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  • Emu is the common name for a large flightless Australian bird, Dromaius ... The emu is common over most of mainland Australia, although it avoids ...
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  • The enteric nervous system (ENS) is that part of the peripheral nervous ... The enteric nervous system is very complex and has many more neurons ...
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  • Aging or ageing is the process of becoming older. The term refers ... This article focuses primarily on humans. Aging represents the accumulation ...
    31 KB (4,318 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
  • category for grouping diseases that involve the heart and any structural or ... Currently, heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United ...
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  • The Corn Laws were import tariffs designed to support domestic British ... a significant step towards free trade. The Corn Laws enhanced the profits ...
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  • of Leibniz and Christian Wolff, and gave the term aesthetics its modern ... and which was wholeheartedly devoted to the Pietist movement and had become ...
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  • within enclosures and usually displayed to the public. Beyond recreation ... a role as stewards of creation, have, in the ideal sense, a natural internal ...
    18 KB (2,585 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
  • O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter ... Among his more famous offerings are "The Ransom of Red Chief ...
    22 KB (3,541 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
  • | May be fatal if inhaled, swallowedor absorbed through the skin. ... Technologies 2006). Historically, the most common food sources of ...
    31 KB (4,564 words) - 09:39, 22 April 2023
  • Hay is utilized as the principal or supplementary feed for animals ... as hay crops. After mowing and drying, the hay may be stored loose or ...
    30 KB (4,880 words) - 15:04, 25 January 2023
  • yoga, which aims to awaken and harness the intrinsic energy force found ... As a goddess, Shakti seeks to unite herself with the Supreme Being ...
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  • The chemical compound formaldehyde (also known as methanal) is a gas ... Formaldehyde readily results from the incomplete combustion of carbon ...
    18 KB (2,445 words) - 06:34, 1 April 2024
  • they cross national boundaries, usually by the government of the importing ... duties, export duties, and import duties. The levying of import duties generally ...
    32 KB (5,003 words) - 04:32, 27 February 2023
  • of history. He is an important figure in the early twentieth century liberal ... Troeltsch also laid the groundwork for an inclusive perspective on ...
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  • Greek philosopher. Anaxagoras conceived the origin of the cosmos as the ... of natural phenomena. His account of the sun not as a god but as a ...
    9 KB (1,342 words) - 19:07, 26 July 2023
  • of their time in marine waters and depend on the ocean for food. There are ... The cetaceans and sirenians are completely aquatic. Sea otters, although ...
    9 KB (1,370 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
  • neutral lipid that is a major constituent in the cell membranes of animals ... estrogen, testosterone, cortisone), and as the raw material for the production ...
    23 KB (3,346 words) - 17:16, 10 December 2023
  • Lamprey is the common name for elongated, eel-like, jawless fish comprising ... Lampreys are both freshwater and anadromous (living mostly in the ...
    18 KB (2,541 words) - 20:56, 22 October 2022
  • The American Ballet Theatre (ABT), based in New York City, was one ... Launched in 1940, ABT annually tours the United States, performing ...
    8 KB (1,230 words) - 02:53, 24 July 2023
  • The Ethiopian Empire, also known as Abyssinia, in what is now Ethiopia ... In the twentieth century, the last emperor of Ethiopia took on special ...
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