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The titan beetle (Titanus giganteus) is a Neotropical species of longhorn beetle, the sole species in the genus Titanus, and one of the largest known beetles, as well as one of the largest known insects, at over 170 mm (6.

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All animals have a muscular system of some sort but, since myocytes are tensile actuator units that can only contract and pull but never push, some animals evolved rigid body parts upon which the muscles can attach and act as levers/cantilevers to redirect force and produce locomotive propulsion.

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Females often select males for mating only if they appear strong and able to protect themselves.

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Tunicates are the only chordates that have lost their myomeric segmentation, with the possible exception of the seriation of the gill slits.

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Some women are intersex, meaning they have unusual sex characteristics (chromosomes, genitalia or internal sex organs), such as trisomy X or vaginal atresia.

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In October 2017, astronomers announced the discovery of a ring system around Haumea, representing the first ring system discovered for a trans-Neptunian object and a dwarf planet.

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A significant volume of academic research has been published on the square, but after more than a century, there is no consensus on its origin and meaning.

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In ancient times, only the Sun and Moon, a few stars, and the most easily visible planets had names.

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The year consisted of three seasons of 120 days each, plus a short intercalary 'month' of five epagomenal days that was treated as outside of the year proper.

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Dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, the Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest surviving manuscripts of entire books later included in the various Jewish and Christian biblical canons, including deuterocanonical manuscripts from late Second Temple Judaism, as well as extrabiblical books.

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His endowments and restorations of cults were recorded on the Restoration Stela.

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It has been identified as having "inspired some of the most important developments in human history, including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops, the development of cursive script, mathematics, astronomy, and agriculture.

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Though the fossil record is incomplete, numerous studies have demonstrated that there is enough information available to give a good understanding of the pattern of diversification of life on Earth, and it can fill gaps in our understanding of the sequence of evolution on earth.

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The chemosensory basis for detecting sweetness, which varies between both individuals and species, has only begun to be understood since the late 20th century.

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Viruses are small infectious agents that can only replicate inside the living cells of a host organism, because they need the replication machinery of the host to do so.

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The largest cities by metropolitan area are Phoenix, Las Vegas, El Paso, Albuquerque, and Tucson.

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5 × 106 km2 (less than 2%) of the Earth's surface.

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A VEI 3 eruption in 1944 produced the arc's only known volcanic fatality.

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Some of the xenoliths preserve isotope ratios of osmium and other elements that record processes that occurred when Earth was formed, and so they are of special interest to paleogeologists because they provide clues to the early composition of Earth's upper mantle and the complexities of the processes that occurred.

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Obsidian, which is rhyolitic volcanic glass, has been used for tools from prehistoric times to the present day because it can be shaped to an extremely sharp edge.

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Austronesians were the first people to invent oceangoing sailing technologies (notably catamarans, outrigger boats, lashed-lug boat building, and the crab claw sail), which enabled their rapid dispersal into the islands of the Indo-Pacific.

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There is evidence that extrasolar planets can have an atmosphere.

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As of 2024, only one species of archaea has been found to be parasitic; many are mutualists or commensals, such as the methanogens (methane-producers) that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract in humans and ruminants, where their vast numbers facilitate digestion.

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The relationship between the King and Anna is marked by conflict through much of the piece, as well as by a love to which neither can admit.

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When members of a closed polyamorous relationship restrict their sexual activity to only members of that group, that is commonly referred to as polyfidelity.

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Swarm behaviour was first simulated on a computer in 1986 with the simulation program boids.

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Although these two meanings of the word can sometimes be told apart, they are intricately related, and hence are discussed together in this article.

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Situated 70 kilometres (43 miles) south of Budapest along the Danube, the city is best known for its steelworks, the largest in the country.

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The terms Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, First Nations of Australia, First Peoples of Australia, and First Australians are also common.

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If the fluid is in a state of differential rotation about a fixed origin, this Lorentz force can be surprisingly disruptive, even if the magnetic field is very weak.

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Scholars differ about the beliefs and teachings of Jesus as well as the accuracy of the biblical accounts, with only two events supported by nearly universal scholarly consensus: his baptism and his crucifixion.

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The syndrome was first described in 1961 by New Zealander John C.

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Romans held most of their Caledonian territory only a little over 40 years; they probably only held land in present-day Scotland for about 80 years.

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"Half-turn" ambigrams undergo a point reflection (180-degree rotational symmetry) and can be read upside down (for example, the word "swims"), while mirror ambigrams have axial symmetry and can be read through a reflective surface like a mirror.

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This may not be available if the student were given only access to typical classroom education.

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Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest in the world.

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Although Capp was from Connecticut, he spent 43 years writing about the fictional Southern town of Dogpatch, reaching an estimated 60 million readers in more than 900 American newspapers and 100 more papers in 28 countries internationally.

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By the second decade of the 21st century, the consensus supported the position that there was only a single author, who wrote either in the late 4th century or the early 5th century, who was interested in blending contemporary issues (political, religious and social) into the lives of the 3rd century emperors.

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Schickard's machine was the first of several designs of direct entry calculating machines in the 17th century (including the designs of Blaise Pascal, Tito Burattini, Samuel Morland and René Grillet).

