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April
april (apr.) is the fourth month of the year in the julian and gregorian calendars, and comes between march and may. it is one of the four months to have 30 days. april always begins on the same day of the week as july, and additionally, january in leap years. april always ends on the same day of the week as december....
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april [...] april 7 - women's day (mozambique) april 8 - buddha's birthday (buddhism) april 9 - martyrs' day (tunisia) april 9 - day of national unity (georgia) april 9 - day of the finnish language april 12 - cosmonauts' day (russia), marking the day of yuri gagarin's space flight april 13 - songkan (laos), l...
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april [...] 26 - confederate memorial day (texas, florida) april 27 - independence day (sierra leone and togo) april 27 - freedom day (south africa) april 27 - world tapir day april 27 - king's day (netherlands) from 2014, birthday of willem-alexander of the netherlands april 28 - workers memorial day april 28 -...
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april [...] cooper in new york city. april 4, 1721 - robert walpole becomes the first prime minister of great britain. april 4, 1841 - william henry harrison dies. he was president of the united states for 31 days, the shortest-ever time in office for a us president. april 4, 1960 - senegal becomes independent. a...
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april [...] 7 - the first boston marathon is held. april 19, 1971 - sierra leone becomes a republic. april 19, 1993 - the siege of the branch davidians at waco, texas, ends in a fire that kills 82 people. april 19, 1995 - timothy mcveigh carries out the oklahoma city bombing, killing 169 people. april 19, 2005 - j...
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april [...] becomes the first president of the united states. april 30, 1803 - the united states purchases (buys) the louisiana territory from france. april 30, 1945 - adolf hitler commits suicide on the same day that the soviet army raises the red flag on berlin's reichstag. april 30, 1952 - the diary of anne fra...
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August
august (aug.) is the eighth month of the year in the gregorian calendar, coming between july and september. it has 31 days. it is named after the roman emperor augustus caesar. august does not begin on the same day of the week as any other month in common years, but begins on the same day of the week as february in le...
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august [...] seid meteor shower august 12 queen sirikit's birthday (thailand) august 13 independence day (central african republic) august 14 independence day (pakistan) august 15 assumption of mary in western christianity august 15 independence day (india) august 15 independence day (republic of the congo) aug...
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august [...] 65: singapore becomes independent. august 9 1974: us president richard nixon resigns following the watergate scandal, with gerald ford replacing him. august 10 1792: storming of the tuileries palace during the french revolution august 10 1809: beginning of ecuadorean independence movement. august 11 1...
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Art
art is a creative activity. it produces a product, an object. art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, performing subjects, and expressing the author's thoughts. the product of art is called a work of art, for others to experience. some art is useful in a practical sense, such as a sculptured cla...
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art [...]. in the late 1800s, artists in europe, responding to modernity created many new painting styles such as classicism, romanticism, realism, and impressionism. the history of twentieth century art includes expressionism, fauvism, cubism, dadaism, surrealism, and minimalism. roles of art in some societies, pe...
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A
A or a is the first letter of the English alphabet. The small letter, a or α, is used as a lower case vowel. When it is spoken, ā is said as a long a, a diphthong of ĕ and y. A is similar to Alphabet of the Greek alphabet. That is not surprising, because it means the same sound. "Alpha and Omega" (the last letter o...
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Air
Air is the Earth's atmosphere. Air is a mixture of many gases and tiny dust particles. It is the clear gas in which living things live and breathe. It has an indefinite shape and volume. It has mass and weight, because it is matter. The weight of air creates atmospheric pressure. There is no air in outer space. Atmosp...
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Autonomous communities of Spain
Spain is divided in 17 parts called autonomous communities. Autonomous means that each of these autonomous communities has its own executive, legislative judicial powers. These are similar to, but not the same as, states in the United States of America, for example. Spain has fifty smaller parts called provinces. In 1...
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Alan Turing
alan mathison turing obe frs (london, 23 june 1912 – wilmslow, cheshire, 7 june 1954) was an english mathematician and computer scientist. he was born in maida vale, london. early life and family alan mathison turing was born in maida vale, [london] on 23 june 1912. his father was part of a family of merchants from s...
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Alan Turing
alan turing [...] for a sabbatical year. while he was at cambridge, the pilot ace was built without him. it ran its first program on 10 may 1950. private life turing was a homosexual man. in 1952, he admitted having had sex with a man in england. at that time, homosexual acts were illegal. turing was convicted. he h...
