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| x Personal | Nitesh Gautam |
Personal websites are made to reflect their author's interests or taste, and may encompass a whole range of categories, from the very broad to the niche.
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| http://www.netgautam.com | |||
| http://davidhuynh.net/ | |||
| www.arulns.com | |||
| JamesonOGuinn.com | |||
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| x Business |
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Cardtrak.com |
A business (also called a firm or an enterprise) is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit...
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| x Photo sharing | Flickr |
Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others (whether publicly or privately). This functionality is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate...
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| Ringo.com | |||
| Zooomr | |||
| Astronomy Picture of the Day | |||
| Hi5 Networks | |||
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| x Web hosting service |
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WordPress.com |
A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by...
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| GeoCities | |||
| x Knowledge base | Freebase |
A knowledge base (or knowledgebase; abbreviated KB, kb or Δ) is a special kind of database for knowledge management, providing the means for the computerized collection, organization, and retrieval of knowledge.
Knowledge bases are categorized into...
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| Yahoo! Answers | |||
| Internet Archive | |||
| Wikia, Inc. | |||
| Tiso.com | |||
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| x Blog |
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FreshTrend.com |
A blog (a contraction of the term "weblog") is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse...
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| Machete.ca | |||
| Dossy's Blog | |||
| Jihad Watch | |||
| The Soxaholix | |||
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| x Social network service |
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A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a...
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| MyYearbook | |||
| Selfportrait.net | |||
| MySpace | |||
| Ryze | |||
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| x web mail | Yahoo! Mail | ||
| x The Internet |
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Yahoo! |
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks...
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| Internet Archive | |||
| Dijjer | |||
| http://blogbiz.pl | |||
| x Magazine |
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Yahoo! Internet Life |
Magazines, newspapers, glossiers or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three....
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| Japaninc.com - Business, People, Technology | |||
| http://blogbiz.pl | |||
| x Data | SensorBase |
Data are pieces of information that represent the qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data (plural of "datum") are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs, images, or observations of...
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| Http://zepheira.com/ | |||
| USGS Global Visualization Viewer | |||
| USGS EarthExplorer | |||
| x Literature |
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Project Runeberg |
Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter), and therefore the academic study of literature is known as Letters (as in the phrase "Arts and Letters"). In...
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| EveryDay Fiction | |||
| x Wiki |
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Susning.nu |
A wiki is a website that uses wiki software, allowing the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites....
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| Memory Alpha | |||
| Wookieepedia | |||
| Lostpedia | |||
| Uncyclopedia | |||
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| x Encyclopedia |
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Susning.nu |
An encyclopedia (also spelled encyclopaedia or encyclopædia) is a comprehensive written compendium that holds information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge. Encyclopedias are divided into articles with one...
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| ZineWiki | |||
| Wikipedia | |||
| English Wikipedia | |||
| MathWorld | |||
| x Social news | Glinkster |
The term social news refers to websites where users submit and vote on news stories or other links, thus determining which links are presented.
Social news was pioneered by community sites like Slashdot and Fark. It became more popular with the...
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| Digg | |||
| Trailfire | |||
| Thoof | |||
| reddit.com | |||
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| x Social software | MySpace |
The term Social Software has acquired two meanings. In its most common usage, social software means a range of software programs which are often web-based, and which allow users to interact and share data with other users. However, it might also...
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| Yahoo! Answers | |||
| del.icio.us | |||
| x Web directory | Yahoo! Directory |
A web directory or link directory is a directory on the World Wide Web. It specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links.
A web directory is not a search engine and does not display lists of web pages based on keywords;...
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| Open Directory Project | |||
| HotFrog | |||
| MyWikiBiz | |||
| superpages.com | |||
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| x Virtual community | Machinima.com |
A virtual community, e-community or online community is a group of people that primarily interact via communication media such as newsletters, telephone, email, internet social network service or instant messages rather than face to face, for social...
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| Gfxartist | |||
| Jyte | |||
| Slashdot | |||
| Pinecam | |||
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| x Imageboard |
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4chan |
An imageboard (also chan, which itself is short for channel) is a type of Internet forum that revolves around the posting of images. The first imageboards were created in Japan, and many English-language imageboards today are centered around...
