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  • Rügen Chalk

    Rügen Chalk

    Rügen chalk (German: Rügener Kreide or Rügener Schreibkreide) is the common name for a fine-grained, white, crumbly and highly porous chalk. It forms the highest member of the German Upper Cretaceo

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  • Seven Buildings

    Seven Buildings

    The Seven Buildings were seven townhouses constructed on the northwest corner of Pennsylvania Avenue NW and 19th Street NW in Washington, D.C., in 1796. They were some of the earliest residential s

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  • Sequential analysis

    Sequential analysis

    In statistics, sequential analysis or sequential hypothesis testing is statistical analysis where the sample size is not fixed in advance. Instead data is evaluated as it is collected, and further

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  • Nationalpark Jasmund

    Nationalpark Jasmund

    The Jasmund National Park (German: Nationalpark Jasmund) is a nature reserve on the Jasmund peninsula, in the northeast of Rügen island in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is famous for containi

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  • Joseph Nourse

    Joseph Nourse

    Joseph Nourse (16 July 1754 – 1841) was an American government official who was the first Register of the Treasury. With a career spanning forty years and six presidential administrations, he playe

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  • Consumer activism

    Consumer activism

    Consumer activism is a process by which activists seek to influence the way in which goods or services are produced or delivered. Kozinets and Handelman define it as any social movement that uses s

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  • Dumbarton House

    Dumbarton House

    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: "Du

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  • Dumbarton Oaks

    Dumbarton Oaks

    Dumbarton Oaks, formally the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, is a historic estate in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was the residence and gardens of wealthy U.S.

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  • Beatrix Farrand

    Beatrix Farrand

    Beatrix Cadwalader Farrand (née Jones; June 19, 1872 – February 28, 1959) was an American landscape gardener and landscape architect. Her career included commissions to design about 110 gardens for

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  • Musical genre

    Musical genre

    A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.Genre is to be distinguished from musical form and musical sty

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