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Alanis Morissette
alanis nadine morissette (born june 1, 1974) is a grammy award-winning canadian-american singer and songwriter. she was born in ottawa, canada. she began singing in canada as a teenager in 1990. in 1995, she became popular all over the world. as a young child in canada, morissette began to act on television, including...
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Alanis Morissette
alanis morissette [...] " - this song is about life. it contains several stories about unlucky people. in one of the stories, a man is afraid of flying on airplanes. he finally flies in one, but the airplane crashes. "you learn" - in this song, morissette says that bad things happen in life, but people learn from them...
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Farming
farming is growing crops and keeping animals for food and raw materials. farming is a major part of agriculture. history farming started thousands of years ago, but no one knows for sure how old it is. the development of farming gave rise to the neolithic revolution as people gave up nomadic hunting and became settler...
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farming [...] and egg-producing chickens, are kept for their produce. "produce" here means their eggs and milk, which are sold by the farm, usually in markets. large animals need grassland of some kind for grazing. what they need depends on the animals. goats eat a much wider range of plants than cows. in some parts ...
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Arithmetic
In mathematics, arithmetic is the basic study of numbers. The four basic arithmetic operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, although other operations such as exponentiation and roots are also studied in arithmetic. Other arithmetic topics includes working with negative numbers, fractions, d...
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Addition
Not to be confused with building extension which are also called additions In mathematics, addition, represented by the symbol , is an operation which combines two mathematical objects together into another mathematical object of the same type, called the sum. Addition can occur with simple objects such as numbers, an...
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Australia
australia (officially called the commonwealth of australia) is a country and sovereign state in the southern hemisphere, located in oceania. its capital city is canberra, and its largest city is sydney. australia is the sixth biggest country in the world by land area, and is part of the oceanic and australasian region...
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Australia
australia [...] flooding which affects this region, which is ominous [threatening]. it is thought this is caused by climate change, and may continue to get worse. the bbc report comments: "in the past three years, record-breaking bushfire and flood events have killed more than 500 people and billions of animals. drou...
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australia [...] and captain cook named the land that he saw "new south wales". at last they sailed into a large open bay which was full of fish and stingrays which the sailors speared for food. joseph banks and dr. solander went ashore and were astonished to find that they did not know what any of the plants or birds...
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australia [...] ut from sydney, firstly to norfolk island and to van diemen's land (tasmania), and also up the coast to newcastle, where coal was discovered, and inland where the missing cattle were found to have grown to a large herd. spanish merino sheep had been brought to sydney, and by 1820, farmers were raising ...
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Australia
australia [...] wealth of australia until 1901, australia was not a nation, it was six separate colonies governed by britain. they voted to join to form one new country, called the commonwealth of australia, in 1901. australia was still part of the british empire, and at first wanted only british or europeans to com...
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Australia
australia [...] chooses a big number of new people from all around the world to come as immigrants to live in australia. these people may come because they want to do business, or to live in a democracy, to join their family, or because they are refugees. australia took 6.5 million immigrants in the 60 years after wor...
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Australia
australia [...] famous. there were movies like picnic at hanging rock, gallipoli (with mel gibson), the man from snowy river and crocodile dundee. russell crowe, cate blanchett and heath ledger became global stars during the 1990s and australia starring nicole kidman and hugh jackman made a lot of money in 2008. aus...
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American English
american english or us english is the dialect of the english language spoken in the united states of america. it is different in some ways from other types of english, such as british english. most types of american english came from local dialects in england. during the 18th and 19th centuries, pronunciation changed l...
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American English
american english [...] and "about"). new york city english - one of the most recognizable dialects in the us, nyc english is characterized by variable non-rhoticity or semi-rhoticity, a rounding of the long o sound ( making " coffee" and "thought" sound like "cawfee" and "thawt"). south louisiana english - this gro...
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Aquaculture
Aquaculture is the farming of fish, shrimp, abalones, algae, and other seafood. Aquaculture supplies fish, such as catfish, salmon, and trout. It was developed a few thousand years ago in China. Aquaculture supplies over 20% of all the seafood harvested. Fish farming has been practiced, in some parts of the world, fo...
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Abbreviation
An abbreviation is a shorter way to write a word or phrase. People use abbreviations for words that they write a lot. The English language occasionally uses the apostrophe mark ' to show that a word is written in a shorter way, but some abbreviations do not use this mark. More often, they use periods, especially the on...
