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  • Platypus is the common name for a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal ... The bizarre appearance of this egg-laying, venomous, duck-billed, ...
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  • causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such ... peer support, and self-help. In a minority of cases, there might be involuntary ...
    72 KB (9,918 words) - 21:54, 14 November 2023
  • Yukon, also known as the "Yukon Territory," is one of Canada ... Disputed evidence of the oldest remains of human inhabitation in North ...
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  • is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario, James Bay, and Hudson ... administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is the ...
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  • is the largest city in the province of Quebec and the second-largest ... native peoples had occupied the island of Montreal for at least 2,000 ...
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  • fuel obtained by the fractional distillation of petroleum, often called petrodiesel ... Diesel engines are a type of internal combustion engine. Rudolf Diesel ...
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  • .nsf/mf/3238.0.55.001 Estimates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... 2.7% of Australia's population |popplace=New South Wales  2.9 ...
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  • vary in size from a handful to many hundreds of individuals. There are as many ... daily basis. In turn, AA offers a community of recovering people who support ...
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  • Water fluoridation is the controlled addition of fluoride to a public ... The goal of water fluoridation is to prevent tooth decay (dental caries ...
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  • At present there are 63 different species of plants known to contain ... Some less common sources of caffeine are cassine (Ilex vomitoria) ...
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  • Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China ... and parking lots for automobiles, north of the foreign concessions. During ...
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  • center, as well as the administrative heart of the European Union (EU). All ... Brussels has grown from a seventh century chapel into a metropolis ...
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  • 039;s Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government ... The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began ...
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  • Childhood (being a child) is a broad term usually applied to the phase ... life or to learn to live for the sake of others. The role of parents ...
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  • when he vindicated the defeat and murder of Charles George Gordon in the ... Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, in Ireland, son ...
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  • Neanderthal or Neandertal is a relatively recent extinct member of ... Sequencing of the Neanderthal genome has suggested that Neanderthals ...
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  • Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent ... possibly the culture and even ethnic group of an individual has implications ...
    42 KB (6,335 words) - 06:13, 15 June 2023
  • The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... in the Thai language and is also the name of the majority Thai ethnic group. ...
    33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
  • ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ... term has been understood to refer to a place of mistreatment, starvation, forced ...
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  • April 23, 303 C.E.), also known as George of Lydda, is one of the most venerated ... In Christian hagiography, Saint George is the patron saint of Aragon ...
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