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  • | places = ...center was to test liquid-fueled [[ballistic missile]]s. The official (and secret) name of the center was State Test Range No. 5 or 5 GIK. It remained under
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  • ...welve Olympic gold medal streak in pairs skating, sweeping gold and silver places.<ref>{{cite web | title = Shen, Zhao end Russian Olympic pairs dominance| p Moon Flower <br><small>by [[Secret Garden (duo)|Secret Garden]], [[Sumi Jo]]</small><br><small> choreographed by [[Nikolai Morozov
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  • ...welve Olympic gold medal streak in pairs skating, sweeping gold and silver places.<ref>{{cite web | title = Shen, Zhao end Russian Olympic pairs dominance| p Moon Flower <br><small>by [[Secret Garden (duo)|Secret Garden]], [[Sumi Jo]]</small><br><small> choreographed by [[Nikolai Morozov
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  • ...he and Stalin's Order of Priorities, 1929–1933: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives|format= PDF|author= Simon Ertz|date= 2005|journal= Stanford's Stud ...d are incompatible with international standards. Torture remains common in places of detention."<ref>[[Human Rights Watch]], [https://www.hrw.org/world-repor
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  • Minenkov said, "Foreign ideologists of terrorism recommended attacking public places and strategically important infrastructure facilities" in letters found by ...ionary activity. Askar Amerkhanov, head of the National Security Committee Secret Police's Anti-terrorism Center, said, "It is true that at first we did have
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  • ...ed in the [[Soviet Union]] shortly after the 1917 revolution, the [[NKVD]] secret police nearly exterminated the criminal underworld completely. Under Stalin ...ir rank within the criminal world, noteworthy criminal accomplishments and places of former incarceration. For example, a tattoo of one cat indicates that th
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  • ...Saratov, and Stalingrad Oblasts," assigning the deputy head of the NKVD, (secret police) Ivan Serov, to command this operation. He also allocated NKVD and R ...rmy—rather than a punitive measure. Stalin allegedly gave the following "secret" order to the NKVD, produced in Nazi controlled Latvia on September 20, 194
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  • ...no action against the Zhou Kingdom’s violation of his power. Instead, he places 10,000 Turks as 'guests' in Zhou | He has a secret agreement to trade the Prince Kaozhou for Princess Tsienkien. The lack of h
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  • .... Salkin|author3=Sharon La Boda|title=International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWLRxJEU49EC&pg=PA4 ...Han and Tang era stories about Xinjiang were recounted and ancient Chinese places names were reused and circulated.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KT
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  • ...life behind barbed-wire fences for life in one of earth’s most isolated places, an island chain with a local population of just 20,000. ...to give refuge to the Uyghurs was reached after the USA agreed to various secret payments. Those payments included $93,333 to cover each Uyghurs living exp
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  • ...life behind barbed-wire fences for life in one of earth’s most isolated places, an island chain with a local population of just 20,000. ...to give refuge to the Uyghurs was reached after the USA agreed to various secret payments. Those payments included $93,333 to cover each Uyghurs living exp
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  • ...life behind barbed-wire fences for life in one of earth’s most isolated places, an island chain with a local population of just 20,000. ...to give refuge to the Uyghurs was reached after the USA agreed to various secret payments. Those payments included $93,333 to cover each Uyghurs living exp
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  • ...life behind barbed-wire fences for life in one of earth’s most isolated places, an island chain with a local population of just 20,000. ...to give refuge to the Uyghurs was reached after the USA agreed to various secret payments. Those payments included $93,333 to cover each Uyghurs living exp
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  • ...f the city's name is "Hotan" according to ''Register of Chinese Geographic Places'' (中国地名录, published in Beijing, ''[[SinoMaps Press]]'' {{lang|zh- ...ese princess given in marriage to a Khotan prince brought to the oasis the secret of silk-manufacture, "hiding [[Bombyx mori|silkworms]] in her hair as part
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  • ...de life behind barbed-wire fences for life in one of earth's most isolated places, an island chain with a local population of just 20,000. ...to give refuge to the Uyghurs was reached after the USA agreed to various secret payments. Those payments included $93,333 to cover each Uyghurs living exp