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Angel
in many mythologies and religions, an angel is a good spirit. the word angel comes from the greek word angelos which means "messenger". angels appear frequently in the old testament, the new testament, qur'an and aqdas. different references to angels throughout the bible suggest different kinds and ranks of angels, su...
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Angel
angel [...] angel. in the book of revelation the angel michael casts the 'great dragon' satan out of heaven and down to earth in a great battle between the good and bad angels, just before the great judgement of angels and man. (revelation 12) the leviathan in book of job 41:19-21 has flame that goes: 'out of his mo...
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Angel
angel [...] o is a character who likes to see himself as virtuous, but who is concealing evil aspects of his nature. fallen angels, who are no longer holy or virtuous, are also known as devils. however, since angels are held to be spirits (that is, non-material beings), medieval theologians were faced with the proble...
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Ad hominem
Ad hominem is a Latin word for a type of argument. It is a word often used in rhetoric. Rhetoric is the science of speaking well, and convincing other people of your ideas. Translated to English, ad hominem means against the person. In other words, when someone makes an ad hominem, they are attacking the person they a...
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Native American
native americans (also called aboriginal americans, american indians, amerindians or indigenous peoples of the americas) are the indigenous peoples and their descendants, who were in the americas before europeans arrived. sometimes these people are called indians, but this may be confusing, because it is the same word...
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Native American
native american [...] million people, and 0.8% of americans say they are both native american and something else. they are not evenly spread out through the united states. about a third of the people in alaska are native alaskan and about a sixth of the people in oklahoma are native american. in the united states, m...
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Apple
an apple is the edible fruit of a number of trees, known for its juicy, green, or red fruits. the tree (malus spp.) is grown worldwide. its fruit is low-cost, popular, and common all over the earth. applewood is a type of wood that comes from this tree. the apple tree comes from southern kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, uzbe...
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Apple
apple [...] ship in norway. she also remarks that fruit and nuts (iðunn having been described as changing into a nut in skáldskaparmál) have been discovered in the early graves of the germanic peoples in england. they have also been discovered somewhere else on the continent of europe. she suggests that this may have...
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apple [...] 'bramley seedling', which is a popular cooking apple. apple orchards are not as common as they were in the early 1900s, when apples were rarely brought in from other countries. organizations such as common ground teach people about the importance of rare and local varieties of fruit. in north america m...
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Abrahamic religions
An Abrahamic Religion is a religion whose followers believe in the prophet Abraham. They believe Abraham and his sons/grandsons hold an important role in human spiritual development. The best known Abrahamic religions are Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Smaller religious traditions sometimes included as Abrahamic reli...
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Algebra
algebra (from arabic: الجبر‎, transliterated "al-jabr", meaning "reunion of broken parts") is a part of mathematics. it uses variables to represent a value that is not yet known or can be replaced with any value. when an equals sign (=) is used, this is called an equation. a very simple equation using a variable is:. i...
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Algebra
algebra [...]. with practice, algebra can be used when faced with a problem that is too hard to solve any other way. problems such as building a freeway, designing a cell phone, or finding the cure for a disease all require algebra. writing algebra as in most parts of mathematics, adding to (or plus ) is written as...
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Algebra
algebra [...] ill be useful to know how these axiomatic rules are declared, before taking them for granted. before going on to the rules, reflect on two definitions that will be given. opposite: the opposite of is. reciprocal: the reciprocal of is. commutative property of addition commutative means that a function...
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Atom
an atom is the basic unit of matter. all normal matter – everything that has mass – is made of atoms. this includes solids, liquids, and gases. the atom cannot be broken to parts by chemistry, so people once thought it was the smallest and simplest particle of matter. there are over 100 different kinds of atoms, called...
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Atom
atom [...]. the periodic table groups elements by their atomic number (how many protons they have; this is usually the same as the number of electrons). elements in the same column, or group, usually have similar qualities. for example, helium, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon are all in the same column and are very si...
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Atom
atom [...] ons and neutrons have nearly the same size and mass (about grams). the mass of an electron is about 1800 times smaller (about grams). protons have a positive charge, electrons have a negative charge, and neutrons have no charge. most atoms have no charge. the number of protons (positive) and electrons (nega...
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Atom
atom [...] reaction. if an atom has only one shell, it needs two electrons to be complete. otherwise, the outer shell needs eight electrons to be complete. the bohr model is important because it has the idea of energy levels. the electrons in each shell have a certain amount of energy. shells that are farther from t...
