| Punisher Talk:Punisher
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| Madama Butterfly Talk:Madama_Butterfly
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| Swainson's Thrush Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus), also called Olive-backed Thrush, is a medium-sized thrush. This species is 16-18 cm in length, and has the white-dark-white underwing patterm characteristic of Catharus thrushes. Swainson's Thrush was named after William Swainson, an English ornithologist.The breeding habitat of Swainson's Thrush is coniferous woods with dense undergrowth across Canada, Alaska and the northern United States, also deciduous wooded areas on the Pacific coast of North America. Swainson's_Thrush
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| Intellectual giftedness Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average.Gifted children often develop asynchronously; their minds are often ahead of their physical growth, and specific cognitive and emotional functions are often developed differently (or to differing extents) at different stages of development. Intellectual_giftedness
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| Mikhail Vodopianov Mikhail Vasilyevich Vodopianov (, November 18 1899 - August 11 1980) was a Soviet aircraft pilot, one of the first Heroes of the Soviet Union, and a Major General of the Soviet Air Force.He was born on November 18 (November 6 Old Style) 1899 in Studyonka village (now in Lipetsk town borders). Mikhail_Vodopianov
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| Racism/Archive 3 Talk:Racism/Archive_3
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| Hethum II, King of Armenia Hethum II (also transliterated Hethoum, Hetoum, Het'um, or Hayton from Armenian:Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1289 to 1293, 1295 to 1296 and 1299 to 1303, while Armenia was a subject state of the Mongol Empire. He frequently abdicated in order to take vows in the Franciscan order, while still remaining the power behind the throne as "Grand Baron of Armenia". Hethum_II,_King_of_Armenia
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| Flicker fusion threshold The flicker fusion threshold (or flicker fusion rate) is a concept in the psychophysics of vision. It is defined as the frequency at which an intermittent light stimulus appears to be completely steady to the observer (this article centers around human observers). Flicker fusion threshold is related to persistence of vision. Flicker_fusion_threshold
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| Warbling Vireo The Warbling Vireo, Vireo gilvus, is a small songbird.Adults are 12 cm long and weigh 12 g. They are mainly olive-grey on the head and upperparts with white underparts; they have brown eyes and the front of the face is light. There is a white supercilium. They have thick blue-grey legs and a stout bill. Western birds are generally smaller. Warbling_Vireo
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| Yellow-throated Vireo The Yellow-throated Vireo, Vireo flavifrons, is a small American songbird.Adults are mainly olive on the head and upperparts with a yellow throat and white belly; they have dark eyes with yellow "spectacles". The tail and wings are dark with white wing bars. They have thick blue-grey legs and a stout bill. Yellow-throated_Vireo
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| Eastern Kingbird The Eastern Kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus, is a large Tyrant flycatcher.Adults are grey-black on the upperparts with light underparts; they have a long black tail with a white end and long pointed wings. They have a red patch on their crown, seldom seen. They are of average size for a kingbird, at 19-23 cm (7.5-9 in), 33-38 cm (13-15 in) across the wings and weighing 33-55 g (1.2-1.9 oz). Eastern_Kingbird
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| Declining a British honour The following is a partial list of people who have declined a British honour, such as a knighthood or an honour usually within the Order of the British Empire. In most cases, the honour was rejected privately; others were rejected publicly, or accepted then returned later, as with John Lennon and Rabindranath Tagore (although the honour itself, once accepted, cannot be unilaterally renounced by its recipient). Declining_a_British_honour
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| Human biology Human biology is an interdisciplinary academic field of biology, biological anthropology, nutrition and medicine which focuses on humans; it is closely related to primate biology, and a number of other fields. The human biology major was founded in 1970 at Stanford University. Human_biology
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| Georgian language Talk:Georgian_language
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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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| New Culture Movement New Culture Movement () of the mid 1910s and 1920s sprang from the disillusionment with traditional Chinese culture following the failure of the Chinese Republic founded in 1912 to address China’s problems. Scholars like Chen Duxiu, Cai Yuanpei, Li Dazhao, Lu Xun, and Hu Shi, had classical educations but began to lead a revolt against Confucian culture. New_Culture_Movement
