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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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Cuthbert Tunstall was an English prelate. He was born in 1474 and died in 1559. Educated in England and Italy he enetered the church and in 1511 was appointed chancellor to the archbishop of Canterbury. He became bishop of London in 1522, and from 1525 to 1529 was special ambassador to the empereor Charles V. In 1530 he became bishop of Durham. He supported Henry VIII in his break with Rome and in 1537 was appointed president of the council of the north. He lost his mitre under Edward VI but was reinstated by Mary, and then refusing to swear the oath of supremacy to Elizabeth ws imprisoned at Lambeth where he died.
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Eliphalet Nott was an American educator. He ws born in 1773 and died in 1866. He was president of Union College, New York, from 1804 to 1866 and one of the most distinguished of American educators. His address on the death of Alexander Hamilton became famous.
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John G Palfrey ws an American journalist and politician. He was born in 1796 and died in 1881. He was editor of the North American Review from 1835 to 1843. He was Secretary of State in Massachusetts from 1844 to 1848, and represented Massachusetts in the US Congress as a Whig from 1847 to 1849. He wrote a valuable 'History of New England', a Life of Colonel William Palfrey and 'The Progress of the Slave Power'.
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Daun Kennedy was an American actress. She ws born in 1922 at Seattle, Washington and died in 2002 of a heart attack.
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Martine McCutcheon is an English actress. She ws born in 1976 at Hackney, London. She first became known for her role as 'Tiffany Mitchell' in the BBC television soap-opera 'Eastenders', a role she played from 1995 to 1998, but she also played lead role in the West End musical 'My Fair Lady'.
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Pewter is an alloy of 80 percent tin and 20 percent lead, that ws once much used for making plates and drinking-cups.
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The Xian JH-7 is a Chinese two-seater all-weather interdiction and attack warplane first flown in 1988. The Xian JH-7 is powered by two Xian WS-9 turbofans providing a top speed of Mach 1.69. Armaments consist of a 23 mm Type 23-3 two-barrelled cannon mounted in the nose and disposable stores carried on four under-wing hard points and two wing-tip hard points.
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A Man SG (WS) is an abbreviation for Army Management Services Group (Work Study)
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WS is an abbreviation for Windshear
WS is an abbreviation for Writer to the Signet
WS is an abbreviation for Weapon System
WS is an abbreviation for Wet Soil
WS is an abbreviation for Western Samoa
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