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The original trams were horse-drawn, but the city introduced Britain's first overhead-powered electric trams in 1891, and by 1901, electrification had been completed..

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Previously, "Christendom" was the only widely used umbrella concept for centuries..

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In 1965, they were awarded MBEs, the first time such an honour was bestowed on a British pop act..

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Similar definitions can be used in library science and other areas of scholarship, although different fields have somewhat different definitions..

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In its Western form, alchemy is first attested in pseudepigraphical texts written in Greco-Roman Egypt during the first few centuries AD..

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The only completely preserved portrait of the king is a small ivory figurine found in a temple ruin of a later period at Abydos in 1903..

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His works place him at the transition from Late Archaic to Early Classical art, and he is one of the first known artists in history to have signed his work..

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She was the great-granddaughter of Augustus (the first Roman emperor) and the daughter of the Roman general Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder..

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It is an antojito and at first sight looks like an unusually thick tortilla with vegetables and meat toppings..

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By 1852, Brazil became the world's largest producer of coffee and has held that status ever since..

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Thanksgiving is the largest eating event in the United States as measured by retail sales of food and beverages and by estimates of individual food intake..

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This can largely be attributed to the use of their piquant native spice, Hungarian paprika, in many of their dishes..

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The owner of the Ostrich Egg Globe, Stefaan Missinne, claims that it was made in the early 16th century and would therefore be the first globe ever to depict the New World..

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US gold coins used to say “In Gold We Trust”..

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Surf lifesavers and other first responders rushed to the scene to provide first aid during the active shooting..

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9% of the population, the 7th-largest share among all regions..

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By 12,000 years ago, more than 90% of Earth's tropical forests and 95% of its temperate forests were inhabited and shaped by Indigenous peoples..

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It is known for its unusual helix-shaped spiral staircase (the "Miraculous Stair")..

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Denounced as a heretical sect by the Catholic Church, the alleged followers of Catharism were attacked first by the Albigensian Crusade and later by the Medieval Inquisition, which claimed to have eradicated them by 1350..

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It is common for forensic linguistics to refer only to written text, whereas anything involving samples of speech is known as forensic speech science..

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The oldest portable visual art are carved-stone petrospheres, and the Westray Wife is the earliest representation of a human face found in Scotland..

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The first known practical telescopes were refracting telescopes with glass lenses and were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century..

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It was likely an F5 on the Fujita Scale (tornadoes were not rated at the time) and holds records for longest path length at 219 miles (352 km) and longest duration at about 3+1⁄2 hours..

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The Dionne quintuplets (French pronunciation: [djɔn]; born May 28, 1934) were the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy.

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The first European to record the existence of the falls was the Spanish Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541..

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The contemporary Mathematics Subject Classification lists more than 60 first-level areas of mathematics..

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By 2007, only a handful of elderly Chinese women whose feet had been bound were still alive..

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Bob (for anonymity, members often go by first name and last name initial).

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These people are thought to have settled in Canaan around 1175 BC, amidst the Late Bronze Age collapse, and intermixed with the indigenous Canaanite societies, from whom they assimilated elements while preserving their own unique culture..

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" The Andrew Johnson alcoholism debate may be a case of questions without answers.

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As the first to industrialise, Britain's industrialists revolutionised areas like manufacturing, communication, and transportation through innovations such as the steam engine (for pumps, factories, railway locomotives and steamships), textile equipment, tool-making, the Telegraph, and pioneered the railway system..

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Disneyland, Central Park, Coney Island and the modern baseball park can all claim the Elysian Fields as an ancestor..

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Domestic discussion of the book survived its ban, and in a 2024 fan ballot conducted by Qidian the author's subsequent novel took first place in what Chinese media described as a demonstration of the persistence of the book's readership..

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The nature of these marriages are disputed, with some historians arguing that they can be explained by adoption..

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However, a firm belief in a flat Earth is rare, with less than 2% acceptance in all age groups.

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The voyage is commonly regarded as the peninsula's non-Amerindian discovery, and as the first contact between the Maya and an Old World people, though both achievements have been disputed in scholarly literature..

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The Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India was the first recorded trip directly from Europe to the Indian subcontinent, via the Cape of Good Hope..

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Ceres was later classified as an asteroid, and then more recently as the only confirmed dwarf planet within the asteroid belt, and the largest without a moon..

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Scholars differ about the beliefs and teachings of Jesus as well as the accuracy of the biblical accounts, with only two events supported by nearly universal scholarly consensus: his baptism and his crucifixion..

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Proponents use a three-fold argument developed in the 19th century: that the New Testament has no historical value with respect to Jesus's existence, that there are no non-Christian references to Jesus from the first century, and that Christianity had pagan or mythical roots..

