Russian Czar Alexander III commissioned craftsman Peter Carl Faberg?? in 1885 to craft an egg as an Easter gift for his wife, Empress Maria Fedorovna.

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Luke Burgess, Dean Mumm, Lachie Turner, Ryan Cross, Richard Brown, Peter Hynes and Ben Alexander have been included in a 30-man line-up.

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Mr Kostov has chosen two presentable politicians to do the lobbying: Peter Stoyanov, the president, and Alexander Bozhkov, the deputy prime minister.

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But unlike dark energy, there are several ideas about what it might be, and one of them is the subject of a second paper, in Physical Review Letters, by Peter Biermann of the University of Bonn, in Germany, and Alexander Kusenko, of the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Around the globe, the most common names among male chief executives are (in rank order): Peter, Bob, Jack, Bruce, Fred, Bill, Ron, Christian, Alexander and Don.

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