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"id": "752",
"title": "Art",
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"content": "Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.\n\nThere is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and ideas have changed over time. The... |
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"id": "764",
"title": "Agnostida",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostida"
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"content": "Agnostida is an order of arthropod which first developed near the end of the Early Cambrian period and thrived during the Middle Cambrian. They are present in the Lower Cambrian fossil record along with trilobites from the Redlichiida, Corynexochida, and Ptychopariida orders. The last agnostids we... |
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"id": "765",
"title": "Abortion",
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"content": "Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or \"spontaneous abortion\" and occurs in approximately 30% to 40% of pregnancies. When deliberate steps are taken to end a pregnancy, it... |
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"id": "766",
"title": "Abstract (law)",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20%28law%29"
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"content": "In law, an abstract is a brief statement that contains the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers.\n\nAbstract of title\n\nThe abstract of title, used in real estate transactions, is the more common form of abstract. An abstract of title lists all the own... |
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"id": "771",
"title": "American Revolutionary War",
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"content": "The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, secured a United States of America independent from Great Britain. Fighting began on April 19, 1775, followed by the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776... |
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"id": "772",
"title": "Ampere",
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"content": "The ampere (, ; symbol: A), often shortened to amp, is the base unit of electric current in the International System of Units (SI). It is named after André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electromagnetism along with the Danish physicist Hans C... |
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"id": "775",
"title": "Algorithm",
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"content": "In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm () is a finite sequence of well-defined instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation. Algorithms are used as specifications for performing calculations and data processing. By making use of artifici... |
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"id": "777",
"title": "Annual plant",
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"content": "An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies. The length of growing seasons and period in which they take place vary according to geographical location, and may not correspond to the four traditional... |
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"id": "779",
"title": "Anthophyta",
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"content": "The anthophytes are a grouping of plant taxa bearing flower-like reproductive structures. They were formerly thought to be a clade comprising plants bearing flower-like structures. The group contained the angiosperms - the extant flowering plants, such as roses and grasses - as well as the Gneta... |
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"id": "780",
"title": "Atlas (disambiguation)",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas%20%28disambiguation%29"
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"content": "An atlas is a collection of maps, originally named after the Ancient Greek deity.\n\nAtlas may also refer to:\n\nMythology\n Atlas (mythology), an Ancient Greek Titanic deity who held up the celestial sphere\n Atlas, the first legendary king of Atlantis and further variant of the mythical Titan\n ... |
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"id": "782",
"title": "Mouthwash",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouthwash"
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"content": "Mouthwash, mouth rinse, oral rinse, or mouth bath is a liquid which is held in the mouth passively or swilled around the mouth by contraction of the perioral muscles and/or movement of the head, and may be gargled, where the head is tilted back and the liquid bubbled at the back of the mouth.\n\nU... |
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"id": "783",
"title": "Alexander the Great",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20the%20Great"
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"content": "Alexander III of Macedon ( ; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. A member of the Argead dynasty, he was born in Pella—a city in Ancient Greece—in 356 BC. He succeeded his father King Philip II to the thr... |
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"id": "784",
"title": "Alfred Korzybski",
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"content": "Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (, ; July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics. He argued that human knowledge of the world is li... |
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"id": "785",
"title": "Asteroids (video game)",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids%20%28video%20game%29"
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"content": "Asteroids is a space-themed multidirectional shooter arcade game designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a single spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy... |
{
"id": "786",
"title": "Asparagales",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagales"
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"content": "Asparagales (asparagoid lilies) is an order of plants in modern classification systems such as the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Web. The order takes its name from the type family Asparagaceae and is placed in the monocots amongst the lilioid monocots. The order has... |
{
"id": "787",
"title": "Alismatales",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alismatales"
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"content": "The Alismatales (alismatids) are an order of flowering plants including about 4500 species. Plants assigned to this order are mostly tropical or aquatic. Some grow in fresh water, some in marine habitats.\n\nDescription\nThe Alismatales comprise herbaceous flowering plants of often aquatic and mar... |
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"id": "788",
"title": "Apiales",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiales"
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"content": "The Apiales are an order of flowering plants. The families are those recognized in the APG III system. This is typical of the newer classifications, though there is some slight variation and in particular, the Torriceliaceae may be divided.\n\nUnder this definition, well-known members include carr... |
