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Rana

Rana is:

  • A municipality in the county of Nordland, Norway, see Rana, Norway
  • The Rana family, who usurped control of Nepal from the mid-19th century until 1951, reducing the monarch to a figurehead and ruling through hereditary government positions
  • A genus of frogs (rana is Latin for frog)
  • La Rana is nickname for artist Diego Rivera, because of his purportedly frog-like appearance
  • A Jedi




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