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The Boii were a Celtic people whose original seat is supposed to have been between the Upper Saone and the higher parts of the Seine and Marne. They migrated to Cisalpine Gaul, crossed the Po, and established themselves between it and the Apennines, in the country previously occupied by the Umbrians. After a more or less constant strife with the inhabitants of Southern Italy they attacked the Romans in support of Hannibal in 218 BC, and though defeated, maintained the war until their subjugation by Scipio Nasica in 191 BC. The remnant of the tribe sought refuge among the Tauriscans in the territory since called after them Bohemia, from which there was a later migration, about 58 BC, to Bavaria, to which also they gave their name.
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The Cenommani (Cenomani) were a Celtic people of the Aulerei nation of Gaul who inhabited the department of Sarthe. Their capital was Vindinum (Le Mans). A branch of the Cenommani invaded Italy in the 6th century BC, and occupied the left bank of the Po between the Adda and the Adige, with Verona as their capital.
Caesar refers to the inhabitants of Norfoilk, Suffolk and Cambridge as being the Cenomanni.`
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Li Po was a Chinese poet born in 700bc. He died by drowning.
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Sir Richard Francis Burton was an English explorer and linguist. He was born in 1821 and died in 1890. He joined the Indian army in 1842, and showed a remarkable facility in acquiring the languages and manners of the natives. In 1853 he went to Arabia, and visited Mecca and Medina disguised as a Muslim pilgrim a sufficiently dangerous journey. After serving in the Crimean War he made a journey to East Africa along with Captain Speke, which led to the discovery of the great lake Tanganyika. He was British consul at Fernando Po, at Santos in Brazil, and from 1872 at Trieste. He visited many countries and published many works, amongst which were Sindh and the Races that inhabit India; Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Mecca; The Lake Regions of Central Africa; The City of the Saints and across the Rocky Mountains to California; The Nile Basin; The Highlands of Brazil; Ultima Thule, or a Summer in Iceland; The Gold Mines of Midian; The Book of the Sword; translations of Camoens' Lusiads and of the Arabian Nights; etc.
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In Roman mythology, Phaethon was the son of the sun and the ocean-nymph Clymene. He tried to ride the Sun's chariot across the sky, but unable to control the horses skimmed the surface of the earth charring tilled ground to desert and drying up seas, until Gaia complained to Jupiter who toppled
Phaethon with a thunderbolt, causing him to fall into the river Po where he drowned. Clymene and her nymphs collected Phaethon's body and buried it, and then stood weeping on the banks of the river until the Sun taking pity on them turned them into alders.
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Polonium is a metal radioactive element with the symbol Po.
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PO is an abbreviation for Per Os
PO is an abbreviation for Petty Officer
PO is an abbreviation for Post Office
PO is an abbreviation for Postal Order
PO is an abbreviation for Purchase Order
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CHEKA was an abbreviation for Vserossiiskaya Chrezvychainaya Kommisiya po Borbe s Kontr Revolyutsiyei i Sabotazhem (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution and Sabotage)
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Grana are Italian traditional creamery hard cheeses made from un-pasteurised cow's milk in the Po Valley region. The family includes 'Parmesan' cheese (Parmigiano-Reggiano) and Grana Padano.
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The An Dong is a South Korean Po Hang Class Corvette of 1180 tons displacement fully loaded. The An Dong carries a crew of ten officers and 85 men and is powered by one LM 2500 gas turbine and two SEMT-Pielstick 12 PA6-V280 diesel engines providing a top speed of 32 knots and a range of 6400 km at 15 knots. Armaments consist of one OTO Melara 76 mm/62 compact dual-purpose gun; six 324 mm Mk 32 torpedo tubes arranged as two triples taking the Honeywell Mk 46 anti-submarine torpedo; 12 depth charges.
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