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  • Edmund Muskie

    Edmund Muskie

    Edmund Sixtus Muskie (March 28, 1914 – March 26, 1996) was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1980

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  • Shtokavian dialect

    Shtokavian dialect

    Shtokavian or Štokavian (/ʃ t ɒ ˈ k ɑː v i ə n , -ˈ k æ v -/ ; Serbo-Croatian Latin: štokavski / Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: штокавски , pronounced [ʃtǒːkaʋskiː] ) is the prestige supradialect of the

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  • Chlorendic acid

    Chlorendic acid

    Chlorendic acid, or 1,4,5,6,7,7-hexachlorobicyclo[2.2.1]-hept-5-ene-2,3-dicarboxylic acid, is a chlorinated carboxylic acid used in the synthesis of some flame retardants and polymers. It is a comm

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  • Gifted children

    Gifted children

    Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average and is also known as high potential. It is a characteristic of children, variously defined, that motivates diffe

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  • RMS Titanic

    RMS Titanic

    RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United State

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  • Livor mortis

    Livor mortis

    Livor mortis (from Latin līvor ' bluish color, bruise ' and mortis ' of death ' ), postmortem lividity (from Latin post mortem ' after death ' and lividitas ' black and blueness ' ), hypostasis (fr

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  • Alfred Schutz

    Alfred Schutz

    Alfred Schutz (/ʃ ʊ t s / ; born Alfred Schütz, German: [ʃʏts] ; 1899–1959) was an Austrian philosopher and social phenomenologist whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions. S

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  • Global minimum

    Global minimum

    In mathematical analysis, the maximum and minimum of a function are, respectively, the greatest and least value taken by the function. Known generically as extremum, they may be defined either with

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  • Sabir people

    Sabir people

    This article should specify the language of its non-English content, using {{ lang}} or {{ langx}} , {{ transliteration}} for transliterated languages, and {{ IPA}} for phonetic transcriptions, wit

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  • Mongolian shamanism

    Mongolian shamanism

    Mongolian shamanism, known as the Böö Mörgöl (Бөө мөргөл [pɵː ˈmɵrkʊ̆ɬ] ) in Mongolian and more broadly called the Mongolian folk religion or occasionally Tengerism, refers to the animistic and sha

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