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  2. Flag of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The national flag of the United States (Spanish: Bandera Nacional de Estados Unidos), often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton, referred to as the union and bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where ...

  3. Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia

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    The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The outfitted European slave ships of the slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

  4. Log sum inequality - Wikipedia

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    The log sum inequality can be used to prove inequalities in information theory. Gibbs' inequality states that the Kullback-Leibler divergence is non-negative, and equal to zero precisely if its arguments are equal. [3] One proof uses the log sum inequality. The inequality can also prove convexity of Kullback-Leibler divergence.

  5. Clearing House Interbank Payments System - Wikipedia

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    A netting engine consolidates all of the pending payments into fewer single transactions. For example, if Bank of America is to pay American Express $1.2 million, and American Express is to pay Bank of America $800,000, the CHIPS system aggregates this to a single payment of $400,000 from Bank of America to American Express. The Fedwire system ...

  6. Transformers One - Wikipedia

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    Transformers One is an upcoming American animated science fiction action film based on Hasbro 's Transformers toy line. Directed by Josh Cooley, the ensemble voice cast includes Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne, and Jon Hamm. The film depicts the origins and early ...

  7. Rookie Cops Get Hefty Pay Bump In New NYPD Contract

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    The top pay for officers will be $131,500 by the contract's end in 2024, officials said. The deal also provides retroactive wage increases for rank-and-file cops going back to 2017, officials said ...

  8. 'Disturbing' Increase In Hunger On Long Island, Food Banks Say

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    In 2023, Long Island Cares saw an increase of 37.4 percent — or 42,857 people — visiting its five satellite food pantries for assistance. The organization logged a total of 157,513 visits to ...

  9. English Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England [b] from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the struggle consisted of the First English Civil War and the Second English Civil War.