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window-washing robot (3 February 2013) A cleaning device that uses suction to hold itself onto a window's glass surface and glides horizontally to clean the window. When it bumps into the window's frame, the robot turns itself around and edges up the window to eventually go back in the opposite direction, ... -
Willian Borges da Silva (1 February 2013) Willian Borges da Silva or short Willian (born August 9, 1988 in Ribeirão Preto) is a Brazilian football player. He is currently playing as an attacking midfielder or winger for Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala. He also played in Seleção, a Brazilian football team.
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James Raynor (1 February 2013) A fictional character and a major protagonist in Blizzard Entertainment's science fiction StarCraft series. Raynor is a predominant character in the science fiction real-time strategy video games StarCraft and Brood War, and is the player character in StarCraft II: Wings of ... -
Naro-1 (31 January 2013) The Naro-1 is the first south korean orbital launch vehicle, which made its maiden flight on 25 August 2009. Built by KARI, the national space agency of South Korea, and Korean Air, with the first stage provided by Khrunichev,which is mostly identical to the URM-1 first ... -
closed-circuit television (31 January 2013) The use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly transmitted, though it may employ point to point (P2P), point to multipoint, or mesh wireless links. Though ... -
Santa Maria (30 January 2013) Santa Maria (full name Santa Maria da Boca do Monte) is a city in Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.
It is located at 29 ° 41'03 S latitude and 53 ° 48'25 west longitude and 151 meters above sea level. Its population is approximately 270,000.
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Jake Gyllenhaal (30 January 2013) An American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at the age of ten. Following his first lead role in 1999's October Sky, he starred in the indie cult hit Donnie Darko (2001), in which he played a psychologically ... -
Sarah Kerrigan (29 January 2013) The self-styled Queen of Blades, is a major character in Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft series of video games and novels. The character was created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney, and her appearance was originally designed by Chris Metzen. Sarah Kerrigan was voiced ... -
DNA hard drive (28 January 2013) A digital storage device that is capable of storing huge amounts of data using the same method evolved by nature to write and read computer data. The device first converts computer binary data into a DNA sequence with the four-letter genetic alphabet of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts ... -
rush hour (28 January 2013) A part of the day during which traffic congestion on roads and crowding on public transport is at its highest. Normally, this happens twice a day—once in the morning and once in the evening, the times during when the most people commute. The term is very broad but often ...