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"id": "789",
"title": "Asterales",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterales"
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"content": "Asterales is an order of dicotyledonous flowering plants that includes the large family Asteraceae (or Compositae) known for composite flowers made of florets, and ten families related to the Asteraceae. While asterids in general are characterized by fused petals, composite flowers consisting of ... |
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"id": "791",
"title": "Asteroid",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid"
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"content": "An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Historically, these terms have been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not resolve into a disc in a telescope and was not observed to have characteristics of an active comet such as a tail. As minor planets in the o... |
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"id": "794",
"title": "Allocution",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocution"
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"content": "An allocution, or allocutus, is a formal statement made to the court by the defendant who has been found guilty prior to being sentenced. It is part of the criminal procedure in some jurisdictions using common law.\n\nConcept \nAn allocution allows the defendant to explain why the sentence should ... |
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"id": "795",
"title": "Affidavit",
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"content": "An ( ; Medieval Latin for \"he has declared under oath\") is a written statement voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation which is administered by a person who is authorized to do so by law. Such a statement is witnessed as to the authenticity of the affiant's signa... |
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"id": "798",
"title": "Aries (constellation)",
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"content": "Aries is one of the constellations of the zodiac. It is located in the Northern celestial hemisphere between Pisces to the west and Taurus to the east. The name Aries is Latin for ram. Its old astronomical symbol is (♈︎). It is one of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer... |
{
"id": "799",
"title": "Aquarius (constellation)",
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"content": "Aquarius is a constellation of the zodiac, between Capricornus and Pisces. Its name is Latin for \"water-carrier\" or \"cup-carrier\", and its old astronomical symbol is (♒︎), a representation of water. Aquarius is one of the oldest of the recognized constellations along the zodiac (the Sun's app... |
{
"id": "800",
"title": "Anime",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime"
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"content": "is hand-drawn and computer animation originating from Japan. In Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from the English word animation) describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. However, outside of Japan and in English, anime is colloquial for Japanese animation and refers spec... |
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"id": "801",
"title": "Asterism",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism"
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"content": "Asterism may refer to:\n\n Asterism (astronomy), a pattern of stars\n Asterism (gemology), an optical phenomenon in gemstones\n Asterism (typography), (⁂) a moderately rare typographical symbol denoting a break in passages\n\nSee also\n \n \n Aster (disambiguation)"
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"id": "802",
"title": "Ankara",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankara"
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"content": "Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul.\n\nServing as th... |
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"id": "803",
"title": "Arabic",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic"
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"content": "Arabic (, or , or ) is a Semitic language that first emerged in the 1st to 4th centuries CE. It is the lingua franca of the Arab world and the liturgical language of Islam. It is named after the Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living in the Arabian Peninsula bounded by eastern... |
{
"id": "808",
"title": "Alfred Hitchcock",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Hitchcock"
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"content": "Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker who was one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the \... |
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"id": "809",
"title": "Anaconda",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda"
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"content": "Anacondas or water boas are a group of large snakes of the genus Eunectes. They are found in tropical South America. Four species are currently recognized.\n\nDescription\nAlthough the name applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species, in particular, the common or gr... |
{
"id": "824",
"title": "Altaic languages",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic%20languages"
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"content": "Altaic (; also called Transeurasian) is a sprachbund (i.e. a linguistic area) and proposed language family that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages. Speakers of these languages are currently scattered over most of A... |
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"id": "825",
"title": "Austrian German",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian%20German"
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"content": "Austrian German (), Austrian Standard German (ASG), Standard Austrian German (), or Austrian High German (), is the variety of Standard German written and spoken in Austria. It has the highest sociolinguistic prestige locally, as it is the variation used in the media and for other formal situation... |
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"id": "840",
"title": "Axiom of choice",
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"content": "In mathematics, the axiom of choice, or AC, is an axiom of set theory equivalent to the statement that a Cartesian product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty. Informally put, the axiom of choice says that given any collection of bins, each containing at least one object, it is possible... |
{
"id": "841",
"title": "Attila",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila"
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"content": "Attila (, ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in March 453. He was also the leader of a tribal empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans and Bulgars, among others, in Central and Eastern Europe. He is also considered one of the most powerful... |
{
"id": "842",
"title": "Aegean Sea",
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"content": "The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some 215,000 square kilometres. In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea and the Black Sea by the straits of the Dardanel... |
