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  • Mutational robustness

    Mutational robustness

    In evolutionary biology, robustness of a biological system (also called biological or genetic robustness) is the persistence of a certain characteristic or trait in a system under perturbations or

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  • Rope stretcher

    Rope stretcher

    In ancient Egypt, a rope stretcher (or harpedonaptai) was a surveyor who measured real property demarcations and foundations using knotted cords, stretched so the rope did not sag. The practice is

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  • Weinstein effect

    Weinstein effect

    The Weinstein effect is a scandal in which famous or powerful figures – previously thought to be immune from most consequences due to their fame – are later accused of sexual abuse, harassment, or

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  • Eddie Rickenbacker

    Eddie Rickenbacker

    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: "Ed

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  • Marie Dähnhardt

    Marie Dähnhardt

    Marie Wilhelmine Dähnhardt (1 June 1818 – 1902), the daughter of an apothecary, was a German suffragette avant la lettre[citation needed], for some time associated with the Berlin debating club Die

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  • Climate fiction

    Climate fiction

    Climate fiction (sometimes shortened to cli-fi) is literature that deals with climate change. Generally speculative in nature but inspired by climate science, works of climate fiction may take plac

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  • Angel investing

    Angel investing

    An angel investor (also known as a business angel, informal investor, angel funder, private investor, or seed investor) is an individual who provides capital to a business or businesses, including

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  • Acacian schism

    Acacian schism

    The Acacian schism, between the Eastern and Western Christian Churches, lasted 35 years, from 484 to 519. It resulted from a drift in the leaders of Eastern Christianity toward Miaphysitism and Emp

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  • Placidia Palace

    Placidia Palace

    The Placidia Palace was the official residence of the papal apocrisiarius, the ambassador from the pope to the patriarch of Constantinople, and the intermittent home of the pope himself when in res

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  • Papal apocrisiarius

    Papal apocrisiarius

    The apocrisiarius or apocrisiary was the legate from the pope to the patriarch of Constantinople, circa 452–743, equivalent to the modern nunciature.NomenclatureThe term apocrisiarius comes from th

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