on a road near Kir...

Christopher Quaile

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Christopher John Quaile ( born 1 May 1956 ) English Illustrator, working in London.Early Career, BA ( hons) Kingston Polytechnic 1978. Armorial Artist at Debretts Peerage 1985. illustrations include; Ruth Manning-Sanders "Tales of Magic and Mystery", Hodder and Stoughton "Twistin...

Christopher Reinhart

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Christopher Reinhart is a historian, researcher and research assistant in History Department, Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia. His research focuses on ancient history of Indonesia and Southeast Asia. After moving from Bern, he decided to stay in Indonesia and becom...

Christopher Walter Waitt

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Christopher Walter Waitt was a British airman who served in the Royal Flying Corps in World War I and also in the Royal Air Force in World War II. In 1916 he was awarded the Military Medal. During WW2 he served as adjutant to No. 550 Squadron RAF, a squadron of heavy Lancaster bo...

Chrome Engine

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Chrome Engine is a proprietary 3D game engine developed by Techland. The current version, Chrome Engine 6, supports Mac OS X, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows.Chrome Engine evolved through over nine years of development. According to i...

Chronovisor

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The chronovisor, described by Father François Brune in his 2002 book Le nouveau mystère du Vatican ("The Vatican’s New Mystery"), was allegedly a functional time viewer. Brune is the author of several books on the paranormal and religion.In the book, Brune relates that the chrono...

CHTY

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CHTY was a Canadian English language television station broadcast in Inglewood, Ontario. However, the station is a community access channel rather than a broadcast station, so the CHTY calls are used solely for branding rather than identification. In the 80s the call sign CHTY of...

Chuck Freimund

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Chuck Freimund is an American sports radio host from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Chuck Freimund Chuck Freimund is a sports radio host in Milwaukee, WI on 105.7 FM The Fan. He co-hosts a morning show with Bart Winkler. Topics discussed are mainly sports-oriented or sports-driven. Educat...

Chuckie Mauk

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Charles "Chuckie" Mauk was an American murder victim in Warner Robins, Georgia. He was shot in the head in the parking lot of the former Giant Food store, now Video Warehouse, off Russell Parkway on February 17, 1986 at the age of thirteen. He and a friend had ridden their bicycl...

Church History Timeline

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6 B.C. - 70 A.D. Apostolic Period33 - Pentecost49 - Jerusalem Counsel69 Polycarp70 - Temple Destroyed70-312 A.D. Catholic Period81 - 96 Diocletian85 - 160 Marcion100 - 165 Justin Martyr150 - 215 Clement of Alexandria156 Montanus160 - 225 Tertullian185 - 254 Origen200 - 258 Novati...

Church in the 21st Century

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Foundation and History Initiated by Boston College President William P. Leahy, S.J., in September 2002, the Church in the 21st Century initiative was originally conceived as a two-year project to examine the underlying issues raised by the sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Cathol...

Churchill Awards

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The Churchill Retirement Awards are a British awards system to honour excellence among the over-65s. They were set up by retirement housebuilder Churchill Retirement Living in association with The Telegraph in 2012 to demonstrate that older people have a significant role to play ...

Chuvalia

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Chuvalia (also spelled Chunvalia, Chunwalia, Chunbalia, Chuwalia, Chubalia, Chunvaria, Chunwaria) is a subcaste of the Hindu Koli Caste of Gujarat, India. Their name is drived from Chunval, consisting chunvalis (forty four) villages in north-east of the Gujarat. They claim to be ...

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