{
"id": "843",
"title": "A Clockwork Orange (novel)",
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"content": "A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state autho... |
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"id": "844",
"title": "Amsterdam",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam"
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"content": "Amsterdam ( , , ) is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands; with a population of 872,680 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban area and 2,480,394 in the metropolitan area. Found within the Dutch province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the \"Ven... |
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"id": "846",
"title": "Museum of Work",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20Work"
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"content": "The Museum of Work (Arbetets museum) is a museum located in Norrköping, Sweden. The museum is located in the Strykjärn (Clothes iron), a former weaving mill in the old industrial area on the Motala ström river in the city centre of Norrköping. The former textile factory Holmens Bruk (sv) operate... |
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"id": "848",
"title": "Audi",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi"
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"content": "Audi AG () (commonly referred to as Audi) is a German automotive manufacturer of luxury vehicles headquartered in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. As a subsidiary of its parent company, the Volkswagen Group, Audi produces vehicles in nine production facilities worldwide.\n\nThe origins of the company... |
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"id": "849",
"title": "Aircraft",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft"
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"content": "An aircraft is a vehicle or machine that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines. Common examples of aircraft include airplanes, h... |
{
"id": "851",
"title": "Alfred Nobel",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Nobel"
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"content": "Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( , ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known for having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize, though he also made several important contributions to science, holding 355 p... |
{
"id": "852",
"title": "Alexander Graham Bell",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Graham%20Bell"
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"content": "Alexander Graham Bell (, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.\n\nBell's father, grand... |
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"id": "854",
"title": "Anatolia",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia"
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"content": "Anatolia, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The region is bounded by the Turkish Straits to the northwest, the Black Sea to the north, the Armenian Highlands to t... |
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"id": "856",
"title": "Apple Inc.",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Inc."
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"content": "Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company that specializes in consumer electronics, software and online services. Apple is the largest information technology company by revenue (totaling in 2021) and, as of January 2021, it is the world's most valuable company, the fourth-largest... |
{
"id": "857",
"title": "Aberdeenshire",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeenshire"
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"content": "Aberdeenshire (; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.\n\nIt takes its name from the County of Aberdeen which has substantially different boundaries. The Aberdeenshire Council area includes all of the area of the historic counties of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire (except the area makin... |
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"id": "859",
"title": "Aztlan Underground",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztlan%20Underground"
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"content": "Aztlan Underground is a band from Los Angeles, California that combines Hip-Hop, Punk Rock, Jazz, and electronic music with Chicano and Native American themes, and indigenous instrumentation. They are often cited as progenitors of Chicano rap.\n\nBackground \nThe band traces its roots to the late-... |
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"id": "863",
"title": "American Civil War",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Civil%20War"
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"content": "The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (states that remained loyal to the federal union, or \"the North\") and the Confederacy (states that voted to secede, or \"the South\"). The central cause of the ... |
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"id": "864",
"title": "Andy Warhol",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Warhol"
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"content": "Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture t... |
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"id": "868",
"title": "Alp Arslan",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alp%20Arslan"
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"content": "Alp Arslan (honorific in Turkic meaning \"Heroic or Great Lion\"; in ; Arabic epithet: Diyā ad-Dunyā wa ad-Dīn Adud ad-Dawlah Abu Shujā' Muhammad Ālp Ārslan ibn Dawūd, ; 20 January 1029 – 24 November 1072), real name: Muhammad bin Dawud Chaghri, was the second Sultan of the Seljuk Empire and great... |
{
"id": "869",
"title": "American Film Institute",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Film%20Institute"
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"content": "The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private funding and public membership fees.\n\nLeadership\nThe institute is composed of leaders from the film, en... |
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"id": "872",
"title": "Akira Kurosawa",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira%20Kurosawa"
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"content": "was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in film history.\n\nKurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After years o... |
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"id": "874",
"title": "Ancient Egypt",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20Egypt"
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"content": "Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated in the place that is now the country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) with... |
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"id": "875",
"title": "Analog Brothers",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20Brothers"