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| Futaba Channel | |||
| x Online shop | Jinx.com |
Online shopping is the process consumers go through to purchase products or services over the Internet. An online shop, eshop, e-store, internet shop, webshop, webstore, online store, or virtual store evokes the physical analogy of buying products...
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| Astrodienst | |||
| Editions O'Reilly | |||
| Buzzflyer | |||
| Audible Kids | |||
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| x Uploading and downloading | Direct2Drive |
In networks, uploading and downloading refer to the two canonical directions (corresponding to send and receive, respectively) that information can move, and further defines such data as being copied and compiled (indicated by the term "loading") to...
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| Download.com | |||
| Dijjer | |||
| Free Music Archive | |||
| x Satire |
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HumorFeed |
Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of...
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| Uncyclopedia | |||
| EveryDay Fiction | |||
| The Best Page in the Universe | |||
| Encyclopedia Dramatica | |||
| x Music |
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Stylus Magazine |
Music is an art form whose medium is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and...
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| MP3.com | |||
| VGMusic.com | |||
| SellABand | |||
| eMusic | |||
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| x Avatar |
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Meez |
In Hinduism, Avatar or Avatara (Sanskrit: अवतार, IAST Avatāra), often translated into English as incarnation, literally means descent (avatarati) and usually implies a deliberate descent from higher spiritual realms to lower realms of existence for...
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| x Webzine | Media Whores Online |
A Webzine is an ezine hosted on the World Wide Web rather than in print. A webzine tends to be published on a regulated basis (weekly, biweekly, monthly) and may maintain an editorial control system. A distinguishing characteristic from blogs is...
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| Stylus Magazine | |||
| Intergalactic Medicine Show | |||
| EveryDay Fiction | |||
| x EarthBound series |
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Starmen.Net |
EarthBound, known in Japan as Mother, is a role-playing game series created by Shigesato Itoi for Nintendo. The series started in 1989 with the Japan only release of Mother (known in the US as Earthbound Zero) for the Famicom, and was then followed...
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| x Dictionary |
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Wiktionary |
A dictionary is a book or collection of words in a specific language, often listed alphabetically, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known...
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| Urban Dictionary | |||
| Logos Dictionary | |||
| x Video sharing | Ringo.com |
Video sharing refers to websites or software where users can distribute their video clips. Some services may charge, but the bulk of them offer free services. Many services have options for private sharing and other publication options. Video...
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| Revver | |||
| YouTube | |||
| Seesmic | |||
| Hi5 Networks | |||
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| x Trailer |
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GameTrailers |
Trailers or previews are film advertisements for feature films that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, on whose screen they are shown. The term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown at the end of a film program. That...
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| x Computer and video game music |
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VGMix |
Video game music is any of the musical pieces or soundtracks found in video games. It can range from a primitive synthesizer tune to an orchestral piece, usually such that the older the game, the simpler the music. In recent times, many games have...
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| OverClocked ReMix | |||
| x Video game |
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GameTrailers |
A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device. However, with the popular use of the...
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| The Escapist | |||
| 1UP.com | |||
| Abandonia Reloaded | |||
| Destructoid | |||
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| x Electronic sports |
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GotFrag |
Electronic sports, abbreviated e-sports or eSports, is used as a general term to describe the play of video games competitively. Other terms include competitive gaming, cybersports, cyber athletics (used by the CPL) and V-Sports (used by the GGL)...
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| Fragbite | |||
| x Webcomic |
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The Soxaholix |
Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website, often exclusively, providing easy access to an audience, though some are published in books and newspapers but maintain a web archive.
Webcomics are like self-published...
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| xkcd | |||
| x Podcasting |
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Gamertag Radio |
A podcast is a series of digital media files, usually either digital audio or video, that is made available for download via web syndication. The syndication aspect of the delivery is what differentiates podcasts from other ways of accessing files,...
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| x Printing |
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MiniCards |
Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing.
Woodblock...
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| x Macintosh |
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MacUpdate |
Macintosh, or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and...
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| Low End Mac | |||
| x E-card | Miniclip |
An e-card is similar to a postcard or greeting card, with the primary difference being that it is created using digital media instead of paper or other traditional materials. E-cards are made available by publishers usually on various Internet sites...
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| x Social network |
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Mugshot |
A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, sexual...
