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Nanotechnology -- the use of structures that have unusual properties

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souvonik2k

09 May 2026, 00:02

13

7

7,893

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09 May 2026, 09:45

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When Jamaican-born social activist Marcus Garvey came to the United

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omidsa

03 Jun 2025, 03:38

376

37

116,143

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09 May 2026, 02:41

ER -2

Roger Rosenblatts book Black Fiction, in attempting to apply literary

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pathy

07 May 2026, 03:26

40

4

18,411

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08 May 2026, 20:46

ER -1

Japanese firms have achieved the highest levels of manufacturing effic

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OptimusPrimea1

08 May 2026, 19:29

30

5

25,017

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08 May 2026, 08:00

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The hypothesis of an expanding Earth has never attracted notable

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homersimpsons

08 May 2026, 07:15

32

7

12,225

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08 May 2026, 06:50

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Research data indicate that there is a great deal of poverty in the

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eyunni

09 Mar 2026, 09:56

103

18

47,249

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07 May 2026, 22:59

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Earths mantle lies below the crust and above the core. Scientists can

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guddo

08 May 2026, 19:35

47

4

20,035

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07 May 2026, 08:30

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Some modern anthropologists hold that biological evolution has shaped

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anukrati

09 Oct 2020, 09:59

59

4

24,932

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07 May 2026, 07:58

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For too many years scholars of African American history focused on the

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gmatt1476

12 Apr 2026, 11:43

24

8

9,966

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06 May 2026, 22:47

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In the past decade, rapid technological progress and a greater demand

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gmat1393

20 Mar 2026, 13:19

70

11

23,543

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06 May 2026, 13:15

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Without a doubt, one of the pinnacle achievements of modern physics is

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Sajjad1994

23 May 2023, 20:30

7

2,903

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06 May 2026, 08:15

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The federal government faces a crisis in the way it collects, analyzes

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gmatt1476

02 Mar 2024, 09:00

12

13

5,591

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05 May 2026, 05:53

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While it may seem simple and unobjectionable to non-specialists, one

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Bismarck

30 Apr 2026, 02:51

22

3

7,759

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04 May 2026, 20:01

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Because natural selection acts against genes that cause inherited

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gmatt1476

06 Mar 2026, 13:05

62

17

14,025

by: guddo

04 May 2026, 13:15

When Dr. Rachel Thompson assumed the leadership of

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joydipb01

03 May 2026, 04:06

11

6

377

by: vasu1104

04 May 2026, 07:02

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RonPurewal

29 Apr 2026, 21:55

7

3

508

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04 May 2026, 01:00

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Kleptoplasty (from the Greek kleptes, meaning thief) is a phenomenon

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Carcass

10 May 2023, 00:57

8

3

3,661

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03 May 2026, 02:14

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Comparable worth, as a standard applied to eliminate inequities in pay

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solarzj

26 Feb 2026, 10:43

387

43

124,012

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02 May 2026, 22:55

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Recent feminist scholarship concerning the United States in the 1920s

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viper1991

15 Jul 2025, 21:56

431

34

73,788

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02 May 2026, 15:41

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Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist

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BillyZ

02 May 2026, 05:04

57

8

18,066

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02 May 2026, 06:00

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Bernard Bailyn has recently reinterpreted the early history of the

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broall

25 Mar 2026, 06:23

34

7

19,862

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02 May 2026, 05:45

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Research from the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) has cast

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globaldesi

01 Dec 2019, 20:40

7

2

4,736

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02 May 2026, 05:09

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The final quarter of the nineteenth century marked a turning point in

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gmatt1476

03 Oct 2025, 01:45

153

26

45,171

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02 May 2026, 01:00

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Radiation occurs from three natural sources: radioactive material

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09173140521

01 May 2026, 10:12

15

12

16,002

by: guddo

01 May 2026, 11:15

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In 1879, inventor Thomas A. Edison came up with a practical electric

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Sajjad1994

05 Jun 2022, 21:00

3

7

6,196

by: guddo

01 May 2026, 05:30

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Art historians approach to French Impressionism has changed

