| Asteroid Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids. The term "asteroid" has historically been applied primarily to bodies in the inner Solar System since the outer Solar System was poorly known when it came into common usage. The distinction between asteroids and comets is made on visual appearancecoma while asteroids do not. Asteroid
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| Afghanistan/Archive 6 Talk:Afghanistan/Archive_6
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| Aspartame Aspartame (or APM) ( or ) is the name for an artificial, non-saccharide sweetener. In the European Union, it is known under the E number (additive code) E951. Aspartame is the methyl ester of a phenylalanine/aspartic acid dipeptide. It has been the subject of controversy since its initial approval in 1974. Aspartame
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| Bangladesh Bangladesh
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| Brassicaceae Brassicaceae or Cruciferae, also known as the crucifers, the mustard family or cabbage family is a family of flowering plants (Angiospermae). The name Brassicaceae is derived from the included genus Brassica. Cruciferae is an older name, meaning "cross-bearing", because the four petals of their flowers are reminiscent of a cross. According to ICBN Art. 18.5 (Vienna Code) both Cruciferae and Brassicaceae are regarded as validly published, and are thus accepted as names for the family. Brassicaceae
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| BDSM BDSM is a complex acronym derived from the terms bondage and discipline (B&D, B/D, or BD), dominance and submission (D&S, D/S, or DS), sadism and masochism (S&M, S/M, or SM). BDSM includes a wide spectrum of activities, forms of interpersonal relationships, and distinct subcultures. BDSM
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| People's Republic of China People's_Republic_of_China
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| Cocos (Keeling) Islands The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, is a territory of Australia. There are two atolls and twenty-seven coral islands in the group. The islands are located in the Indian Ocean, about halfway between Australia and Sri Lanka. (Coordinates are 12 30 S, 96 50 E.) Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands
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| Coffea Coffea
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| Comet A comet is a Small Solar System Body that orbits the Sun. When close enough to the Sun, a comet exhibits a visible coma (fuzzy "atmosphere"), and sometimes a tail, both because of the effects of solar radiation upon the comet's nucleus. Comet nuclei are themselves loose collections of ice, dust and small rocky particles, ranging from a few kilometers to tens of kilometers across. Comet
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| Concentration camp/Archive 1 Talk:Concentration_camp/Archive_1
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| Ciprofloxacin Ciprofloxacin (INN) is a synthetic chemotherapeutic agent used to treat severe and life threatening bacterial infections. Ciprofloxacin is commonly referred to as a fluoroquinolone (or quinolone) drug and is a member of the fluoroquinolone class of antibacterials. Ciprofloxacin
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| Carme (moon) Carme_(moon)
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| Classical Kuiper belt object In astronomy a classical Kuiper Belt object, also called a cubewano, is a Kuiper belt object (KBO) that orbits beyond Neptune and is not controlled by an orbital resonance with the giant planet. Cubewanos have semi-major axes in the 40-50 AU range and, unlike Pluto, do not cross Neptune’s orbit.The name "cubewano" derives from the first trans-Neptunian object (TNO) found after Pluto and Charon, . Later similar objects were called "QB1-o's", or "cubewanos". Classical_Kuiper_belt_object
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| Foreign policy of the United States The foreign policy of the United States is the policy by which the United States interacts with foreign nations. United States foreign policy is highly influential on the world stage, as it is the only remaining superpower. The global reach of the United States is backed by a 13 trillion dollar economy, the largest in the world of all countries formally recognized by the United States for which data is available is here; the military expenditures for said countries is available here; and the political details are available on the main United States page here here. Foreign_policy_of_the_United_States
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| Chinese remainder theorem and the minimal degree solution is this one reduced modulo , that is the unique with degree less than n. The Chinese Remainder Theorem can also be used in Secret sharing, which consists of distributing a set of shares among a group of people who, all together (but noone alone), can recover a certain secret from the given set of shares. Chinese_remainder_theorem
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| Challenger Deep Challenger Deep is the deepest surveyed point in the oceans, with a depth of approximately . The error of measurement is less than a hundred metres. It is located in the Mariana Islands group at the southern end of the Mariana Trench. The closest land is Fais Island (one of the outer islands of Yap), southwest, and Guam, to the northeast. The point is named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger of 1872–76. Challenger_Deep
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| Planned economy A command economy or directed economy is an economic system in which the government or workers' councils manages the economy. It is an economic system in which the central government makes all decisions on the production and consumption of goods and services. Planned_economy
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| Democide Democide is a term coined by political scientist R. J. Rummel for "the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder." Rummel created the term as an extended concept to include forms of government murder that are not covered by the legal definition of genocide, and it has found currency among other scholars. Democide
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| Diego Garcia Diego Garcia is an island considered the largest atoll, in terms of land area, of the Chagos Archipelago, and is part of the British Indian Ocean Territories. The island is located in the Indian Ocean, about 1,600India. Other countries in the vicinity of Diego Garcia include Sri Lanka and Maldives.In the 1960s, the Chagos archipelago was secretly leased to the United Kingdom and detached from Mauritius with the intention of expelling its entire population and establishing a military base. Diego_Garcia
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| Earth Earth
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| Federated States of Micronesia The Federated States of Micronesia is an island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, north of Papua New Guinea. The country is a sovereign state in free association with the United States. The Federated States of Micronesia were formerly part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, a United Nations Trust Territory under U.S. administration. In 1979 they adopted a constitution, and in 1986 independence was attained under a Compact of Free Association with the United States. Federated_States_of_Micronesia
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| Genocide Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). Article 2 of this convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such Genocide
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| History of the Pacific Islands History of the Pacific Islands covers the history of the islands in the Pacific Ocean. History_of_the_Pacific_Islands
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| Home computer Home_computer
