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Concatenation
Concatenation is a simple concept from linguistics, mathematics, and computer science. It is a way of making a new word (or string), by joining two (or more) other strings. For example, the concatenation of "snow" and "ball" is "snowball". In most programming languages, if we write x = "snow" + "ball", then the value ...
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Identity element
In mathematics, the identity element (or neutral element) of a set is a special element of that set. It is special because if it is combined with another element of that set, it does not change the other element. With addition, the identity element is 0, because adding 0 to some number does not change the number. With ...
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Neutral element
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Inverse function
An inverse function is a concept of mathematics. A function will calculate some output formula_1, given some input formula_2. This is usually written formula_3. The inverse function does the reverse. Let's say formula_4 is the inverse function of formula_5, then formula_6. Or otherwise put, formula_7. An inverse functi...
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Countable set
In mathematics (particularly set theory), a countable set is a set whose elements can be counted. A set with one thing in it is countable, and so is a set with one hundred things in it. A set with all the natural numbers (counting numbers) in it is countable too. This is because even if it is infinite, someone who coun...
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Computable function
A computable function is an idea from computer science. A function is computable if there is an algorithm that can work out its result in a finite number of steps. Computability theory is all about such functions.
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Pharmacist
A pharmacist is a person who supplies drugs to people, often prescriptions from a doctor but sometimes on their own. Pharmacists have to be trained and have knowledge about the drugs package. Many work in a pharmacy.Pharmacists interact with customers, give the prescribed medication and telling them about the drugs. ...
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Thoosa
In Greek mythology, Thoosa was the name of the mother of the cyclops Polyphemus.
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Perch
Perch is the name of a freshwater perciform fish belonging to the genus Perca. Perch have "rough" scales. On the front end of the fish, there are two dorsal fins. The first one is spiny and the second is soft. There is also an anal fin, which is also spiny, and a caudal fin. Species. There are three living species in ...
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Puce
Puce is a medium grayish red-violet colour. "Puce" colours may be pale grayish red-violet, grayish red or brownish-purple colours. Basically, puce colours are reddish purple colours mixed with gray or brown. A wide range of tones of puce are shown below. Chinese dried plums, a favorite snack among Chinese people wor...
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Scarlet
Scarlet is a slight brilliant red color. It is a color of the rainbow. It is redder than vermilion. The color's name comes from the Persian "saqirlat". An early recorded use of "scarlet" as a color name in the English language dates to 1250.
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League
The word league can mean one of the following:
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Worship
Worship is a word often used in religion. It means to have much respect. If someone prays or gives thanks to God, people say that they are worshipping God. Worship can also be used as the name for a church service or similar event. This can be called an act of worship. An act of worship can be performed as a simple pra...
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Claudius
Claudius (; 1 August 10 BCE – 13 October 54 CE) was the fourth Roman emperor. He ruled from 24 January 41 to his death in 54 . His great-uncle was the first emperor, Augustus, and his uncle was the second emperor Tiberius. His nephew was the third emperor, Caligula. His maternal grandfather was Mark Antony. Claudius ha...
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Nero
Nero ("Nerō Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus"; 15 December 37 AD-9 June 68 AD)was the fifth and last Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. Nero was the adopted son of his grand-uncle Claudius. He became emperor on 13 October 54, after Claudius died. Claudius was proba...
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Trades union
A trade union (U.S: labor union, UK also trades union) is an organization or group of workers who join together to negotiate pay, hours, benefits, and working conditions. Union members and supporters of unions claim that they are necessary because the people that run companies want to pay as little as possible. Activit...
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Officer
An officer is a person who holds a high rank in a uniformed organisation like the military or police. A military officer has a commission, a state document saying others must obey them. Some examples of officer ranks would include captains, majors, and lieutenants, but not sergeants, who are sometimes called non-commis...
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Consul
A consul could mean one of the following:
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Tachi
The tachi is a Japanese sword, which has a strongly curved blade and is longer than a katana. It was used on the battlefield before katana was, so it is considered to be older. The word Tachi translates as "the soul of bushi" (soul of samurai). When the katana began to be widely used the tachi sword became a court swo...
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Western
Western can mean one of the following:
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Machaira
Machaira was a rare mythic sword used in the Basileus cult. Basileus cult is the cult of the king, because in ancient Rome the word basileus was translated as "king". To get a Basileus title a person should kill a lion with a special weapon. So this weapon was called - Machaira. Machaira had a very curved blade, which ...
