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Christie's, which sold the work in 2017, stated that most leading scholars consider it an original work by Leonardo, but this attribution has been disputed by some leading specialists who propose that he only contributed certain elements; others believe that the extensive restoration prevents a definitive attribution..

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The oldest parts of the Bible may be as early as c..

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Those devices were used in the institutions of Mesopotamia and western Iran during the 4th millennium BC, in order to record administrative operations..

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It also maps rational numbers to dyadic rationals, as can be seen by a recursive definition closely related to the Stern–Brocot tree..

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The first devices identified as guns or proto-guns appeared in China from around AD 1000..

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" The 12 Coloured Fairy Books were illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, with credit for the first two volumes shared by George Percy Jacomb-Hood and Lancelot Speed, respectively..

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Leap years are given two letters, the first valid for January 1 – February 28 (or February 24, see below), the second for the remainder of the year.

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However, others argue that her policies can be interpreted as desperate attempts to avert a succession crisis and preserve the Ottoman dynasty..

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A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in London in 1704..

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During this period, Houston engaged in her first sexual relationship with a woman, Robyn Crawford, with whom she met as a fellow counselor of a children's summer camp at East Orange in 1980..

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The history of the Kyrgyz people and the land now called Kyrgyzstan goes back more than 3,000 years..

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By the end of 2025, Starlink had become SpaceX's largest business segment, generating $11..

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Fashion of the 1980s was characterized by a rejection of psychedelic colored, ornate fashions of the 1970s.

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With regard to Christianity, only certain sects that consider Jewish dietary laws to still be binding abstain from pork, including Hebrew Catholics, Seventh-day Adventists, Hebrew Roots, and Messianic Jews..

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The opening anecdote relates Francis Galton's surprise that the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the weight of an ox when the median of their individual guesses was taken (the median was closer to the ox's true butchered weight than the estimates of most crowd members).

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IKEA was founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, and has been the world's largest furniture retailer since 2008.

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Carroll wrote frequently about the Cuban immigrant experience in the United States, including in his only novel, Loosing My Espanish (2004)..

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During the 20th century it was a staging ground for Italian initiatives in East Africa, collateral of Britain's colonial politics, and the subject of the expansion of Ethiopia until 1993, when the sovereign state of Eritrea was established.

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1825 – March 16, 1903) was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos.

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The foundation of all practical color processes, the three-color method was first suggested in an 1855 paper by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, with the first color photograph produced by Thomas Sutton for a Maxwell lecture in 1861.

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The history of the Buffalo Bills began in October of 1959, though their first game was in 1960, when the team began play as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL), winning two consecutive AFL titles in 1964 and 1965..

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Because of his contributions as a hitter and as a pitcher, which make him a rare two-way player, Ohtani's prime seasons have been considered among the greatest in baseball history, with some likening them to the early career of Babe Ruth.

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Only one image of Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe has been authenticated: a watercolor portrait painted several hours after her death.

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Eventually, the General Board of the United States Navy declared its preference for a battleship with a speed of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph), faster than any in US service, with a main battery of nine 14-inch (356 mm)/50 caliber Mark B guns..

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In the Western Conference, the Lakers lost in the first round to the Minnesota Timberwolves, in which star guard Luka Dončić appeared in his first playoff series with the Lakers since his unexpected trade from the Mavericks earlier that year..

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At the 2011 Asian Cup, Uzbekistan reached the semi-finals of the tournament for the first time..

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After significant commercial success in its first decades, it merged with the Wright Aeronautical to form Curtiss-Wright Corporation..

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It is generally regarded as the first mass-affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans..

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With carbon dating estimates between 990 and 1050 CE (mean date 1014) and tree-ring dating of 1021, L'Anse aux Meadows is the only undisputed site of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact of Europeans with the Americas outside of Greenland..

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Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States, estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s..

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In a writing system, a letter is a grapheme that generally corresponds to a phoneme—the smallest functional unit of speech—though there is rarely total one-to-one correspondence between the two..

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Born and raised in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree..

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6 metres (12 ft) in diameter and 98 centimetres (39 in) thick, and weighs 24,590 kg (54,210 lb)..

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The Hyksos period marks the first in which foreign rulers ruled Egypt.

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Popper first mentioned the term "critical rationalism" in The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) and also later in Conjectures and Refutations (1963), Unended Quest (1976), and The Myth of the Framework (1994)..

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However, Basadre claims that the period only begins, sensu stricto, with the installation of the first Constituent Congress on September 20, 1822.

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9%) were followers of Islam (mostly concentrated in Pakistan) while slightly less than 200,000 (0..

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First established in 1917 as the NKVD of the Russian SFSR, the ministry was tasked with regular police work and overseeing the country's prisons and labor camps..

