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These structures rest on a foundation that is carefully designed to transfer the weight of the bridge to the subsoil without settling.

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The domestication of small mammals to keep as pets is a relatively recent development, arising only after large-scale industrialization.

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English words of French origin, such as art, competition, force, money, and table are pronounced according to English rules of phonology, rather than French, and English speakers commonly use them without any awareness of their French origin.

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Males can grow to a weight of 1,000–1,500 kg (2,200–3,300 lb) and a length of 6 m (20 ft), rarely exceeding 6.

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Although historians tentatively link Rykener to a prisoner of the same name, the only known facts of Rykener's life come from an interrogation made by the mayor of London.

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The first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesians, so the origins of the people of Tuvalu can be traced to the spread of humans out of Southeast Asia, from Taiwan, via Melanesia and across the Pacific islands of Polynesia.

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Males live to around 25 years old while females may live up to 30 years.

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As one of only two specifically-designated categories of ethnicity in the United States (under the technical label of "Hispanic or Latino"; the other category being under the technical label of "Not Hispanic or Latino"), Hispanics and Latinos form a pan-ethnicity incorporating a diversity of inter-related cultural and linguistic heritages, in which use of the Spanish language is the most important common element.

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The vehicle's limitations – a short range, a maximum speed of only 15 miles per hour (24 km/h), a battery that ran down quickly and a lack of weatherproofing – made it impractical for most people's needs.

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Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with the chemical formula S8 going up to s18.

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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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The main stations along the line are Kingsley and Froghall, Consall, Cheddleton, Leek Brook and Ipstones (which is only used as a run around loop).

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They can sometimes also function as a visual aid, as variously termed spectacles or glasses exist, featuring lenses that are colored, polarized or darkened.

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It operated as an independent concern only from 1879 to 1905.

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8 km) south-west of Filey, 9 miles (14 km) south of Scarborough and 9 miles (14 km) north of Bridlington.

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90 of them were named by various weather agencies when they attained maximum sustained winds of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph).

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4 km) down the line from London Paddington, and lies between Didcot Parkway and Chippenham.

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Although similar events have been reported in other bodies of water, Mobile Bay is the only place where the regular appearance of this phenomenon has been documented.

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The overlying ice provides a continuous paleoclimatic record of 400,000 years, although the lake water itself may have been isolated for 15 to 25 million years.

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However, due to the high number of taxa named after him (over 50 as of 2022), he has been removed; his patronyms can be found in the List of things named after David Attenborough and his works.

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South Dakota is the 17th-largest by area, the fifth-least populous, and the fifth-least densely populated of the 50 United States.

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Washington is the 18th-largest state, with an area of 71,362 sq mi (184,830 km2), and the 13th-most populous state, with a population of over 8 million.

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Treatments can be costly, laborious, time consuming, repetitive, and embarrassing, and may entail health risks.

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Introns are rare in bacteria and archaea (prokaryotes).

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The Portuguese Bend region is the largest area of natural vegetation remaining on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, in Los Angeles County, California.

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In 2014, scientists estimated that several dozen asteroids in the 6–12 m (20–39 ft) size range fly by Earth at a distance closer than the Moon every year, but only a fraction of these are actually detected.

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Crater Lake National Park, the state's only national park, is the site of the deepest lake in the United States at 1,943 feet (592 m).

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Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states.

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Primes are central in number theory because of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic: every natural number greater than 1 is either a prime itself or can be factorized as a product of primes that is unique up to their order.

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The first Europeans to explore the region were Spanish.

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Activities of playful cleverness can be said to have "hack value" and therefore the term "hacks" came about, with early examples including pranks at MIT done by students to demonstrate their technical aptitude and cleverness.

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Structurally, it is a dinucleotide that only differs from the house-keeping enzyme cofactor, NADP by a hydroxyl group (replacing the nicotinamide amino group) and yet this minor modification converts it into the most potent Ca2+-mobilizing second messenger yet described.

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The Hansa Jet began development during the 1960s, the selection of the forward-swept wing can be largely attributed to head engineer Hans Wocke, who had previously worked on the experimental Junkers Ju 287.

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In 2012, Kittinger participated in the Red Bull Stratos project as capsule communicator at age 84, directing Felix Baumgartner on his 24-mile (39 km) freefall from Earth's stratosphere, which broke Kittinger's own 53-year-old record.

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The university has nearly 38,000 students and more than 4,000 faculty members and is one of Boston's largest employers.

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The synthesis was defined differently by its founders, with Ernst Mayr in 1959, G.

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At the close of the 20th century, malaria remained endemic in more than 100 countries throughout the tropical and subtropical zones, including large areas of Central and South America, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Oceania.

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The Skyray also set a new time-to-altitude record, flying from a standing start to 49,221 feet (15,003 m) in two minutes and 36 seconds at a 70° pitch angle.

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Dismissing arguments based on the arguers supposed ideological commitments--without engaging the actual arguments--shows the Ad hominem fallacy.

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1 kiloparsecs (87,400 ± 3,600 light-years), but only about 1,000 light-years thick at the spiral arms (more at the bar).