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Policy
Policy could mean:
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20 August
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Field
Field can mean:
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Lucerne
Lucerne (, Swiss German: "Lozärn", French: "Lucerne", Italian: "Lucerna", Romansh: "Lucerna") is a city in Switzerland. It is the capital of the Canton of Lucerne and seat of the district with the same name. The city has a population of about 60,000. Lucerne is the biggest and most important city in Central Switzerland...
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Eastern hemisphere
The Eastern hemisphere is a geographical term for the half of the Earth that is east of the Prime Meridian and west of the 180th Meridian. It is the opposite of the Western hemisphere. It can be also used to describe Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and Oceania.
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Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire is a county in England. It is one of the so-called Home Counties, those counties that border or surround Greater London. The county is also surrounded by Essex, Cambridgeshire, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. The county town is Hertford; the oldest city is St Albans. Education. Hertfordshire has 26 inde...
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Lower Jurassic
The Lower Jurassic is the first geological epoch in the Jurassic that began 201.3 million years ago, and ended at 174.1 million years ago. The Jurassic period is divided into Lower, Middle and Upper. The Lower Jurassic started after the end-Triassic extinction event at 201.3 million years ago (mya). Its rocks form in ...
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Congress
In politics, a congress is a political meeting of leaders or representatives of groups of people. Until the 19th century it was usually a meeting of kings or their representatives, for example the Congress of Vienna. Today it often means the main legislature that makes the laws for a state. The word congress can also m...
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Global Warming
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Personal digital assistant
A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a handheld computer. Personal digital assistants were designed to replace non-electronic day planners. They became widespread in the 1990s. Many PDAs can work as an address book, a calculator, a clock, and a calendar. Some also have games on them. The work of PDAs is now mostly don...
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Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is the southwest part of Europe. Like other peninsulas, it is mostly surrounded by sea. To the south and east of the peninsula is the Mediterranean Sea. To its north and west is the Atlantic Ocean. It is the third largest peninsula of Europe with an area of 582,860 km². The name Iberia...
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PDA
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Kim Kardashian
Kimberly Noel Kardashian (born October 21, 1980) is an American socialite, reality television star and actress. She is known for her reality television series named "Keeping up with the Kardashians." She started her career as a model and is one of three daughters of Robert Kardashian. Kardashian is also very popular on...
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Ilham Aliyev
Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev (born December 24, 1961) is the current President of Azerbaijan. He became president in 2003. Career. Aliyev succeeded his father Heydar Aliyev who was president of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2003. On August 4, 2003, two months before the presidential elections, he was made prime minister by his ...
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Flag of Armenia
The national flag of Armenia, the Armenian Tricolor, has three horizontal bands of equal width, red on the top, blue in the middle, and orange on the bottom. The first modern national flag of Armenia was created in 1885 by Ghevont Alishan. The Armenian Supreme Council adopted the current flag on August 24, 1990. On Jun...
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Lake Sevan
Lake Sevan (Armenian: Սևանա լիճ, "Sevana lich") is a large lake in Armenia. It is the largest body of water in both Armenia and the Caucasus region. Sevan is one of the largest freshwater high-altitude (alpine) lakes in Eurasia. The lake is in Gegharkunik Province. It is above sea level. The surface area of the basin o...
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Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, (Armenian: Կիլիկիայի հայկական թագավորություն, Kilikiayi haykakan t’agavorut’yun) was an Armenian state formed during the High Middle Ages by Armenian refugees fleeing the Seljuk invasion of Armenia. History. The kingdom had its origins in the principality founded c. 1080 by the Rubenid ...
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Jean Genet
Jean Genet ( in French) (19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986), was a French writer and later political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond (homeless person) and petty criminal. Later in life, Genet wrote novels, plays, poems, and essays, including "Querelle", "The Thief's Journal", "Our Lady of the Flowers", "Th...
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Lisa Loeb
Lisa Anne Loeb (born March 11, 1968 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American singer. She sings the song "Stay (I Missed You)".
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Mountain Time Zone
The Mountain Time Zone subtracts seven hours from UTC during standard time (UTC−7) and six hours during daylight saving time (UTC−6). This time zone is called Mountain Standard Time (MST) during standard time (Winter). It is called Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) during daylight saving time (Summer). In the United States ...
