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  2. History of Africa - Wikipedia

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    In African societies, the historical process is largely a communal one, with eyewitness accounts, hearsay, and reminiscences, and occasionally visions, dreams, and hallucinations, crafted into narrative oral traditions. [9]: 12 [10]: 48 Time is sometimes mythical and social, [a] and truth viewed as relativist.

  3. Unit 731 - Wikipedia

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    Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), [note 1] short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment [3]: 198 and the Ishii Unit, [5] was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War ...

  4. Luxembourg - Wikipedia

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    Luxembourg (/ ˈ l ʌ k s əm b ɜːr ɡ / ⓘ LUK-səm-burg; [9] Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerg [ˈlətsəbuəɕ] ⓘ; German: Luxemburg [ˈlʊksm̩bʊʁk] ⓘ; French: Luxembourg [lyksɑ̃buʁ] ⓘ), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, [a] is a small landlocked country in Western Europe.

  5. Carnegie Mellon University - Wikipedia

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    Carnegie Mellon students and faculty have access to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and some University of Pittsburgh libraries through consortial agreements with those institutions. The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (HIBD), [ 135 ] dedicated as the Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library in 1961, has been a research ...

  6. City University of New York - Wikipedia

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    The City University of New York (CUNY, spoken / ˈ k juː n i /, KYOO-nee) is the public university system of New York City.It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven senior colleges, seven community colleges, and seven professional institutions.

  7. Roosevelt Island - Wikipedia

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    Main Street runs the length of the island, splitting into a loop around Southtown; [6] it was the island's only road until 1989. [20] The street is paved in red brick. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Main Street, along with the island's parks, was intended to be a communal area for the island's various ethnic groups and socioeconomic classes. [ 23 ]

  8. Amazon Web Services - Wikipedia

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    Jeff Barr, an early AWS employee, credits Vermeulen, Jassy, Bezos himself, and a few others for coming up with the idea that would evolve into EC2, S3, and RDS; [33] Jassy recalls the idea was the result of brainstorming for about a week with "ten of the best technology minds and ten of the best product management minds" on about ten different ...

  9. Organic farming - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, organic farming has been shown to be 2.7 to 3.8 times more profitable for the farmer than conventional farming when prevailing price premiums are taken into account. [116] Globally, organic farming is 22–35% more profitable for farmers than conventional methods, according to a 2015 meta-analysis of studies conducted ...