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The ISO (International Standards Organisation) assigns a two character code to each country name. These codes are used by Internet 'whois' databases (these two character abbreviations are the whois country codes) and also other applications.
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The Sea Bream (Pagellus centrodontus) is a marine fish of the Sparidea family found in the Mediterranean and around the British Isles. The Sea Bream has a deep, thick body and a high dorsal fin resembling the fresh-water perch in some respects. The upper parts are red in colour and the sides and under side silver with a conspicuous black spot above the gill-covers. The Sea Bream feeds mainly on sand-stars, brittle-stars and small crabs. The young Sea Bream is known as a chad. While recognised as good eating, dead Sea Bream do not travel well.
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Hugh Clapperton was a Scottish explorer. He was born in 1788 at Annan, Dumfriesshire and died in 1827. Apprenticed as a cabin boy upon a trading ship he was subsequently press-ganged into the Royal Navy and deserted at Gibraltar in 1806, joining a privateer. Recaptured he was pardoned and made a midshipman, seeing service in the West Indies before from 1814 until 1817 being a naval commander on the Great Lakes of Canada. In 1822 he accompanied Oudney and Denham to Central Africa and journeyed to Lake Chad and Sokoto to determine the course of the Niger.
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John Denver (real name Henry John Deutschendorf Jr) was an American folk singer, actor and environmentalist. He was born in 1943 at Roswell, New Mexico and died in 1997 in a plane crash. As a child he was bought an acoustic guitar by his grandfather, and after learning to play it appeared at Leadbetter's night club in West Los Angeles before getting a break replacing the departing Chad Mitchell in the Chad Mitchell Trio, staying with the group until going solo in 1969. From 1969 until 1975 he was a major-selling artist in the country and pop charts. In 1970 he started acting, appearing in an episode of the television drama 'McCloud' before starring in the 1977 film 'Oh God' after which he devoted more attention to politics, specialising in environmental issues.
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The Kanuri are a group of peoples living around Lake Chad in Niger and north- east Nigeria.
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Chad Aaron is an American actor. He was born in 1983 at Manhasset, New York.
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Chad Everett (Raymond Cramton) is an American actor. He was born in 1936 at South Bend, Indiana.
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The Free French were a movement formed by General de Gaulle in England in June 1940, consisting of French soldiers who continued to fight against the Axis powers after France-German armistice. They took the name Fighting France in 1942 and served in many campaigns, among them General Leclerc' s advance from Chad to Tripolitania 1942, The Syrian campaigns of 1941, the campaigns in the Western Desert, the Italian campaign, the liberation of France, and the invasion of Germany. Their emblem was the Cross of Lorraine, which was used by Joan of Arc.
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The Chad Virus is a computer virus which infects .COM files including COMMAND.COM. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer's runtime operation and corrupts program files. On the tenth infection the virus displays a message.
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3 Ninjas is a martial arts comedy action starring Victor Wong, Michael Treanor, Max Elliott Slade and Chad Power in a story about an arms dealer who abducts two children, but doesn't reckon on them having martial arts fighting skills. 3 Ninjas was directed by Jon Turteltaub in 1992.
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