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| Last.fm | |||
| Jamendo | |||
| Stickam | |||
| Orkut | |||
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| x Gossip |
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Perezhilton.com |
Gossip is idle talk or rumour, especially about the personal or private affairs of others. It forms one of the oldest and most common means of sharing (unproven) facts and views, but also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and other...
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| Dlisted | |||
| x Architecture |
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The term architecture (from Greek word ἀρχιτεκτονική - arkhitektonike) can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.
As a process, architecture activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures primarily to...
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| x RSS | Bloglines |
RSS (most commonly translated as "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called...
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| FeedBurner | |||
| x Genealogy |
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WebBiographies |
Genealogy (from Greek: γενεά, genea, "descent"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to...
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| Genealogy.eu | |||
| x Video game developer |
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Gamasutra |
A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii, or may develop for...
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| x Web portal | Yahoo! Korea |
A web portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way. Apart from the standard search engine feature, web portals offer other services such as e-mail, news, stock prices, information, and entertainment. Portals provide a way for...
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| Empas | |||
| DhivehiNet | |||
| Naver | |||
| NineMSN | |||
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| x Drawing |
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ISketch |
Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, markers,...
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| x Image hosting service | ImageShack |
An image hosting service allows individuals to upload images to an Internet website. The image host will then store the image onto its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view that image.
Typically image...
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| Smugmug, Inc. | |||
| x Web-based email | FileFortress |
Webmail (or Web-based e-mail) is an e-mail service intended to be primarily accessed via a web browser, as opposed to through an e-mail client, such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla's Thunderbird, or Apple Inc.'s Mail. Very popular webmail providers...
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| Yahoo! Mail | |||
| Hushmail | |||
| Boxbe | |||
| Footard: Disposable Email | |||
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| x Music theatre |
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Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical...
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| x News | News Lab |
News is the communication of information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.
One theory is that news was developed as a special use of the plural form of new in the...
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| The Unofficial Apple Weblog | |||
| Slashdot | |||
| NowPublic Technologies, Inc. | |||
| BBC News Online | |||
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| x Adobe Flash |
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XGenStudios |
Adobe Flash (previously called Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform originally acquired by Macromedia and currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Since its introduction in 1996, Flash has become a popular method for adding...
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| JamGlue | |||
| x Source text | Wikisource |
A source text is a text (sometimes oral) from which information or ideas are derived. In translation, a source text is the original text that is to be translated into another language.
In historiography, distinctions are commonly made between three...
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| x Simulation |
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A simulation video game describes a diverse super-category of computer and video games. Some simulation video games are intended to simulate the real world; others are intended to simulate a fictional world; still others (The Sims 2 for example) are...
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| x Free web hosting service | Tripod.com |
A free web hosting service is a web hosting service that is free, usually advertisement-supported. Free web hosts will usually provide a subdomain (yoursite.example.com) or a directory (www.example.com/~yourname). In contrast, paid web hosts will...
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| Angelfire | |||
| x Dating system | Verbdate.com |
A dating system is any systematic means of improving matchmaking via rules or technology. It is a specialized meeting system where the objective of the meeting, be it live or phone or chat based, is to go on a live date with someone, with usually...
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| PlentyofFish | |||
| OKCupid | |||
| x Directory | Alleba |
Generally, a directory, as used in computing and telephony, refers to a repository or database of information which is heavily optimized for reading, under the assumption that data updates are very rare compared to data reads. Commonly, a directory...
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| brightpages.com | |||
| x Sports |
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Yahoo! Sports |
Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome (winning...
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| Cruzeiro Esporte Clube | |||
| Beach Volleyball Database | |||
| x LGBT |
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GayOne |
LGBT (or GLBT) is an initialism referring collectively to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. In use since the 1990s, the term “LGBT” is an adaptation of the initialism “LGB” which itself started replacing the phrase “gay community”...
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| x Xbox |
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Gamertag Radio |
The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console produced by Microsoft. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market, and competed with Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast, and Nintendo's Nintendo GameCube. The integrated Xbox...
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| x British television |
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UKNova |
British television broadcasting started in 1936, and now has a collection of free and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are up to 600 channels for consumers as well as on-demand content. There are six...
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| x Professional wrestling |
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WrestleCrap |
Professional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is a non-competitive professional sport, where matches are prearranged by the promotion's booking staff, and is also considered an athletic performing art, containing strong elements of catch wrestling, mock...
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