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The affordable dresses, jeans, T-shirts, shoes, handbags, sunglasses, bangles, and earrings translated Deacon's dressed-up, ... gap filler (from the article "warning system") In addition to large conventional radars, small distributed radars (called gap fillers) are used to ... Gap Inc. (from the article "Fashions") ...of the Year. The affordable dresses, jeans, T-shirts, shoes, handbags, sunglasses, bangles, and earrings translated ... gap junction (from the article "animal") ...from the axon per impulse received, increasing the number of receptors in the dendrite, or ... Gapapaiwa language (from the article "Austronesian languages") ...five). In the New Guinea area several Austronesian languages have radically restructured number systems that ... gaper clam (Tresus nuttallii and Tresus capax), either of two species of bivalve mollusks of the family ... Gapon, Georgy Apollonovich (from the article "Bloody Sunday") ...wave of strikes, partly planned by one of the legal organizations of workers-the Assembly of ... Gaprindashvili, Nona women's world chess champion from 1962 to 1978. A strong attacking player, Gaprindashvili won the ... [1 Related Articles] gar any of several large North or Middle American fishes of the genus Lepisosteus, in the ... [1 Related Articles] garaba dance form popular at festival times in Gujarat, India. It is a simple, joyful dance, ... [2 Related Articles] Garabil Plateau (from the article "Karakum Desert") ...and 300 miles (500 km) from north to south. It is bordered on the north ... Garabit Viaduct (from the article "Eiffel, Gustave") ...of 1867. In 1877 he bridged the Douro River at Oporto, Port., with a 525-foot ... Garajonay National Park national park located at the centre of La Gomera island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia ... 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Garces, Francisco (from the article "Gila Bend") ...abandoned by Indians the Spanish called Opas, who had annually produced two crops of grain. ... Garcetti v. Ceballos (from the article "Law") ...In previous decisions the court had ruled that government workers would often be protected from ... Garches (from the article "Western architecture") ...Exposition at Stuttgart (1927), and his influential but unexecuted submittal to the League of Nations ... Garci, Jose Luis (from the article "1982: Best Foreign-Language Film") Other Nominees Garcia (I) self-styled king or chief of the Navarrese, centred in Pamplona. He is partly legendary, perhaps ... Garcia de la Huerta, Vicente playwright, poet, and critic whose Neoclassical tragedy Raquel (1778) was once considered the most distinguished ... Garcia de la Torre, Ana (from the article "Spanish literature") ...The reputed author of more than 100 works, Maria del Pilar Sinues y Navarro made ... Garcia Granados, Miguel (from the article "Guatemala") In 1871 a revolution headed by Miguel Garcia Granados and Justo Rufino Barrios overthrew Gen. ... Garcia Gutierrez, Antonio dramatist whose play El trovador (1836; "The Troubadour") was the most popular and successful drama ... Garcia I (from the article "Kings and queens regnant of Spain") The apparent weakness of Islamic Spain and the growth of the Asturian kingdom encouraged Garcia ... Garcia I (or II) Sanchez king of Pamplona (Navarre) from 925 to 970, son of Sancho I Garces and Queen ... Garcia II king of Galicia from 1065 to 1071. His father, Ferdinand I the Great, divided his ... Garcia II (or III) king of Pamplona (Navarre) and of Aragon from about 994 to about 1000, son of ... Garcia II Nkanga a Lukeni (from the article "Kongo") ...(a Kongo territory) and create the Portuguese colony that became Angola. Relations with Angola soon ... Garcia III (or IV) king of Pamplona (Navarre) from 1035 to 1054. 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