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"= = = North Atlanta = = = |
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"= = = Claudio Sanchez = = = |
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" Claudio Paul Sanchez III (born March 12, 1978) is an American writer and musician of Puerto Rican and Italian descent best known for being the lead singer, guitarist and primary lyricist for the alternative/progressive rock group Coheed and Cambria. He is the creator of the comic book series ""The Amory Wars"", as well as ""Key of Z"" and ""Kill Audio"", both co-written with wife Chondra Echert. Sanchez co-authored the novel ""Year of the Black Rainbow"" with Peter David. |
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" Sanchez primarily provides lead vocals and guitar in Coheed and Cambria. However, he has also used theremins, synthesizers and harmonicas in his side projects. Early in his career, Sanchez first performed with several different bands, all of which lasted a short period of time. |
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" After breaking up with Beautiful Loser, Sanchez went on a trip to Paris, where he began writing a story, initially referred to as ""The Bag.On.Line Adventures of Coheed and Cambria"", named after a store near where Sanchez stayed whilst in Paris. Two characters named Coheed and Cambria Kilgannon live in a fictional foreign galaxy known as Heaven's Fence. In the original concept, Sanchez wrote a story about his girlfriend and himself traveling to a new, foreign place, but as the concept expanded the characters started to resemble his parents. |
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" Sanchez was the lead singer and guitarist for Shabütie, which formed in Nyack, New York, in 1995. Shabutie released several EPs and wrote several songs which would eventually be released on ""The Second Stage Turbine Blade"". The band broke up after Nate Kelley walked out on a performance, but was later reformed with Josh Eppard replacing Nate Kelley on drums. This new band was dubbed Coheed and Cambria, named after the characters Sanchez had written about in Paris. Coheed and Cambria achieved success on the East Coast after releasing and touring ""The Second Stage Turbine Blade"", and gained mainstream success with the release of """", thanks to the single ""A Favor House Atlantic."" |
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" Sanchez began producing comic books in 2000, beginning with ""The Bag.On.Line Adventures"". ""The Bag.On.Line Adventures"" lasted two issues due to problems with the artist, deadlines and financial issues. Sanchez's next project was the graphic novel """". The graphic novel was released alongside the album of the same name, however Sanchez has stated that the novel was incomplete due to financial issues. |
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" Sanchez began anew in 2008 with the series ""The Amory Wars"", which chronicles events album by album. ""The Second Stage Turbine Blade"" was covered in two five-part comic book limited series. Alongside Peter David, Sanchez co-wrote the novel ""The Amory Wars: Year of the Black Rainbow"", chronicling the events of the ""Year of the Black Rainbow"" album. Sanchez also released a twelve issue comic book series adapting ""In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3"" under the ""Amory Wars"" name. A forthcoming adaptation of the ""Good Apollo 1"" storyline was foreshadowed at the end of the twelfth issue. |
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" Sanchez also performs in a side project called The Prize Fighter Inferno. The band is a concept band based on the character Jesse, a boxer known as the Prize Fighter Inferno. The story focuses on The Blood Machine, a vicious contraption that murders its victims and takes their souls. Sanchez also released a two-song 7"" vinyl album titled ""The Beaver Records EP"", which is associated with Kill Audio and The Prize Fighter Inferno. On September 8, 2012 Sanchez released his latest piece for his side project the Prize Fighter Inferno, a four-song non-conceptual EP, ""Half Measures"". |
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"= = = Phascolarctos = = = |
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" Phascolarctos (from Ancient Greek ""phaskolos"", referring to a pouch or bag, and ""arktos"", meaning ""bear"") is a genus of marsupials containing only one extant species, the koala (""P. cinereus""). The genus was named by French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1816. |
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"= = = Snooker world rankings 1994/1995 = = = |
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" These are the Snooker world rankings of 1994–1995: The professional world rankings for the top 64 snooker players in the 1994–1995 season are listed below. |
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"= = = Asahara = = = |
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" Asahara (written: 朝原 lit. ""morning field"", 浅原 lit. ""shallow field"" or 麻原 lit. ""cannabis field"") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: |
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"= = = R. Brent Tully = = = |
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" Richard Brent Tully (born March 9, 1943) is an astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, Hawaii. |
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" Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Tully's specialty is the astrophysics of galaxies. With J. Richard Fisher, he proposed the Tully–Fisher relation, which shows that the luminosity of a galaxy and the orbital velocities of its stars are correlated. He also published the book ""The Nearby Galaxies Catalog"" in 1988 with 3D locations for the closest 68,000 galaxies to Earth. These data form a cube of galaxies within an area of 700 million light years centered on Earth. A visual navigable representation of this index can be found in the planetarium computer software Starry Night Pro, where the data is called the ""Tully Database"". Within this database is the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster Complex. |
