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  • A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library ... Library classification forms part of the field of library and information ...
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  • Republic and Slovakia. During the 74 years of its existence, it saw several ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...
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  • [[image:Central Scientific Co catalog cover.png|thumb|200 px|Catalog ... The concept is several centuries old, but it became a staple of the ...
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  • to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. ... space agencies. However, with the launch of the privately funded SpaceShipOne ...
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  • Colugo is the common name for any of the arboreal gliding mammals ... not true lemurs. They are the most capable of all gliding mammals, using ...
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  • South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...
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  • music student in Canada, for the creation of a virtual library of public ... since multiple and historical editions of a single composition can be ...
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  • region including the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden ... region more correctly known as the Nordic countries which includes Finland ...
    27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
  • In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object that has been ... Satellites are useful for a number of purposes. They are used for ...
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  • An alloy is the combination of metal with other chemical elements ... material are actually alloys. Alloys of gold are rated on a scale of ...
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  • [[Image:Gem.pebbles.800pix.labelled.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A selection ... abrasives and generate laser beams. A number of them are now being produced ...
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  • extreme care. It has been used in a number of murders, earning the nickname ... for low-temperature measurements. Crystals of thallium bromide-iodide have ...
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  • Vicugna vicugna, found in high elevations of the central Andes mountains ... back into the wild. Both under the rule of the Inca and today, vicuñas ...
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  • The Republic of Mozambique, or Mozambique, is a country in southeastern ... destruction wrought by nearly two decades of civil war during the Cold War ...
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  • and anthropologist, who developed two of the nation's most notable ... could be tracked down to the first settlers of America. Putnam attended private ...
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  • A "glider" is an unpowered aircraft. The most common types ... use engines occasionally. The manufacturers of high-performance gliders now ...
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  • provide telecommunication links between countries. The first such cables ... their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine line across the ...
    19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
  • #039;s equator, and the apparent position of the Sun at that moment. are taken to be used in the definition of a celestial coordinate system—see ...
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  • ) (June 20, 1566 – April 30, 1632) was Grand Duke of Lithuania and ... the Swedish throne by his uncle, Charles IX of Sweden and a meeting of the ...
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  • The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...
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