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James (son of Zebedee)
Saint James, son of Zebedee (death 44 AD) was one of the apostles of Jesus. He was the son of "Zebedee" and "Salome" and brother of John the Evangelist. He is called Saint James the Greater to distinguish (mark as different) him from the other apostle named James (James, son of Alphaeus). James is described as one of ...
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Saint James
Saint James could mean any of the following: Places. In "transportation", In the United States: In the United Kingdom: Other nations:
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Afghan Soviet War
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Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Musa al-Khwarizmi
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Alexandr Pushkin
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Vampire squid
The Vampire squid ("Vampyroteuthis infernalis", 'vampire squid from hell') is a small, deep-sea cephalopod. It can be found throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world. It has special filaments it can retract; because of this, it has been placed in its own order: "Vampyromorphida" (formerly "Vampyromorpha...
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American War of Independece
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Astec
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Classical Greece
Classical Greece was the period in ancient Greece from about 500–323 BC. It had a civilisation and style which was considered by later observers to be outstanding. Politically, the classical period was dominated by Athens and the Delian League during the 5th century, or from the beginning of the Greco-Persian Wars to t...
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Fryderyk Chopin
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Globalisation
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Syphillis
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Western culture
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Darth Tyranus/Count Dooku
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Darth Tyranus
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Final Fantasy I
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Gwinnett County, Georgia
Gwinnett County is a county in the American state of Georgia. The county seat of Gwinnett County is Lawrenceville. The county was created on December 15, 1818. The U.S. Census Bureau says there were 957,062 people living in Gwinnett County in 2020. The county was named for Button Gwinnett, one of the people who signed ...
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University of Georgia
The University of Georgia (UGA) is a university that is in and around Athens, Georgia. The university was created January 27, 1785 and was the first state university in the United States. However, it was not the first state university to hold classes or to graduate students. That honor belongs to the University of Nort...
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Gerhard Armauer Hansen
Gerhard Hendrik Armauer Hansen (July 29, 1841 - February 12, 1912) was a Norwegian doctor. He is famous for discovering the bacteria that causes leprosy in 1873. That disease is also called "Hansen's disease" in his honour.
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Coastline
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Fire station
A fire station (also known as a firehouse or fire hall) is a building for storing fire engines and other firefighting equipment. Some fire stations are staffed by full-time firefighters. These fire stations have offices and living areas for them. There will also be beds, for when they are on duty at night. They wait at...
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Fort
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Outhouse
An outhouse is a small building that covers a toilet. The toilet inside is often either a pit latrine or a bucket toilet, but other forms of dry (non-flushing) toilets may be found.
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Fence
A fence is something built like a wall, often made of metal or wood, to keep something in or to keep something out. It differs from a wall, which has a foundation. Fences are usually supported by fenceposts. Fences can be large or small. Many are used in gardens or farms. Some are portable. A fence differs from a wall ...
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Uga
Uga or UGA can mean:
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Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States. It opened in 1746 with the name "The College of New Jersey". It was eventually named "Princeton University" in 1896. In conversation, it is simply called, "Princeton". Princeton is one of the 8 Ivy League colleges. It was the fo...
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Dill
Dill ("Anethum graveolens") is a short-lived annual herb that is often used as a spice, to make food taste better by adding a unique, slightly tangy flavor that goes well with savory foods. Uses. Fresh and dried dill leaves (sometimes called "dill weed" to distinguish it from dill seed) are used as herbs. Like caraway...
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Turk
Turk or Turks most often refers to:
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Mummification
Mummification is the process that creates mummies: dead bodies whose soft tissues are preserved. These soft tissues (like skin and muscle) usually decay after death. In mummies, they don't decay: they dry out. (This makes mummies look leathery.) Mummification can happen naturally or be done intentionally. Ancient Egypt...
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Bandage
A bandage is strip of cloth or other material that is used to stop and absorb blood from wounds. In common speech, the word "bandage" is often used to mean a dressing, though technically the two are different things.
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Making Mummies
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Xenophobia
Xenophobia is the fear or dislike of strangers or unknown things. Xenophobia can also mean the fear of trying new things, but it is usually the fear of differences between people. Xenophobia may be about foreign things or people, or just the attitudes of a group towards other groups. It may increase because of immigrat...
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Xenophonia
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Mummifying
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Confederacy of Independent Systems
The Confederacy of Independent Systems (also known as the CIS or Separatists) was an organization that appeared in the "Star Wars" movies. The CIS was led by the fallen Jedi Count Dooku. The armies of the Separatists had billions of battle droids. The CIS launched attacks against the Galactic Republic. The Separatists ...
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Utensil
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John Balliol
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Hedone
Hedone in Greek mythology (which the Romans called Voluptas) was the daughter of Eros and Psyche. She was seen as the personification of lust.
