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A newly discovered painting on wooden panel by Michelangelo must have
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In response to the increasing environmental damage wrought by poachers
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A meteor stream is composed of dust particles that have been ejected
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Critics maintain that the fiction of Herman Melville (1819–1891) has
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Recent studies show that people between the ages of 13 and 55 produce
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Jacob Burckhardt’s view that Renaissance European
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Language acquisition has long been thought of as a process of
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Computer programs are unusual in that they are virtually the
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In the past century, Irish painting has changed from a Briti
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Any United States flag manufactured outside the United Stat
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Researchers compared 42 average-weight and 47 obese infants,
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In the last year, real estate prices, such as those for hous
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Seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke stated that as much as 99
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Only in a social milieu in which many parties are scheduled
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In the final decades of the nineteenth century, railroad exp
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Historically, Country A has imported much of its wheat from foreign so
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Poverty indexes are determined by pretax money income
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The public intellectual is one who has become elevated to a symbol, a
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With information readily available on the internet, consumer
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"On the whole," Ms. Dennis remarked, "engineering students a
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Currently, the number of first-time admissions of individual
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The number of stray dogs picked up in Ford City last year by
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The school bus always stops at the railroad tracks. When the
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The discovery of penicillin by Fleming in 1929 opened an entire new wa
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Among the classes at City High School, Mrs. Baxter’s class h
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Schools expect textbooks to be a valuable source of information for
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According to a 1980 survey, ten percent of all United States
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One retirement account option allows a worker to save money
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To many environmentalists, the extinction of plants-accompa
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At the Shadybrook dog kennel, all the adult animals were given a new
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The two realms of Vladimir Nabokovs genius, that of a scientist and t
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Automobiles manufactured in Country J used to sell for high prices bec
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The general density dependence model can be applied to explain the fou
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No botanist lives long enough to study the complete life cyc
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Australian researchers have discovered electroreceptors (sensory organ
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Angler: Fish such as suckers, shiners, and chubs are neither
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