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lahoosaher

15 Mar 2026, 22:22

78

8

42,314

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30 Apr 2026, 22:47

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In 1975 Chinese survey teams remeasured Mount Everest, the highest of

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IEsailor

09 Mar 2026, 03:27

100

13

51,799

by: Bunuel

30 Apr 2026, 21:46

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Many philosophers disagree over the definition of morality, but most

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globaldesi

06 Mar 2026, 11:36

22

6

8,608

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30 Apr 2026, 20:25

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Granville and Coates analysis of North American heavy manufacturing

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RonPurewal

13 Mar 2026, 19:00

7

4

763

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30 Apr 2026, 09:16

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The majority of successful senior managers do not closely

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teal

12 Apr 2026, 11:24

180

34

113,324

by: VerbalBot

29 Apr 2026, 04:46

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Far from being fixed on Earth, scientists now know that Australia has

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gmatgunner

15 Mar 2026, 11:15

51

10

25,472

by: guddo

29 Apr 2026, 04:30

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Alexander Calder was one of the most innovative and original American

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gmatt1476

24 Nov 2021, 23:00

50

15

20,649

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29 Apr 2026, 03:45

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Scholars working on the history of women in modern Ireland have in

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guddo

20 Mar 2026, 13:33

32

5

9,889

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29 Apr 2026, 02:45

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If early twentieth-century geologists and geo- physicists had heeded

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gmatt1476

01 Dec 2021, 23:00

66

16

22,236

by: guddo

29 Apr 2026, 01:30

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The fundamental relationship in United States politics at the state

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coreyander

28 Apr 2026, 21:49

47

15

15,735

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28 Apr 2026, 20:46

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The progress of astronomy has always been closely associated with the

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Nikhil

14 Dec 2024, 09:55

69

5

15,733

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28 Apr 2026, 09:59

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The ultimate pendulum clock, indeed the ultimate mechanical clock of a

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SouthCity

03 Aug 2019, 03:59

365

38

80,417

by: Borrat

28 Apr 2026, 05:47

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Benjamin Franklin established that lightning is the transfer of

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gmatt1476

11 May 2021, 20:00

16

5

8,803

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28 Apr 2026, 03:08

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It is perhaps not surprising that debate has arisen over bioluminescen

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Sajjad1994

04 Sep 2022, 08:00

7

14

3,656

by: KarishmaB

27 Apr 2026, 22:32

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Archeologists excavating sites in the Fertile Crescent region of the

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homersimpsons

28 Apr 2026, 03:28

24

5

13,509

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27 Apr 2026, 10:01

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Historians of medieval marriage practices ascribe particular significa

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gmatt1476

25 Sep 2024, 10:58

19

6

10,572

by: Borrat

27 Apr 2026, 06:41

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In terrestrial environments, gravity places special demands

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betterscore

27 Apr 2026, 02:19

192

25

104,290

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27 Apr 2026, 02:45

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The coffeehouse was central to the dissemination of ideas in eighteent

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Sajjad1994

30 Aug 2023, 07:00

7

5

5,431

by: guddo

26 Apr 2026, 00:45

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Behind every book review there are two key figures: a book review

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gmatt1476

24 Sep 2019, 05:22

410

41

71,566

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26 Apr 2026, 00:45

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Until the rise of powerful commodity computers, and perhaps more

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AVRonaldo

26 Apr 2026, 04:23

42

11

15,517

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26 Apr 2026, 00:40

ER

Numerous investigations have been made to test the validity of the the

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Skywalker18

06 Sep 2019, 09:07

24

6

8,454

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25 Apr 2026, 22:33

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The Department of Energy (DOE) was created by the Carter administratio

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aragonn

25 Apr 2026, 23:37

5

6

7,394

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25 Apr 2026, 19:57

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Jean Wagner's most enduring contribution to the study of Afro-American

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gmatt1476

14 Feb 2020, 03:32

33

6

18,870

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25 Apr 2026, 19:57

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Increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2 )

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globaldesi

25 Apr 2026, 13:47

55

7

13,519

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25 Apr 2026, 13:24

ER

Opponents of compulsory national service claim that such a program is

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nitya34

25 Apr 2026, 10:25

48

15

21,795

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25 Apr 2026, 07:33