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  • Mangrove swamp

    Mangrove swamp

    Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones. Mangrove forests grow mainly at tropical and subtropical

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  • Respiratory pigment

    Respiratory pigment

    A respiratory pigment is a metalloprotein that serves a variety of important functions, its main being O2 transport. Other functions performed include O2 storage, CO2 transport, and transportation

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  • Disney family

    Disney family

    The Disney family are an American family that gained prominence when brothers Roy and Walt began creating films through the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, today known as mass media and entertainme

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  • The Milepost

    The Milepost

    The Milepost is an extensive guidebook covering Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and British Columbia. It was first published in 1949 as a guide about traveling along the Alaska Highwa

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  • Trigonometric identity

    Trigonometric identity

    In trigonometry, trigonometric identities are equalities that involve trigonometric functions and are true for every value of the occurring variables for which both sides of the equality are define

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  • Moon Express

    Moon Express

    Moon Express (MoonEx; vehicle model prefix: MX) is an American privately held company formed in 2010 by a group of Silicon Valley and space entrepreneurs. It had the goal of winning the $30 million

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  • Snellius–Pothenot problem

    Snellius–Pothenot problem

    In trigonometry, the Snellius–Pothenot problem is a problem first described in the context of planar surveying. Given three known points A, B, C , an observer at an unknown point P observes that th

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  • Alan Stern

    Alan Stern

    Sol Alan Stern (born November 22, 1957) is an American engineer, planetary scientist and private astronaut. He is the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Chief Scien

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  • Repertory cinema

    Repertory cinema

    A revival house, rep house, or repertory cinema is a cinema that specializes in showing classic or notable older films (as opposed to first run films). Such venues may include standard repertory ci

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  • Louis Testelin

    Louis Testelin

    Louis Testelin (1615 – 1655) was a French painter.Testelin by Charles Le Brun, c.1648-50 (Louvre).LifeHe was the son of Gilles Testelin, king's painter to Louis XIII - this gave Gilles an ex offici

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