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  • Technology is a broad concept that deals with a species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species' ability ...
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  • The lion (Panthera leo) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four species of "big cats" (subfamily Pantherinae ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Grizzly_Giant_Mariposa_Grove.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) is the largest tree in ...
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  • Fukuzawa Yukichi 福澤 諭吉 (January 10, 1835 – February 3, 1901) was a Japanese author, educator, translator, entrepreneur, political ...
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  • Evil is a term used to describe something that brings about harmful, painful, and unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: ...
    41 KB (6,708 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
  • Piezoelectricity is the ability of some materials (notably crystals and certain ceramics) to generate an electric potential Douglas A. Skoog, ...
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  • Qumran ( חירבת קומראן , Khirbet Qumran) is located on a dry plateau about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea ...
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  • The Holy Spirit refers to the third person of the Trinity in Christianity. In Judaism the Holy Spirit refers to the life-giving breath or spirit ...
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  • An iceberg is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off from a glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water. Icebergs come in ...
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  • George Peabody (February 18, 1795 – November 4, 1869) was an American entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist. Coming from a lower-middle ...
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  • Brussels sprout (plural Brussels sprouts), also known as brussels sprout (without the capital B) and brussel sprout, is the common name for a ...
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  • Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress. Her most famous role was in Alfred Hitchcock ...
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  • Dinosaurs are an extinct, diverse, largely terrestrial group of vertebrate animals of the Sauropsid orders Saurischia (lizard-hipped) and Ornithischia ...
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  • An e-book (for electronic book, ebook, or ecobook) is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. Such documents are usually ...
    12 KB (1,743 words) - 21:37, 25 September 2020
  • Shogi (将棋 shōgi), or Japanese chess, is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan. Shogi is said to be derived from ...
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  • Charles Le Brun (February 24, 1619 – February 22, 1690) was a true Renaissance man. The reputation he garnered for his paintings was matched ...
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  • Goa Velha ("Velha" means old in Portuguese), referring to a census town in North Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. Goa had been ...
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  • Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 – May 11, 2006) was an American heavyweight boxing champion. At 21, Patterson became the youngest man then ...
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  • Sigrid Undset (Norwegian pronunciation: ˈsɪ̂ɡːɾiː ˈʉ̂nːseːt; May 20, 1882 – June 10, 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist ...
    32 KB (4,741 words) - 19:59, 27 July 2023
  • Ricardo Alonso González or Richard Gonzalez (May 9, 1928 – July 3, 1995), who was generally known as Pancho Gonzales or, less often, as Pancho ...
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