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"content": "Analog Brothers were an experimental hip hop band featuring Tracy \"Ice Oscillator\" Marrow (Ice-T) on keyboards, drums and vocals, Keith \"Keith Korg\" Thornton (Ultramagnetic MCs' Kool Keith) on bass, strings and vocals, Marc \"Mark Moog\" Giveand (Raw Breed's Marc Live) on drums, violins and vo... |
{
"id": "876",
"title": "Motor neuron disease",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20neuron%20disease"
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"content": "Motor neuron diseases or motor neurone diseases (MNDs) are a group of rare neurodegenerative disorders that selectively affect motor neurons, the cells which control voluntary muscles of the body. They include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), progressive bulbar palsy (PBP), pseudobulbar palsy,... |
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"id": "877",
"title": "Abjad",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad"
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"content": "An abjad (, ; also abgad) is a writing system in which only consonants are represented, leaving vowel sounds to be inferred by the reader. This contrasts with true alphabets, which provide glyphs for both consonants and vowels. The term was introduced in 1990 by Peter T. Daniels. Other terms for t... |
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"id": "878",
"title": "Abugida",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abugida"
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"content": "An abugida (, from Ge'ez: ), sometimes known as alphasyllabary, neosyllabary or pseudo-alphabet, is a segmental writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary. This contrasts with a full alphabet, in... |
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"id": "880",
"title": "ABBA",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBA"
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"content": "ABBA ( , ) are a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names arranged as a palindrome. One of the most popular and successful musical groups of a... |
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"id": "881",
"title": "Allegiance",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance"
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"content": "An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed, or freely committed, by the people, subjects or citizens to their state or sovereign.\n\nEtymology\nFrom Middle English ligeaunce (see medieval Latin ligeantia, \"a liegance\"). The al- prefix was probably added through confusion with another l... |
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"id": "885",
"title": "Altenberg",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altenberg"
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"content": "Altenberg (German for \"old mountain\" or \"mountain of the old\") may refer to:\n\nPlaces\n\nAustria\n Altenberg, a town in Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Tulln District\n Altenberg bei Linz, in Upper Austria\n Altenberg an der Rax, in Styria\n\nGermany\n Altenberg (Bergisches Land), an area in Odenthal, N... |
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"id": "887",
"title": "MessagePad",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePad"
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"content": "The MessagePad is a discontinued series of personal digital assistant devices developed by Apple for the Newton platform in 1993. Some electronic engineering and the manufacture of Apple's MessagePad devices was undertaken in Japan by the Sharp. The devices were based on the ARM 610 RISC processo... |
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"id": "888",
"title": "A. E. van Vogt",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20E.%20van%20Vogt"
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"content": "Alfred Elton van Vogt (; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author. His fragmented, bizarre narrative style influenced later science fiction writers, notably Philip K. Dick. He was one of the most popular and influential practitioners of science fiction in the ... |
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"id": "890",
"title": "Anna Kournikova",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Kournikova"
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"content": "Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (; born 7 June 1981) is a Russian former professional tennis player and American television personality. Her appearance and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her na... |
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"id": "892",
"title": "Alfons Maria Jakob",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfons%20Maria%20Jakob"
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"content": "Alfons Maria Jakob (2 July 1884 – 17 October 1931) was a German neurologist who worked in the field of neuropathology.\n\nHe was born in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria and educated in medicine at the universities of Munich, Berlin, and Strasbourg, where he received his doctorate in 1908. During the follow... |
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"id": "894",
"title": "Agnosticism",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism"
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"content": "Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. Another definition provided is the view that \"human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify either the belief that God exists or the belief that... |
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"id": "896",
"title": "Argon",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon"
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"content": "Argon is a chemical element with the symbol Ar and atomic number 18. It is in group 18 of the periodic table and is a noble gas. Argon is the third-most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere, at 0.934% (9340 ppmv). It is more than twice as abundant as water vapor (which averages about 4000 ppmv, ... |
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"id": "897",
"title": "Arsenic",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic"
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"content": "Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As and atomic number 33. Arsenic occurs in many minerals, usually in combination with sulfur and metals, but also as a pure elemental crystal. Arsenic is a metalloid. It has various allotropes, but only the gray form, which has a metallic appearance, i... |
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"id": "898",
"title": "Antimony",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimony"
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"content": "Antimony is a chemical element with the symbol Sb (from ) and atomic number 51. A lustrous gray metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite (Sb2S3). Antimony compounds have been known since ancient times and were powdered for use as medicine and cosmetics, often known b... |
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"id": "899",
"title": "Actinium",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinium"
