• By the fifteenth year chip PCs had begun their attack on the top-down computer establishment.

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  • The fourth Wednesday of July 2005 was the fifteenth day of a searing heat wave in the Northeast.

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  • Congratulations are in order for the fifteenth-seeded Eagles of Florida Gulf Coast University.

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  • In the fifteenth century, the Medici family of bankers and merchants rose in Templar-like fashion, amassing vast wealth and influence.

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  • Graff rues the lost opportunity, since just weeks later the 603-carat Lesotho Promise was unearthed there, the fifteenth-largest rough ever discovered.

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  • As the goddess Yeondeung departs on the fifteenth day, marking the arrival of spring, she sows seeds and calms the troubled waters.

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  • The most mentioned celebrity passing, of first man on the moon Neil Armstrong, was the fifteenth biggest event of any type for 2012.

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  • Trombone is Italian for "big trumpet": instrument makers in the fifteenth century created the trombone as a bigger, lower-pitched, and improved version of the slide trumpet.

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  • If there is a single day on which the Paris insurrection began in earnest it was August the fifteenth 1944, ten days before de Gaulle's triumphant appearance.

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  • During Reconstruction, Congress and the states passed three new Amendments to the Constitution the Thirteenth, the Fourteenth, and the Fifteenth to give the newly freed slaves the full rights of citizenship.

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  • The fifteenth principle could also be heard in the White House on November 16, 2010, when President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore A. Giunta.

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  • Petersburgopens to guests on August 1, 2013 and is part of Four Seasons Historic Hotels, a small sub-collection within the famous luxury brand that includes unique and architecturally important heritage hotels in Europe, set in buildings dating from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

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  • However, businessmen across the eurozone operating in the retail sector did not show greater confidence, according to the survey, chiming with separate survey data from research firm Markit that indicated retail sales across the single currency area fell for the fifteenth month in a row in January.

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  • In June 2002, the fifteenth session of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Hydrological Programme welcomed the proposal of creating an international centre on qanats in Yazd, Islamic Republic of Iran, recognizing the potential role of the Centre in raising awareness and helping the preservation of this admirable historical heritage.

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  • In fulfilment of the recommendations of the fifteenth session of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP)Intergovernmental Council, a UNESCO mission was undertaken to Iran by the Secretary of IHP, followed by a mission undertaken by the Director of the UNESCO Office in Tehran to discuss the centre with the Iranian authorities and assess the prevailing conditions for the creation of the Centre.

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  • In the fourteenth or fifteenth century, when the people of Iwate Prefecture in the northern part of mainland Japan worshipped Mt.

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  • For most of the Middle Ages (ie the Fifth to Fifteenth Centuries) not only did the Church not bother pursuing so-called witches, but its teaching was actually that witches did not even exist.

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  • "Congress drew reasonable conclusions from the extensive evidence it gathered and acted pursuant to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, which entrust Congress with ensuring that the right to vote -- surely among the most important guarantees of political liberty in the Constitution -- is not abridged on account of race, " said the 2-1 panel of judges.

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  • Last year, the league added a fifteenth team and revamped the schedule to feature more matches between domestic rivals and less international travel.

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  • Are you satisfied that the U.S. ranks fifteenth in the world in broadband per capita and that we are falling further down the ladder every year?

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  • Faye Turney, the star of the debacle, might have wanted more than one-fifteenth of the proceeds, but that could have been settled through an internal auction.

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  • The city is also a principal banking and finance center, and the home to more than 30 international financial institutions, helping to make San Francisco rank eighteenth in the world's top producing cities and fifteenth place in the top twenty global financial centers.

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  • And although the money spent on abstinence will probably be wasted, it is only one-fifteenth of the total and if its failure is manifest, then there will be pressure for change.

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  • Analysis by Dr Roberts showed that only one fifteenth of the capacity of a telephone line used to remotely connect to a mainframe was used.

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  • The town, which is wealthy and white, was recently ranked fifteenth on a list of the top-earning towns in the country, one place below Greenwich, Connecticut.

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  • Known as the face of the Nets, Jay-Z is, in reality, one fifteenth of one percent owner of the former New Jersey basketball team which now calls the Barclays home.

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  • The sports world is dizzy with excitement over one of the biggest upsets in NCAA tournament history: fifteenth-seeded Florida Gulf Coast University beat mighty (and second-seeded) Georgetown in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

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  • On some routes, like shuttle flights to New York, the airline is carrying one-fifteenth of its usual load.

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  • And a mu is about one fifteenth of a hectare, meaning that if true, we seem to be missing some 93% of the timber that should be there.

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