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| List of Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom Talk:List_of_Acts_of_Parliament_in_the_United_Kingdom
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| Chestnut-sided Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler, Dendroica pensylvanica, is a New World warbler. They breed in eastern North America and in southern Canada westwards to the Canadian Prairies. They also breed in the Great Lakes region and in the eastern USA.These birds are migratory, wintering in Central America south to northern Colombia, and they are very rare vagrants to western Europe. Chestnut-sided_Warbler
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| Yellow Warbler The Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia) is a New World warbler. It is the most widespread Dendroica species, breeding in almost the whole of North America and down to northern South America. The yellow warbler is also sometimes called a Yellowbird. Yellow_Warbler
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| Cambridge Talk:Cambridge
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| Pedagogy Pedagogy () is the art or science of being a teacher. The term generally refers to strategies of instruction, or a style of instruction. Pedagogy is also sometimes referred to as the correct use of teaching strategies (see instructional theory). For example, Paulo Freire referred to his method of teaching adults as "critical pedagogy". Pedagogy
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| Middle power Middle power is a term used in the field of international relations to describe states that are not superpowers or great powers, but still have large or moderate influence and international recognition. There is no single specific definition of which countries are middle powers. Middle_power
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| History of Tibet Talk:History_of_Tibet
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| Ear candling Talk:Ear_candling
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| Nezami Ganjavi Nezāmi-ye Ganjavi (; ; ; 1141 to 1209), or Nezāmi (), whose formal name was Niżām ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakī ibn-Mu‘ayyad, is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic. His heritage is widely appreciated and shared by Afghanistan Nezami_Ganjavi
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| City of God (book) Talk:City_of_God_(book)
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| Derek Ross/2003 User_talk:Derek_Ross/2003
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| Grove City College Grove City College is a Christian liberal arts college in Grove City, Pennsylvania, about sixty-five miles north of Pittsburgh. According to the College Bulletin, its stated three-fold mission is to provide an excellent education at an affordable price in a thoroughly Christian environment. College president Richard Jewell has said, "The two tenets that this school is most about are faith and freedom." Grove_City_College
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| Emil Wolf Emil Wolf (born July 30, 1922) is a Czech born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory of direct scattering and inverse scattering. Emil_Wolf
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| Ovenbird Ovenbirds are also the Furnariidae family of Neotropical suboscines, specifically the tribe Furnarini which contains the horneros.The Ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.Ovenbirds are 14 cm long and weigh 18 g. Ovenbird
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| Phagocyte Phagocytes are the white blood cells that protect the body by ingesting (phagocytosing) harmful foreign particles, bacteria and dead or dying cells. They are essential for fighting infections, and for subsequent immunity. Phagocytes are important throughout the animal kingdom, and are highly developed in vertebrates. Phagocyte
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| Non-standard cosmology Talk:Non-standard_cosmology
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| De Laval nozzle de Laval nozzle (or convergent-divergent nozzle, CD nozzle or con-di nozzle) is a tube that is pinched in the middle, making an hourglass-shape. It is used as a means of accelerating the flow of a gas passing through it to a supersonic speed. It is widely used in some types of steam turbine and is an essential part of the modern rocket engine and supersonic jet engines.Similar flow properties have been applied to jet streams within astrophysics. De_Laval_nozzle
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| Knowledge engineering Knowledge engineering (KE) has been defined by Edward Feigenbaum, and Pamela McCorduck (1983) as follows"KE is an engineering discipline that involves integrating knowledge into computer systems in order to solve complex problems normally requiring a high level of human expertise." Knowledge_engineering