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"= = = Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea = = = |
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" The Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (, , , abbreviated PDGE) is the ruling political party in Equatorial Guinea. It was established by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo as the country's sole legal political organization on 11 October 1987. |
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" Despite the legalization of opposition parties in 1991, the PDGE has been the dominant party since its inception. In the 2004 parliamentary election, 98 of 100 seats were won by either PDGE members or ""opposition"" parties that support Obiang; in the 2008 parliamentary election, the PDGE and its allies won a total of 99 out of 100 seats. In presidential elections, Obiang typically wins 95-99% of the vote, with the opposition regularly calling for boycotts. |
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" The party has an extremely narrow base, which is the Esangui clan of the Fang tribe, located in the Mongomo region of Río Muni. Since independence in 1968, Equatorial Guinea has been ruled by a single family; the first president, Francisco Macías Nguema, was overthrown by his nephew, Obiang, in the 1979 coup d'état. The party has been criticized for acting in a very authoritarian manner and teaming up with the government to inform on political dissidents. The party is considered by the vast majority of international observers to be corrupt. |
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" The PDGE has little in the way of a platform or guiding ideology other than support for Obiang. One of its few concrete policy stances is support of foreign investment in the oil sector. Some of the few other tenets of the PDGE are militarism and anti-separatism (which often amounts to Fang chauvinism). |
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" The community leaders in all of rural Equatorial Guinea are strongly pressured to be members of the party, and also pressure citizens throughout their communities into joining. |
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" Although almost all the highest placed political appointments are held by former soldiers, the core military force, the Army, remains somewhat underfunded in favour of naval and air-force maintenance. Government expenditures are equal to less than 10% of GDP, with military expenditures accounting for roughly 25-35% of that figure. The amount of the budget spent on schooling, healthcare and other such investments is in proximity to the military budget. The constitution guarantees that the government will have a monopoly in certain industries, although much has been done to privatise these industries, in similar fashion to the way oil drilling was privatised. The party also has a minister for women, and has in recent years pursued a female empowerment agenda. |
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" 15 members are appointed by the President |
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"= = = High and tight = = = |
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" The high and tight is a military variant of the crew cut. It is a very short hairstyle most commonly worn by men in the armed forces of the United States. It is also popular with law enforcement officers and other public safety personnel. Although ""high and tight"" is a term commonly used within the military and law enforcement communities, the same haircut is sometimes referred to by civilians as a ""Walker"", meaning that the back and sides are shaved to the skin and the top is blended or faded into slightly longer hair. |
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" While many variations of the style exist, the one common feature is that all of the hair on the sides and back of the head is clipped very close, usually inch (1.5 mm) or shorter, up to a point above the temples, referring to the ""high"" part of its name. A sharp line delineates the boundary between the close-cut sides and back and the longer top portion, referring to the ""tight"" part of its name. The crown of the head is spared the closest shaving to safely accommodate the weight of a combat helmet. The length of the top portion may vary, usually being 5–10 mm ( to inch), but sometimes left long enough to comb. Sometimes the back and sides of the head are shaved completely with a razor. |
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" U.S. military haircuts must have a ""tapered appearance on both sides and the back of the head, both with and without headgear. A tapered appearance is one that when viewed from any angle outlines the member's hair so that it conforms to the shape of the head, curving inward to the natural termination point without eccentric directional flow, twists or spiking"". |
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" Beginning in the late 1980s, it crossed over into civilian life, being embraced first by mostly young black males (see hi-top fade), then spread to other groups. From the 1990s and to date, the hairstyle has also been popular among Middle Eastern youth, namely those of Moroccan and Assyrian descent. |
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" The ""High and tight"" haircut, known as ""Cepak"" (pronounced ""Cheu-pak"") in Indonesia, is worn by all Indonesian military personnel and some police personnel, particularly those serving in paramilitary units. The national identity of an Armed Forces man in Indonesia is indicated by this haircut; it is also worn by students of other service academies in the country. Officers of general rank rarely wear the high and tight, excepting a few such as Minister of Defense Ryamizard Ryacudu. |
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