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  • Bernard Palissy

    Bernard Palissy

    Bernard Palissy (French pronunciation: [bɛʁnaʁ palisi] ; c. 1510 – c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate

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  • Tuileries Garden

    Tuileries Garden

    The Tuileries Garden (French: Jardin des Tuileries, IPA: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ de tɥilʁi] ) is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created

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  • Aquatic sill

    Aquatic sill

    An aquatic sill (or an oceanic sill) is a sea floor barrier of relatively shallow depth (tens to hundreds of meters) that restricts water movement between benthic zones of an oceanic basin or lake

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  • Zanclean flood

    Zanclean flood

    The Zanclean flood or Zanclean deluge is theorized to have refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.33 million years ago. This flooding ended the Messinian salinity crisis and reconnected the Mediterranean

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  • Early Pliocene

    Early Pliocene

    The Zanclean is the lowest stage or earliest age on the geologic time scale of the Pliocene. It spans the time between 5.332 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago) and 3.6 ± 0.005 Ma. It is preceded by the

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  • Mammuthus subplanifrons

    Mammuthus subplanifrons

    Mammuthus subplanifrons is the oldest representative of the genus Mammuthus, known from around 6.2-3.75 million years ago during the late Miocene-early Pliocene in what is today South Africa and co

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  • Woolly Mammoth

    Woolly Mammoth

    The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is an extinct species of mammoth that lived from the Middle Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of ma

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  • Gagauz alphabet

    Gagauz alphabet

    This article needs additional citations for verification.Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Ga

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  • Television sets

    Television sets

    A television set or television receiver (more commonly called TV, TV set, television, telly, or tele) is an electronic device for viewing and hearing television broadcasts. It combines a tuner, dis

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  • Pink triangle

    Pink triangle

    A pink triangle is a symbol for the LGBT community. Initially intended as a badge of shame, it was later reappropriated as a positive symbol of self-identity. It originated in Nazi Germany in the 1

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