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  • Spinning top

    Spinning top

    A spinning top, or simply a top, is a toy with a squat body and a sharp point at the bottom, designed to be spun on its vertical axis, balancing on the tip due to the gyroscopic effect.An assortmen

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  • Milena Palakarkina

    Milena Palakarkina

    This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article's lead section may be too short to adeq

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  • Swiss Amish

    Swiss Amish

    The Swiss Amish (Swiss German: Schwyzer Amisch ) are a subgroup of the Amish that emigrated to the United States mostly in the middle of the 19th century directly from Switzerland and Alsace, after

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  • Adolph Frank

    Adolph Frank

    Adolph Frank (January 20, 1834 – May 30, 1916) was a German-Jewish chemist, engineer, and businessman. He is best known for having discovered uses of potash and creating the industry.Adolph FrankBo

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  • Abraham Mintchine

    Abraham Mintchine

    Abraham Mintchine (4 April 1898 – 25 April 1931) was one of the major painters associated with the artists' environment known as School of Paris. A Jewish painter, born in Kyiv, he immigrated to Pa

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  • Dorsal plane

    Dorsal plane

    The dorsal plane (also known as the coronal plane or frontal plane, especially in human anatomy) is an anatomical plane that divides the body into dorsal and ventral sections. It is perpendicular t

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  • Moderna Museet

    Moderna Museet

    Moderna Museet is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958. In 2009, the museum opened Moderna Museet Malmö in Malmö

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  • Barometric formula

    Barometric formula

    The barometric formula is a formula used to model how the air pressure (or air density) changes with altitude.Model equationsPressure as a function of the height above the sea levelThe U.S. Standar

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  • Pierre Crozat

    Pierre Crozat

    Pierre Crozat (1665–1740) was a French financier, art patron and collector at the center of a broad circle of cognoscenti; he was the brother of Antoine Crozat.BiographyThe brothers Crozat were bor

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  • Aston Abbotts

    Aston Abbotts

    Aston Abbotts or Aston Abbots is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Aylesbury and 2.5 miles (4 km) south-west of Wing. The parish includes

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