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  • A dam is a barrier across flowing water that obstructs, directs, or slows the flow, often creating a reservoir, lake, or impoundment. In Australian ...
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  • Lassen Volcanic National Park is a United States National Park in northeastern California. The dominant feature of the park is Lassen Peak; the ...
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  • The Modern Jazz Quartet (also known as the MJQ) was established in 1952 by Milt Jackson (vibraphone), John Lewis (piano, musical director), Percy ...
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  • The flugelhorn (also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German meaning wing horn or flank horn) is a brass instrument that ...
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  • Pink Floyd is an English progressive rock band that initially earned recognition for their psychedelic or space rock music, and, as they evolved ...
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  • Panpsychism is the view that all of the fundamental entities in the universe possess some degree of mentality or consciousness, where this mentality ...
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  • An anchor is an object that is used to attach a ship or boat to a specific point at the bottom of a body of water. The anchor prevents the vessel ...
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  • James Charles "Jimmie" Rodgers (September 8, 1897 – May 26, 1933) was the first great country music recording artist. Known as "The ...
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  • The Great Basin is a huge heart-shaped area that covers parts of six western United States. Its boundaries depend on how it is defined. Its most ...
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  • The Arabic word Surah (or "Sura" ar|سورة sūrah , plural "Surahs" ar|سور ) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Geography Category:Archaeological sites {{Infobox World Heritage Site ...
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  • A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or practical meaning. Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive ...
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  • Prairie dogs is the common name for any of the social, burrowing, North American rodents comprising the genus Cynomys of the [squirrel]] family ...
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  • Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (1116? - 1142?) was a twelfth century English scholar, best known for translating many important ...
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  • The Bering Sea is the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean that comprises a deep water basin (the Aleutian Basin) that rises up through a narrow ...
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  • Swing refers to both a special quality of jazz music (and some related musical genres) and a specific period of jazz, known as the Swing Era ...
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  • Porcupine is the common name for any members of two families of rodents, Erethizontidae and Hystricidae, characterized by heavy bodies with some ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Comet-Hale-Bopp-29-03-1997 hires adj.jpg|thumb|250px|Comet Hale-Bopp]] A comet is a small body in the solar system that ...
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  • An avalanche is a huge, rapid slide of snow, ice, rock, or soil down a mountainside. It is an example of a gravity current--that is, the material ...
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  • Aretha Louise LaTundra Franklin (March 25, 1942 - August 16, 2018) was an American soul, R&B, and gospel singer born in Memphis, Tennessee ...
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