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"content": "Actinium is a chemical element with the symbol Ac and atomic number 89. It was first isolated by Friedrich Oskar Giesel in 1902, who gave it the name emanium; the element got its name by being wrongly identified with a substance André-Louis Debierne found in 1899 and called actinium. Actinium gave... |
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"id": "900",
"title": "Americium",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium"
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"content": "Americium is a synthetic radioactive chemical element with the symbol Am and atomic number 95. It is a transuranic member of the actinide series, in the periodic table located under the lanthanide element europium, and thus by analogy was named after the Americas.\n\nAmericium was first produced i... |
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"id": "901",
"title": "Astatine",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astatine"
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"content": "Astatine is a chemical element with the symbol At and atomic number 85. It is the rarest naturally occurring element in the Earth's crust, occurring only as the decay product of various heavier elements. All of astatine's isotopes are short-lived; the most stable is astatine-210, with a half-life ... |
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"id": "902",
"title": "Atom",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom"
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"content": "An atom is the smallest unit of ordinary matter that forms a chemical element. Every solid, liquid, gas, and plasma is composed of neutral or ionized atoms. Atoms are extremely small, typically around 100 picometers across. They are so small that accurately predicting their behavior using classica... |
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"id": "903",
"title": "Arable land",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arable%20land"
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"content": "Arable land (from the , \"able to be ploughed\") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops. Alternatively, for the purposes of agricultural statistics, the term often has a more precise definition: \n\nA more concise definition appearing in the Eurostat glossary similarly refers... |
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"id": "904",
"title": "Aluminium",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium"
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"content": "Aluminium (or aluminum in American English and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately one third that of steel. It has a great affinity towards oxygen, and forms a protective ... |
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"id": "905",
"title": "Advanced Chemistry",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Chemistry"
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"content": "Advanced Chemistry is a German hip hop group from Heidelberg, a scenic city in Baden-Württemberg, South Germany. Advanced Chemistry was founded in 1987 by Toni L, Linguist, Gee-One, DJ Mike MD (Mike Dippon) and MC Torch. Each member of the group holds German citizenship, and Toni L, Linguist, and ... |
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"id": "909",
"title": "Anglican Communion",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican%20Communion"
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"content": "The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other autocephalous national and regional churches in full communion. T... |
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"id": "910",
"title": "Arne Kaijser",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne%20Kaijser"
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"content": "Arne Kaijser (born 1950) is a professor emeritus of history of technology at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a former president of the Society for the History of Technology.\n\nKaijser has published two books in Swedish: Stadens ljus. Etableringen av de första svenska gasve... |
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"id": "911",
"title": "Archipelago",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archipelago"
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"content": "An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.\n\nExamples of archipelagos include: the Indonesian Archipelago, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Lakshadweep ... |
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"id": "914",
"title": "Author",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author"
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"content": "An author is the creator or originator of any written work such as a book or play, and is also considered a writer or poet. More broadly defined, an author is \"the person who originated or gave existence to anything\" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created.\n\nLegal s... |
{
"id": "915",
"title": "Andrey Markov",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Markov"
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"content": "Andrey Andreyevich Markov (14 June 1856 – 20 July 1922) was a Russian mathematician best known for his work on stochastic processes. A primary subject of his research later became known as Markov chains or Markov processes.\n\nMarkov and his younger brother Vladimir Andreevich Markov (1871–1897) p... |
{
"id": "921",
"title": "Angst",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angst"
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"content": "Angst is fear or anxiety (anguish is its Latinate equivalent, and the words anxious and anxiety are of similar origin). The dictionary definition for angst is a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity.\n\nEtymology\nThe word angst was introduced into English from the Danish, Norwegian, and... |
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"id": "922",
"title": "Anxiety",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety"
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"content": "Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes subjectively unpleasant feelings of dread over anticipated events. It is often accompanied by nervous behavior such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints, and rumination.\n\nAnxiety is a feeling of unea... |
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"id": "924",
"title": "A. A. Milne",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20A.%20Milne"
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"content": "Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne serv... |
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"id": "925",
"title": "Asociación Alumni",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asociaci%C3%B3n%20Alumni"
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"content": "Asociación Alumni, usually just Alumni, is an Argentine rugby union club located in Tortuguitas, Greater Buenos Aires. The senior squad currently competes at Top 12, the first division of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires league system.\n\nThe club has ties with former football club Alumni becaus... |
{
"id": "928",
"title": "Axiom",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom"
