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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 oral traditions. [9]: 12 [10]: 48 Time is sometimes mythical and social, [a] and truth relativist.

  3. John F. Kennedy International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Idlewild opened with six runways and a seventh under construction; [34] runways 1L and 7L were held in reserve and never came into use as runways. Runway 31R (originally 8,000 ft or 2,438 m) is still in use; runway 31L (originally 9,500 ft or 2,896 m) opened soon after the rest of the airport and is still in use; runway 1R closed in 1957 and ...

  4. Transgender - Wikipedia

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    She argued that being denied access to her high school's women's restroom was a violation of Maine's Human Rights Act; one state judge has disagreed with her, [163] but Maines won her lawsuit against the Orono school district in January 2014 before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. [164]

  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. Medicare (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Medicare amendment (July 30, 1965). Former President Harry S. Truman (seated) and his wife, Bess, are on the far right.. Originally, the name "Medicare" in the United States referred to a program providing medical care for families of people serving in the military as part of the Dependents' Medical Care Act, which was passed in 1956. [5]

  7. Visa requirements for United States citizens - Wikipedia

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    U.S. passport holders can sign up for E-Gate access on arrival/departure at Dubai International Airport. No United Kingdom: Visa not required [457] [458] 6 months [459] Up to 90 days if arriving from Ireland (Common Travel Area) A ETA, just like a US ESTA or a Canada ETA will be required to travel to the United Kingdom in the near future. Yes ...

  8. Social media - Wikipedia

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    The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...

  9. Open-source software - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 September 2024. Software licensed to ensure source code usage rights Open-source software shares similarities with free software and is part of the broader term free and open-source software. For broader coverage of this topic, see Open-source-software movement. It has been suggested that this article ...