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Atom
atom [...] u, or grams. the average mass of all atoms of a particular element is called its atomic weight. size the size of an atom depends on the size of its electron cloud. moving down the periodic table, more electron shells are added. as a result, atoms get bigger. moving to the right on the periodic table, more...
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Atom
atom [...] has one of two opposite spins. we can think of one as turning to the right, and the other as turning to the left. if every electron is paired with an electron with the opposite spin in the same orbital, the magnetic moments will cancel out to zero. atoms like this are called diamagnetic. they are only weak...
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Astronomy
astronomy is the scientific study of celestial bodies. that means stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and nebulae are studied, as are supernovae explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic microwave background radiation. astronomy concerns the development, physics, chemistry, meteorology and movement of cel...
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Astronomy
astronomy [...] were soon improved by johannes kepler and isaac newton, who invented the theory of gravity. after galileo, people made better telescopes and used them to see farther objects such as the planets uranus and neptune. they also saw how stars were similar to our sun, but in a range of colours and sizes. t...
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Astronomy
astronomy [...] are normally associated with large explosions producing a "burst" of energy. they include: supernovas novas periodic events are those that happen regularly in a repetitive way. the name periodic comes from period, which is the length of time required for a wave to complete one cycle. periodic pheno...
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Astronomy
astronomy [...] omy solar astronomy is the study of the sun. the sun is the closest star to earth at around 92 million (92,000,000) miles away. it is the easiest to observe in detail. observing the sun can help us understand how other stars work and are formed. changes in the sun can affect the weather and climate o...
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Architecture
architecture is the process of designing structures and buildings. it uses both art and engineering. examples include houses, churches, hotels, office buildings, roads, viaducts, tunnels and bridges. architecture is the profession of an architect. usually, a person must study at an institution of higher education (un...
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Architecture
architecture [...] parent exterior walls, especially for office buildings. modernism is the name for the architectural style which developed because of these new building technologies, and its beginnings can been seen as early as 1890. modernism can also refer to a specific group of architects and buildings from the ...
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Anatomy
Anatomy is the study of the bodies of people and other animals. Anatomy is the study of the inside of the body and outside the body. Anatomy notes the position and structure of organs such as muscles, glands and bones. A person who studies anatomy is an anatomist. The history of anatomy dates back to 1600 BC when Egy...
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Asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet that orbits within the inner solar system. It is a small object in the Solar System that travels around the Sun. It is like a planet but smaller. They range from very small (smaller than a car) to 600 miles (1000 km) across. A few asteroids have asteroid moon. The name "asteroid" means "l...
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Afghanistan
afghanistan, officially the islamic emirate of afghanistan (pashto/dari: ), is a country in central asia. it borders with pakistan in the south and east, iran in the west, turkmenistan, uzbekistan and tajikistan in the north, and china in the far northeast. kabul is the country's capital city. afghanistan is currently...
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Afghanistan
afghanistan [...] groups include the uzbek, aimaq, turkmen, nuristani, baloch, pashayi and a few others. dari-persian and pashto are the official languages of afghanistan. many people speak both languages. both are indo-european languages from the iranian languages sub-family. they are usually written with the arabi...
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Afghanistan
afghanistan [...] (somewhere north of today's afghanistan), around 1000 b.c. ancient history before the middle of the sixth century bce, afghanistan was held by the medes. then the achaemenids took over control of the land and made it part of the persian empire. alexander the great defeated and conquered the persia...
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Afghanistan
afghanistan [...] to rebuild cities in this region. timur's successors, the timurids (1405–1507), were great patrons of learning and the arts who enriched their capital city of herat with fine buildings. under their rule afghanistan enjoyed peace and prosperity. between south of the hindu kush and the indus river (t...
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Afghanistan
afghanistan [...] civil war started; different afghan warlords began fighting for control of the country. the warlords received support from other countries, including neighboring pakistan and iran. a very conservative islamic group known as the taliban emerged in an attempt to end the civil war. by the late 1990s th...
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Afghanistan
afghanistan [...] [at least one] meeting "with taliban leader stanekzai in doha in late august", media said. a united states "team led by" [then] "deputy special representative tom west and [a] top usaid humanitarian official" had meetings, in qatar in october, with afghanistani officials. women's rights was a subjec...
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Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country in southern Africa. It shares borders with Namibia in the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the north, and Zambia in the east. Its west border touches the Atlantic Ocean. Its coastline is 1600 kilometers. Angola's capital is Luanda. The country has ma...
