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  • The respiratory system is an integrated network of organs and tubes that coordinates the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between an organism ...
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  • In logic and mathematics, together with the allied branches of computer science, information theory, and statistics, a formal system is an idealized ...
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  • The Solar system (or solar system) Capitalization of the name varies. The IAU, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies ...
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  • [[Image:lymphatic_system.gif|framed|200px|The human lymphatic system]] The lymphatic system acts as a secondary circulatory system in vertebrates ...
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  • The nervous system is the network of specialized cells, tissues, and organs in a multicellular animal that coordinates the body's interaction ...
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  • The metric system is a decimalized system of measurement based on the meter and the gram. It exists in several variations, with different choices ...
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  • A postal system is a system wherein written documents typically enclosed ... letters. In some countries, the postal system also has some authority over ...
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  • While the Indian caste system is the most well-known, other cultures ... Many of these cultures show only the remnants of a caste system that ...
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  • The enteric nervous system (ENS) is that part of the peripheral nervous system of vertebrates that plays a fundamental role in control of the ...
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  • The central nervous system (CNS) is that portion of the vertebrate nervous system that is composed of the brain and spinal cord. Together with ...
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  • The NASA Astrophysics Data System (usually referred to as ADS) is a digital library portal of over 7,000,000 astronomy and physics papers from ...
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  • [[Image:Federal Reserve.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Federal Reserve ... The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve; informally ...
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  • The somatic nervous system, or voluntary nervous system, is that part of the peripheral nervous system that regulates body movement through control ...
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  • In human spaceflight, a life support system is a group of devices that allow a human to survive in outer space. Such a system normally supplies ...
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  • An integrated library system, or ILS, is an enterprise resource planning ... and instead use a simpler library computer system which has limited functions. ...
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  • an abbreviation of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name. The ... "Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System." Columbia Phonographic ...
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  • The Global Positioning System (GPS) is currently the only fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). More than two dozen GPS ...
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  • The ancient Korean kingdom of Silla used the aristocratic bone rank system to segregate society, particularly the layers of the aristocracy. ...
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  • In mathematics, the Cartesian coordinate system (or rectangular coordinate system) is used to determine each point uniquely in a plane through ...
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  • :This article is concerned with the legal system known as Civil law ... Civil law, or continental law, is the predominant system of law in ...
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  • title=Enteric nervous system| image_name=Gray1071.png| image_desc=The ... text=The enteric nervous system (ENS) is that part of the peripheral ...
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  • text=The Sun is the star at the center of the Earth's solar system. The Earth and other matter (including other planets, asteroids, comets ...
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  • famous for developing the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman Shorthand. Developed to be simpler and more practical than ...
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  • #REDIRECT Nervous system ...
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  • other major organizations. The nomenklatura system was based on the nature of Soviet power. It was highly undemocratic. The requirement of leadership ...
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  • but had merely replaced the bureaucrats of the old system with those of the communist system. Djulas was widely hailed in the West for his sober analysis ...
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  • text=Pluto is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the solar system and the tenth largest observed body directly orbiting the Sun. It orbits ...
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  • | label2 = System | data2 = } |}}} | label3 = Focus | data3 = } |}}} | label4 = Subdivisions | data4 = } |}}} | label5 = Significant diseases ...
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  • In a well-regulated banking system, central banks only serve as clearing houses that issue new money to other banks. They act as a referee and ...
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  • experience in software development and system administration. ... At NWE, he is responsible for system maintenance and documentation ...
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  • the outcome of even an ideal measurement of a system is not deterministic, but instead is characterized by a probability distribution, and the larger ...
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  • a good manager who wanted to modernize the Soviet system, but as a member of the nomenklatura, he was not a radical reformer. Nonetheless, his reformist ...
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  • ranks to hold enormous power within the Soviet system. Known for not only his fealty to Marxism-Leninism but also his knowledge of the teachings of ...
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  • text=Foster care is a system by which a certified, stand-in parent, or set of parents, cares for minor children or young people who have been ...
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  • # All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs. ... hardware existing on any particular computer system. #:That program ...
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  • Category:Writing system templates [[Category:Cyrillization|τ]] ...
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  • ruler (a tyrant) has absolute power; this system of government. ... # A system of government in which power is exercised on behalf of ...
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  • dispute; order, regulation; arrangement, system), from cōnstituō (to establish ... # (government) The formal or informal system of primary principles ...
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  • * New Economic System (GDR, 1960s) * Economic System of Socialism (GDR, 1970s) * Perestroika (Soviet Union ...
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  • of the geocentric (Earth-centered) cosmological system, known as the Ptolemaic system or Ptolemaic cosmology, which was one of the most influential ...