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Its centrality to the national consciousness is evidenced by the size and enthusiasm of the audiences attending the annual National Eisteddfod of Wales (Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru), which grew out of a long-standing tradition of literary competitions to become probably the largest amateur arts festival in Europe.

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Despite the eventual recovery of Constantinople and re-establishment of the Empire in 1261, Byzantium remained only one of several small rival states in the area for the final two centuries of its existence.

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Between 2006 and 2011, an international company (AVRL) managed all urban water systems since under a 5-year management contract which expired after achieving only some of its objectives.

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In the context of evolutionary biology, ancestral reconstruction can be used to recover different kinds of ancestral character states of organisms that lived millions of years ago.

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Many primate and bear species will adopt a bipedal gait in order to reach food or explore their environment, though there are a few cases where they walk on their hind limbs only.

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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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704 km) in length, and separated by a short gap, a second at 353 yd (323 m).

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85 km) including approaches, the structure ranked as the world's second-longest bridge when completed, trailing only the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.

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Kangchenjunga (8,586 m) is the highest point within the Brahmaputra basin and the only peak above 8,000 m.

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Greeting cards can also be sent to express other feelings, such as giving thanks, sympathy, encouragement, or best wishes to get well from an illness or injury.

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The economy of Haryana is the 13th largest in India, with a gross state domestic product (GSDP) of ₹7.

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USGS zarejestrował trzęsienie ziemi o magnitudzie 6.

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Since many natural languages use more than the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, Morse alphabets have been developed for those, largely by transliteration of existing codes.

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A British standard began to emerge following the 1755 publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, and an American standard started following the work of Noah Webster and, in particular, his An American Dictionary of the English Language, first published in 1828.

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46 million, Oman is the third-largest country on the Arabian Peninsula.

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6 km) mainline's southern terminus is at the Delaware Memorial Bridge on Interstate 295 (I-295) in Pennsville Township.

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The class contains two, only distantly related, extant subclasses: Coleoidea, which includes octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish; and Nautiloidea, represented by Nautilus and Allonautilus.

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Also known by its Russian nickname of Tarielka (Тарелка, meaning "plate" or "saucer"), the EKIP can land on water or unpaved ground through the use of an air cushion instead of a wheeled undercarriage.

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After unexpectedly encountering clear-air turbulence at 18,000 feet (5,500 m), the aircraft's right wing and part of the left wing separated, causing the fuselage to plummet and impact the ground at a nearly 90-degree angle, leaving a deep crater.

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The unusually high 150 mph (240 km/h) speed on short final runway approach was intimidating to many pilots who were used to much slower approach speeds, and when they slowed to speeds below those stipulated in the manual, the aircraft would often stall and crash.

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The most extensive modification resulted in a specialised maritime patrol derivative, the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, which remained in service with the Royal Air Force until 2011, over 60 years after the Comet's first flight.

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Castro visited Chile in 1971 staying for 24 days, more than initially expected.

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The first phase of Northtown, the island's first community, was completed in 1974, followed by the second phase (Northtown II) in 1989.

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The breed of dog with the best sense of smell is the bloodhound.

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While the loss of political unity and military control is universally acknowledged, the fall of Rome is not the only unifying concept for these events; the period described as late antiquity emphasizes the cultural continuities throughout and beyond the political collapse.

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By 12,000 years ago, more than 90% of Earth's tropical forests and 95% of its temperate forests were inhabited and shaped by Indigenous peoples.

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federal government and scientific organizations, have found no evidence of unusual activity, attributing reported incidents to natural phenomena, human error, and misinterpretation.

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In September 2022, the Attorney General sued Trump, his three oldest children (Donald Jr.

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The Keymaster civilization not only provides new technologies to the world but also makes sure that their conditions are fulfilled to the letter: unrestricted access to the Gates for all who are willing.

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Of these, he is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes, and one of two people to be awarded Nobel Prizes in different fields, the other being Marie Curie.

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Not all megabats are large-bodied; nearly a third of all species weigh less than 50 g (1.

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However, in terms of nuclei present in skeletal muscle, myocyte nuclei (myonuclei) may be only half of the nuclei present, while nuclei from resident and infiltrating mononuclear cells make up the other half.

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Unusually, the icon is made of wood and replaced with a new one at regular intervals.

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Dell Technologies ranked 44th on the 2025 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations based on its 2024 revenue; its products include personal computers, servers, monitors, computer software, computer security and network security, as well as information security services.

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Before the invention of refrigeration technology, the only way to safely store food without modifying it through preservatives was to use ice.

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The annual salmon run can be a major feeding event for predators such as grizzly bears and bald eagles, as well as an important window period for sport fishermen.

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He is the only bowler to take 800 Test wickets and more than 530 One Day International (ODI) wickets.

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The player can control individual units and advance the exploration, conquest and settlement of the game's world.

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President Bill Clinton, who organized efforts to minimize the damage in the United States, labelled Y2K as "the first challenge of the 21st century successfully met", and retrospectives on the event typically commend the programmers who worked to avert the anticipated disaster.

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The RISC computer usually has many (16 or 32) high-speed, general-purpose registers with a load–store architecture in which the instructions that perform arithmetic and tests operate only on the registers, and the instructions that access data in the main memory of the computer only load data from memory into registers or store data from registers into memory.

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