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| Heapsort Heapsort (method) is a comparison-based sorting algorithm, and is part of the selection sort family. Although somewhat slower in practice on most machines than a good implementation of quicksort, it has the advantage of a worst-case Θ(n log n) runtime. Heapsort is an in-place algorithm, but is not a stable sort. Heapsort
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| Hawaiian language The Hawaiian language (HawaiianŌlelo Hawaii) is a Polynesian language that takes its name from Hawaii, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed. Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of the State of Hawaii. Hawaiian_language
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| Intersexuality Intersexuality in humans refers to intermediate or atypical combinations of physical features that usually distinguish male from female. An intersex organism may have biological characteristics of both the male and female sexes. Intersexuality is the term adopted by medicine during the 20th century applied to human beings whose biological sex cannot be classified as either male or female. Intersexuality
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| Joseph Stalin Joseph_Stalin
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| Korea Korea (Hangul:Korean Peninsula in East Asia. It borders China to the northwest, and Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the east by the Korea Strait.Korea was divided in 1948, with the southern portion of the peninsula controlled by the capitalistic democracy South Korea. Korea
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| Korean War Korean_War
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| Kuiper belt The Kuiper belt (, rhyming with "viper"), sometimes called the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 55 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, although it is far larger—20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive. Kuiper_belt
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| Khmer Rouge The Khmer Rouge () was the communist ruling political party of Cambodia Democratic Kampuchea Losing power following a Vietnamese military intervention in December 1978, the Khmer Rouge maintained control in some regions until 1998 when their final stronghold, in Anlong Veng District, fell to the government. Khmer_Rouge
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| Lysithea (moon) Lysithea_(moon)
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| Marshall Islands The Marshall Islands , officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), is a Micronesian nation of atolls and islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, just west of the International Date Line and just north of the Equator. This nation of roughly 62,000 persons is located north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia, and south of the U.S. territory of Wake Island, to which it lays claim. Marshall_Islands
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| Myelin Myelin is a dielectric (electrically insulating) material that forms a layer, the myelin sheath. Usually, myelin surrounds only the axon of a neuron. It is essential for proper functioning of the nervous system. Myelin is an outgrowth glial cell:Schwann cells supply the myelin for peripheral neurons, whereas oligodendrocytes supply it to those of the central nervous system. Myelin
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| Moon Moon
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| Mao Zedong Mao Zedong (Tse-tung) (Simplified Chinese:Traditional Chinese:Wade-Giles:Mao Tse-tung; Pinyin:Máo Zédōng) (26 December 18939 September 1976) was a Chinese Communist leader. Mao led the Communist Party of China (CPC) to victory against the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War, and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Mao_Zedong
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| Mercury (planet) Mercury_(planet)
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| Meteorite meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives an impact with the Earth's surface. While in space it is called a meteoroid. When it enters the atmosphere, impact pressure causes the body to heat up and emit light, thus forming a fireball, also known as a meteor or shooting star. The term bolide refers to either an extraterrestrial body that collides with the Earth, or to an exceptionally bright, fireball-like meteor regardless of whether it ultimately impacts the surface. Meteorite
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| Nauru Nauru , officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island nation in the Micronesian South Pacific. The nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in the Republic of Kiribati, 300km² (8.1sq.), and the smallest independent republic. Nauru
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| Politics of Nauru Politics of Nauru takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Nauru is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the parliament. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. Politics_of_Nauru
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| National Socialism (disambiguation) Talk:National_Socialism_(disambiguation)
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| Olympus Mons Olympus Mons (Latin for "Mount Olympus") is the tallest known volcano and mountain in the Solar System and was formed during amazonian epoch. It is located on the planet Mars at approximately 18°N 133°W / 18, -133. It is three times taller than Mount Everest. Since the late 19th century — well before space probes confirmed its identity as a mountain — Olympus Mons was known to astronomers as the albedo feature, Nix Olympica ("Snows of Olympus"), although its mountainous nature was suspected. Olympus_Mons
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| History of the Philippines The History of the Philippines is believed to have begun with the arrival of the first humans via land bridges at least 30,000 years ago. The first recorded visit from the West is the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan on Homonhon Island, southeast of Samar on March 16, 1521. History_of_the_Philippines
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| Planetary science Planetary science is the scientific study of planets, moons, and planetary systems, in particular those of the Solar System. It studies objects ranging in size from micrometeoroids to gas giants, aiming to determine their composition, dynamics, formation, interrelations and history. Planetary_science
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| Planets beyond Neptune "Ninth planet" and "Tenth planet" redirect here. for other uses see Ninth planet (disambiguation) and Tenth planet (disambiguation)Following the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846, there was considerable speculation that another planet might exist beyond its orbit. The search began in the mid-19th century but culminated at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell's quest for Planetorbits of the gas giants, particularly Uranus and Neptune, Planets_beyond_Neptune
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| Plutino In astronomy, a plutino is a trans-Neptunian object in 2mean motion resonance with Neptune. For every 2 orbits that a Plutino makes, Neptune orbits 3 times. Plutinos are named after Pluto, which follows an orbit trapped in the same resonance, with the Italian diminutive suffix -ino. Plutino
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| Plutino Talk:Plutino
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| Plate tectonics Plate tectonics (from the Greek τέκτων; tektōn, meaning "builder" or "mason") describes the large scale motions of Earth's lithosphere. The theory encompasses the older concepts of continental drift, developed during the first decades of the 20th century by Alfred Wegener, and seafloor spreading, understood during the 1960s.The outermost part of the Earth's interior is made up of two layers Above is the lithosphere, consisting of the crust and the rigid uppermost part of the mantle. Plate_tectonics
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