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Although the origin of birds has historically been a contentious topic within evolutionary biology, only a few scientists still dispute the dinosaurian origin of birds, suggesting descent from other types of archosaurian reptiles.

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In restaurants, soups can be followed by an appetizer such as herring (prepared with either cream, oil, or in aspic), or other cured meats and chopped raw vegetable salads..

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A great power is a nation, state or empire that, through its economic, political and military strength, is able to exert power and influence not only over its own region of the world, but beyond to others.

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In legal terminology, the assured clear distance ahead (ACDA) is the distance ahead of any terrestrial locomotive device such as a land vehicle, typically an automobile, or watercraft, within which they should be able to bring the device to a halt..

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Virginia's extensive network of highways and railroads were developed and built over a period almost 400 years, beginning almost immediately after the founding of Jamestown in 1607, and often incorporating old established trails of the Native Americans..

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The county seat and the largest city in the county is Santa Rosa..

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The then-city-state is considered to have been the first real international financial centre, emerging in the 9th century and reaching its greatest prominence in the 14th century.

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The state is home to the world's longest known cave system in Mammoth Cave National Park, and the nation's two largest artificial lakes east of the Mississippi River..

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It is the 26th-most populous city in the United States and the largest U..

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It has had unique trajectories of development in the Western world, the Soviet Union, and in India, as well as in the pan-Africanist and African-American traditions, adapting to these specific regional and political conditions in different ways..

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The Byzantine book octoechos (9th century) was one of the first hymn books with musical notation and its earliest surviving copies date from the 10th century..

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According to classical Islamic theories, the sunnah is primarily documented by hadith—which are the verbally-transmitted record of the teachings, actions, deeds, sayings, and silent approvals or disapprovals attributed to Muhammad—and alongside the Qur'an (the book of Islam) are the divine revelation (wahy) delivered through Muhammad that make up the primary sources of Islamic law, beliefs, and theology..

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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, written and published in 1838, is the only complete novel by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe..

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On April 21, 2013, the first John Muir Day was celebrated in Scotland, which marked the 175th anniversary of his birth, paying homage to the conservationist..

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Noted for his eccentric personality and interests, Summers became a popular figure in London high society first for his theatrical work and later for his History of Witchcraft and Demonology, published in 1926..

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Reports of the Nestorian Christians' evangelistic success there and of Thomas the Apostle's subcontinental travels as documented in works like the Acts of Thomas probably provided the first seeds of the narrative..

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The English-language edition of all three volumes, with the first two volumes translated by Jay Rubin and the third by Philip Gabriel, was released in North America and the United Kingdom on October 25, 2011..

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Some recorded materials, such as compilations of data (e..

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Just as among Japanese dialects, which can have low mutual intelligibility, the Ryukyuan and mainland Japanese languages are not mutually intelligible..

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It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide..

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Because only a tiny fraction of a star's energy emissions reaches the surface of any orbiting planet, building structures encircling a star would enable a civilization to harvest far more energy..

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Since the 17th century, Chinese arts and aesthetic were sources of inspiration to European artists, creators, and fashion designers when goods from oriental countries were widely seen for the first time in Western Europe..

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Vinylon was first developed in Japan in 1939 by Ichiro Sakurada, Ri Sung-gi, and H..

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He was the only son of the Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell (c..

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Her claims were not recognized by the French king Louis XI, who quickly seized various Valois-Burgundian domains, not only those that belonged to the French realm (such as the Duchy of Burgundy), but also some that belonged to the Holy Roman Empire (such as the Free County of Burgundy)..

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661–680), a quadrangular mosque with capacity for 3,000 worshipers is recorded on the compound..

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It is the only ancient Latin novel that has survived in its entirety..

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Engraved shells created by Homo erectus dating as far back as 500,000 years ago have been found, although experts disagree on whether these engravings can be properly classified as 'art'..

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Amharic is the largest, most widely spoken language in Ethiopia, and the most spoken mother-tongue in Ethiopia.

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It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th century, and the first Old English literature dates from the mid-7th century..

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The concept of Germany as a distinct region can be traced to Julius Caesar, who referred to the area east of the Rhine as Germania, meaning the land where the Germani live.

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Detailed records of a political structure on the territory of what is now Cambodia first appear in Chinese annals in reference to Funan, a polity that encompassed the southernmost part of the Indochinese peninsula during the 1st to 6th centuries.

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The earliest records of vegetarianism as a concept and practice amongst a significant number of people are from ancient India, especially among the Hindus and Jains..

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Paleozoologists have been able to piece together a more complete outline of the evolutionary lineage of the modern horse than of any other animal.

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The novel was first published in December 1815, although the title page is dated 1816..

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Dire wolf fossils have rarely been found north of 42°N latitude; there have been only five unconfirmed records above this latitude..

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Univers was one of the first typeface families to fulfil the idea that a typeface should form a family of consistent, related designs..

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The largest sector the Finnish economy is its service sector, which contributes 72..

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Christie's, which sold the work in 2017, stated that most leading scholars consider it an original work by Leonardo, but this attribution has been disputed by some leading specialists who propose that he only contributed certain elements; others believe that the extensive restoration prevents a definitive attribution..

