| Lisu people The Lisu people (Chinese傈僳族:ลีสู่) are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group who inhabit the mountainous regions of Burma (Myanmar), Southwest China, Thailand, and the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.About 730,000 live in Lijiang, Baoshan, Nujiang and Dehong prefectures in the Yunnan Province of China. Lisu_people
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| Bedwetting Bedwetting is involuntary urination while asleep after the age at which bladder control would normally be anticipated. The medical term for this condition is "nocturnal enuresis." Primary nocturnal enuresis (PNE) is when a child has not yet stayed dry on a regular basis. Bedwetting
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| List of company name etymologies This is a list of company names with their name origins explained. Some origins are disputed. List_of_company_name_etymologies
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| Ethnic issues in Japan Ethnic_issues_in_Japan
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| Models of migration to the New World models of migration to the New World proposed by the archaeological community. The question of how, when and why humans first entered the Americas is of intense interest to archaeologists and anthropologists and has been a subject of heated debate for centuries. As new discoveries come to light, past hypotheses are reevaluated and new theories constructed. Models_of_migration_to_the_New_World
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| Hasse diagram mathematical discipline known as order theory, a Hasse diagram ( HAHS uh) is a simple picture of a finite partially ordered set, forming a drawing of the transitive reduction of the partial order. Concretely, for a partially ordered set (S, ≤) one represents each element of S as a vertex on the page and draws a line segment or curve that goes upward from x to y if x y, and there is no z such that x z y (here, (x,x) for all x). Hasse_diagram
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| Korea under Japanese rule Korea_under_Japanese_rule
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| Bernoulli's principle Talk:Bernoulli's_principle
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| Pacific War The Pacific War was the part of World War II—and preceding conflicts—that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia. The war began as a conflict with the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China in July 7, 1937, but by December, 1941, became part of the greater World War II, and lasted until August 14, 1945. Pacific_War
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| Digital cable Digital cable is a type of cable television distribution using digital video compression. The technology was developed by Motorola. Digital_cable
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| Bidens Bidens
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| Senkaku Islands The , also known as Diaoyutai Islands (, literally "angling platform islands"), or the Pinnacle Islands, are a group of disputed, uninhabited islands currently controlled by Japan, but also claimed by both the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China as part of Taiwan Province, Toucheng Township in Yilan County. The islands are located roughly northeast of Taiwan, due west of Okinawa, and due north of the end of the Ryukyu Islands in the East China Sea. Senkaku_Islands
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| Lythraceae Lythraceae is a family of flowering plants. It includes 500-600 species of mostly herbs, with some shrubs and trees, in 32 genera. Lythraceae have a worldwide distribution, with most species in the tropics but ranging into temperate climate regions as well.The family is named after the type genus, Lythrum, the loosestrifes (e.g. Lythraceae
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| Helicoverpa zea The larva of the moth Helicoverpa zea (formerly in the genus Heliothis) is a major agricultural pest. It can feed on many different plants (i.e. it is polyphagous) during the larval stage. Accordingly, the species has been given many different common names. Helicoverpa_zea
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| R. J. Rummel Rudolph Joseph Rummel (born October 21, 1932) is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii. He has spent his career assembling data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination. Rummel coined the term democide for murder by government, his research claiming that six times as many people died of democide during the 20th century than in all that century's wars combined. R._J._Rummel
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| Republic of Hawaii Talk:Republic_of_Hawaii
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| Aloha Stadium Aloha_Stadium
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| Gull-billed Tern The Gull-billed Tern, Gelochelidon nilotica, formerly Sterna nilotica (Bridge et al., 2005), is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It breeds in warmer parts of the world in southern Europe (and a very small isolated population in northern Germany and Denmark), temperate and eastern Asia, both coasts of North America, eastern South America and Australia. This bird has a number of geographical races, differing mainly in size and minor plumage details. Gull-billed_Tern
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| Iolani School Iolani redirects here. For the palace see ʻIolani Palace. Iolani_School
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| Lesser Crested Tern The Lesser Crested Tern (Thalasseus bengalensis, syn. Sterna bengalensis - see Bridge et al., 2005) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It breeds in subtropical coastal parts of the world mainly from the Red Sea across the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific, and Australia, with a significant population on the southern coast of the Mediterranean on two islands off the Libyan coast. Lesser_Crested_Tern
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| Sandinista National Liberation Front Talk:Sandinista_National_Liberation_Front
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| Japanese American Talk:Japanese_American
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| Titoism Titoism is an adaptation of communist ideology named after Josip Broz Tito, leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, primarily used to describe the specific socialist system built in Yugoslavia after its refusal of the 1948 Resolution of the Cominform, when the Communist Party of Yugoslavia refused to take further dictates from the Soviet Union. Titoism
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| Malay language Talk:Malay_language
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| Megadeath Megadeath
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| Alder (crater) Alder is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It is located in the South Pole-Aitken basin, and lies to the southeast of the crater Von Kármán. Southeast of Alder is Bose, and to the south-southwest lies Boyle.The inner wall of Alder is rough and slightly terraced, with the material scattered across the edges of the otherwise relatively flat interior floor. Alder_(crater)
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| Wikipedia in academic studies Wikipedia:Wikipedia_in_academic_studies
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| Royal Tern The Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus, syn. Sterna maxima - see Bridge et al., 2005) is a seabird in the tern family Sternidae. This bird has two distinctive subspecies.T. m. maximus breeds on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the southern USA and Mexico into the Caribbean. The slightly smaller T. m. albididorsalis breeds in coastal west Africa. Royal_Tern
