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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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Lamar Alexander is an American politician. He was born in 1940, at Maryville, Tennessee. He has been Governor of Tennessee, president of the University of Tennessee and US Education Secretary. Governor Alexander helped Tennessee become the third largest automobile producer, the fastest growing state in family incomes and the first state to pay teachers more for teaching well. As chairman of the National Governor's Association he began 'Time for Results', the governors' five-year initiative to create better schools. He chaired President Reagan's Commission on Americans Outdoors, encouraging a 'prairie fire' of support for local land trusts and greenways and an expanded Land and Water Conservation Fund.
As the US Secretary of Education, he helped President Bush push for higher academic standards, 'break the mold schools' and a GI Bill for Kids to give poor families more choices of good schools. The Education Commission of the States and the National College Athletic Association have given him their highest honours, the James B. Conant and Teddy Roosevelt awards. In 1987, he co-founded Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc, (NASDAQ) which has become the nation's largest provider of worksite day care. He is an active investor in and board member of several private companies. Governor Alexander is author of seven books including Six Months Off, the story of his family's life in Australia after eight years in the Governor's residence.
An accomplished pianist, he has performed with twenty symphony orchestras and the Billy Graham Crusade and on the Grand Ole Opry. In 1996 and 2000, Governor Alexander was a candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States. On January the 4th 1969, Lamar Alexander married Honey Buhler in Victoria, Texas. They have four children and live in Nashville where he is chairman of the Salvation Army Initiative to help families move from welfare to work, and she is president of Family and Children's Service. Governor Alexander is also an elder in Westminster Presbyterian Church.
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Albert Salmi (real name Alfred Salmi) was an American actor. He was born in 1928 at Brooklyn, New York and died in 1990. After serving in the Army during the Second World War, he used the GI Bill to study at the Dramatic Workshop of the American Theater Wing and the prestigious Actors Studio. He became a stage actor, eventually making it to Broadway, where his role as Bo Decker in 'Bus Stop' was his biggest stage success. A compromise between the stage and screen was live television drama, in which he was cast regularly. Salmi's very first film appearance was a choice role in 'The Brothers Karamazov', for which he turned down an Oscar nomination. The National Board of Review succeeded in presenting him with their award for the same picture, however. Salmi came to enjoy film work and actively sought out parts in westerns. He then became a very familiar presence, especially on the TV screen, where he guest starred in many of the westerns and other series of the sixties and seventies. He committed suicide in 1990.
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The upper GI series are X-rays of the oesophagus, stomach, and duodenum. The patient swallows barium first that makes the organs show up on x-rays.
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The Tanaka memorandum was a memorandum written in 1927 by Baron Gi-ishi Tanaka, the Japanese prime minister and foreign minister, which advocated the conquest of Manchuria and Mongolia as a prelude to Japanese domination over the whole of China. The memorandum also predicted that the operation would result in armed conflict between Japan and Russia. The memorandum was intercepted by Soviet agents working in the Chinese postal service, and a second copy was stolen from the safe of the Japanese police chief in Seoul by Soviet agent Ano. A copy of the memorandum was later leaked by the INO to the American press to give the impression that it had been obtained by the Americans rather than the Soviets.
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GI is an abbreviation for Gibraltar
GI is an abbreviation for Galvanized Iron
GI is an abbreviation for Gastro Intestinal
GI is an abbreviation for General Issue
GI is an abbreviation for Government Issue
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GI Z W01 is a cultivated variety of potato.
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Gi us is Dorset slang for give me.
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