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  • Frederik Willem de Klerk (March 18, 1936 – November 11, 2021) was the last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September ...
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  • Ichneumonidae is a diverse family of wasps, typically characterized by a parasitic component to the life cycle, antennae with 16 or more segments ...
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  • The Doppler effect, named after Christian Doppler, is the apparent change in frequency and wavelength of a wave that is perceived by an observer ...
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  • Argon (chemical symbol Ar, atomic number 18) is a member of the noble gas family of elements. It is present in the Earth's atmosphere at ...
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  • Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (November 23, 1919 – February 13, 2006) was an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth ...
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  • Radium (chemical symbol Ra, atomic number 88) is an extremely radioactive element that is classified as an an alkaline earth metal. When freshly ...
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  • A fire extinguisher is an active fire protection device used to extinguish or control a fire, often in emergency situations. Typically, a fire ...
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  • An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is a unique eight-digit number used to identify a print or electronic periodical publication. ...
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  • In the United States, the Presidential library system is a nationwide network of libraries administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries ...
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  • In physics and chemistry, an atomic orbital is a region in which an electron may be found within a single atom. J. Daintith, Oxford Dictionary ...
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  • Tammany Hall was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City politics from the 1790s to the ...
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  • Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst, Freiherr von Weber (November 18, 1786 – June 5, 1826) was a German composer. Carl Maria von Weber's work, especially ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Category:Psychologists Heider, Fritz Fritz Heider (February 19, 1896 – January 2, 1988) was an Austrian-American psychologist ...
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  • Midge is the common name for a small, fragile, flying insects belonging to the order Diptera ("true flies"). They are generally grouped ...
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  • Vibration refers to mechanical oscillations about an equilibrium point. The oscillations may be periodic, such as the motion of a pendulum, or ...
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  • A spatial point is a concept used to define an exact location in space. It has no volume, area or length, making it a zero dimensional object ...
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  • The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (identified on the building itself as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing ...
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  • Californium (chemical symbol Cf, atomic number 98) is a chemical element in the periodic table. A radioactive transuranic element, ...
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  • A hominid is any member of the primate family Hominidae. Recent classification schemes for the apes place extinct and extant humans, chimpanzees ...
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  • Abhidharma (Sanskrit) or Abhidhamma (Pāli) is a category of Buddhist scriptures, and the ideas contained in and based on them, that attempts ...
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