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  2. Mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Areas such as celestial mechanics and solid mechanics were then studied by mathematicians, but now are considered as belonging to physics. [20] The subject of combinatorics has been studied for much of recorded history, yet did not become a separate branch of mathematics until the seventeenth century. [21]

  3. Platypus - Wikipedia

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    According to one story of the upper Darling River, [6] the major animal groups, the land animals, water animals and birds, all competed for the platypus to join their respective groups, but the platypus ultimately decided to not join any of them, feeling that he did not need to be part of a group to be special, [121]: 83–85 and wished to ...

  4. Butterfly - Wikipedia

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    Possibly the original butter-fly. [6] A male brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) in flight.The Oxford English Dictionary derives the word straightforwardly from Old English butorflēoge, butter-fly; similar names in Old Dutch and Old High German show that the name is ancient, but modern Dutch and German use different words (vlinder and Schmetterling) and the common name often varies substantially ...

  5. Amsterdam - Wikipedia

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    Shops in Amsterdam range from large high-end department stores such as De Bijenkorf founded in 1870 to small speciality shops. Amsterdam's high-end shops are found in the streets P.C. Hooftstraat [ 193 ] and Cornelis Schuytstraat , which are located in the vicinity of the Vondelpark .

  6. Polypropylene - Wikipedia

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    [17] [18] The β-modification is in comparison somewhat less ordered, as a result of which it forms faster [19] [20] and has a lower melting point of 170 to 200 °C. [ 14 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 16 ] The formation of the β-modification can be promoted by nucleating agents, suitable temperatures and shear stress.

  7. UTF-8 - Wikipedia

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    This encoding was not satisfactory on performance grounds, among other problems, and the biggest problem was probably that it did not have a clear separation between ASCII and non-ASCII: new UTF-1 tools would be backward compatible with ASCII-encoded text, but UTF-1-encoded text could confuse existing code expecting ASCII (or extended ASCII ...

  8. Oxycodone - Wikipedia

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    Oxycodone, sold under various brand names such as Roxicodone, Endone, and OxyContin (which is the extended-release form), is a semi-synthetic opioid used medically for treatment of moderate to severe pain.

  9. Costco - Wikipedia

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    Costco membership card from Iceland. Costco's earliest predecessor, Price Club, opened its first store on July 12, 1976, on Morena Boulevard in San Diego, California.It was founded three months earlier by Sol Price and his son, Robert, following a dispute with the new owners of FedMart, Price's previous membership-only discount store. [14]