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Similar definitions can be used in library science and other areas of scholarship, although different fields have somewhat different definitions.

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Daguerreotype was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used from the 1830s to 1850s.

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It was the first official world's fair to be held in the United States and coincided with the centennial anniversary of the Declaration of Independence's adoption in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.

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9% of the population, the 7th-largest share among all regions.

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Animal psychology considers the question of whether animals other than humans can reason.

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As with many expletives, the term can be used as an interjection, or as many other parts of speech, and can carry a wide variety of meanings.

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His major work, the Gutenberg Bible, was the first printed version of the Bible and has been acclaimed for its high aesthetic and technical quality.

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The bridge consists of six main spans, each 78 feet (24 m) in length, crossing the river and Kelly Drive; five small arches, each 9 feet (2.

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The west face, the highest of the Matterhorn's four faces, was completely climbed only in 1962.

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Located at the base of a bird's trachea, it produces sounds without the vocal folds of mammals.

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Antlions are poorly represented in the fossil record.

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The House of Karađorđević had been deposed in Serbia 30 years earlier by the rival House of Obrenović, and Alexander spent his early life in exile with his father in Montenegro and later Switzerland.

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dä́ì-] ) is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in the Tōhoku region.

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For example, influenza B can infect only humans and harbor seals.

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Red blood cells (RBCs), referred to as erythrocytes (from Ancient Greek erythros 'red' and kytos 'hollow vessel', with -cyte translated as 'cell' in modern usage) in academia and medical publishing, also known as red cells, erythroid cells, and rarely haematids, are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate's principal means of delivering oxygen (O2) to the body tissues—via blood flow through the circulatory system.

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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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07 million inhabitants as of 2019 across a total area of nearly 35,752 km2 (13,804 sq mi), it is the third-largest German state by both area (behind Bavaria and Lower Saxony) and population (behind North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria).

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In the United States, it is only available legally from pharmacies by prescription from a licensed health care provider.

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In very rare cases, fraternal or (semi-) identical twins can have the same mother and different fathers.

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The design of the building, featuring a load-bearing steel diagrid exoskeleton, was highly unusual at the time and helped pioneer the use of diagrids and framed tube construction.

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Today, there are more than 7,000 offshore platforms operating at a water depth up to and exceeding 2000 m.

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Clicking the landmark number in the first column will take you to the ASME page on the site where you will also find the downloadable brochure from the dedication.

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Most buildings, however, have higher modes of response, which are uniquely activated during earthquakes.

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The cable-stayed bridge is optimal for spans longer than cantilever bridges and shorter than suspension bridges.

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The capital and largest city is Prague; other major cities and urban areas include Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Liberec.

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More than 40 variants of the Hercules, including civilian versions marketed as the Lockheed L-100, operate in more than 60 nations.

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Parrondo's paradox, a paradox in game theory, describes how a combination of losing strategies can become a winning strategy.

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An unusual feature of the Lightning's design is the vertically stacked Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engines, mounted with one over the other within the fuselage.

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The 10 largest emitters of oceanic plastic pollution worldwide are, from the most to the least, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Egypt, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Bangladesh, largely through the Yangtze, Indus, Yellow River, Huai He, Nile, Ganges, Pearl River, Amur, Niger, and Mekong, and accounting for "90 percent of all the plastic that reaches the world's oceans".

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The explosion threw whale flesh up to 800 feet (240 metres) away, and its odor lingered for some time.

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When conditions are favourable, experienced pilots can now fly hundreds of kilometres before returning to their home airfields; occasionally flights of more than 1,000 kilometres (621 mi) are achieved.

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Extinctions in northern Eurasia were staggered over tens of thousands of years between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, while extinctions in the Americas were virtually simultaneous, spanning only 3,000 years at most.

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6 g/cm3, though the soil particle density is much higher, in the range of 2.

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USGS zarejestrował trzęsienie ziemi o magnitudzie 5.

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The town is generally described by outside observers and scholars as "Whites-only" or de facto segregated and as an attempt to revive apartheid, although the community denies this.

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A hologram is made by superimposing a second wavefront (normally called the reference beam) on the wavefront of interest, thereby generating an interference pattern which is recorded on a physical medium.

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Both the alpaca and the llama are believed to have been domesticated and selectively bred from their wild counterparts — the smaller, fine-haired vicuña and the larger, stronger guanaco, respectively — at least 5,000 to 6,000 years ago.

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6 K), which makes it one of only five elemental metals that are liquid at or near room temperature.

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The majority view favors Marcan priority, in which both Matthew and Luke have made direct use of the Gospel of Mark as a source, and further holds that Matthew and Luke also drew from an additional hypothetical document, called Q, though alternative hypotheses that posit direct use of Matthew by Luke or vice versa without Q are increasing in popularity within scholarship.

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They use mostly Central Thai words and only season their speech with the "Kham Mueang" accent.

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Its watershed is on the Lanarkshire border of Ayrshire at an altitude of 810 feet (250 m) above sea-level, near Loudoun Hill, Drumclog, and 7 miles (11 kilometres) SW by W of Strathaven.

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