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  • Moshe ben Maimon (March 30, 1135 – December 13, 1204) was a Jewish rabbi, physician, and philosopher. Moshe ben Maimon's Hebrew name is רבי משה בן מיימון ...
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  • The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), an African even-toed ungulate mammal, has a very long neck and legs and is the tallest of all land-living animal species. Males can be 4 ...
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  • Lycopene is a bright red, fat-soluble carotenoid pigment and phytochemical, C40H56, found in tomatoes, watermelon, guava, and other red fruits. Structurally, it is a tetraterpene ...
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  • Testosterone is a steroid hormone that acts in vertebrates to regulate many sexually dimorphic traits and express many fitness related traits in males (Zysline et al. 2006). A ...
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  • Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) is the modern term for a school of philosophy took shape in the third century C.E. with the philosopher Plotinus, whose student, Porphyry, assembled ...
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  • Electron capture (sometimes called Inverse Beta Decay) is a decay mode for isotopes that will occur when there are too many protons in the nucleus of an atom and insufficient ...
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  • Rhubarb is the common name for perennial plants comprising the genus Rheum of the Polygonaceae family, and in particular the garden rhubard, Rheum rhabarbarum, which is popularly ...
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  • Blueberry is the common name for flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus of the heath family Ericaceae, characterized by bell-shaped or tubular flowers and ...
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  • Rosemary is the common name for a woody, perennial herbaceous plant, Rosmarinus officinalis, characterized by fragrant, evergreen needle-like leaves and tiny, clustered, light ...
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  • This article is about the city in the West Bank. Bethlehem (Arabic: Bayt Lahm meaning “House of Meat” and Hebrew: Bet Lehem meaning “House of Bread”) is a Palestinian city ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Gray1095-gall bladder.png|thumb|Gall bladder]] [[Image:gallbladderop.jpg|thumb|Cholecystectomy seen through a laparoscope]] The gallbladder (also gall bladder ...
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  • Eared seal is the common name for any of the marine mammals comprising the pinniped family Otariidae, characterized by presence of a pinna (external part of ear), the ability ...
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  • The monarch butterfly is a large butterfly, Danaus plexippus, that is noted for its long migrations and which is characterized by reddish-brown wings with distinctive, thick black ...
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  • Damascus ( ar|دمشق Dimashq , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is thought to be among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in ...
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  • Amaranth is the common name for any of the typically annual (rarely perennial) plants of the flowering plant genus Amaranthus, characterized by small, often green or reddish flowers ...
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  • Allah (Allah (/ˈæl.lə, ˈɑːl.lə, əˈl.lɑː/; Arabic: ٱللَّٰه‎, romanized: Allāh,) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally ...
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  • Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa (March 8, 1566 – September 8, 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer and lutist of the late Renaissance ...
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  • Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore ...
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  • Petra (from πέτρα "petra-πέτρα," cleft in the rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Butrā) is an archaeological site in the Arabah, Ma'an Governorate ...
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  • Emerald (from the Greek word smaragdos, through the French esmeralde, meaning "green gemstone") is a green variety of the mineral beryl and is among the most valuable ...
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