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  • Cholesteryl benzoate

    Cholesteryl benzoate

    Cholesteryl benzoate, also called 5-cholesten-3-yl benzoate, is an organic chemical, an ester of cholesterol and benzoic acid. It is a liquid crystal material forming cholesteric liquid crystals wi

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  • Francesco Rutelli

    Francesco Rutelli

    Francesco Rutelli (born 14 June 1954) is an Italian journalist and former politician, who is the president of [it] National Association of Film and Audiovisual Industry, since October 2016 and re-e

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  • Friedrich Reinitzer

    Friedrich Reinitzer

    Friedrich Richard Reinitzer (25 February 1857 in Prague – 16 February 1927 in Graz) was an Austrian botanist and chemist. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, he discovered prope

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  • Russian gauge

    Russian gauge

    Railways with a railway track gauge of 5 ft (1,524 mm ) first appeared in the United Kingdom and the United States. This gauge became commonly known as "Russian gauge", because the government of th

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  • World Pride

    World Pride

    WorldPride is a series of international LGBT pride events coordinated by InterPride; they are hosted in conjunction with local LGBT pride festivals, with host cities selected via bids voted on duri

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  • Giorgio Parisi

    Giorgio Parisi

    Giorgio Parisi (born 4 August 1948) is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems. His best known contributions

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  • Ahmed Sanjar

    Ahmed Sanjar

    Ahmad Sanjar (Turkish: Ahmed Sencer, Persian: احمد سنجر ; full name: Muizz ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Adud ad-Dawlah Abul-Harith Ahmad Sanjar ibn Malik-Shah) (6 November 1086 – 8 May 1157) was the Seljuq r

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  • Madrid Metro

    Madrid Metro

    You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (February 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions.Machine translation, like DeepL

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  • Boltzmann Medal

    Boltzmann Medal

    The Boltzmann Medal (or Boltzmann Award) is a prize awarded to physicists that obtain new results concerning statistical mechanics; it is named after the celebrated physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. The

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  • Potsdamer Platz

    Potsdamer Platz

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