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The oldest parts of the Bible may be as early as c..

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Those devices were used in the institutions of Mesopotamia and western Iran during the 4th millennium BC, in order to record administrative operations..

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It also maps rational numbers to dyadic rationals, as can be seen by a recursive definition closely related to the Stern–Brocot tree..

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The first devices identified as guns or proto-guns appeared in China from around AD 1000..

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" The 12 Coloured Fairy Books were illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, with credit for the first two volumes shared by George Percy Jacomb-Hood and Lancelot Speed, respectively..

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Leap years are given two letters, the first valid for January 1 – February 28 (or February 24, see below), the second for the remainder of the year.

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However, others argue that her policies can be interpreted as desperate attempts to avert a succession crisis and preserve the Ottoman dynasty..

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A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in London in 1704..

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During this period, Houston engaged in her first sexual relationship with a woman, Robyn Crawford, with whom she met as a fellow counselor of a children's summer camp at East Orange in 1980..

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The history of the Kyrgyz people and the land now called Kyrgyzstan goes back more than 3,000 years..

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By the end of 2025, Starlink had become SpaceX's largest business segment, generating $11..

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Fashion of the 1980s was characterized by a rejection of psychedelic colored, ornate fashions of the 1970s.

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With regard to Christianity, only certain sects that consider Jewish dietary laws to still be binding abstain from pork, including Hebrew Catholics, Seventh-day Adventists, Hebrew Roots, and Messianic Jews..

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The opening anecdote relates Francis Galton's surprise that the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the weight of an ox when the median of their individual guesses was taken (the median was closer to the ox's true butchered weight than the estimates of most crowd members).

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IKEA was founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, and has been the world's largest furniture retailer since 2008.

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Carroll wrote frequently about the Cuban immigrant experience in the United States, including in his only novel, Loosing My Espanish (2004)..

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During the 20th century it was a staging ground for Italian initiatives in East Africa, collateral of Britain's colonial politics, and the subject of the expansion of Ethiopia until 1993, when the sovereign state of Eritrea was established.

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1825 – March 16, 1903) was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos.

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The foundation of all practical color processes, the three-color method was first suggested in an 1855 paper by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, with the first color photograph produced by Thomas Sutton for a Maxwell lecture in 1861.

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The history of the Buffalo Bills began in October of 1959, though their first game was in 1960, when the team began play as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL), winning two consecutive AFL titles in 1964 and 1965..

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Because of his contributions as a hitter and as a pitcher, which make him a rare two-way player, Ohtani's prime seasons have been considered among the greatest in baseball history, with some likening them to the early career of Babe Ruth.

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Only one image of Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe has been authenticated: a watercolor portrait painted several hours after her death.

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Eventually, the General Board of the United States Navy declared its preference for a battleship with a speed of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph), faster than any in US service, with a main battery of nine 14-inch (356 mm)/50 caliber Mark B guns..

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In the Western Conference, the Lakers lost in the first round to the Minnesota Timberwolves, in which star guard Luka Dončić appeared in his first playoff series with the Lakers since his unexpected trade from the Mavericks earlier that year..

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At the 2011 Asian Cup, Uzbekistan reached the semi-finals of the tournament for the first time..

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After significant commercial success in its first decades, it merged with the Wright Aeronautical to form Curtiss-Wright Corporation..

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It is generally regarded as the first mass-affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans..

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With carbon dating estimates between 990 and 1050 CE (mean date 1014) and tree-ring dating of 1021, L'Anse aux Meadows is the only undisputed site of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact of Europeans with the Americas outside of Greenland..

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Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States, estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s..

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In a writing system, a letter is a grapheme that generally corresponds to a phoneme—the smallest functional unit of speech—though there is rarely total one-to-one correspondence between the two..

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Born and raised in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree..

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6 metres (12 ft) in diameter and 98 centimetres (39 in) thick, and weighs 24,590 kg (54,210 lb)..

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The Hyksos period marks the first in which foreign rulers ruled Egypt.

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Popper first mentioned the term "critical rationalism" in The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) and also later in Conjectures and Refutations (1963), Unended Quest (1976), and The Myth of the Framework (1994)..

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However, Basadre claims that the period only begins, sensu stricto, with the installation of the first Constituent Congress on September 20, 1822.

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9%) were followers of Islam (mostly concentrated in Pakistan) while slightly less than 200,000 (0..

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First established in 1917 as the NKVD of the Russian SFSR, the ministry was tasked with regular police work and overseeing the country's prisons and labor camps..

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The building's largest tenant is the Cincinnati Museum Center, comprising the Cincinnati History Museum, the Museum of Natural History & Science, Duke Energy Children's Museum, the Cincinnati History Library and Archives, and an Omnimax theater..

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North-south transportation is highly dependent on the Interstate 5 corridor, which connects the Puget Sound area with southwest Washington cities and the Portland metropolitan area, as well as cities to the north such as Bellingham and Vancouver, Canada.

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Prior to European colonization, the lands encompassing present-day British Columbia were inhabited for millennia by a number of First Nations.

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An early list makes him an attendee at the First Council of Nicaea in 325, but he is never mentioned in any writings by people who were at the council..

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