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  • Directional vision

    Directional vision

    In the classical science of vision, directional vision describes that when a point of the retina is stimulated by light, this not only leads to a light sensation (image), but also a directional sen

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  • Global issues

    Global issues

    A global issue is a matter of public concern worldwide. This list of global issues presents problems or phenomena affecting people around the world, including but not limited to widespread social i

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  • Council ranger

    Council ranger

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  • X Consortium

    X Consortium

    The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.X Window Systemtwm, the default X11 window managerOriginal author(s)Project A

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  • Sixth rate

    Sixth rate

    In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, so

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  • Katherine Freese

    Katherine Freese

    Katherine Freese (born 8 February 1957) is a theoretical astrophysicist. She is currently a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endo

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  • Municipal police

    Municipal police

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  • Barony Church

    Barony Church

    The Barony Hall, (formerly the Barony Church), is a deconsecrated church building located on Castle Street in the Townhead area of Glasgow, Scotland, near Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow Royal Infirmary

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  • Honor cords

    Honor cords

    An honor cord is a token consisting of twisted cords with tassels on either end awarded to members of honor societies or for various academic and non-academic achievements, awards, or honors. Usual

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  • Curtius rearrangement

    Curtius rearrangement

    The Curtius rearrangement (or Curtius reaction or Curtius degradation), first defined by Theodor Curtius in 1885, is the thermal decomposition of an acyl azide to an isocyanate with loss of nitroge

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