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  2. Swan maiden - Wikipedia

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    In the Völundarkviða, Wayland Smith and his brothers marry valkyries who dress in swan skins.. The "swan maiden" story is a name in folkloristics used to refer to three kinds of stories: those where one of the characters is a bird-maiden, in which she can appear either as a bird or as a woman; those in which one of the elements of the narrative is the theft of the feather-robe belonging to a ...

  3. New Caledonia - Wikipedia

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    11.3% of the population reported belonging to multiple communities (up from 8.6% at the 2014 census). The question on community belonging, which had been left out of the 2004 census, was reintroduced in 2009 under a new formulation, different from the 1996 census, allowing multiple choices (mixed race) and the possibility to clarify the choice ...

  4. Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II - Wikipedia

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    The GAU-8 is mounted slightly to the port side; the barrel in the firing location is on the starboard side so it is aligned with the aircraft's centerline. The gun's 5-foot, 11.5-inch (1.816 m) ammunition drum can hold up to 1,350 rounds of 30 mm ammunition, [ 64 ] but generally holds 1,174 rounds. [ 80 ]