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Environmental concerns that had arisen in the 1960s got stronger in the 1970s, with the 1970 first Earth Day the largest one in history and ecological thinking reflected in fashion in the form of more natural fibers and a turn away from the wearing of furs from endangered animals..

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As he had anticipated, the painting proved highly controversial at its first appearance in the Salon of 1819, attracting passionate praise and condemnation in equal measure..

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Solid chocolate was already consumed in the 18th century.

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As of 2026 this victory remains both the only all-American victory in Le Mans history — American drivers (Dan Gurney and A.

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The Series 72 was only produced in 1940 and the Series 67 was only produced in 1941 and 1942..

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Light-colored concrete can reduce the urban heat island effect, due to its higher albedo..

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The line was opened in 1866 to carry slate from the quarries at Bryn Eglwys to Tywyn, and was the first narrow gauge railway in Britain authorised by Act of Parliament to carry passengers using steam haulage..

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With a top speed of 220 mph (350 km/h), CAHSR trains would be the fastest in the U..

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Riggs in 1903 from fossils found in the Colorado River valley in western Colorado, United States.

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Fish are very diverse animals and can be categorised in many ways.

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HABs are sometimes defined as only those algal blooms that produce toxins, and sometimes as any algal bloom that can result in severely lower oxygen levels in natural waters, killing organisms in marine or fresh waters..

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035 oz) at maturity, while the giant squid can exceed 10 metres (33 ft) in length and the colossal squid can weigh almost 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) or more, making them the largest living invertebrates..

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The series comprises five 50-minute programmes, each one followed by Under the Skin, a 10-minute section that features Attenborough interviewing the scientists whose work has led to the sequences included in the main programme.

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It is bordered by the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, and Sinaloa with a coastline of approximately 4,000 km (2,500 mi).

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The first re-flight of a landed first stage occurred in March 2017 with the second occurring in June 2017, only five months after the maiden flight of the booster.

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Within the tropics and subtropics, thermal low circulations over terrain and high plateaus can drive monsoon circulations..

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STS-129 was the first flight of an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier..

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It was thought to be the oldest known bird to have a beak, though this title now belongs to an earlier relative Eoconfuciusornis..

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The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened to Socal or CalSo), it is active in more than 180 countries.

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The C-5 is among the largest military aircraft in the world..

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The band formed under the name Bauhaus 1919, in reference to the first operating year of the German art school Bauhaus, but they shortened this name within a year of formation.

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In 2024, Japan was the sixth-largest in the world as an importer and eight-largest as an exporter.

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Only a few letters and a collection of quotes—the Principal Doctrines—have survived intact, along with several fragments of his other writings, such as his major work On Nature..

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Its prominence in the sulfur industry earned it the nickname "world sulfur capital," and in 1862, it became home to Italy's first mining institute, the Sebastiano Mottura Institute..

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The Mexican Revolution (Spanish: Revolución mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920.

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coli, the chromosomal DNA is on average negatively supercoiled and folded into plectonemic loops, which are confined to different physical regions and rarely diffuse into each other..

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gracilis was the smallest species at 55 to 100 kg (121 to 220 lb) in weight..

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The history of Europe can be traced back to the appearance of the first modern humans identified as ancestors of contemporary Europeans about 37,000 years ago during the Paleolithic..

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Agricultural production is one of the largest outputs for Washington, and climate change harms the local economy through variable and extreme weather patterns that are not conducive to plant and soil health, or to livestock health..

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Assuming there are 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, it can be hypothesized that there are 11 billion potentially habitable Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way, rising to 40 billion if planets orbiting the numerous red dwarfs are included.

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They can be found on all continents except Antarctica, as well as many Pacific islands.

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Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon), and these groups are given a taxonomic rank; groups of a given rank can be aggregated to form a more inclusive group of higher rank, thus creating a taxonomic hierarchy..

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3 million years to about 270,000 years for volcanic rocks in the field..

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The first is the interconnected body of seawater that spans most of Earth, known as the sea or the ocean..

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Though it was a small dinosaur, Heterodontosaurus was one of the largest members of its family, reaching between 1.

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The time interval is marked by a prominent negative excursion in carbon stable isotope (δ13C) records from around the globe; more specifically, a large decrease in the 13C/12C ratio of marine and terrestrial carbonates and organic carbon has been found and correlated across hundreds of locations..

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It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun.

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The island has no airstrip; the only way to travel to or from Tristan is by ship..

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The history of the scientific discovery of climate change began in the early 19th century when ice ages and other natural changes in paleoclimate were first suspected and the natural greenhouse effect was first identified..

