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  • Worldwatch Institute

    Worldwatch Institute

    The Worldwatch Institute was a globally focused environmental research organization based in Washington, D.C., founded by Lester R. Brown. Worldwatch was named as one of the top ten sustainable dev

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  • Ciliary muscle

    Ciliary muscle

    The ciliary muscle is an intrinsic muscle of the eye formed as a ring of smooth muscle in the eye's middle layer, the uvea (vascular layer). It controls accommodation for viewing objects at varying

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  • Malayan Campaign

    Malayan Campaign

    The Malayan campaign, referred to by Japanese sources as the Malay Operation(馬来作戦 , Maree Sakusen ) , was a military campaign fought by Allied and Axis forces in Malaya from 8 December 1941 – 15 Fe

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  • Karl Schwarzschild

    Karl Schwarzschild

    Karl Schwarzschild (German: [kaʁl ˈʃvaʁtsʃɪlt] ; 9 October 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German physicist and astronomer.Karl SchwarzschildBorn(1873-10-09 ) 9 October 1873Frankfurt am Main, German Empi

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  • Rattanakosin era

    Rattanakosin era

    This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article needs additional citations for verifica

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  • Matchstick TV

    Matchstick TV

    Matchstick TV was a project started on Kickstarter in September 2014 with the tag line "The Streaming Stick Built on Firefox OS". It was described as an "Open hardware and software platform" device

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  • Seasonal industry

    Seasonal industry

    A seasonal industry is activity within an economic sector in which the majority of operations take place during only part of the year, usually within a period of half a year or less.Crop farming ma

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  • Endri Hasa

    Endri Hasa

    Endri Hasa (born in Elbasan, on 16 February 1981) is a former Albanian politician, member of the presidency of the Democratic Party of Albania that was member of the Assembly of the Republic of Alb

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  • Rupert Gunnis

    Rupert Gunnis

    Rupert Forbes Gunnis (11 March 1899 – 31 July 1965) was an English collector and historian of British sculpture. He is best known for his Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851, which "revolutio

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  • Weyl group

    Weyl group

    In mathematics, in particular the theory of Lie algebras, the Weyl group (named after Hermann Weyl) of a root system Φ is a subgroup of the isometry group of that root system. Specifically, it is t

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