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  • licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing ... Originally founded to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the ...
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  • The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations ... successfully in some areas. By convention, the United States nominates the ...
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  • different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...
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  • The North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea on the European continental ... . A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North ...
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  • international operations with hundreds of airplanes offering many services ... The setting up of airline services is among the most important developments ...
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  • The Republic of Iraq, commonly known as Iraq, is a Middle Eastern ... Iraq is bordered by Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey ...
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  • that carries its own motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles ... The automobile is one of the technologies—along with such others ...
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  • hoaxer Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840-1901) of France fakes telekinesis in ... quot; or "mind over matter," is the ability to influence the movement ...
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  • , Jewish dietary laws derive from the Torah's Books of Leviticus ... a reminder to the believer that having the power of life and death ...
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  • Bootlegging is an informal term for the smuggling, sale, or transport ... unauthorized audio or video recording, often of a concert, distributed without ...
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  • David (דָּוִד "Beloved," Standard Hebrew Davíd, Tiberian ... The successor to King Saul, who was the first official king of the ...
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  • A private library is a library under the care of private ownership ... Private libraries often reflect the interests of the owner and the ...
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  • Sydney is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan ... Sydney is located on Australia's southeast coast. The city is ...
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  • The City of Halifax is the largest city in Atlantic Canada and the ... On April 1, 1996, the government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the four ...
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  • The State of Indiana is the 19th U.S. state and is located in the ... smaller industrial cities. It is known for the Indianapolis 500 automobile ...
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  • to move goods or people vertically. Because of elevators, humankind has been ... and equipment; e.g. lifting aircraft to the flight deck of an aircraft ...
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  • Refrigeration is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space ... Cold is the absence of heat, hence in order to decrease a temperature ...
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  • ]); formerly known as Cochin), a city in the Indian state of Kerala ... north of the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram. It has an estimated ...
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  • Denver is the capital and the most populous city of Colorado, in the ... The city embraces its cowboy and mining past and its progressive attitude ...
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  • The word Magi refers to a class of ancient Zoroastrian astrologer ... The word Magi is the origin of the English words magic and magician. ...
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