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  • materials (e.g., a trilogy), or linked from the catalog (e.g., a webpage) ... The card catalog was a familiar sight to library users for generations ...
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  • inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey ... Clarke served in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor and technician ...
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  • Special effects (abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used by the film, television ... They are also used when creating the effect by normal means is prohibitively ...
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  • A flight simulator is a system that tries to replicate, or simulate ... Flight simulators are extensively used by the aviation industry for ...
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  • Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is ... Like the Earth, Mars has a rocky surface and polar ice caps. Its rotational ...
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  • Khachaturian made a notable contribution to the world of music while preserving ... family. In his youth, he was fascinated by the music he heard around him ...
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  • an Academy Award for Special Effects. He was the director of a number of critically ... foibles and how they are not consonant with the ideologies and beliefs. ...
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  • ), was an ancient Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism ... as an authentic historical figure, but the period in which he lived remains ...
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  • educator, and prolific writer, and one of the leading exponents of neo-Kantian ... Cassirer played a mediating role between the two major traditions ...
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  • A video game is a game that involves the interaction with a user interface ... The "video" in "video game" traditionally refers ...
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  • marketing contexts can be synonymous with, the broader definition of speculative ... Science fiction often involves one or more of the following elements: ...
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  • September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly ... M. Abell, Strauss disclosed that he had read the work of the Swedish mystic ...
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  • was a notorious English pirate in the Caribbean Sea and western ... pistols at his disposal. It was reported in the General History of the Pirates ...
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  • The theremin is an electronic musical instrument controlled without ... The instrument's controlling section usually consists of two ...
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  • awards and honors for her writing, including the Man Booker Prize, Arthur C ... Atwood is also the inventor and developer of the LongPen and associated ...
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  • ) was one of the most important religious sites in ancient Greece ... Delphi is located in lower central Greece, on multiple terraces along ...
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  • Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224 ... planet” or “Earth’s twin,” as the two are similar in size and ...
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  • pilot, and businessman. In 1961, he became the first American to travel into ... A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Shepard ...
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  • was a renowned Czech photographer, dubbed the "Poet of Prague." Born when Bohemia was a kingdom in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he ...
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  • Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music ... As the world is increasingly globalized, preservation of traditional ...
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