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  • Dinoflagellate is any diverse flagellate protists comprising the taxon Dinoflagellata, or Pyrrophycophyta, typically characterized by being single ...
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  • Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology [[Image:Carl_Jung_(1912).png|right|thumb|200px|Carl Jung in 1912]] ...
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  • Astrometry is a branch of astronomy that involves precise measurements and explanations of the positions and movements of stars and other celestial ...
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  • Onion is the common name for the herbaceous, cold season plant Allium cepa, which is characterized by a edible, rounded bulb composed of concentric ...
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  • Cholesterol is an important sterol (a combination steroid and alcohol) and a neutral lipid that is a major constituent in the cell membranes ...
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  • Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (July 17, 1714 – May 26, 1762) was a German philosopher. He was a follower of Leibniz and Christian Wolff, and ...
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  • Quinoa ( ˈkinwɑ KEEN-wah or /ˈkinoʊə/ KEE-no-uh, Spanish quinua) is a tall South American herb, Chenopodium quinoa in the goosefoot genus ...
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  • Viscosity is a measure of the resistance of a fluid to deform under either shear stress or extensional stress. It is commonly perceived as ...
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  • The Midianites were a biblical people who occupied territory east of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, and southward through the desert wilderness ...
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  • Electrochemistry is a branch of chemistry involving the study of interrelationships between electricity and chemical reactions. The chemical ...
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  • Lemur is the common name for any of the prosimian primates belonging to the infraorder Lemuriformes, which comprises the families Lemuridae ...
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  • Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month. It has ...
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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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  • In music and music theory a chord (from Greek χορδή: gut, string) is three or more different notes that are played simultaneously, or near ...
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  • The colon is the longest portion of the large intestine of vertebrates; in mammals, this section of the gastrointestinal tract extends from the ...
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  • In common usage, dimension (from Latin dimensio, meaning "measured out") is a parameter or measure of spatial characteristics of an ...
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  • Habakkuk or Havakuk (Hebrew: חֲבַקּוּק, Standard Ḥavaqquq Tiberian Ḥăḇaqqûq ) was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He was the eighth ...
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  • Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1923 ...
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  • Shangdi (上帝, pinyin: Shàngdì, Wade-Giles Shang Ti), or simply Di (帝), is the High God (or Clan Ancestor) postulated in the earliest-known ...
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  • Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (July 29, 1905 – September 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat and the second secretary-seneral of the United ...
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