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On Monday, Daisy’s Lemonade Stand sold lemonade at 20 cents per cup.
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Between the eighth and eleventh centuries A. D., the Byzantine Empire
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Plant scientists have used genetic engineering on seeds to produce cro
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A quark-nova is the explosion driven by phase transition of the core o
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Since it has become known that several of a banks top executives have
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Ethnohistoric documents from sixteenth
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The ancient Greek playwright Euripides followed the established conve
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E. M. Forster is an Edwardian in point of time, and he is equally so i
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Low levels of calcium in the blood are known to cause laryngeal polyps
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Although there is no record of poet Edmund Spenser's parentage, we do
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Comparison of the growth rings of ancient trees enables scientists to
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Kleptoplasty (from the Greek kleptes, meaning thief) is a phenomenon
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Historically, famines have generally been followed by periods of risin
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Although meningitis clone III-1 has caused hundreds of thousands
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Scandals involving authors of memoirs have raised questions about how
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Scottish economist Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations heralded the mar
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