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Argentina
argentina (officially the argentine republic) is a country in south america. argentina is the second-largest country in south america and the eighth-largest country in the world. spanish is the most spoken language, and the official language, but many other languages are spoken. there are minorities speaking italian, ...
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Argentina
argentina [...] ordered as president. in the early 21st century argentina is one of the most important countries in latin america, though it still has many problems. it has a large economy and is influential in the "southern cone" of south america and a member of the g20 developing nations. politics argentina is a...
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Austria
austria (, ; ), officially the republic of austria ( ), is a country in central europe. around austria there are the countries of germany, czech republic, slovakia, hungary, slovenia, italy, switzerland, and liechtenstein. the people in austria speak german, a few also speak hungarian, slovenian and croatian. the cap...
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Austria
austria [...] nten) lower austria (niederösterreich) upper austria (oberösterreich) salzburg(erland) (salzburg) styria (steiermark) tyrol (tirol) vorarlberg (vorarlberg) vienna (wien) more information: states of austria. currently, the chancellor is karl nehammer the previous chancellor was alexander schallen...
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Armenia
Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստան, Hayastan), officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country located in the Armenian Highlands, spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia. History The Hittites and Hayasa-Azzi may have played a significant role in the ethnicity of Armenians. It has an ancient cultural heritage. On...
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Archaeology
archaeology, or archeology, is the study of the human past. it looks at remains and objects left by the people who lived long ago. these remains may include old coins, tools, buildings, and inscriptions. archaeologists, the people who study archaeology, use these remains to understand how people lived. fieldwork whe...
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Animal
Animals (or Metazoa) are living creatures with many cells. Animals get their energy from other living things. Usually, they eat them or are parasites. Animals, plants, fungi, and some other living things have complex cells, so they are grouped together as eukaryotes. The study of animals is called zoology. The study o...
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Acceleration
acceleration is a measure of how fast velocity changes. acceleration is the change of velocity divided by the change of time. acceleration is a vector, and therefore includes both a size and a direction. acceleration is also a change in speed and direction, there is: speed (a scalar quantity) (uses no direction) dis...
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Black pudding
Black pudding is an English name for zwarte pudding. It is food made by cooking down the blood of any mammal (usually pigs or cattle) with meat, fat or filler until it is thick enough to congeal (become firm or solid) when cooled. Types of black pudding In Great Britain, blood sausage is called "black pudding". The i...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot%20device
Boot device
A boot device is used to start a computer. It is named after a boot which fits on the foot. The word bootstrap is also closely related, and means, to use something simpler to get something more complex to make itself work better. It comes from the English phrase "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps." Before a comp...
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Boot
A boot is a type of footwear that protects the foot and ankle. Boots are higher and larger than shoes and sandals. Some boots are high enough to protect the calves (lower part of the leg) as well. Some boots are held on with bootstraps or bootlaces. Some also have spats or gaiters to keep water out. Most have a very st...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy
bankruptcy is a legal process which happens when a person or an organization does not have enough money to pay all of its debts. legally they are insolvent. where it is a person who cannot pay their debts, the person's creditors may ask the court to appoint a trustee in bankruptcy. this is a professional accountant w...
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Bankruptcy
bankruptcy [...] directly from the debtor and are to make claims for payment to the bankruptcy court. chapter 7 the most common form of bankruptcy is the chapter 7 bankruptcy, which can be filed by businesses or individuals. it is also called liquidation bankruptcy because some of a debtor's property may be sold (l...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast%20sausage
Breakfast sausage
Breakfast sausage is a type of fresh pork sausage made from seasoned ground meat mixed with bread crumbs. Breakfast sausage has a blander flavor than many other types of sausage, such as British or Italian-style sausages. Using breakfast sausages Breakfast sausages are not cured or smoked like other types of sausages,...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beekeeping
Beekeeping
Beekeeping or apiculture is the farming of honeybees. Uses The keeping of bees is usually, and has been in the past, for honey. That is becoming less true. Instead, it is more used for crop pollination and other products. These are wax and propolis. There is only one queen bee in each hive and she is bigger than the...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20English
British English
british english or uk english is the dialect of the english language spoken in the united kingdom. it is different in some ways from other types of english, such as american english. british english is widely spoken throughout most countries that were historically part of the british empire. use in other countries am...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing
Beijing
beijing is the capital of the people's republic of china. the city used to be known as peking. it is in the northern and eastern parts of the country. having more that 21 million residents, it is one of the most populous capital cities. the city of beijing has played a very important role in the development of china. ...
