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In 1939, Francesc de Paula Quintana took over site management, which was able to go on with the material that was saved from Gaudí's workshop and that was reconstructed from published plans and photographs.

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Supersonic flight more than halved travel times, but sonic booms over the ground limited it to transoceanic flights only.

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Werewolves retain human intelligence but cannot speak.

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Classical antiquity recorded numerous references to cannibalism during siege-related famines.

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The animal had a stiff tail and could open its jaws to an unusual extent.

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Stimulation may involve the use of hands, everyday objects, sex toys, or more rarely, the mouth (autofellatio and autocunnilingus).

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Snow has been recorded in every state and territory, though among the state capitals only Canberra, Hobart and Melbourne have recorded snow.

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The city gained prominence in the 19th century with the growth of the salt industry and later expanded due to coal mining and the first natural gas well.

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Although the highest estimates (up to 100 million species) have since been deprecated, estimates supported by rarefaction curves, together with the use of DNA barcoding and the increasing acknowledgment of widespread cryptic species among nematodes, have placed the figure closer to one million species.

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Neuroplasticity was once thought by neuroscientists to manifest only during childhood, but research in the later half of the 20th century showed that many aspects of the brain exhibit plasticity through adulthood.

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They have streamlined, fish-like bodies with the two forelimbs evolving into flippers, complete loss of hindlimbs (with only vestigial pelvic skeleton), and the tail forming a horizontal fluke.

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Changes brought on by the exponential growth of human population (at the time of the book's publication, over six billion and adding more than 200 million people every three years) and the worldwide scale of resource consumption, have altered the picture, however.

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Although none can be dated precisely, their technology suggests that they were probably made between 1400–800 BC.

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5 km (1 mi) from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, about 10 km (6 mi) south of the historic city of Jericho, and adjacent to the modern Israeli settlement and kibbutz of Kalya.

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Its courtyard (sahn) can host more than 400,000 worshippers, making it one of the largest mosques in the world.

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Harald's rule as king of Norway following the assassination of King Harald Greycloak of Norway was more tenuous, most likely lasting for no more than a few years in the 970s.

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Unlike jet engines, rockets are fuelled entirely by propellant which they carry, without the need for oxygen from air; consequently a rocket can fly in the vacuum of space, and indeed rocket engines operate more efficiently outside the atmosphere.

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This fact has been recognized by the Guinness Book of Records; however, it is not the steepest railway gradient, as Katoomba Scenic Railway in Australia as the steepest, at a maximum gradient of 128% (52°-angle slope).

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This article gives details of the locomotives used on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, a 15 in (381 mm) narrow gauge preserved railway line running for 7 miles (11 km) from Ravenglass on the Cumbrian coast to Dalegarth near the village of Boot, in Eskdale.

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The species' name comes from the Greek paradoxos, referring to this fish's unusual external features.

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This type of girder was rarely used, its only common user being Isambard Kingdom Brunel in the 1840s and 1850s.

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A dog's nose is so sensitive that they can detect minute changes in the earth's magnetic field.

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This is unique among American languages; language shift towards European colonial languages (in this case, the other official language of Spanish) has otherwise been a nearly universal phenomenon in the Western Hemisphere, but Paraguayans have maintained their traditional language while also adopting Spanish.

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This produced major crustal stretching, volcanism and displacement of up to 125 miles (201 km).

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The word "wilk" or "wilks" can be used both as a singular form and a plural.

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Dogs need a strong sense of smell because their eyesight is not as keen as a human’s.

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The design became the first of its kind to become certified with the FAA, achieving certification in October 1998, and as of 2022 was the only aircraft ballistic parachute used as standard equipment by an aviation company.

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The Big Four existed for 25 years before being nationalized on 1 January 1948 under the Transport Act 1947.

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The line is one of the most scenic in New South Wales, and for the first 20 km (12 mi) after leaving Unanderra has an almost continuous grade 1 in 30 providing extensive views over the Illawarra coastline.

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64 km) track around the reservoir, the railway passes through Ruislip Woods to Willow Lawn station and tea room near the lido's car parks.

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As such, the climate of much of the Arctic is moderated by the ocean water, which can never have a temperature below −2 °C (28 °F).

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Rainfall has been increasing over the past few decades in the city accumulating to more than 130 mm (5.

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Analysis of the dog genome demonstrate only 4 major types of dogs: "Old Lineage Dogs," "Mastiff-type Dogs," "Herding Dogs," and "Modern Hunting Dogs."

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The first withdrawals began in 2017, 41 years after they were introduced.

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It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, coke, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the locomotive's boiler to the point where it becomes gaseous and its volume increases 1,600 to 1,700 times.

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A second search launched in January 2018 by private contractor Ocean Infinity also ended without success after six months.

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On a few rare occasions, some storms have been observed reaching the strength of a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale, and Medicane Ianos in 2020 was recorded reaching Category 2 intensity.

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Cetacean stranding has occurred since before recorded history.

