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  • Tofu, also tōfu (the Japanese Romaji spelling), doufu (the Chinese ... Tofu originated in ancient China, but little else is known about the ...
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  • Industrialization in the Soviet Union occurred as a process of accelerated ... The official task of industrialization was the transformation of the ...
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  • to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminum, with the ... The substance has been known by many names, but the word turquoise ...
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  • Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad; Xhosa: iKapa) is one of South Africa ... ships sailing to Eastern Africa, India, and the Far East more than 200 years ...
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  • Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... Observant Jews still follow the laws contained in Leviticus, except ...
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  • Colorado is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United ... Colorado is one of only four states in the United States to share ...
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  • Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned ... A typical geotechnical engineering project begins with a review of ...
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  • Vitamin E is the generic descriptor for any of a group of several ... known as vitamin E are obtained through the diet and essential in small ...
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  • The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the Middle ... One of Pennsylvania's nicknames is the Quaker State; in colonial ...
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  • The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the ... Originally settled by Amerindians of South American origin at least ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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