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  • However, Kim Jong-il's official biography states he was born in a secret military camp on [[Paektu Mountain]] ({{Korean|백두산밀영고향집|con ...Malta]] in the early 1970s,<ref>{{cite news|title=1982 Labour government "secret" agreement with North Korea – 'Times change' – Alex Sceberras Trigona|d
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  • |leader_title1 = <!-- for places with, say, both a mayor and a city manager --> ...4. It is located about 200&nbsp;km North-East of [[Astana]]. It began as a secret town with code names Tselinograd-25 ({{lang-ru|Целиноград-25}}),
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  • ...e launch site was given this name to cause confusion and keep the location secret. (The original Baikonur's residents took advantage of the confusion by orde * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110929231112/http://www.rollnzoom.com/places/matish/173/baikonur_cosmodrome.htm Baikonur cosmodrome placemark]
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  • ...ficers arrived after the [[USSR|Soviet]] government decided to establish a secret [[military base]] in the [[Kazakh Steppe]]. This testing site for the sovie [[Category:Populated places established in 1956]]
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  • ...its weapons testing. For decades, [[Kurchatov, Kazakhstan|Kurchatov]] (the secret city at the heart of the test range named for [[Igor Kurchatov]], father of [[Category:Populated places established in 1718]]
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  • ...this incident are not entirely known, partly because the incident was kept secret by the Soviet authorities. Kazakhs who have visited the city state it is hi [[Category:Populated places established in 1720]]
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  • ...m to the north), it is suspected by the [[United States]] of being a large secret nuclear facility or bunker, or both.<ref name= "Blair">{{cite news |first= ...rlink= |coauthors= |title= Despite Cold War's End, Russia Keeps Building a Secret Complex |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E4DF1E39F
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  • ...s first attested by an inscription dated to 1224 or 1225 AD and by the ''[[Secret History of the Mongols]]'', written in 1228 (see [[Mongolic languages]]). T ...s: the material remains found at dwelling sites, burial grounds, and other places where people left traces of their activity.
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  • *{{cite book|title=Soviet Russia and Tibet: The Debarcle of Secret Diplomacy, 1918-1930s|volume=Volume 4 of Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, V *{{cite book|title=The Geography of China: Sacred and Historic Places|author=Britannica Educational Publishing|editor-first=Kenneth|editor-last=P
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  • ..., well within Soviet borders, satisfied this consideration. In 1948, a top-secret Soviet [[bioweapon]]s laboratory was established on the island which tested ....com/2011/10/top-9-most-inhospitable-places-in-world.html Top Inhospitable Places in the World]
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  • ...://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/feb/24/iran.skiing|title=Iran's biggest secret: the skiing's great|author=Dom Joly|work=the Guardian}}</ref> Some of most
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  • ...Russian Prince [[Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky]] landed and established a secret fortified settlement on this location, where the dry bed of [[Uzboy River|a [[Category:Populated places in Balkan Province]]
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  • ...plant. After a fruitless search, he was led to an ascetic who revealed the secret of the plant to him: The "plant" was word, the "mountain" learning, and the ...at during the Sassanid era that these three ''Great Fires'' became central places for pilgrimage among Zoroastrians.<ref name="Zoroastrians 2000"/>
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  • ...investigate and prosecute discrimination against Roma in access to public places.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bayefsky.com/pdf/serbia_t5_cerd_29_2003.pdf ...rms, with half the members elected every two years. Members are elected by secret ballot of the parties, with each party allowed to nominate one of its natio
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  • ...acting States protect "the right of persons with disabilities to vote by [[secret ballot]] in [[elections]] and public [[referendums]]".<ref>Ron McCallum, 'P ...and and use." In some democracies, i.e. Sweden and the US, all the polling places already are fully accessible for disabled voters.
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  • ...to tobacco smoke in indoor workplaces, public transport and indoor public places. ...' reported that the FCTC delegates were discussing a global tobacco tax in secret.<ref name="WT201410"/> The International Tobacco Growers Association seeks
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