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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of west-central Finland on the Gulf of Bothnia at the mouth of the Oulu River, about 105 km (65 mi) long. Oulu grew around a castle built in 1590 and was chartered in 1610.
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- proper noun A city in
Finland .
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In Film Club at school this week, we watched Air Guitar Nation, the 2006* documentary about the 2003 World Air Guitar Championships in Oulu, Finland, which were entered that yearby Americans for the first time.
Air Guitar Nation – Bjorn Turoque! « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009
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The Air Guitar World Championships, an orgy of heavy-metal camp, happen today in Oulu, Finland.
Calendar 2007
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The Air Guitar World Championships, an orgy of heavy-metal camp, happen today in Oulu, Finland.
Calendar 2007
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Fifty families in Oulu near the polar circle in northern Finland will test the technology over the next two months, Nokia said.
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Fifty families in Oulu near the polar circle in northern Finland will test the technology over the next two months, Nokia said.
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Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Fifty families in Oulu
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Monitors near the poles such as Oulu have low cutoff energies
IPCC AR4: No skill in scientific forecasting « Climate Audit 2007
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The very high energy CRs that produce muons in the lower troposphere are a very small fraction of the total CR flux, so a detector such as Oulu or Climax that read all CRs down to 1 GV or 3 GV will swamp the reading with low energy CRs, making trends in the high energy CRs impossible to detect.
IPCC AR4: No skill in scientific forecasting « Climate Audit 2007
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Not your average resident of Lake Wobegon – though he holds valid Norwegian - American credentials, and is probably the only one reading this besides me and a handful of others who knows where the hell Oulu is in this country.
steven fortney | ll garden « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Dean Matti Pikkarainen of Oulu Cathedral said he aimed to raise the issue at a nationwide church meeting next month.
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