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1. Tok -- Fact
   Today Tok Pisin is the lingua franca of the entire country of Papua New Guinea, known by an estimated three quarters of the country's four million inhabitants. It is, in fact, the most widely used language of urban areas.
2. Baal -- System Lord
   Baal is the Lord of Destruction, middle brother of the three Prime Evils. During the attempt to contain him inside a Soulstone, the stone was shattered and the largest remaining shard was not enough to contain the demon. Tal Rasha, a powerful mage of the Horadrim, volunteered to take on the Soulstone and be sealed in a tomb to wrestle with Baal's spirit for all eternity. But Baal's spirit won out over the mortal Tal Rasha, and was set free by his brother Diablo.
3. Tok -- Tok'ra
   A Tok'ra Security Chief who fled to the Alpha Site after their base was attacked. He was eventually killed by an Ashrak in an attempt to create mistrust between the Tok'ra and the Jaffa Rebellion.
4. Bar Girls -- Money
   Arun Pandey of NGO Arz, which is conducting a study on “Impact of ban on dancing in bars in Mumbai”, admits, “Goa is one of the major destinations for trafficking of bar girls. It is well-organized and generates huge money for the entire chain of perpetrators and traffickers.”
5. Milky Way -- Stars
   A good place to start exploring the Milky Way is on the Southern horizon in mid-Summer. The brightest and most interesting part is in and around the constellation Sagittarius. Although this group of stars is supposed to represent the Archer, most people find the "Teapot" easier to identify.
6. Tok -- Tok'
   The Tok Pisin language is a result of intermixing Pacific Islanders, who spoke numerous different languages as they were sent to work on plantations in Queensland and various islands (see South Sea Islander and Blackbirding). The labourers began to develop a pidgin, based primarily on English. The pidgin ... took vocabulary from German, Portuguese and various Austronesian languages spoken on these labourers' islands of origin. This English-based pidgin evolved into Tok Pisin in German New Guinea (where the German-based creole Unserdeutsch was also spoken). It became the lingua franca—and language of interaction between rulers and ruled and among the ruled themselves who did not share a common vernacular; the closely-related Bislama in Vanuatu, and Pijin in the Solomon Islands developed in parallel. Its flourishing in German New Guinea despite the language of the metropolitan power being German, obviously, rather than English, is to be contrasted with Hiri Motu, the lingua franca of Papua, which was derived not from English but from Motu, the vernacular of the indigenous people of the Port Moresby area.
7. Ra -- Ra'
   Ra is most commonly pronounced 'rah'. It is more likely... that it should be pronounced as 'ray', hence the alternative spelling Re rather than Ra. It is not known for sure what Ra's name means, but it is thought it may be a variant of or linked to 'creative', if not an original word for 'sun'. As his cult arose in the Egyptian pantheon, Ra often replaces Atum as the father, grandfather and great-grandfather of the deities of the Ennead, and becomes the creator of the world. Ra then was seen to have created Sekhmet, who becomes Hathor, the cow goddess, after she has sufficiently punished mankind as an avenging Eye of Ra, and so he is often said to be the father of both and brother to the god, Osiris. Eventually, humans were supposedly created from Ra's tears or sweat, leading to the Egyptians calling themselves the "Cattle of Ra".
8. Heracles -- Mount Olympus
   Heracles was discovered by an SGC team on the planet Olympus along with his master during an enormous celebration. The two appeared to be approachable, even friendly and benefitial to the team and so the team engaged in talks with the Goa'uld.
9. Raiden -- Miscellaneous
   Raiden is an extremely lightweight and fast block cipher, developed using genetic programming. Its aims are to be simple enough to be remembered by heart and to be compact, highly portable, and light enough to be implemented in resource constrained environments. It was developed with the intention of being an alternative to TEA, with the same speed and without any of its known weaknesses.
10. Ra -- Sun Ra
    The cult of Ra began to grow from around the time of the II Dynasty, establishing Ra as the sun god. By the IV Dynasty, the Pharaohs were seen as "Sons of Ra". His worship increased much in the V Dynasty, when he became a state deity. Pharaohs had pyramids, obelisks and solar temples built in his honour.

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