| Ayn Rand | birthplace = Saint Petersburg, Russia Ayn_Rand
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| Aldous Huxley | birthplace = Godalming, Surrey, England Aldous_Huxley
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| Asia Asia Asia
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| Atom |- Atom
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| Allen Ginsberg | birthplace = Newark, New Jersey, United States Allen_Ginsberg
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| Aleister Crowley | birth_place = Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England Aleister_Crowley
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| Angle In geometry and trigonometry, an angle (in full, plane angle) is the figure formed by two rays sharing a common endpoint, called the vertex of the angle . The magnitude of the angle is the "amount of rotation" that separates the two rays, and can be measured by considering the length of circular arc swept out when one ray is rotated about the vertex to coincide with the other (see "Measuring angles", below). Angle
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| ALGOL ALGOL (short for ALGOrithmic Language)The name of the family is sometimes given in mixed case (Algol 60), and sometimes in all uppercase (ALGOL 68). For simplicity this article uses ALGOL. ALGOL
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| Austin, Texas The ATX, City of the Violet Crown Austin,_Texas
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| Array In computer science an arrayPaul E. Black, "array", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures, Paul E. Array
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| Armenian language (de jure part of Azerbaijan) Armenian_language
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| Albert Pike Albert Pike (December 29, 1809–April 2, 1891) was an attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason. Pike is the only Confederate military officer or figure to be honored with an outdoor statue in Washington, D. Albert_Pike
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| American Quarter Horse The American Quarter Horse is an American breed of horse that excels at sprinting short distances. Its name came from its ability to outdistance other breeds of horse in races of a quarter mile or less, where some individuals have been clocked at speeds up to 55 mph. American_Quarter_Horse
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| Aegina |chain = Saronic Islands Aegina
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| Anthropic principle In physics and cosmology, the anthropic principle states that humans should take into account the constraints that human existence imposes on the kind of theoretical universe that can support human life. Our human understanding dictates that the only kind of universe we can occupy is one that is similar to the one we are in. Anthropic_principle
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| Archaeoastronomy Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the study of how peoples in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used phenomena in the sky and what role the sky played in their cultures."Sinclair 2006:13 Clive Ruggles argues it specifically is not the study of ancient astronomy, as astronomy is a culturally specific concept and ancient peoples may have related to the sky in a different way. Archaeoastronomy
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| Assassination Assassination is the targeted murder of a high-profile person.Assassin (from Wordnet, Princeton University) An added distinction between assassination and other forms of killing is that the assassin (one who performs an assassination) usually has an ideological or political motivation, though many assassins (especially those not part of an organization) also demonstrate insanity. Assassination
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| Arthur Jensen Arthur Jensen (born August 24 1923) is a Professor Emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.http://www. Arthur_Jensen
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| Amu Darya The Amu Darya (formerly Oxus River; the Greeks (Ptolemeus) called it Oxiana palus) is the longest river in Central Asia. Its name is sometimes represented in a single word, Amudarya ( - Omudaryo or daryoi Omu; - Âmudaryâ; , Turkmen: Amyderýa, with darya (Pahlavi) meaning sea or a very large river). Amu_Darya
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| Blade Runner Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Blade_Runner
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| Bill Schelter William Frederick Schelter (1947In memoriam. Access in 2007-07-05. Bill_Schelter
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| Botany thumb|250px|Example of a cross section of a stem Winterborne J, 2005. Hydroponics - Indoor Horticulture plant science(s), phytology, or plant biology is a branch of [[biology] and is the [[Scientific method|scientific study of plant life and development. Botany
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| Bipedalism Bipedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where an organism moves by means of its two rear limbs. An bi = two + ped = foot). Bipedalism
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| Baltic languages The Baltic languages are a group of related languages belonging to the Indo-European language family and spoken mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. The language group is sometimes divided into two sub-groups: Western Baltic, containing only extinct languages, and Eastern Baltic, containing both extinct and the two living languages in the group: Lithuanian (including both Standard Lithuanian and Samogitian) and Latvian (including both literary Latvian and Latgalian). Baltic_languages
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| Backgammon Backgammon is a board game for two players in which the playing piecesBackgammon playing pieces are known variously as stones, men, counters, pawns, checkers, or chips. are moved according to the roll of dice. Backgammon
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| Battle of Waterloo French Empire Battle_of_Waterloo
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| Beagle the Beagle
