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Kármán line (en.wikipedia.org)
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Interactive Cognite Bias Codex (upload.wikimedia.org)
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Baseball Rubbing Mud (en.wikipedia.org)

Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud is a brand of specially prepared mud used to prepare balls in the sport of baseball before they are put into play.

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Royal forest (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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Omega (en.wikipedia.org)
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For ohm – SI unit of electrical resistance; formerly also used upside down (℧) to represent mho, the old name for the inverse of an ohm (now siemens with symbol S) used for electrical conductance. Unicode has a separate code point U+2126 Ω OHM SIGN (HTML entity Ω), but it is included only for backward compatibility, and the canonically equivalent code point U+03A9 Ω GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA (Ω) is preferred.[7]

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Fall of the Roman Empire (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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1915 Glasgow rent strikes (en.wikipedia.org)
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French Resistance (en.wikipedia.org)
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The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas) who conducted guerrilla warfare and published underground newspapers. They also provided first-hand intelligence information, and escape networks that helped Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind Axis lines. The Resistance's men and women came from many parts of French society, including émigrés, academics, students, aristocrats, conservative Roman Catholics (including clergy), Protestants, Jews, Muslims, liberals, anarchists, communists, and some fascists. The proportion of French people who participated in organized resistance has been estimated at from one to three percent...

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Came to this article while looking at "Creativity and mental illness". "People with this disorder feel pronounced discomfort in forming and maintaining social connections with other people, primarily due to the belief that other people harbor negative thoughts and views about them. Peculiar speech mannerisms and socially unexpected modes of dress are also characteristic. Schizotypal people may react oddly in conversations, not respond, or talk to themselves. They frequently interpret situations as being strange or having unusual meanings for them; paranormal and superstitious beliefs are common."

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311 (telephone number) (en.wikipedia.org)
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Anna Louise James (en.wikipedia.org)
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Kompromat (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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Useful Idiot (en.wikipedia.org)
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California genocide (en.wikipedia.org)
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Gustav Badin (en.wikipedia.org)
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