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As the works of dozens of women writers have been rescued fr
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Around 1960, mathematician Edward Lorenz found unexpected be
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A recent development in the marketplace for consumer technol
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Many literary detectives have pored over a great puzzle conc
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A supernova is a brief stellar explosion so luminous that it
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In Greco-Roman societies, women applied white lead and chalk
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In a recent poll, 71% of respondents reported that they cast
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Calculating hydroelectric plants' environmental impact is not simple.
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Two suits of battle armor worn by King Henry VIII were disco
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Echolocating bats emit sounds in patterns—characteristic of
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The 1960's witnessed two profound social movements: the civi
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Microfiber synthetics have been taking the place of natural
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That some dinosaurs could fly has long been established. Tha
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QOTD # 21 Universalism was most prominently set forward by
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Exterminator: Using poisoned food is the most effective tact
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James’s first novels used conventional narrative techniques:
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Outsourcing, or the allocation of specific aspects of a corp
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GRE RC #10-Benjamin Franklin established that lightning
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The dearth of natural resources on the Australian continent
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Contemporary literary scholars have come to discard the once
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QOTD #4 In keeping with the notable incorporation of operati
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Without a doubt, one of the pinnacle achievements of modern
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In modern literary history, both budding and well-establishe
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In 1977, the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was passed for
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Researchers are finding that in many ways an individual bact
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Many Iranian Americans, whether they are immigrants or Amer
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The recent, apparently successful, prediction by mathematica
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The nineteenth century marked a revolutionary change in the
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Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in
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In 1955 Maurice Duverger published The Political Role of Women, the fi
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Manufacturers have to do more than build large manufacturing plants to
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In the Victorian era, critics tended to view the art of the Italian
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Government restrictions have severely limited the amount of
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Archaeological discoveries frequently undermine accepted ide
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QOTD #18 In traditional theater forms, the roles of performe
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Our visual perception depends on the reception of energy ref
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The Parthenon has long been regarded as one of the great
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Two relatively recent independent developments stand behind
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The tenn " Ice Age" may give a wrong impression. The epoch t
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The Dewey decimal system provided the first standardized, e
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, it was believed by many in c
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A recent assessment of the status of global amphibian popula
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QOTD # 25 Nineteenth century painter Albert Bierstadt’s view
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Instigated primarily by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, t
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A farmer plants only five different kinds of vegetables - be
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The most common metal in the Earth’s crust, aluminum
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