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The building's largest tenant is the Cincinnati Museum Center, comprising the Cincinnati History Museum, the Museum of Natural History & Science, Duke Energy Children's Museum, the Cincinnati History Library and Archives, and an Omnimax theater..

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North-south transportation is highly dependent on the Interstate 5 corridor, which connects the Puget Sound area with southwest Washington cities and the Portland metropolitan area, as well as cities to the north such as Bellingham and Vancouver, Canada.

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Prior to European colonization, the lands encompassing present-day British Columbia were inhabited for millennia by a number of First Nations.

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An early list makes him an attendee at the First Council of Nicaea in 325, but he is never mentioned in any writings by people who were at the council..

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It contains only four silicon chips and 1 KB of RAM..

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Saint Alban (; Latin: Albanus) is venerated as the first-recorded British Christian martyr, for which reason he is considered to be the protomartyr of Britain..

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" He further says that Mark left this extended version, known today as the Secret Gospel of Mark, "to the church in Alexandria, where it even yet is most carefully guarded, being read only to those who are being initiated into the great mysteries..

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The group, which went through five bosses between 1910 and 1957, is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963, when the structure of organized crime first gained public attention..

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In Christian Anabaptist and similar sects, it may involve women wearing only ankle-length skirts, blouses up to the collar, and often a small head covering or shawl..

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

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The field emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s and at first was an almost exclusively British practice..

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He remained the starter for the rest of the season and set several rookie statistical records, including the most touchdown passes and 300-yard games..

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One month after his MLB debut, Díaz set a Mariners franchise record by recording 11 consecutive outs via strikeout..

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Its markets included both areas that were independent and those that were part of the rapidly expanding British Empire, which by the early 1900s had become the largest empire in history..

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Estimates from the 2021 Australian census show that there were almost one million Indigenous Australians, representing 3.

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Oklahoma is also the only program with which four coaches have won more than 100 games each..

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Harbaugh led the Ravens to 13 winning seasons with only three losing seasons.

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As the capital city of the Netherlands, it is the largest with over 930,000 inhabitants in 2024..

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Japan has also won a record four Asian Cup titles, in 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2011.

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The crisis followed the decision in January 2026 by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of the PSOE to introduce a mass regularisation programme for migrants who had been living illegally in Spain, including many of Moroccan origin.

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It is unusual for its "long flared roof flowing down"..

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The word acheropite comes from the Greek ἀχειροποίητος, meaning "not created by human hands", and the term was first applied to the Turin Shroud and the Veil of Veronica..

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It can grow to a tremendous size, offering an example of abyssal gigantism; recent estimates put the maximum body size at around 5 m (16 ft) for females, with males slightly shorter, from the posterior fins to the tip of its long arms..

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The first three books won the one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966..

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The first work to be labelled as Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled A Gothic Story..

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The ancient Greek term that forms the basis for the term Palestine first appears in the 5th century BCE when the historian Herodotus wrote of a "district of Syria, called Palaistinê" between Phoenicia and Egypt in The Histories..

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Indigenous people lived in what is now Texas more than 10,000 years ago, as evidenced by the discovery of the remains of prehistoric Leanderthal Lady..

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Mele village, with a population of 1,000, is located roughly 7 km (4..

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Commenting on the 2006 awards, Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research and co-sponsor of the awards, said that "[t]he prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative, and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology"..

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Strollers can have a variety of features such as cup holders, a storage basket, or the ability to carry multiple children..

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Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology..

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Signed and dated by van Eyck in 1434, it is, with the Ghent Altarpiece by the same artist and his brother Hubert, the oldest very famous panel painting to have been executed in oils rather than in tempera..

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Thus, one can read certain authors who say that the islands’ population is, of all the regions of Greece, the only original one, and has not been subjected to external admixtures..

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Sabina Nikolayevna Spielrein (Russian: Сабина Николаевна Шпильрейн, IPA: [sɐˈbʲinə nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvnə ʂpʲɪlʲˈrɛjn]; 7 November [O.

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The first volume, subtitled Form and Actuality, was published in the summer of 1918..

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The Kinderhook plates are a set of six small, bell-shaped pieces of brass with unusual engravings, created as a hoax in 1843, surreptitiously buried and then dug up at a Native American mound near Kinderhook, Illinois, United States..

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Some of the terms listed below can be used in casual speech without any intention of causing offense, while others may be much more offensive..

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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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The history of American newspapers begins in the 17th century with the publication of the first colonial newspapers..

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The Amana Colonies are seven villages on 26,000 acres (110 km2) located in Iowa County in east-central Iowa, United States: Amana (or Main Amana, German: Haupt-Amana), East Amana, High Amana, Middle Amana, South Amana, West Amana, and Homestead.

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They are valued for their distinctiveness from the Latin script and for the ease with which literacy can be achieved..

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The first, The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth, was completed in 1804, but no copies exist today..

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