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It has the largest brain on Earth, more than five times heavier than a human's.

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Diving to depths of up to 2,370 m (7,780 ft), the narwhal is among the deepest-diving cetaceans.

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However, more than a million people engaged with it through visitation, related activities and various forms of media.

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Size estimates range from small enough to fit in a living room to over 2,000 feet (610 m) in diameter.

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Some right-wing populists may support expanding the welfare state, but only for those they deem fit to receive it; this concept has been referred to as "welfare chauvinism".

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It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records.

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Henric Sanielevici (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈhenrik saniˈelevit͡ʃʲ], first name also Henri, Henry or Enric, last name also Sanielevich; September 21, 1875 – February 19, 1951) was a Romanian journalist and literary critic, also remembered for his work in anthropology, ethnography, sociology and zoology.

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In 1610, the year after his first observations with a telescope, Galileo Galilei became the first person to observe Saturn's rings, though he could not see them well enough to discern their true nature.

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In sets that obey the law, the number 1 appears as the leading significant digit about 30% of the time, while 9 appears as the leading significant digit less than 5% of the time.

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When analyzing a family's SES, the household income and the education and occupations of its members are examined, whereas for an individual's SES only their own attributes are assessed.

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4 lb); and their fur can be black, brown, white, or a mixture of those colours.

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The largest animals on the planet are not the only ones to have large body parts, with some smaller animals actually having one particularly enlarged area of the body.

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His instrumentation on Explorer 10 detected the magnetopause, and he initiated the rocket experiments that discovered Scorpius X-1, the first extra-solar source of X-rays.

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The first attempts at systematic catalogues of galaxies were made in the 1960s, with the Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies listing 29,418 galaxies and galaxy clusters, and with the Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies, a putatively complete list of galaxies with photographic magnitude above 15, listing 30,642.

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The UK is also the home of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Church in Wales, the state church and mother church of the Anglican Communion, the third-largest Christian denomination.

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It is the largest species among the wild cattle and the Bovidae.

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This dust cloud is estimated to be moving at a speed of approximately 18 km/s (11 mi/s) relative to the stars in the cluster.

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The largest terrestrial mustelid in Africa, the honey badger measures 55 to 77 cm (22 to 30 in) long and weighs up to 16 kg (35 lb).

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A dog's sense of smell is so powerful that they can detect drugs and explosives.

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A person's sexual orientation can be anywhere on a continuum, from exclusive attraction to the opposite sex to exclusive attraction to the same sex.

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The first commercial smartphones are widely recognized to be the IBM Simon Personal Communicator, released in 1992, and General Magic's Magic Cap devices released by Sony ('magic link') and Motorola ('envoy') in 1994.

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The performance was successful in its goals, causing viewership of the Super Bowl to increase between halves for the first time in the game's history, with an audience of 133.

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The first recognised Neanderthal fossil, Neanderthal 1, was discovered in 1856 in the Neander Valley, Germany.

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She soon had a change of heart and began medical school at the Sapienza University of Rome, becoming one of the first women to attend medical school in Italy; she graduated with honors in 1896.

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Valery Alekseyevich Legasov (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Легасов; 1 September 1936 – 27 April 1988) was a Soviet inorganic chemist, professor at Moscow State University, first deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

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Its economy accounts for over a quarter of nominal global GDP and has been the world's largest since about 1890.

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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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This star is relatively close to the Solar System, at only 25 light-years (7.

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The first aids to computation were purely mechanical devices which required the operator to set up the initial values of an elementary arithmetic operation, then manipulate the device to obtain the result.

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In spite of the relatively straightforward premises, stereoelectronic effects often provide explanations for counterintuitive or surprising observations.

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Communication between users can range from text, graphical icons, visual gesture, sound, and rarely, forms using touch, voice command, and balance senses.

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The world's first PGD was performed by Handyside, Kontogianni and Winston at the Hammersmith Hospital in London.

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Potential energy is associated with forces that act on a body in a way that the total work done by these forces on the body depends only on the initial and final positions of the body in space.

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The Galilean transformation is a good approximation only at relative speeds much less than the speed of light.

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In 1866, the experienced lunar observer and mapmaker Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt made the surprising claim that Linné had changed its appearance.

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The Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), sometimes referred to as the end-Ordovician mass extinction or the Ordovician–Silurian extinction, is the first of the "big five" major mass extinction events in Earth's history, occurring roughly 445 million years ago (Ma).

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Nevertheless, since the 19th century, numerous modern figures have argued that Buddhism is rational and uniquely compatible with science.

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The dynamo theory describes the process through which a rotating, convecting, and electrically conducting fluid can maintain a magnetic field over astronomical time scales.

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Other predators are opportunistic or omnivorous and practice predation only occasionally.

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Depending on the regions of the brain involved, seizures can lead to changes in movement, sensation, behavior, awareness, or consciousness.

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A member of the family Cryptobranchidae, the hellbender is the only extant member of the genus Cryptobranchus.

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The domestic cat is the only domesticated species of the family Felidae.

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