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| Ber Borochov Dov Ber Borochov (June 21, 1881 - December 17, 1917) was a Marxist Zionist and one of the founders of the Labor Zionist movement as well as a pioneer in the study of Yiddish as a language. He was born in the town of Zolotonosha, Ukraine, under the Russian Empire. Ber_Borochov
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| Life on Mars Talk:Life_on_Mars
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| Syrian Hamster The Syrian Hamster or Golden Hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, is a very well-known member of the rodent subfamily Cricetinae, the hamsters. In the wild they are now considered vulnerable, but are popular as housepets and scientific research animals. Adults grow from 5 to 7 inches (12.5 to 17.5 cm) in length, and will usually have a lifespan of 2 to 3 years. They do not like direct sunlight. Although often considered nocturnal, Syrian hamsters display crepuscular behaviour, being most active at dusk and dawn. Syrian_Hamster
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| Laudaka/notesforself User:Laudaka/notesforself
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| Haitian Creole language Haitian Creole language (kreyòl ayisyen), often called simply Creole or Kreyòl (pronounced ), is a language spoken in Haiti by about 7.0 million people (), which is nearly the entire population, and via emigration, about 400,000 speakers who live in the Bahamas, Cuba, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, and United States Haitian_Creole_language
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| Rockall Talk:Rockall
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| Radiant energy Radiant energy is the energy of electromagnetic waves. The quantity of radiant energy may be calculated by integrating radiant flux (or power) with respect to time and, like all forms of energy, its SI unit is the joule. The term is used particularly when radiation is emitted by a source into the surrounding environment. Radiant energy may be visible or invisible to the human eye. Radiant_energy
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| Anecdotal evidence The expression anecdotal evidence has two distinct meanings.(1) Evidence in the form of an anecdote or hearsay is called anecdotal if there is doubt about its veracity Anecdotal_evidence
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| Muskox The muskox (Ovibos moschatus) is an Arctic mammal of the Bovidae family, noted for its thick coat and for the strong odor emitted by males, from which its name derives. This musky odor is used to attract females during mating season. Muskox
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| Grotesque The word grotesque comes from the same Latin root as "grotto", meaning a small cave or hollow. The original meaning was restricted to an extravagant style of Ancient Roman decorative art rediscovered and then copied in Rome in the 15th century. The "caves" were in fact rooms and corridors of the Domus Aurea, the unfinished palace complex started by Nero after the great fire from 64 AD, which had become overgrown and buried, until they were broken into again, mostly from above. Grotesque
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| Eugenics Talk:Eugenics
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| Arab citizens of Israel Arab_citizens_of_Israel
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| Edward Mellanby Edward Mellanby, GBE, KCB, MD, FRCP, FRS (1884 – 1955) discovered vitamin D and the role of the vitamin in preventing rickets in 1919. He was born in West Hartlepool, the son of a shipyard owner, and educated at Barnard Castle School and Cambridge University.He was professor of pharmacology at the University of Sheffield, and consultant physician at the Royal Infirmary in that city. He would serve as the secretary of the Medical Research Council from 1933 to 1949. He was a fellow of the Royal Society. Edward_Mellanby
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| Bernardino Nogara Bernardino Nogara (June 17, 1870 Pope Pius XI and retained by Pope Pius XII. He is considered by many to be the father of the modern wealth of the Roman Catholic Church. Bernardino_Nogara
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| The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection is a book by R.A. Fisher first published in 1930 by Clarendon. It is one of the most important books of the modern evolutionary synthesis and is commonly cited in biology books. The_Genetical_Theory_of_Natural_Selection
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| Tiruvalluvar Thiruvalluvar () was a celebrated Tamil poet who wrote the Thirukkural, a work on ethics in Tamil literature. He is claimed by both the Tamils who practice Hinduism and the Tamils who practice Jainism as their own. Nevertheless, some consider him a Jain, showing internal textual evidence from the Thirukkural.Thiruvalluvar's period (based on the Thirukkural per se) is between the second century BC and the eighth century AD. Tiruvalluvar
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