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They also explored the Indian Ocean and established trading routes throughout most of southern Asia, sending the first direct European maritime trade and diplomatic missions to Ming China and to Japan, at the same time installing trading posts and the most important colony: Portuguese Macau (Only in East Asia)..

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Loeb has published popular science books including Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (2021) and Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars (2023)..

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It is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre, and has been described as the first novel, or at least the first English novel – although these labels are disputed..

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He conducted his first experiment in 1953 in the polluted woodland of Birmingham, and his second experiment in 1955 in Birmingham as well as in the clean woods of Dorset..

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It opened in 1999 as Cleveland Browns Stadium and was known as FirstEnergy Stadium from 2013 to 2023 before briefly reverting to its original name until 2024..

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The first such result was introduced by John Stewart Bell in 1964, building upon the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox, which had called attention to the phenomenon of quantum entanglement..

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In 2012, it surpassed Ericsson to become the world's largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer..

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Some of the oldest and most discussed themes are about the main differences between the two subjects, their mutual influence, the role of mathematical rigor in physics, and the problem of explaining the effectiveness of mathematics in physics..

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In particular, sociologists concerned with the history of science ask how societies construct narratives about science, and how methodologies and paradigms throughout scientific history not only change, but change in context to culture, authority, political economy, and more sociologically strident means of analysis..

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The accelerator complex that feeds the Main Injector is under upgrade, and construction of the first building for the new PIP-II linear accelerator began in 2020..

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The scenario initially involved only a single brain with false memories; however, physicist Sean M.

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Millikan and Harvey Fletcher's oil drop experiment first directly measured the magnitude of the elementary charge in 1909, differing from the modern accepted value by just 0..

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Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025, and became the only trillionaire (in terms of US dollars) in June 2026; as of October 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be $1..

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Bachelor's degrees in the UK can either be honours or ordinary degrees, with honours degrees classified into first class, upper second class (2:1), lower second class (2:2), and third class based on weighted averages of marks..

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As a collective term, the compound term Anglo-Saxon, commonly used by modern historians for the period before 1066, first appears in Bede's time, but it was probably not widely used until modern times..

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) was the last recorded living member of the Paleologus family, and through them possibly the last surviving member of the Palaiologos dynasty, rulers of the Byzantine Empire from 1259 to its fall in 1453..

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In the 1990s, determined South African fans managed to find and contact Rodriguez, which led to an unexpected revival of his musical career..

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The simplest recipes use only flour, water, fat, and salt, but commercially made flour tortillas generally contain chemical leavening agents such as baking powder, and other ingredients..

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Constitution was signed by a majority of delegates, and was later ratified by the Thirteen Colonies, leading to the first modern U..

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Although the first challenges arose in the 1880s, the advent of artificial textiles eventually ended Lyon’s industrial silk production in the 20th century..

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In its prime it was the largest town in northern Britannia and a provincial capital..

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The Hanging Gardens are the only one of the Seven Wonders whose location has not been definitively established..

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Jack Dorsey first began to develop his early idea for the social media site Twitter in 2006 while working at early Internet tech company Odeo..

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It was first sold in 1952, and, with some changes in formulation, continues to be in production today..

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First recorded in the 14th century in England, apple pie recipes are now a standard part of cuisines in many countries where apples grow..

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The starring troop over all five series consisted of Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond and Sarah Hadland, some combination of whom appear, with very rare exceptions, in every live-action sketch; their voices can also be heard in the animated sketches..

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Virtually all scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus of Nazareth existed in 1st-century Judaea in the Southern Levant, but there is much disagreement around specific accounts, such as his nativity and his resurrection; the only two events with almost universal assent are that he was baptised by John the Baptist and that he was crucified by order of Pontius Pilate, a Roman prefect..

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The interviews are conducted with people who participated in or observed past events and whose memories and perceptions of these are to be preserved as an aural record for future generations..

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It consists of the rounded eastern end of a sandstone ridge, and is located on the Gympie Connection Road, some 5 km (3..

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Transport in Sheffield, England is developed around the city's unusual topography and medieval street plan..

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Nigeria, with a population of more than 242 million, is the most populous country in Africa, and the world's sixth-most populous country, and its economy is the largest in the region and one of the largest in Africa along with Egypt and South Africa..

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federal government and scientific organizations, have found no evidence of unusual activity, attributing reported incidents to natural phenomena, human error, and misinterpretation..

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Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs..

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Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada`s Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada`s independence..

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There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal..

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The electric chair was invented by a dentist..

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Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister..

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Peter Falk, who played "Columbo," has a glass eye..

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Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name..

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