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"content": "An axiom, postulate, or assumption is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments. The word comes from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning 'that which is thought worthy or fit' or 'that which commends itself as evident'.\n\nThe ... |
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"id": "929",
"title": "Alpha",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha"
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"content": "Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ; , álpha, or ) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph , which is the West Semitic word for \"ox\". Letters that arose from alpha include the Latin letter A a... |
{
"id": "930",
"title": "Alvin Toffler",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin%20Toffler"
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"content": "Alvin Toffler (October 4, 1928 – June 27, 2016) was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide. He is regarded as one of th... |
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"id": "931",
"title": "The Amazing Spider-Man",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amazing%20Spider-Man"
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"content": "The Amazing Spider-Man is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics, featuring the fictional superhero Spider-Man as its main protagonist. Being in the mainstream continuity of the franchise, it began publication in 1963 as a bimonthly periodical (as Amazing Fantasy had been), quick... |
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"id": "933",
"title": "AM",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM"
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"content": "AM may refer to:\n\nArts and entertainment\n\nMusic\n Skengdo & AM, British rap duo \n AM (musician), American musician\n A.M. (musician), Canadian musician\n DJ AM, American DJ and producer\n AM (Abraham Mateo album)\n A.M. (Wilco album)\n A.M. (Chris Young album)\n AM (Arctic Monkeys album)\n Am... |
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"id": "951",
"title": "Antigua and Barbuda",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua%20and%20Barbuda"
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"content": "Antigua and Barbuda (; ) is a sovereign island country in the West Indies in the Americas, lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major islands, Antigua and Barbuda separated by around , and smaller islands (including Great Bird, Green, Guiana, Long, Maiden, Pri... |
{
"id": "953",
"title": "Azincourt",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azincourt"
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"content": "Azincourt (), historically known in English as Agincourt ( ), is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It is situated north-west of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise on the D71 road between Hesdin and Fruges\n\nThe Late Medieval Battle of Agincourt between the English and the French ... |
{
"id": "954",
"title": "Albert Speer",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Speer"
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"content": "Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (; ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 year... |
{
"id": "956",
"title": "Asteraceae",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteraceae"
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"content": "The family Asteraceae (), alternatively Compositae (), consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae were first described in the year 1740. The number o... |
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"id": "957",
"title": "Apiaceae",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiaceae"
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"content": "Apiaceae or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus Apium and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plants, with more than 3,700 species in 434 genera including su... |
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"id": "958",
"title": "Axon",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axon"
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"content": "An axon (from Greek ἄξων áxōn, axis), or nerve fiber (or nerve fibre: see spelling differences), is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, in vertebrates, that typically conducts electrical impulses known as action potentials away from the nerve cell body. The function of the axon ... |
{
"id": "960",
"title": "Aramaic alphabet",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic%20alphabet"
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"content": "The ancient Aramaic alphabet was adapted by Arameans from the Phoenician alphabet and became a distinct script by the 8th century BC. It was used to write the Aramaic language and had displaced the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, itself a derivative of the Phoenician alphabet, for the writing of Hebrew. Th... |
{
"id": "966",
"title": "American shot",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20shot"
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"content": "\"American shot\" or \"cowboy shot\" is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, plan américain, and refers to a medium-long (\"knee\") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera. The usual arrangement is for the actors to stand in an ir... |
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"id": "967",
"title": "Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute%20disseminated%20encephalomyelitis"
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"content": "Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), or acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis, is a rare autoimmune disease marked by a sudden, widespread attack of inflammation in the brain and spinal cord. As well as causing the brain and spinal cord to become inflamed, ADEM also attacks the nerves of t... |
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"id": "969",
"title": "Ataxia",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataxia"
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"content": "Ataxia is a neurological sign consisting of lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements that can include gait abnormality, speech changes, and abnormalities in eye movements. Ataxia is a clinical manifestation indicating dysfunction of the parts of the nervous system that coordinate movemen... |
{
"id": "974",
"title": "Ada Lovelace",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada%20Lovelace"
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"content": "Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had ... |
{
"id": "980",
"title": "August Derleth",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%20Derleth"
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"content": "August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the cosmic horror genre, as well as his founding of the p... |
{
"id": "981",
"title": "Alps",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alps"
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"content": "The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia. \n\nThe Alpine arch generally extends from... |