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  2. Code of Hammurabi - Wikipedia

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    Linking the Code to the scribal tradition within which "list science" emerged also explains why trainee scribes copied and studied it for over a millennium. [24] The Code appears in a late Babylonian (7th–6th century BC) list of literary and scholarly texts. [122] No other law collection became so entrenched in the curriculum. [123]

  3. List of IOC country codes - Wikipedia

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    current code taken from French Islande, Icelandic Ísland or Spanish Islandia: ISR Israel: ISV Virgin Islands: current code taken from French Îles Vierges (des États-Unis) ITA Italy: IVB British Virgin Islands: BVI [1] current code taken from French Îles Vierges britanniques: JAM Jamaica: JOR Jordan: JPN Japan

  4. List of ISO 639 language codes - Wikipedia

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    This table lists all two-letter codes (set 1), one per language for ISO 639 macrolanguage, and some of the three-letter codes of the other sets, formerly parts 2 and 3. Entries in the Scope column distinguish: Individual language; Collections of related languages; Macrolanguages; The Type column distinguishes: Ancient languages (extinct since ...

  5. Don King - Wikipedia

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    King was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended school and graduated from John Adams High in 1951. [7]After dropping out of Kent State University, he ran an illegal bookmaking operation out of the basement of a record store on Kinsman Road and was charged with killing two men in incidents 13 years apart.

  6. Alexander the Great - Wikipedia

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    The Persian king no longer controlled his own destiny, and was taken prisoner by Bessus, his Bactrian satrap and kinsman. [101] As Alexander approached, Bessus had his men fatally stab the Great King and then declared himself Darius's successor as Artaxerxes V, before retreating into Central Asia to launch a guerrilla campaign against Alexander ...

  7. NATO phonetic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Soon after the code words were developed by ICAO (see history below), they were adopted by other national and international organizations, including the ITU, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United States Federal Government as Federal Standard 1037C: Glossary of Telecommunications Terms [5] and its successors ANSI T1.523-2001 [6] and ATIS Telecom Glossary (ATIS-0100523.2019 ...

  8. The Bear (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    The Bear is an American psychological comedy-drama television series created by Christopher Storer for FX on Hulu. Jeremy Allen White stars as Carmy Berzatto, an award-winning chef who returns to his hometown of Chicago to manage the chaotic kitchen at his deceased brother's sandwich shop.

  9. Cyrus the Great - Wikipedia

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    Cyrus II of Persia (Old Persian: 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 Kūruš; c. 600–530 BC), [a] commonly known as Cyrus the Great [3] was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. [4] Hailing from Persis, he brought the Achaemenid dynasty to power by defeating the Median Empire and embracing all of the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, [4] expanding vastly and eventually conquering most of ...