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  2. Lord Byron - Wikipedia

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    George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet and peer. [1] [2] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, [3] [4] [5] and is regarded as being among the greatest of British poets. [6]

  3. Passenger pigeon - Wikipedia

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    Earliest published illustration of the species (a male), Mark Catesby, 1731 Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus coined the binomial name Columba macroura for both the mourning dove and the passenger pigeon in the 1758 edition of his work Systema Naturae (the starting point of biological nomenclature), wherein he appears to have considered the two identical.

  4. Pacifism - Wikipedia

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    Pacifism covers a spectrum of views, including the belief that international disputes can and should be peacefully resolved, calls for the abolition of the institutions of the military and war, opposition to any organization of society through governmental force (anarchist or libertarian pacifism), rejection of the use of physical violence to obtain political, economic or social goals, the ...

  5. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Atlanta claimed to be the country's busiest airport, with more than two million passengers passing through in 1957 and, between noon and 2 p.m. each day, it became the world's busiest airport. [22] (The April 1957 OAG shows 165 weekday departures from Atlanta, including 45 between 12:05 and 2:00 PM and 20 between 2:25 and 4:25 AM.)

  6. Oakland, California - Wikipedia

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    The company that owns the house later said they would sell it to a nonprofit affordable housing group. [81] As of 2019, Oakland's per-capita homeless rate was higher than San Francisco and Berkeley. Between 2014 and 2020, Oakland strengthened its protections for tenants in order to reduce the displacement of its long-time residents.

  7. List of Petticoat Junction episodes - Wikipedia

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    Joe decides to go around Hooterville and try to sell some cologne, but has no luck. Betty Jo tells Kate that the salesmen have had enough of the mosquitoes and want to check out. The girls talk Mr. Gordon into buying the cologne. Mr. Blake says that he tried selling it but couldn't because it smelled so bad. The men are going to sell it as ...