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Voluptas
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Psyche (psychology)
The psyche is the human mind, conscious and unconscious. The word has a long history, going back to the ancient Greek philosophers such as Heraclitus and Plato. It was used in older psychology and philosophy as meaning the source or cause of human nature. It is not a scientific term, but the word "psychology" is derive...
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Priština
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UiMiyazaki
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Lamellibrachia
Lamellibrachia is a genus of "cold seep tube worms". These are related to giant tube worms. They live on the floor of the oceans, near cold seeps. There crude oil and methane leak out of the ocean floor. The worm forms a symbiosis with certain bacteria which can oxidise sulphides. The worm provides the bacteria with h...
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Giant tube worm
The Giant tube worm ("Riftia pachyptila") is an annelid. They live on the floor of the oceans (mainly Pacific Ocean), usually near black smokers, a type of hydrothermal vent. They can tolerate extremely high temperatures and levels of sulfur. They live in symbiosis with certain bacteria. The bacteria enter the mouth of...
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Riftia
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Trans-Siberian railway
The Trans-Siberian Railway or Trans-Siberian Railroad is a set of railways that goes from Moscow and European Russia to the Russian Far East provinces, Mongolia, China and the Sea of Japan. Because Russia is such a big country, travel from one end and the other is an important problem. In the 1890s, the Russians began ...
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Bandages
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Gwinnett County, Georgia, USA
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Hypertonic
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Nuclear reaction
A nuclear reaction is a process involving an atomic nucleus or more than one nucleus. The most common kinds are In the case of radioactivity the reaction is spontaneous. Fission and fusion can be done on purpose, to release energy. This energy can then be used for different things, for example to make steam (as in a nu...
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St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican church in the City of London. The original version was built by Mellitus in 604 AD. He was Bishop of the East Saxons. In 962 and 1087, the cathedral burnt down and was built again. Before today's version of the cathedral, there were four others. The earlier ones burnt down. Today's ...
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Greenhouse
A greenhouse (also called a glass-house or hothouse) is a building where plants such as flowers and vegetables are grown. It usually has a glass or translucent plastic roof. Many greenhouses also have glass or plastic walls. Greenhouses warm up during the day via penetration of the sun's rays which heat the plants, soi...
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Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship is a system of training people who are learning how to do a job which needs special skill. Someone who is learning in this way is called an "apprentice". An apprentice will learn by working with someone who is already skilled at a job. They are like a teacher and pupil. Development. The system of apprent...
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Gwinnett County, GA
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Battle droid
In the "Star Wars" fictional universe, battle droids are robots that are made for fighting. They are seen in the prequel trilogy of the "Star Wars" movies. Battle droids are used by the Confederacy of Independent Systems to fight the Galactic Republic.Clones of the Republic could easily overcome these droids.The battle...
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Western long-beaked echidna
The western long-beaked echidna ("Zaglossus bruijni") is one of the echidnas which live in New Guinea. Fossils of this species have also been found in Australia. It is one of the four living echidnas, three of which are species of "Zaglossus". This echidna lives from 1300m to 4000m above sea level. It lives in alpine m...
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Zaglossus bruijni
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Short-beaked echidna
The short-beaked echidna ("Tachyglossus aculeatus") also known as needle mole is the only member of its genus, and one of four living species of echidna. The short-beaked echidna, "Tachyglossus", is the spiny anteater because they eat ants and termites. It is covered in fur and spines. It has a special nose (snout) and...
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Columbia
Columbia is the original name for the United States and inspired the names of many things. For the original Columbia, see "Historical Columbia". Places in North America. U.S. cities or towns:
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Eastern long-beaked echidna
The eastern long-beaked echidna ("Zaglossus bartoni"), also known as Barton's long-beaked echidna, is one of three species from the genus "Zaglossus". All of them occur in New Guinea. It is found mainly in Papua New Guinea between 2000 and 3000 meters above sea level. It can be distinguished from other members of the g...
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Barton's Long-beaked Echidna
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Zaglossus bartoni
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Long-beaked echidna
The long-beaked echidnas make up one of the two genera (Genus Zaglossus) of echidna. Echidna is a spiny monotreme that lives in New Guinea. There are three living species, and two extinct ones. Echidnas are one of only two types of living mammals that lay eggs. Species. "Zaglossus attenboroughi". Remarks: Species descr...
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Sir David's long-beaked echidna
Sir David's long-beaked echidna ("Zaglossus attenboroughi"), also known as the cyclops long-beaked echidna, is one of three species of the genus "Zaglossus". All of them are found in New Guinea. It is named after Sir David Attenborough. It lives in the Cyclops mountains in Papua province of Indonesia near the cities of...