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Using dimensionality reduction techniques, psychologists showed that most (though not all) of the variance in human personality can be explained using only these five factors..

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The world's first locomotive-hauled railway journey took place on 21 February 1804, when Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales..

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Most of the Culture's citizens do not live on planets but in artificial habitats such as orbitals and ships, the largest of which are home to billions of individuals..

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It was reduced only after the initiation of the first industrial production by French chemist Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville in 1856.

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When exposed to moist air, it forms oxides and hydrides that can expand the sample up to 70% in volume, which in turn flake off as a powder that is pyrophoric (ignites spontaneously in air).

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Originally, textiles were woven; however, weaving is not the only manufacturing method, and many other methods were later developed to form textile structures based on their intended use..

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But they can also be galactic rings and circumstellar discs, belts of minor planets, such as the asteroid belt or Kuiper belt, or rings of interplanetary dust, such as around the Sun at distances of Mercury, Venus, and Earth, in mean motion resonance with these planets..

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By the late 1950s, this solution began to be interpreted physically as a region of space from which nothing can escape.

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The first industrial production of aluminium was initiated by French chemist Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville in 1856..

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The companies' respective track records proved decisive..

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While a distinction between metals and other minerals had existed since antiquity, a classification of chemical elements as metallic or nonmetallic emerged only in the late 18th century..

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Developed from ancient and medieval practices, it acknowledges that cognitive assumptions can distort the interpretation of the observation..

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6 mi tall), as well as one of the largest canyons in the Solar System (Valles Marineris, 4,000 km or 2,500 mi long)..

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The idea was first put forward in 1995 by Nancy Lieder, founder of the website ZetaTalk..

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These reversals of the geomagnetic poles leave a record in rocks that are of value to paleomagnetists in calculating geomagnetic fields in the past..

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Venus was visited for the first time in 1961 by Venera 1, which flew past the planet, achieving the first interplanetary spaceflight..

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The process eventually leads to tidal locking, usually of the smaller body first, and later the larger body (e..

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This can be coined as a 'jump-to-conclusions' bias that can increase the spread of pseudoscientific beliefs..

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Its largest crater, Caloris Planitia, has a diameter of 1,550 km (960 mi), which is about one-third the diameter of the planet (4,880 km or 3,030 mi)..

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Among the Pre-Columbian peoples of Mesoamerica, the Zapotec civilization established their first known traditions of astronomy and mathematics for producing calendars, followed by other civilizations such as the Maya..

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A dog's nose is so sensitive that they can detect changes in a person's emotional state..

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A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water..

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The crack of a whip is actually a tiny sonic boom, since the tip breaks the sound barrier..

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German is the second-most widely spoken Germanic language, after English, both as a first and as a second language..

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Humans also retain a plasticity of behavior that is generally found among animals only in the young..

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The label of fairy has at times applied only to specific magical creatures with human appearance, magical powers, and a penchant for trickery..

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The country covers an area of 438,317 square kilometres (169,235 sq mi) and has a population of over 46 million, making it the 58th largest country by area and the 31st most populous in the world..

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The first settlers of Australia, New Guinea, and the large islands just to the east arrived more than 60,000 years ago..

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Thomas and Dorothy Swaine Thomas were the first Western scholars to investigate this phenomenon..

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Telepathy (from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle) 'distant' and πάθος/-πάθεια (páthos/-pátheia) 'feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience') is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction..

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The northernmost Saharan zone averages less than 200 mm (7..

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The spotted hyena is the most social of the Carnivora in that it has the largest group sizes and most complex social behaviours..

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By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke more than 250 distinct languages and had one of the oldest living cultures in the world..

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The earliest Indian art originated during the prehistoric settlements of the 3rd millennium BCE, such as the rock shelters of Bhimbetka, which contain some of the world's oldest known cave paintings..

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In some cases these displays were voluntary on the part of people who willingly agreed, while in other cases the people were displayed without their consent..

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It was ranked first on the American Institute of Architects' list of America's Favorite Architecture in 2007..

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A dog's sense of smell is about 10,000 times stronger than a human's..

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Terms such as learning, understanding, reasoning, thinking, hallucinating and planning are frequently used in AI research to describe capabilities of AI systems, without necessarily implying consciousness, sentience, human-like cognition, or understanding in a stronger philosophical sense..

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3 in) Idiosepius thailandicus to the 700 kilograms (1,500 lb) heavy colossal squid, the largest extant invertebrate..

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By the mid-1990s, Braid, the Promise Ring, American Football, and the Get Up Kids emerged from Midwest emo, and several independent record labels began to specialize in the genre..

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Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator..

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