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Mountain Standard Time Zone
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Mountain Standard Time
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Mountain time
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Constantine I (Rome)
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Data structure
In computer science, a data structure is the organization and implementation of values and information. In simple words, it is the way of organizing information in a computer so that it can be more easily understood and worked with. Data structures are different from data types. Basically, a data type is an idea of how...
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Alex Lifeson
Alex Lifeson, OC (born Aleksandar Živojinović; August 27, 1953) is a Canadian musician. He is best known as the guitarist and co-founder for the Canadian rock band Rush. Lifeson has been a member of the band since 1968. In Rush, Lifeson plays electric and acoustic guitars. He also plays other instruments including: man...
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Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C is an infection that mostly affects the liver. The hepatitis C virus (HCV) causes this disease. Often, a person with Hepatitis C does not have any health problems or signs that they have the disease. However, chronic infection can scar the liver. Many years of infection may cause cirrhosis. Sometimes, peopl...
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. He wrote about many topics, and influenced many other thinkers. Foucault studied institutions such as psychiatric wards, hospitals, schools, and prisons, to figure out how they affected the people living in them. He was gay. He a...
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LEIA
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XHTML
XHTML stands for eXtensible HyperText Markup Language. It is markup used to design websites and webpages. XHTML is much more strict than ordinary HTML, and is based on both XML and HTML. Due to the lax nature of HTML, different web browsers can sometimes display websites incorrectly since there is more than one way to ...
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Suspension bridge
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge that has been made since ancient times as early as 100 AD. Some simple suspension bridges, for use by pedestrians and livestock, are still constructed, based upon the ancient Inca rope bridge. Suspended from two high locations over a river or canyon, simple suspension bridges fo...
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Sangria (colour)
Sangria is a dark slightly purplish red. It is the color of Sangría wine. It is named after this wine. Sangria can also be called a burnt red.
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Coulomb
The coulomb (symbol: C) is the SI unit of electric charge. It is named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. The coulomb is a quantity of electric charge. The movement of electric charge is called current in an electric circuit. For example, a flashlight bulb that has a current of one ampere will pass one coulomb of charg...
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Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler (pronounced "Oiler") (April 15, 1707 – September 7, 1783) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist. He spent most of his adult life in Russia and Germany. Euler made important discoveries in calculus and topology. He also created many of the words used in math today. He introduced the notation we use to w...
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Burgundy (colour)
Burgundy is a deep shade of red. It is named after Burgundy wine. This wine is named after the Burgundy region of France. Meaning of burgundy. Because of this people give them the nickname "Red Wine".
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Pigment
A pigment is something that is added to something else to give it color. Natural pigments can come from just about anything. Pigments can be made from animals, plants, rocks and minerals or even the ground itself, for example clay plus salts. Pigments can also be created by people. An example of a pigment is ultramarin...
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Sierra Nevada
Sierra Nevada, meaning "snowy range" in Spanish, is the name of at least three mountain ranges: There are also two single mountains named Sierra Nevada in the Andes which are volcanoes: Other mountains: Sierra Nevada may also refer to beer produced by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, a California brewery.
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Chunnel
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Xianggang
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Aomen
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Xizang
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Diaoyutai Islands
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Taibei
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Gaoxiong
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Chang Jiang
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Huang He
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Anarchy in the U.K.
"Anarchy in the U.K." is a punk rock song by the Sex Pistols. It was first released as a single in 1976. In 1977, it was released as part of the album "Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols". The song's lyrics espouse a nihilistic and violent concept of anarchy. It has been covered by various other bands, incl...
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My Chemical Romance
My Chemical Romance (often abbreviated to MCR or shortened to My Chem) is a rock band from New Jersey that began in 2001. They released their first album in 2002. The band has released four albums to date. The band consists of Gerard Way (lead vocals), Ray Toro (lead guitar/vocals), Mikey Way (bass guitar), Frank Iero ...
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Cobalt blue
Cobalt blue is a cool blue colour. Louis Jacques Thénard discovered this color in 1802. People make it using cobalt salts. That is why it is called cobalt blue. Many artists use cobalt blue. Many pieces of glassware have this colour. Glassware that has this colour is called "cobalt glass".
