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Though looking less distinctive than many of their highly sought-

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Harold Pinter was known to be a keen observer of urban life and is

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The party president stated that the party's performance in the

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Many manufacturing majors have notched up more sales growth than

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Twentieth-century farmers might not have conceived of neonic insectici

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With his death last night, the entire nation has lost someone who

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19 Dec 2020, 08:45

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About 80% of the fish oil harvested from the oceans every year is

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27 Dec 2020, 09:06

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Worried over the constant and graphic stimulation that mass culture

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03 May 2020, 01:51

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Cockroaches have multi-chambered hearts, shaped more like tubes

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25 Dec 2020, 08:32

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15 May 2023, 06:38

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Many believe that one-upmanship is a means for growth in career

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29 Dec 2020, 08:58

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A number of customers saw the bank being robbed and based on their

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28 Dec 2020, 07:26

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As liberal elites both East and West commemorate the peaceful end of t

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03 May 2020, 01:36

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According to the author, the country's most basic precepts, such as

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23 Dec 2020, 08:39

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08 Feb 2023, 09:25

Noting that the price of the pesticides and insecticides , a chief

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07 May 2020, 14:16

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Unpredictability of the monsoon, unusual, spatial and temporal

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23 Oct 2020, 21:57

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16 Jan 2023, 21:19

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Once extremely expensive and used primarily for ornamental or

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15 Jan 2020, 13:38

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03 Jan 2023, 07:02

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An international team of scientists writing in the journal Global

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10 May 2020, 15:31

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19 Dec 2022, 14:10

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In 1986 falling demand brought world oil prices down to less than $10

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03 Feb 2020, 09:48

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Taking steps to address the national crisis, important banking reforms

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03 May 2020, 01:39

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Birds preen themselves to clean and water proof their feathers, mainta

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25 Nov 2020, 06:03

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01 Nov 2022, 04:42

With hundreds of thousands of people pushed into food insecurity,

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Usually lakes exist for no more than 10,000 to 15,000 years, gradually

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07 Dec 2020, 06:54

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The administration of the university has enacted a policy that

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25 Mar 2020, 00:39

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Like other Genetically modified crops, commercial production of

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27 Nov 2020, 06:06

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21 Oct 2022, 18:21

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Tissue samples taken from the fossilized skeleton of an unidentified

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Even though a few of the manuscripts found recently in southern German

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Guglielmo Marconi, who came to England in 1896 and obtained a Britis

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According to a survey, pursuing a successful career while not neglecti

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Dressed as a man and using the name Harvey Spector, Donna Paulson,

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In 1990 , there were an estimated 10,000 tigers in the wild ,

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Never before had the villagers seen so many technological marvels at

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Based on images from NASA's Cassini probe, astronomers have figured

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The nation is committed to provide equal opportunities to persons

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The Carpathian mountains have none of the awesome majesty of the

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30 Apr 2022, 12:28

The conflict had faded from popular memory within fifteen years of the

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Since the beginning of this century there were many natural

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23 Dec 2020, 08:37

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07 Apr 2022, 21:06

Because of how the brain learns, if a person rather did four sets of a

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Billowing clouds of sand engulfed the city and surrounding areas

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A survey by the Labour Ministry revealed that in 2006 there were 60,

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In many villages of the Carpathians, wealth is measured not in

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Unlike most art exhibitions, which require the viewer to appreciate

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08 Jan 2020, 12:33

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Although Maryland, unlike many other U.S states, has weathered the

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Getting its name from the digestive enzyme pepsin, the soft drink

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Dressed as a man and using the name Harvey Spector, Donna Paulson,

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26 Aug 2021, 00:07

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Realtors and advocates for responsible housing policies declare that

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01 Feb 2020, 00:14

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17 Aug 2021, 08:51

A chandelier once belonging to the family of James Fenimore Cooper,

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22 Jul 2021, 04:31

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The Zimbabwe regime realizes that there will be little exports without

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New research in baseball – together with data collected from interview

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06 May 2020, 15:35

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24 Jun 2021, 01:59

In a 1998 study submitting more than 200 papers to prestigious scienti

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04 Jan 2020, 08:06

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11 May 2021, 01:29

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Indonesian geologists have discovered evidence that indicates that

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29 Jan 2020, 14:01

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07 May 2021, 04:51

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