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Cyclops Long-beaked Echidna
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Zaglossus attenboroughi
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Zaglossus
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Tachyglossus
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Spiny Anteater
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Tachyglossus aculeatus
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Bioluminescence
Bioluminescence is how living things produce light. Often this is done by symbiosis. The larger organism contains, often in a special organ, microorganisms which make the light. Eukaryote protists have special organelles, and some bacteria also produce light. Bioluminescence is the result of chemical processes, where ...
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Whittier, Alaska
Whittier is a small town in Alaska on the Kenai Peninsula. Whittier has 272 people always living in it. The Whittier Glacier near Whittier was named for the American poet John Greenleaf Whittier in the year 1915. During World War II the United States Army built a port and railroad near the glacier and named the port Wh...
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Kate Winslet
Kate Elizabeth Winslet, (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. She is best known for her starring role in the American movie, "Titanic". She made her movie debut as Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's "Heavenly Creatures" (1994). Winslet is the second of four children, her sisters are the actresses Anna and Beth Wins...
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Joe DiMaggio
Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 - March 8, 1999) was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his whole career for the New York Yankees. His nicknames were Joltin' Joe and The Yankee Clipper. He played from 1936 to 1942 and then joined the army in 1943 because of World War II. He came back an...
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Digital thermometer
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Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire existed in the 13th and the 14th centuries and was one of the largest land empires in history. The original homeland of the Mongols was bounded by the Khingan Mountains to the east, the Altai and the Tian Mountains to the west, the Shilka River and the mountain ranges by Lake Baikal to the north, an...
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Parthia
Parthia was an ancient Parthian empire in Asia that included what are now Iran, part of Armenia, Iraq, Georgia, eastern Turkey, eastern Syria, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The Parthians were exce...
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238 BC
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Smoothies
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Hydrolysis
Hydrolysis is a chemical reaction or process where a chemical compound reacts with water. This is the type of reaction that is used to break down polymers into many smaller units. In this reaction, water is always added to the chemical compound. Hydrolysis of metal salts. Hydrolysis of metal salts is more commonly know...
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Water (molecule)
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Lymphatic system
The lymphatic system is a network of thin vessels that branch, like blood vessels, into tissues throughout the body, in mammals. It is part of the immune system. It is a one-way system which carries cells and fluid back to the blood system. Lymphatic vessels carry lymph, a colorless, watery fluid, and white blood cells...
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Chastity
Chastity is the sexual behavior of a man or woman which is right and proper according to the moral rules of a culture or religion. It has recently begun to mean sexual abstinence (not having sex at all), especially before marriage. However, it can also be used for all kinds of people (even married people) with more mea...
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Metallic bond
A metallic bond is the sharing of many detached electrons between many positive ions, where the electrons act as a "glue" giving the substance a definite structure. It is unlike covalent or ionic bonding. Metals have low ionization energy. Therefore, the valence electrons can be delocalized throughout the metals. Delo...
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Heat conduction
Heat conduction (or thermal conduction) is the movement of heat from one object to another one that has different temperature when they are touching each other. For example, we can warm our hands by touching hot-water bottles. When the cold hands touch the hot-water bottle, heat flows from the hotter object (hot-water ...
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Judith Weir
Judith Weir CBE (born 11 May 1954) is a British composer. She is well known for her theatre works, choral music, orchestral music and chamber music. Early life. Weir was born in Cambridge, England to Scottish parents. While she was still at school she trained with the composer John Tavener. She played the oboe in the N...
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Orchestral
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Chorus
Chorus can mean several things:
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Choral
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Vassal
A vassal during the feudalism of medieval Europe, was someone who had shared duties with a lord. Usually the vassal provided soldiers to the lord. The lord used his army of soldiers from all of his vassals to protect those vassals. The lord also gave him the piece of land that he held as a fief. By analogy the term "va...
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Migration period
The migration period, or barbarian invasions or Völkerwanderung happened in 300–700 AD in Europe, at the end of ancient history and during the Early Middle Ages. The migrations included the Goths, Vandals, Franks, and other Germanic tribes; the Bulgars; and Slavic tribes. They may have been influenced by attacks of the...
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San Francisco Bay Area
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Carbon Dioxide
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San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay is a shallow bay in northern California, along the Pacific Ocean. It is an estuary because salt water from the ocean mixes with fresh water from rivers, especially the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. These rivers carry water from the Sierra Nevada mountains through the Central Valley. Water from ab...
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Ahmed Yassin
Ahmed Yassin (Arabic: الشيخُ أَحْمَدُ إِسْمَاعِيلُ) (June 1936 – March 22, 2004) was a spiritual leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas. Life. Ahmed Yassin was born on June 1936 in al-Jura, British Mandate of Palestine. He helped create Hamas and became its spiritual leader in 1987. To other members of Hamas he...