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Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips

Used on the Atari arcade games Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 720°, Gauntlet, Gauntlet II, A.P.B., Paperboy, RoadBlasters, Vindicators Part II, and finally Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters.


1968 British Hard Court Championships

Virginia Wade won the women's singles title, defeating Winnie Shaw in the final, but did not take home the winner's prize of $720 as she was still an amateur at the time of the tournament.

Aldeneik Abbey

According to the vita of Harlindis and Relindis (written around 860), these two sisters in 720 founded a monastery along the river Meuse, on territory belonging to their father Adelard.

Ancient Diocese of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne

in 720, famous for rebuilding the Abbey of Farfa, of which the third abbot, Lucerius, was also a native of Maurienne; St. Marinus, monk of Chandor, martyred by the Saracens (eighth century); St. Landry, pastor of Lanslevillard (eleventh century), drowned in the Arc during one of his apostolic journeys; St. Bénézet, or Benoit de Pont (1165–84), b.

Benina International Airport

A new terminal with a capacity of 5 million passengers will be developed north of the existing runway at Benina International under a 720 million LYD (€ 415 million) first-stage contract awarded to Canada's SNC-Lavalin.

Bridled White-eye

The Rota subspecies Zosterops rotensis is listed as critically endangered with an estimated population of only 720 birds.

Calingasta Department

Calingasta has fully rugged topography (hilly), as its location is at the foot of the Andes, where the mountains are complemented with its main highest elevation, the mountain Mercedario (6,720 meters), after Aconcagua and it is possible to highlight an area precordillerana lower height as the first with numerous mountain cave highlight the Sierra del Tontal.

Canberra Monaro Express

In July 1973 it was cut back to a single four-carriage set serving both Canberra and Cooma, sometimes with a non air-conditioned 620/720 set attached when demand warranted.

Complete Index to World Film

Citwf, compiled online by Alan Goble and Valan Publishing since 2004, is a Guinness Record as the world's largest published film-related database, with over 720,500 title entries.

Eadfrith of Lindisfarne

This Anonymous Life of Saint Cuthbert was revised on Eadfrith's orders by Bede, writing around 720, to produce both prose and verse lives.

Flight 705

PIA Flight 705, a Boeing 720-040B that crashed while descending to land at Cairo International Airport

Fujifilm FinePix HS10

Focal length: f=4.2–126.0 mm, equivalent to 24–720 mm on a 35 mm camera

Geoff Hutchison

Following Liam Bartlett's defection to commercial radio in early 2006, Hutchison used Qantas back to Perth and took up the position as host of 720 ABC's Morning show.

Hip Hop TV

Hip Hop TV is an Italian Music TV channel devoted to hip hop, rap and rhythm and blues music, launched in Italy on SKY Italia channel 720 on October 1, 2008 with the song Laffy Taffy by D4L.

Israelite Diaspora

Begun in or around the year 720 BC, a rebellion against the Assyrian Empire broke out, participated in by ancient Syria and the Philistines (descendants of the 'Sea Peoples') from Mycenaean Greece, and also with Egyptian encouragement.

John von Collas

Collas became the landlord of several estates in East Prussia like Dommelkeim (1703–1753), Naujeninken (1703–1731), Brandwehten (1703–1731), Perkuhnen (1717–1731), Sauerwalde (1720–1731), Laugallen (1718–1731), Kraupischkehmen, (1718–1731), Weißenstein/ Gutenfeld (1721–1753) and owned houses in Wehlau (1721–1753) and Borchersdorf (1724–1753), in total he possessed about 2,720 Hectare.

Leon I of Abkhazia

Leon I of Abkhazia, hereditary prince (Eristavi) of Abkhazia, ruling between 720–740 and a vassal to the Byzantine Emperor.

Lesław Zając

He won a bronze medal in 4 x 720 metres relay at the 1973 European Indoor Championships, this time together with Krzysztof Linkowski, Czesław Jursza and Henryk Sapko.

Luli

From 724 to 720 BC, Tyre was under siege, the port being blockaded by Shalmaneser.

Nick Digilio

The Nick Digilio Show can currently be heard on WGN Radio in Chicago (720 AM) where Digilio discusses popular culture, current events, all things Chicago, and other hot topics including why the Flavor Bowl from KFC is the best fast food item ever produced, and the fact that there actually once was vegetable flavored Jell-O.

O Cruzeiro

Covering the suicide of Getúlio Vargas in August 1954, the magazine circulation reached 720,000 copies.

Palestinian refugee

During the 1948 Palestine War, around 85% (720,000 people) of the Palestinian Arab population of what has become Israel left their homes, either driven by force, by fear, or by instruction of Arab leadership.

Paul the Deacon

Born between 720 and 735 in Friuli in Italy to this possibly noble Lombard family, Paul received an exceptionally good education, probably at the court of the Lombard king Ratchis in Pavia, learning from a teacher named Flavian the rudiments of Greek.

PIA Flight 705

Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 was a Boeing 720–040B that crashed while descending to land on Runway 34 at Cairo International Airport on May 20, 1965, killing 121 of the 127 passengers and crew onboard.

Pilsen Plaza

Since 2008, it has hosted a 1,720-seat, ten-screen multiplex cinema operated by Cinema City Czech Republic.

Russell Woolf

Prior to his elevation as the host of Drive he co-hosted 720's afternoon show with Verity James.

Sailfin roughshark

The sailfin roughshark (Oxynotus paradoxus) is a species of dogfish shark in the family Oxynotidae, found in the eastern North Atlantic from Scotland to Senegal between latitudes 41°N and 11°N, at depths of between 265 and 720 m (869 and 2362 ft).

Seip mountain

Seip mountain or Seipefjellet (in Norwegian) in Svalbard is a mountain with the peaks 720 and 710 masl, between Orustdalen, Vestre Grønnfjordbreen and Dahlfonna, west in Nordenskiöld Land.

The Golden Cups

The band also soon won a regular place on the NHK-TV morning show, Young 720, and a recording deal with the Capital label owned by Toshiba.

Torneos y Competencias

The President of the AFA, Julio Grondona, requested TSC authorities to modify the contract for television rights in order for the AFA to receive 720 million Argentine pesos.

Two Can Play That Game

The film opened at #2 at the U.S. Box office raking in $7,720,942 USD in its first opening weekend, behind The Musketeer.

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

The game doesn't run on the full resolution of the OLED screen of the Vita (960 x 544), instead it runs about half the native resolution (720 x 408)

Verity James

She was a regular on ABC TV's Can We Help?, and after Greg Pearce left radio to join Perth's National Nine News team in February 2008, James took over his early morning shift on 720 ABC Perth.

Walter Leighton Clark

Items sold included two paintings: "Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist" by Bernardino Luini, sold for $1000, and Sir Anthony Van Dyck's "Portrait of Marten Rijckaert", sold for $720.

WMV HD

These low-complexity codecs make it possible to watch high definition movies in 1280×720 (720p) or 1920×1080 (1080p) resolutions on many modern personal computers running Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista, although the hardware requirements are steep.

Wyre Forest Council election, 2006

Local health services continued to be the major issue in the campaign after the local NHS trust announced in April 2006 that it would have to cut 720 jobs in order to save money.


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