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Adolf Bastian
Adolf Philipp Wilhelm Bastian (26 June 1826 – 2 February 1905) was a 19th-century polymath remembered best for his contributions to the development of ethnography and the development of anthropolog
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Augustinian hypothesis
The Augustinian hypothesis (sometimes referred to as the Augustinian Proposal) is a solution to the synoptic problem, which concerns the origin of the Gospels of the New Testament. The hypothesis h
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Alliance theory
Alliance theory, also known as the general theory of exchanges, is a structuralist method of studying kinship relations. It finds its origins in Claude Lévi-Strauss's Elementary Structures of Kinsh
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Tobias Stimmer
Tobias Stimmer (7 April 1539 – 4 January 1584) was a Swiss painter and illustrator. His most famous work is the paintings on the Strasbourg astronomical clock.Tobias StimmerPortrait of Stimmer by C
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Paper tiger
"Paper tiger" is a calque of the Chinese phrase zhǐlǎohǔ (simplified Chinese: 纸老虎 ; traditional Chinese: 紙老虎 ). The term refers to something or someone that claims or appears to be powerful or thre
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Similar triangles
In Euclidean geometry, two objects are similar if they have the same shape, or if one has the same shape as the mirror image of the other. More precisely, one can be obtained from the other by unif
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Binomial formula
In elementary algebra, the binomial theorem (or binomial expansion) describes the algebraic expansion of powers of a binomial. According to the theorem, the power (x+y)n{\displaystyle \textstyle (
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Synthetic division
In algebra, synthetic division is a method for manually performing Euclidean division of polynomials, with less writing and fewer calculations than long division.Animation showing the use of synthe
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Minority culture
It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. (Discuss) (June 2024 )The term "minority group" has different meanings, depending on the context. According to common usage,
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Microcystis aeruginosa
Microcystis aeruginosa is a species of freshwater cyanobacteria that can form harmful algal blooms of economic and ecological importance. They are the most common toxic cyanobacterial bloom in eutr
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