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  • • Insurance • Philosophy • Providers • System |group2 = Professions |list2 = Medicine • Nursing • Pharmacy • Healthcare science ...
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  • to make the theory into a workable system ultimately undermined the not just the state, but the belief in the system as well. This corrosive ...
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  • text=Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey ...
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  • ==Etymology== Borrowed from French toxique, from Late Latin toxicus (“poisoned”), from Latin toxicum (“poison”), from Ancient Greek τοξικόν ...
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  • The somatic nervous system, or voluntary nervous system, is that part of the peripheral nervous system that regulates body movement through control ...
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  • Russia. Lenin's legacy was an oppressive system that dictated how people lived their lives, suppressing dissent, free-thought, and any opposition ...
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  • # The structure and design of a system or product. #:The architecture of the company's billing system is designed ...
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  • else, especially with an agricultural system. # (computing theory) A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program. ...
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  • especially for an organization or system. # The basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society. ...
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  • # (mathematics, often qualified in combination) A mathematical system that deals with spatial relationships and that is built on a particular ...
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  • The HTML mark up produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the place-name and location parsable by computers, either ...
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  • * Central nervous system depression, physiological depression of the central nervous system that can result in loss of consciousness ...
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  • # Effective management of a community or system, or especially its ... # The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall ...
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  • # In the International System of Units, the derived unit of frequency; one (period or cycle of any periodic event) per second. Symbol: Hz ...
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  • The enteric nervous system (ENS) is that part of the peripheral nervous system of vertebrates that plays a fundamental role in control of the ...
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  • In logic and mathematics, together with the allied branches of computer science, information theory, and statistics, a formal system is an idealized ...
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  • In the five kingdom system of biological classification, the other ... both Monera and, to a degree, the kingdom system are considered obsolete. ...
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  • {{Main page article box| type=Popular| title=Chickenpox| image_name=Child with chickenpox.jpg| image_desc=Child with varicella disease (chickenpox)| ...
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  • {{Main page article box| type=Popular| title=Astrology| image_name=Universum.jpg| image_desc=A traveler puts his head under the edge of the firmament| ...
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  • [[Image:lymphatic_system.gif|framed|200px|The human lymphatic system]] The lymphatic system acts as a secondary circulatory system in vertebrates ...
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  • designed to fortify the person's immune system against that agent or similar infectious agents (active immunization). Immunization also can include ...
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  • designed to fortify the person's immune system against that agent or similar infectious agents (active immunization). Immunization also can include ...
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  • Brussels, Belgium, the organization constitutes a system of collective defense in which its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack ...
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  • managed by workers. They seek to abolish the wage system, regarding it as "wage slavery," and state or private ownership of the means of production ...
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  • was the inventor of the braille writing system, the world-wide system used ... how to read by feeling raised letters (a system devised by the school's ...
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  • In mathematics and set theory, an axiomatic system is any set of specified axioms from which some or all of those axioms can be used, in conjunction ...
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  • the 'science of life') is a system of traditional medicine native to India, and practiced in other parts of the world as a form of ...
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  • designed to fortify the person's immune system against that agent or similar infectious agents (active immunization). Immunization also can include ...
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  • negative charges in a nucleus, atom, molecule, or system. ===Derived terms=== * affective partisan polarization * bipolarization * depolarization ...
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  • Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system, the iTunes media browser, the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software, the iWork suite ...
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  • In mathematics, the Cartesian coordinate system (or rectangular coordinate system) is used to determine each point uniquely in a plane through ...
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  • such as one's morals, morality, or belief system. ... * value system ==Verb== value (third-person singular simple present ...
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  • # A system of romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration to roman script) for Mandarin that is used in the People's Republic of ...
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  • to find an alternate way of life and social system that would meet her own and humanity's aspirations. Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature ...
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  • {{Main page article box| type=Featured| title=Kabir| image_name=Kabir004.jpg| image_desc=Kabir with a disciple| text=Kabīr (1398-1448) or (1440—1518 ...
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  • situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent; an area known as present-day Iraq. Mesopotamia is the ...
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  • and Buddhism. Japanese mythology is a complex system of beliefs that also embraces Shinto and Buddhist traditions as well as agriculture-based folk ...
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  • Language is a system of symbols created for communication. Theories exist about the origin of human language but they are theories, but cause ...
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  • Greek αἵρεσις or haíresis (choice, system of principles), from αἱρέομαι or hairéomai (to take for oneself, to choose), the middle ...
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  • certain level of both morality and also trust. No system is foolproof. In the end the success of any government depends on a culture of virtue. ...
