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Look up: spiro-

  1. Spiro
    The Spiro is an Argentinean Meko 140 Type Frigate. She was built by Afne in Rio Santiago and launched on the 24th of June 1983. She has a displacement of 1470 tons and is armed with four Aerospatiale MM 40 Exocet missiles, one OTO Melara 3in gun, four Breda 40 mm guns, six 324 mm ILAS 3 (2 triple) torpedo tubes and Chaff rocket launchers. She is powered by two Type 16PC2-5V400 SEMT-Pielstick 16-cyl diesels providing 20400bhp and a top speed of 27 knots and a range of 6400 km. She carries a crew ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. Spiro
    Spiro is a city in Le Flore County Oklahoma, USA
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. Spiro
    `Spiro` or `Spyro(s)` may refer to: * Spiro (name) including the spelling `Spyro(s)`, origin of the name and people with this name * Spiro (device), 1970s telephone hacking device * Spiro Agnew, a US vice president * `Spyro the Dragon` (series), a series of video games ** `Spyro the Dragon`, the first game in the series, usually referred as `Spyro` ** Spyro the Dragon (character), the fictional titular character of the video games ** Spyro the Dr...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro

  4. Spiro
    Spiro is a Greek boy name. The meaning of the name is `Spirit` Where is it used? The name Spiridon is mainly used In Greek.How do they say it elsewhere? Spyridon ( In Greek and In Russian) The name Spiro doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Spiro seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Spir

  5. Spiro Agnew
    `Spiro Theodore Agnew` (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States, serving under President Richard M. Nixon, and the fifty-fifth Governor of Maryland. He is most famous for his resignation in 1973 after he was charged with the crime of tax evasion. He is also noted for his quick rise in politics - going in six years from County Executive to Vice President.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew

  6. Spiro compound
    A `spiro compound` is a bicyclic organic compound with rings connected through just one atom. The rings can be different in nature or identical. the connecting atom is also called the `spiroatom`, most often a quaternary carbon (`spiro carbon`). All spiro compounds have the infix `spiro` followed by square brackets [] containing the number of atoms in the smaller ring and the number of atoms in the larger ring excluding the spiroatom itself. For ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_compo

  7. spiro compounds
    A group of compounds consisting in part of two rings sharing one carbon atom in common. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  8. Spiro Kostof
    Dr. `Spiro Konstantine Kostof` (7 May 1936 - 7 December 1991) was a leading architectural historian and inspirational teacher at the University of California, Berkeley. His books continue to be widely read and are some are routinely used in collegiate courses on architectural history. A native of Turkey, Kostof was educated at Istanbul's Robert College. He came the the United States in 1957 for graduate work at Yale University. Although he inte...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Kosto

  9. Spiro Latsis
    `Spiro Latsis` is a Greek businessman and one of the world's richest people, in 2006 ranked 51st by Forbes on the World's Billionaires list at US$9.1 billion. He is the son of the Greek shipping magnate, John Latsis, who died in 2003. The family's largest holding is its EFG Bank European Financial Group, a large banking conglomerate with private banking operations in many jurisdictions. Spiro graduated with a PhD from the London School of Econ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Latsi

  10. Spiro Moisiu
    `Spiro Moisiu` was the father of the current president of Albania, Alfred Moisiu. President Moisiu's middle name is Spiro, named after his father. Spiro Moisiu was an ex-Fascist officer who led the Tomori Division of the Italian Army in the invasion of Greece.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Moisi

  11. Spiro Mounds
    `Spiro Mounds` is a state archaeological site run by the Oklahoma Historical Society and open to the public. It is located in Eastern Oklahoma, near the modern town of Spiro. It is one of the most important pre-Columbian sites in the United States. Spiro is the western-most outpost of the Mississippian culture that spread along the lower Mississippi drainage area and its tributaries. Like other Mississippian sites, it is composed of a number o...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Mound

  12. Spiro Needle
    The Spiro Needle is the headquarters of the fictional business Fission Chips, owned by fictional businessman and main villian for the fourth book, Jon Spiro. It is located in downtown Chicago. In an attempt to prove how good the building's security is, Spiro tells Artemis Fowl that he has things not even the military have, and even invites him to bring in his fairy friends to help him. Unfortunately, this happens to be Spiro's downfall, as if he ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Needl

  13. Spiro Nikolouzos
    `Spiro Nikolouzos` (1936-May 30, 2005) was a Texas man incapacitated from bleeding related to a cerebral shunt. He was hospitalized on February 10 2005 at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, and was in a persistent vegetative state. He was fed through a gastric feeding tube and respirated by a ventilator. The hospital wished to discontinue life support, allowing Nikolouzos to die. His family was opposed to this and claimed the hospital...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Nikol

  14. Spiro T. Agnew
    Spiro T Agnew was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Maryland from 1967 until 1969.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  15. Spiro Zavos
    `Spiro Zavos` (born in 1937 in Wellington, New Zealand of Greek immigrant parents) is an Australasian historian, philosopher, journalist and writer. He also played one first-class cricket match for Wellington in the 1958-59 season. After gaining a Bachelor of Arts from the Victoria University of Wellington, Zavos taught history at St Patrick's College. In 1967, Zavos gained a Master of Arts (Education) from The Catholic University of America in...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Zavos

  16. spiro-
    1. Coil, coil-shaped. ... Origin: G. Speira ... 2. Breathing. ... Origin: L. Spiro, to breathe ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  17. spiro-index
    Vital capacity divided by the height of the individual. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  18. Spiro, Melford Elliot
    (1920) US cultural anthropologist. He taught at Washington University (St Louis), the University of Connecticut, and Chicago before becoming chairman of the anthropology department at the University of...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  19. Spirobacteria
    Spi`ro·bac·te'ri·a noun plural ; sing. Spirobacterium [ New Latin See 4th Spire , and Bacterium .] (Biol.) See the Note under Microbacteria .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/166

  20. spirobacteria
    Sing. Spirobacterium . [NL. See 4th Spire, and Bacterium. ... <biology> See the Note under Microbacteria. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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  21. Spirobacteria
    • (n. pl.) See the Note under Microbacteria.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  22. Spirobolida
    The order `Spirobolida` is a species-rich (more than 900 described species) and important group of millipedes. Most spirobolids live in the tropics, and like the majority of millipedes, members of the order are all detritivores. Species are often large and conspicuous, and at least in the United States, are often used as classroom representatives for the class Diplopoda. Taxonomically, it is a relatively neglected group with only two revised fami...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirobolida

  23. Spirobolidae
    `Spirobolidae` (Bollman, 1893) is a family of millipedes, a type of many-legged invertebrate. The family consists of subfamilies Spirobolinae and Tylobolinae, as well as several genera and species.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirobolida

  24. Spirobranchus
    `Spirobranchus` is a small genus of tube-building annelid fanworms in the family `Serpulidae`.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirobranch

  25. Spirobranchus giganteus
    `Spirobranchus giganteus`, commonly known as `christmas tree worm`s are small, tube-building polychaete worms belonging to the family `Serpulidae`.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirobranch


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On 9 November 1989 the Berlin Wall was finally breached by jubilant Berliners , unifying a city that had been divided for over 30 years. The 28-mile (45 km) barrier dividing Germany's capital was built in 1961 to prevent East Berliners fleeing to the West, but as Communism in the Soviet Republic and Eastern Europe began to crumble, pressure mounted on the East German authorities to open the Berlin border. At midnight on 9th November East Germany's Communist rulers gave permission for gates along the Wall to be opened after hundreds of people converged on crossing points. They surged through cheering and shouting and were be met by jubilant West Berliners on the other side. read more

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