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Sapphire (colour)
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Azure (color)
Azure is a color that looks like the color of the sky on a bright, clear day. It is a pure chroma on the RGB color wheel halfway between blue and cyan. The complementary color of azure is orange. Where the name comes from. The word "azure" comes from the Persian لاژورد "lazhward". Lazhward was the name of a place. This...
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Viridian
Viridian is a teal-green color with a hue toward green. The name comes from the Latin word "viridis" which means "green".
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Tarsier
The tarsiers are prosimian (non-monkey) primates. They got their name from the long bones in their feet. They are now placed together with the simians (monkeys). They live in trees, and are entirely nocturnal. Tarsiers are the only primates which are wholly carnivorous. They mainly eat insects, but some are also known ...
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Blackberries
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Theoretical computer science
Theoretical computer science is the study of mathematics and computer science related to the theory of computation and formal methods. Topics in theoretical computer science are:
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Pedestrian
A pedestrian is a person traveling on foot, whether walking or running. In modern times, the term mostly refers to someone walking on a road or footpath, but this was not the case historically. History. The main way humans get around is by walking. The first humans walked out of Africa about 60,000 years ago. We walked...
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Patti Deutsch
Patricia Deutsch Ross (born Elaine Patricia Deutsch; December 16, 1943 – July 26, 2017) was an American actress. She was best known for appearing the television game show "Match Game" in the 1970s. She was also known for doing voices in animated movies. Deutsch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Deutsch died in Los ...
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Body double
A body double is a person who works in the movie or television production industry. Body doubles are models that act in scenes that actors or actresses do not want to do. For example, body doubles sometimes act in love scenes or scenes of nudity, where a person's body is shown. Body doubles are usually models that hav...
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Intergenerational conflict
An intergenerational conflict is either a conflict situation between teenagers and adults or a more abstract conflict between two generations, which often involves prejudices against another generation. Furthermore, intergenerational conflict describes cultural, social or economic discrepancies between generations. The...
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Nihongo
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Intergenerational contract
An intergenerational contract is an agreement between different generations. It assumes that future generations will honor the contract and provide a service to a generation that has done the same service for an older generation. The most common use of the term is in social security and refers to the consensus to provi...
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Inca rope bridge
Inca rope bridges were simple suspension bridges over canyons and gorges to provide access for the Inca Empire. Bridges of this type were suitable for use since the Inca people did not use wheeled transport - traffic was limited to pedestrians and livestock. These bridges were an important part on the Inca road system ...
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Ewok
Ewoks are a fictional race of small, bear-like creatures from George Lucas' "Star Wars" universe. They first appeared in the film "". They live on the forests on the moon of the Planet Endor. They often wear the skins or skulls of animals they have hunted. The most famous Ewok is Wicket W. Warwik, a brave Ewok who des...
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Inca road system
The Inca road system ("El Camino Inca") of Peru was the most extensive of many roads and trails that were constructed in pre-Columbian South America. It went across the Andes mountains and reached heights of over 5,000 metres (16,500 feet) above sea level. It covered approximately 22,500 kilometres (14,000 miles) and ...
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Return of the Jedi
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Ewoks
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The Phantom Menace
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Attack of the Clones
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Revenge of the Sith
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A New Hope
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The Empire Strikes Back
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The Return of the Jedi
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Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American company that produces movies and at one time, television shows. It is now one of the "Big Five" American movie studios and the oldest, busiest and most well-known member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, which is owned by the Japanese company Sony. Sony Picture...
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Jason
Jason was a hero in Greek mythology. He was born in Thessaly, northern Greece. Jason was the captain of the ship called the "Argos". The men who helped to sail the boat were called the Argonauts. The word Argonaut comes from the name of the boat: Argo and the word ending -naut meaning "sailor". Jason and the Argonauts...
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The Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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Color code
A color code is a system for displaying information by using different colors. Color codes are often difficult or impossible for blind and color blind people to understand. Examples of color codes: "The Color Code" is also the title of a book (References, Joseph et al., 2002) combined with a nutritional practice by the...
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Complementary color
Complementary colors are pairs of opposite colors. What is meant by "opposite" can be different between color science, art, and printing. Color science. In color science, "complementary colors" are colors opposite to each other on the color wheel. Primary colors and secondary colors are paired in this way: Along with t...