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| Bra-ket notation Bra-ket notation is a standard notation for describing quantum states in the theory of quantum mechanics composed of angle brackets (chevrons) and vertical bars. It can also be used to denote abstract vectors and linear functionals in pure mathematics. Bra-ket_notation
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| Blind Lemon Jefferson "Blind" Lemon Jefferson (September 24, 1893Govenar and Brakefield, 62. or October 26, 1894World War I Draft Registration records; Dallas County, Texas; Roll: 1952850; Draft Board: 2 or July 1897Dicaire, 140. Blind_Lemon_Jefferson
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| Bob Wills James Robert (Bob) Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swingWolff, Country Music, "Big Balls in Cowtown: Western Swing From Fort Worth to Fresno", p. 29: If any single person deserves to be considered the 'father' of western swing, it must be Bob Wills. Bob_Wills
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| Bengal Bengal (Bengali: বঙ্গ Bôngo, বাংলা Bangla, বঙ্গদেশ Bôngodesh or বাংলাদেশ Bangladesh), is a historical and geographical region in the northeast of South Asia. Today it is mainly divided between the independent nation of Bangladesh (previously East Bengal), and the state of West Bengal in India, although some regions of the previous kingdoms of Bengal (during local monarchical regimes and British rule) are now part of the neighboring Indian states of Bihar, Tripura and Orissa. Bengal
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| B-17 Flying Fortress |introduction= April 1938 B-17_Flying_Fortress
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| The World Factbook | pub_date = see frequency of updates and availability The_World_Factbook
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| Creationism Creationism is the religious belief that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe were created in their original form by a deity (often the Abrahamic God of Judaism, Christianity and Islam) or deities. Creationism
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| Lewis Carroll | birthplace = Daresbury, Cheshire, England Lewis_Carroll
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| Chile |conventional_long_name = Republic of Chile Chile
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| Economy of Cuba The economy of Cuba is a largely state-controlled, centrally planned economy overseen by the Cuban government, though there remains significant foreign investment and enterprise in Cuba. Most of the means of production are owned and run by the government and most of the labor force is employed by the state. Economy_of_Cuba
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| Chicano Chicano (feminine Chicana) is a politically-loaded word for a Mexican American (in the sense of native-born Americans of Mexican ancestry, as opposed to Mexican natives living in the United States). The terms Chicano and Chicana (also spelled xicano) are used specifically by and regarding some US citizens of Mexican descent. Chicano
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| Consequentialism Consequentialism refers to those moral theories which hold that the consequences of a particular action form the basis for any valid moral judgment about that action. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right action is one that produces a good outcome, or consequence. Consequentialism
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| Caesium Caesium or cesium () is the chemical element with the symbol Cs and atomic number 55. It is a soft, silvery-gold alkali metal with a melting point of , which makes it one of only five metals that are liquid at or near room temperature. Caesium
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| Charles Dickens Portsmouth, England Charles_Dickens
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| Carbon sink A carbon sink is reservoir of carbon that accumulates and stores carbon for an indefinite period. The main natural sinks are: Carbon_sink
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| Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero (Classical Latin , usually in English; January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, and Roman constitutionalist. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. Cicero
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| Chechnya The Chechen Republic (; , Chechenskaya Respublika; , Noxçiyn Respublika), or, informally, Chechnya (; ; , Noxçiyçö), sometimes referred to as Ichkeria, Chechnia, Chechenia or Noxçiyn, is a federal subject of Russia. It is located in the Northern Caucasus mountains, in the Southern Federal District. Chechnya
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| Candide Candide, ou l'Optimisme (1759) is a French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, English translations of which have been titled Candide: Or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: Or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Or, Optimism (1947). Critical Survey of Short Fiction (2001) The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his tutor, Pangloss. Candide
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| Clade A clade is a taxonomic group comprising a single common ancestor and all the descendants of that ancestor. Clade
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| Coca-Cola | introduced = 1886 Coca-Cola
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| Garbage collection (computer science) In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector, or just collector, attempts to reclaim garbage, or memory used by objects that will never be accessed or mutated again by the application. Garbage_collection_(computer_science)
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| COBOL | designer = Grace Hopper, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Howard Bromberg, Howard Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E. Sammet COBOL
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| Centripetal force The centripetal force is the external force required to make a body follow a curved path.Georgia State University HyperPhysics Science Joy Wagon: Centripetal force - the real force Hence centripetal force is a kinematic force requirement, not a particular kind of force, like gravity or electromagnetic force. Centripetal_force
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