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  • Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (/ˈjeɪɡər/ YAY-gər, February 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer ...
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  • Genome is one complete set of hereditary information that characterizes an organism, as encoded in the DNA (or, for some viruses, RNA). That ...
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  • The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta, Georgia ...
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  • Oligarchy (Greek Ὀλιγαρχία, Oligarkhía, from óligon, “few,” and arkho, “rule” ) is a form of government in which political ...
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  • Squash (plural squash or squashes) is the common name used for four species in the genus Cucurbita of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae: C. pepo ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology Category:Linguistics [[Image:BehistunInscriptionSketch.jpg|thumb ...
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  • Category:Economists Haberler, Gottfried Gottfried Haberler (July 20, 1900 - May 6, 1995) was an economist of the Austrian School, who moved to ...
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  • Adsorption, not to be confused with absorption, is a process by which a gas, liquid, or solute (substance in solution) binds to the surface of ...
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  • Anthozoa is a class of marine invertebrates within the phylum Cnidaria that are unique among cnidarians in that they do not do not have a medusa ...
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  • James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-28 who defeated Jack Dempsey ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Category:Sociologists Category:Philosophers George Herbert Mead (February 27, 1863 - April 26, 1931) was an American philosopher ...
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  • Viperidae, whose members are commonly known as vipers, is a family of venomous snakes characterized by a head that is distinct from the body ...
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  • Fatty acids are a class of compounds containing a long hydrocarbon chain and a terminal carboxylate group (-COOH). They have the general structure ...
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  • The 2006 Kolkata leather factory fire refers to a deadly industrial fire that occurred in West Bengal, India, on November 22, 2006. A lightning ...
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  • Whale shark is the common name for a very large, slow, filter-feeding shark, Rhincodon typus, characterized by a large, terminal mouth with small ...
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  • The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron-degenerate matter, a dense form of matter which consists of atomic nuclei ...
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  • The dulcimer is a stringed musical instrument of two main varieties. In the case of the hammered dulcimer, the strings are stretched over a trapezoidal ...
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  • In physical cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of ...
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  • The Battle of the Alamo was a nineteenth century battle between the Republic of Mexico and the rebel Texan forces during the latter's fight ...
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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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