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  • Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo ... His story is related in the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ...
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  • Jasmine or Jessamine is any of the more than two hundred species of ... Jasmine is native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old ...
    11 KB (1,681 words) - 10:00, 1 April 2024
  • prey, defense, and locomotion. Most of the 1,400 or so species are marine ... that is long and thin, and distinguished by the presence of an eversible proboscis ...
    11 KB (1,500 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
  • Europium (chemical symbol Eu, atomic number 63) is the most reactive ... It was named after the continent Europe. == Occurrence == ...
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  • symbol Cs, atomic number 55) is a member of the group of chemical elements ... This element has many isotopes, of which the single stable isotope ...
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  • jpg|thumb|300px|The Willamette Meteorite, the largest ever to be found in ... A meteorite is a small extraterrestrial body that impacts the Earth ...
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  • painter of ancient China, is regarded as the founder of traditional Chinese ... Gu Kaizhi emphasized details that revealed the characteristics of the figures ...
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  • Colugo is the common name for any of the arboreal gliding mammals ... although they are not true lemurs. They are the most capable of all gliding ...
    14 KB (1,971 words) - 07:42, 14 January 2023
  • may be labeled "all natural" in the United States. It is often ... The varieties of sweeteners listed as corn syrup differ in the amount ...
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  • as a limit. When used as an adjective in the vernacular, infinitesimal ... Before the nineteenth century, none of the mathematical concepts as ...
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  • Oregano is the common name for a perennial herbaceous plant, Origanum ... There are other aromatic plants both in and outside the mint family ...
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  • John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President ... a result, most of his cabinet resigned, and the Whigs, dubbing him His Accidency ...
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  • - February 27, 1939) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary. She was ... and later into Switzerland where they joined the emigre community of revolutionaries ...
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  • Cedar is the common name for a number of trees in different genera ... and include many with scented wood, such as the genera Calocedrus ("incense ...
    10 KB (1,494 words) - 23:43, 3 December 2023
  • invoked this concept in his account of the causes of suicide. He suggested ... The word anomie comes from Greek, namely the prefix a-: "without ...
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  • Gamma rays (γ rays) is the popular name applied to gamma radiation ... By comparison, visible light occupies the middle range of the electromagnetic ...
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  • The name nylon is given to a family of synthetic polymers first produced ... In 1940, John W. Eckelberry of DuPont stated that the letters "nyl ...
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  • In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free ... Free space is characterized by the defined value of the parameter ...
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  • War I and World War II (finally supporting the latter conflict only after ... He believed steadfastly in the principles that he attested to. He ...
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  • white metallic element and a member of the lanthanide series of chemical ... In nature, gadolinium is found not as the free element but in various ...
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