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| Elegant Tern The Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans, syn. Sterna elegans - see Bridge et al., 2005) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It breeds on the Pacific coasts of the southern USA and Mexico and winters south to Peru, Ecuador and Chile.This species breeds in very dense colonies on coasts and islands, including Montague Island (Mexico), and exceptionally inland on suitable large freshwater lakes close to the coast. Elegant_Tern
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| Sterna Sterna is a genus of terns in the bird family Sternidae. It used to encompass most "white" terns indiscriminately, but mtDNA sequence comparisons have recently determined that this arrangement is paraphyletic (Bridge et al., 2005). It is now restricted to the typical large white terns occurring near-globally in coastal regions. Sterna
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| Bridled Tern The Bridled Tern (Onychoprion anaethetus, formerly Sterna anaethetus - see Bridge et al., 2005) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It is a bird of the tropical oceans. The Atlantic subspecies melanopters breeds in Mexico, the Caribbean and west Africa; other races occur around the Arabia and in Southeast Asia and Australasia, but the exact number of valid subspecies is disputed. Bridled_Tern
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| Sooty Tern The Sooty Tern, Onychoprion fuscatus (formerly Sterna fuscata), is a seabird of the tern family (Sternidae). It is a bird of the tropical oceans, breeding on islands throughout the equatorial zone. Colloquially, it is known as the Wideawake Tern or just wideawake. Sooty_Tern
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| Mapuche The Mapuche (Mäpfuchieu) are the indigenous inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina. They were known as Araucanians (araucanos) by the Spaniards. This is now considered pejorative by the people and the term Mapuche is the one most often used by people in conversation. Mapuche make up about 4% of the Chilean population, who are particularly concentrated in the Araucania Region. Mapuche
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| Cooperative extension service The Cooperative Extension Service, also known as the Extension Service of the USDA, is a non-formal educational program implemented in the United States designed to help people use research-based knowledge to improve their lives. The service is provided by the state's designated land-grant universities. Cooperative_extension_service
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| Southwest Asia Southwest Asia or Southwestern Asia is the southwestern portion of Asia. West Asia or Western Asia are roughly analogous terms that are used, for example, in the United Nations subregion geoscheme and in writings about the archeology and the late prehistory of the region. Unlike the Middle East, which is broadly defined to include several North African countries such as Egypt, Southwestern Asia is a purely geographical term reserved for the southwestern extremities of the Asian continent. Southwest_Asia
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| Public health in the People's Republic of China This article is about public health in the People's Republic of China, excluding Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau.Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the goal of healthcare programs has been to provide care to every member of the population and to make maximum use of limited health-care personnel, equipment, and financial resources. Public_health_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China
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| Kegel exercise Kegel exercise, named after Dr. Arnold Kegel, consists of contracting and relaxing the muscles that form part of the pelvic floor (sometimes called the "Kegel muscles"). Kegel_exercise
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| Democratic peace theory The democratic peace theory (or liberal peace theory or simply the democratic peace) holds that democracies liberal democracies war with one another.The original theory and research on wars has been followed by many similar theories and related research on the relationship between democracy and peace, including that lesser conflicts than wars are also rare between democracies, and that systematic violence is in general less common within democracies. Democratic_peace_theory
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| Lolicon Lolicon
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| Item response theory Talk:Item_response_theory
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| Red-whiskered Bulbul The Red-whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) is a passerine bird found in Asia. It is a member of the bulbul family. It is a resident frugivore found mainly in tropical Asia from Pakistan and India through to southeast Asia and China. It has been introduced in many tropical areas of the world where it has established itself in the wild. Red-whiskered_Bulbul
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| Laysan Duck The Laysan Duck (Anas laysanensis), also known as the Laysan Teal because of its small size, is an endangered dabbling duck endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. Fossil evidence reveals that Laysan Ducks once lived across the entire archipelago, but today survive only on three small, isolated islands. Laysan_Duck
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| Mogadishu Talk:Mogadishu
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| MPF User_talk:MPF
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| Sachs–Wolfe effect Sachs–Wolfe effect, named after Rainer Kurt Sachs and Arthur Michael Wolfe, is a property of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), in which photons from the CMB are gravitationally redshifted, causing the CMB spectrum to appear uneven. This effect is the predominant source of fluctuations in the CMB for angular scales above about ten degrees. Sachs–Wolfe_effect
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| Temasek Temasek ('Sea Town' in Javanese, spelt Tumasik; Temasek
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| Melicope Melicope is a genus of about 150 species of shrubs and trees in the family Rutaceae, occurring from the Hawaiian Islands across the Pacific to tropical Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The temperate Asian genus Tetradium (which sometimes include the tropical Euodia) is closely related to Melicope and is sometimes merged into it.In Australia they are known as doughwoods, or more ambiguously as "corkwoods" or "euodias", and in Hawaiʻi they are collectively called alani; the Maori term wharangi for Melicope ternata is a cognate of that. Melicope
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| 20000 Varuna This article is about 20000 Varuna, a minor planet. For other uses of the word, see Varuna (disambiguation) 20000_Varuna
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| Candlenut The Candlenut (Aleurites moluccanus), is a flowering tree in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, also known as Candleberry, Indian walnut, Kemiri, Varnish tree or Kukui nut tree.Its native range is impossible to establish precisely because of early spread by humans, and the tree is now distributed throughout the New and Old World tropics. Candlenut
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| Aleutian Tern The Aleutian Tern (Onychoprion aleuticus, formerly Sterna aleutica - see Bridge et al., 2005) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae.This species breeds in colonies on coasts and islands in Alaska and easternmost Siberia. It is strongly migratory, wintering off Indonesia and Malaysia. Large numbers appear off China during passage periods. Aleutian_Tern
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