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  • just before his untimely death. In 1912, the abbreviation of "intelligence quotient" or IQ, a translation of the German Intelligenz-quotient ...
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  • The term "purge" in Soviet political slang was an abbreviation of the expression "CPSU purges of the Party ranks." In 1933 ...
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  • |Abbreviation = s=闽 |t=閩 |AbbrevPinyin = Mǐn, POJ: Bân, BUC: Mìng, MNP: Mǐn, Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Mîn |ISOAbbrev = 35 ...
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  • 1263-1323) wrote that kung-an is an abbreviation for kung-fu an-tu (公府之案牘, Pinyin gōngfǔ àndú, pronounced in Japanese as ko-fu ...
    33 KB (5,103 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
  • actually a holdover from this practice, not an abbreviation for "common time," as popularly believed). In a similar fashion, the semibreve could ...
    36 KB (5,655 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
  • |abbreviation = IN-AP |capital = Hyderabad |latd = 17.366 |longd = 78.476 |largest_city = Hyderabad |major_cities ...
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  • Some consider the ecosystem (abbreviation for "ecological system") to be the basic unit in ecology. An ecosystem is an ecological unit ...
    38 KB (5,612 words) - 18:02, 12 February 2024
  • #039; catalogues, it is common to include an abbreviation such as "Crown 8vo" to indicate the paper size from which the book is made. ...
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  • or "Promi" (German abbreviation)). Joseph Goebbels was placed in charge of this ministry shortly after Hitler took power in 1933. ...
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  • Double stars are also designated by an abbreviation giving the discoverer together with an index number. Argyle, 2004, 307–308. α Centauri ...
    43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
  • #039;s full family and given name, without abbreviation. The lettering must be red with a white background (shu bun), with roughly equal width lines ...
    36 KB (5,590 words) - 17:34, 25 January 2023
  • handle rush hour traffic (Hyderabad MMTS; abbreviation for Multi Modal Transport System has mostly six coach train with a single nine coach one). One ...
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  • pressure. The SI unit of pressure is the pascal (abbreviation Pa), but vacuum is usually measured in torrs. A torr is equal to the displacement of a millimeter ...
    37 KB (5,624 words) - 20:38, 21 April 2020
  • abbreviation=IN-SK | official_languages=Nepali| legislature_type=Unicameral | legislature_strength=32 | leader_title_2=Governor | leader_name_2 ...
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  • company states that BP was never meant to be an abbreviation of its tagline.) and redesigned its corporate logo. The British Petroleum shield that had ...
    36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
  • quot; was originally a slang abbreviation derived from "association" and is now the prevailing term in the United States, Canada, Australia ...
    41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
  • manga cafés, or manga kissa (kissa is an abbreviation of kissaten) stock hundreds of manga that their customers can read while they linger over coffee. ...
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  • Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America. "D.C." is an abbreviation for the District of Columbia, the federal ...
    39 KB (5,697 words) - 23:11, 3 May 2023
  • The modern abbreviation "KV" stands for "Kings' Valley," and the tombs are numbered in the order of 'discovery ...
    45 KB (7,190 words) - 20:00, 27 April 2020
  • KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language abbreviation for Комитет государственной безопасности ...
    41 KB (6,043 words) - 16:44, 14 May 2024

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