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  • | label48 = {{#if:{{{house1|}|} voting system|Voting system}}}} ... | label49 = {{#if:{{{house2|}|} voting system|Voting system}}}} ...
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  • would ultimately feed into the breakdown of that system and the Russian Revolution. ...
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  • text=The Cyrillic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic ...
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  • form to one that attacks the central nervous system and can result in temporary or permanent paralysis, and even death. Polio has also been known ...
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  • text=Asthma is a chronic disease of the respiratory system in which the airway occasionally constricts, becomes inflamed, and is lined with excessive ...
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  • The central nervous system (CNS) is that portion of the vertebrate nervous system that is composed of the brain and spinal cord. Together with ...
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  • first documented block and tackle pulley system, as recorded by Plutarch ... pulley is a combination fixed and movable pulley system. ...
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  • that began as the attempt to replace the system based on authority and tradition with one based on reason ended with the Law of 22 Prairial which ...
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  • Members are elected by the first-past-the-post system of election, holding office until Parliament is dissolved (a maximum of five years). }} ...
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  • France and the rest of Europe continued as an old system of governance, supported by the Great Chain of Being and the Divine Right of Kings came to ...
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  • text=A tribe is a human social system existing before the emergence of nation-states, and, in some cases, continuing to exist independent of ...
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  • located at major branchings of the human nervous system, beginning at the base of the spinal column and moving upward to the top of the skull. Chakras ...
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  • *[ {{ {1}}}_N_ {{ {2}}}_E_type:landmark_region:US Maps and aerial photos] Coordinates: [ {{ {1}}}_N_ {{ {2}}}_E_type:landmark_region:US ...
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  • change in the state of the climate or climate system that persists for an extended time period (decades or longer), whether caused by natural (solar ...
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  • Analyzed according to the Köppen system, India hosts six major climatic subtypes, ranging from desert in the west, to alpine tundra and glaciers ...
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  • in a monarchical or imperial governmental system. # A large and lavishly ornate residence. # A large, ornate public building used for entertainment ...
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  • postulated in the earliest-known religious system of the Han Chinese people. The term can literally be translated as "Emperor (or Sovereign ...
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  • and presided over the end of the Bretton Woods system. He served as Ronald Reagan's United States Secretary of State, pushing for Reagan to ...
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  • # A commonly held system. #:I am learning all the songs that are part of the church tradition. # An established or distinctive style or method: ...
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  • In human spaceflight, a life support system is a group of devices that allow a human to survive in outer space. Such a system normally supplies ...
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  • image_desc=Nervous system. Courtesy of 3DScience.com| text=Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American actress ...
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  • ## (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system. ## (colloquial, in the ...
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  • {{Main page article box| type=Current| subtype=Topic| title=Nikola Tesla| image_name=Tesla circa 1890.jpeg| image_desc=A photo of Tesla at age 34.| ...
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  • lightness computation in the human visual system, and thus increasing our ... When looking at the image, the brain and visual system interprets ...
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  • as per the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II (APG II) system: ... * Monocotyledoneae in the de Candolle system and the Engler system. ...
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  • of the growth of Russia's railway system, including the Trans-Siberian Railway. As Minister of Finance, he implemented many merit-based ...
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  • his groundbreaking 1957 publication, System and Process in International ... Law in a Democratic Society, and System and Process in International ...
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  • free from disease). Through the health care system, health professionals in all fields are trained to serve the population as a whole while tending ...
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  • would ultimately prove the superiority of its system, and of democracy in general. Shepard's bravery is representative of the best that America offers. ...
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  • *[ {{ {1}}}_N_ {{ {2}}}_E_type:city_region:US Maps and aerial photos] Coordinates: [ {{ {1}}}_N_ {{ {2}}}_E_type:city_region:US {{ ...
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  • served only one purpose - destruction of the old system. They created the space for rivalries to break onto the national stage, as one group and then ...
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  • of thermodynamic potential of a system, which can be used to calculate the "useful" work obtainable from a closed thermodynamic system ...
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  • famous for developing the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as ... quickly and accurately, Pitman's system benefited society in many ...
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  • Eastern civilization. While he critiqued the caste system and other traditional aspects of Indian culture, he believed that the way forward was not to ...
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  • The ancient Korean kingdom of Silla used the aristocratic bone rank system to segregate society, particularly the layers of the aristocracy. ...
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  • or all comets entering the inner solar system (some short-period comets ... study the origin and evolution of the Solar System. [[Image:Oort cloud ...
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  • *[ {{ {1}}}_N_ {{ {2}}}_E_type:city_region:US Maps and aerial photos] Coordinates: [ {{ {1}}}_N_ {{ {2}}}_E_type:city_region:US {{ ...
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