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Beijing
beijing [...] ples the summer palace (yìhéyuán) and old summer palace (yuánmíng yuán), the more natural home of the last qing emperors and what is left of an older one prince gong's mansion, a very nice old house for one of the qing princes the imperial ancestral temple (tàimiào), where the emperors remembered the ...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry
Berry
The word berry is used for many different kinds of small fruits that have many seeds and can be used as food. Some examples are raspberry, strawberry, sutberry, lingonberry and blueberry. When botanists talk about berries, they mean a simple fruit produced from a single ovary. They sometimes call this true berry, to d...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black
Black
In light, black is lack of all color. It is a shade. In painting, however, the black pigment is the combination of all colors. In heraldry, black is called "sable". It is the opposite of white. Origin of black The word "black" comes from Old English blæc ("black, dark", also, "ink"), from Proto-Germanic *blakkaz ("bur...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic%20plague
Bubonic plague
bubonic plague is the best-known form of the disease plague, which is caused by the bacterium yersinia pestis. the name bubonic plague is specific for this form of the disease, which enters through the skin, and travels through the lymphatic system. the plague was spread by fleas on rats. this method of spreading dise...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology
Biology
Biology is the science that studies life, living things, and the evolution of life. Living things include animals, plants, fungi (such as mushrooms), and microorganisms such as bacteria and archaea. The term 'biology' is relatively modern. It was introduced in 1799 by a physician, Thomas Beddoes. People who study bio...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botany
Botany
botany is the study of plants. it is a science. it is a branch of biology, and is also called plant biology. it is sometimes called phytology. scientists who study botany are called botanists. they study how plants work. branches of botany agronomy—application of plant science to crop production bryology—mosses, live...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium
Belgium
belgium (officially the kingdom of belgium;,, ) is a country in western europe. its capital, brussels, is the home of many organisations including the european union and nato. belgium is bordered by the netherlands in the north, germany to the east, luxembourg to the southeast and france to the south. belgium has an a...
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Belgium
belgium [...] by germany in 1940 and under german control until 1944. after world war ii, the people made king leopold iii leave his throne in 1951. this is because they thought he helped the germans. belgium joined nato as a founding member. in 1960 the belgian congo stopped being under belgian rule. two years late...
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Belgium
belgium [...] || leuven || style="text-align:right"|2,118 || style="text-align:right"|1,173,440 |- | hainaut || wallonia || henegouwen || hainaut || mons(dutch: bergen) || charleroi || style="text-align:right"|3,813|| style="text-align:right"|1,351,127 |- | liège ¹ || wallonia || luik || liège || liège ¹(dutch: luik)...
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Belgium
belgium [...] 1. king albert ii left the throne on july 21, 2013 and the current king is philippe. in belgium, the government is elected. between mid-2010 and late 2011, after no clear result in the election, belgium had no official government, until elio di rupo became prime minister. flanders and wallonia both also...
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Belgium
belgium [...] ques brel have made global fame. in rock/pop music, telex, front 242, k's choice, hooverphonic, zap mama, soulwax and deus are well known. in the heavy metal scene, bands like machiavel, channel zero and enthroned have a worldwide fan-base. belgium has several well-known authors, including the poet emil...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil
Brazil
brazil (officially called federative republic of brazil; how to say: ) is a country in south america. it is the world's fifth largest country. the country has about 212 million people. the capital of brazil is brasília. brazil was named after brazilwood, which is a tree that once grew very well along the brazilian coas...
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Brazil
brazil [...] pes of land, including a type of savanna, called cerrado, and a dry plant region named caatinga. the most important cities are brasília (the capital), belém, belo horizonte, curitiba, florianópolis, fortaleza, goiânia, manaus, porto alegre, recife, rio de janeiro, salvador, são paulo (the biggest city) a...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry
Chemistry
chemistry is a branch of science that deals with chemical elements and compounds, and how they work together and change. in other words, chemistry is the branch of science about fundamental properties of matter and chemical reactions. chemistry is the study of the substances and their transformations (or change). hist...
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Chemistry
chemistry [...] y element contains the same number of atoms: 602,214,150,000,000,000,000,000 atoms. the atomic mass of an element can be used to see how much of the element makes a mole. for example, the atomic mass of copper is about 63.55. that means about 63.55 grams of copper metal has a mole of atoms. the atomic ...
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20science
Computer science
computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of computation and practical techniques for their application. computer science is the science of information. computer scientists study different ways of reading, using, and encoding information. there are many different areas within computer science. in some ar...
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