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Israel has admitted that Israeli pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians without the consent of their families, and the first Israeli heart transplant was in fact a stolen Palestinian's organ..

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"Internet of things" has been considered a misnomer because most devices do not need to be connected to the public Internet; they only need to be connected to a network and be individually addressable..

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In general, a process can have multiple causes, which are also said to be causal factors for it, and all lie in its past..

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The new upper reservoir dam, rebuilt from the ground up, is the largest roller-compacted concrete dam in North America..

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Nitinol can undergo elastic deformations 10 to 30 times larger than alternative metals..

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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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The submarine has a long history in the United States, beginning with the Turtle, the world's first submersible with a documented record of use in combat..

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By tailoring effective parameters such as bulk modulus (β), density (ρ), and in some cases chirality, they can be engineered to transmit, trap, or attenuate waves at selected frequencies, functioning as acoustic resonators when local resonances dominate..

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Most materials show some saturable absorption, but often only at very high optical intensities (close to the optical damage)..

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The existence of graphene was first theorized in 1947 by Philip R..

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When acidic rain or water enters a natural deposit of calcium carbonate, it can lead to cave formation with stalactite and stalagmite..

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The Caledonian MacBrayne fleet is the largest fleet of car and passenger ferries in the United Kingdom, with 37 ferries in operation..

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On land-based boilers, explosions of the pressure systems happened regularly in stationary steam boilers in the Victorian era, but are now very rare because of the various protections provided, and because of regular inspections compelled by governmental and industry requirements..

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At approximately 18,500 units – including 8,685 manufactured by Ford Motor Company – it holds records as the world's most produced bomber, heavy bomber, multi-engine aircraft, and American military aircraft in history..

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In 1974, the SR-71 set the record for the quickest flight between London and New York at 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56 seconds..

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It featured an unusually broad chord, low aspect-ratio main wing and a relatively deep fuselage..

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Michael Porter identifies three principles underlying strategy: Creating a "unique and valuable [market] position"..

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Nicknamed "the Professor", Prost won four Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles and—at the time of his retirement—held the records for most wins (51), fastest laps (41), and podium finishes (106)..

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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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As the electrical activity monitored by EEG originates in neurons in the underlying brain tissue, the recordings made by the electrodes on the surface of the scalp vary in accordance with their orientation and distance to the source of the activity..

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A grade separated rapid transit line below ground surface through a tunnel can be regionally called a subway, tube, metro or underground..

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Wurz, at 22 years of age, became the youngest ever overall winner of the Le Mans 24-Hours..

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The earliest surviving samples of tartan-style cloth are around 3,000 years old and were discovered in Xinjiang, China..

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More than 7,000,000 acres (28,000 km2; 11,000 mi2) of the valley are irrigated via reservoirs and canals..

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In addition, the unusual fuel would have meant that existing airbases would have needed extensive facilities to handle the aircraft..

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The Tu-144 was the world's first commercial supersonic transport aircraft with its prototype's maiden flight from Zhukovsky Airport on 31 December 1968, two months before the British-French Concorde..

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Fully traditional buildings may have only one large room, under a roof supported by a post-and-lintel frame, with few or no permanent interior or exterior walls; the space is flexibly subdivided as needed by the removable sliding wall panels..

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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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It addresses common barriers to participation by creating things that can be used by the maximum number of people possible..

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2 km (2 mi) long; the breached segment was about 85 m (279 ft) long..

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Some scholars believe that advances in artificial intelligence, or AI, will eventually lead to a semi-apocalyptic post-scarcity and post-work economy where intelligent machines can outperform humans in almost every, if not every, domain..

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2 m) standard length, as defined by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard 668:2020..

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Water wheels began being displaced by the smaller, less expensive and more efficient turbine, developed by Benoît Fourneyron, beginning with his first model in 1827..

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It was the world's third-most populous country, the largest by area, and bordered twelve other countries..

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For any purpose, the process usually uses two chemicals – ferric ammonium citrate or ferric ammonium oxalate, and potassium ferricyanide, and only water to develop and fix..

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It was founded in February 2017 and participated twice in the challenger class of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (BWSC) for the first time in 2019..

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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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It is Great Britain's only remaining cable-operated street tramway, and one of only a few surviving in the world, and it is owned by Conwy County Borough Council..

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After merging with Hudson to form AMC, the nameplate was first used as the Ambassador V-8 by Rambler, then as the Rambler Ambassador, and finally as the AMC Ambassador..

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In oceanography, rogue waves are more precisely defined as waves whose heights are more than twice the significant wave height (Hs or SWH), which is itself defined as the mean of the largest third of waves in a wave record..

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Traffic lights were first introduced in December 1868 on Parliament Square in London to reduce the need for police officers to control traffic..

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The first visible-light LEDs were of low intensity and limited to red.

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The series focuses on Lincoln Loud, the middle and only male child in a house full of girls, who often breaks the fourth wall to explain to viewers the chaotic conditions and sibling relationships of the household..

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According to the WEF, 70% of the global economy will be made up of digital technology over the next 10 years (from 2020 onwards)..

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It can be seen as an example of patterned social relations and group dynamics.

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American electrical engineer Percy Spencer is generally credited with developing and patenting the world's first commercial microwave oven, the Raytheon "Radarange", which was first sold in 1947..

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He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories..

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Concrete is the most widely used material in existence and is behind only water as the planet's most-consumed resource..

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It does not mean any material that is rare per se, but rather one that is exceptional in its physical or mechanical characteristics..

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By delivering the Cas9 nuclease complexed with a synthetic guide RNA (gRNA) into a cell, the cell's genome can be cut at a desired location, allowing existing genes to be removed or new ones added in vivo ("within the living")..

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The Swedish botanist Pehr Löfling, one of the 12 Apostles of Carl Linnaeus, classificated for the first time the exuberant tropical flora of the Orinoco river basin..

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The worldwide sales volume of automobiles is the world's tenth largest, while domestic sales volume is the third largest in the country..

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PHP can be used for programming tasks outside the web context, though non-web uses are rare..

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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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Compositionally complex alloys (CCAs) are an up-and-coming group of materials due to their unique mechanical properties..

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Although the cloaking device had limited ability to conceal an object from light of a single microwave wavelength, the experiment was an initial demonstration of the potential of metamaterials, constructed composite materials with unusual optical properties, to behave in unique ways because of both their structural properties.

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The faculty was established in 1958 and was the first engineering program to developed problem-based learning curriculum..

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These properties are often rare or absent in naturally occurring materials..

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Calude and John Casti and used at the First International Conference on Unconventional Models of Computation in 1998..

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Subwoofers designed to produce infrasound are capable of sound reproduction an octave or more below that of most commercially available subwoofers, and are often about 10 times the size..

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A plain bearing, or more commonly sliding contact bearing and slide bearing (in railroading sometimes called a solid bearing, journal bearing, or friction bearing), is the simplest type of bearing, comprising only a bearing surface and no rolling elements..

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The first commercial typewriters were introduced in 1874, but did not become common in offices in the United States until after the mid-1880s..

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While the dam's reservoir was filling, several cracks appeared in the dam and it took more than a decade of repairs before the reservoir could operate at maximum levels..

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Palo Verde generates the second most electricity of any power plant in the United States per year, and is the second largest power plant by net generation as of 2021..

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Tokyo is the only other city in the world that has more than one above that height..

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The FAI lists it as the fastest propeller-driven aircraft with speed of 927..

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The unusual aircraft attracted attention at the Second International Aeronautical Exhibition in Paris in October 1910, being the only exhibit without a propeller, but the aircraft was not displayed afterwards, and it fell from public awareness..

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