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Assault rifle | Definition, Examples, Facts, & History
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History and definition of the assault rifle, the standard infantry weapon of the post-World War II era.
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Tightrope, a Daily Trivia Game
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A daily trivia game with 9 interesting questions. If you get three wrong…you lose. Question categories include science, arts, history, animals and math.
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Vitruvian Man | History, Drawing, Leonardo da Vinci, Meaning, & Facts | Britannica
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Vitruvian Man, drawing in metalpoint, pen and ink, and watercolour on paper (c. 1490) by the Renaissance artist, architect, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci. It depicts a nude male figure with the arms and legs in two superimposed positions so that the hands and feet touch the perimeters of both a
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Universal basic income is a social welfare program that provides residents of a city, state, or country with a minimum income with no conditions or requirements.
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Civic republicanism | Political Theory & Social Contract Theory | Britannica
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Civic republicanism, tradition of political thought that stresses the interconnection of individual freedom and civic participation with the promotion of the common good. The concept of civic republicanism is most easily understood as a form of government that contrasts with autocratic forms of
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The Nutria Nuisance | Saving Earth | Encyclopedia Britannica
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Louisiana folklore holds that the roly-poly rodent called the nutria (Myocastor coypus), which looks something like a cross between a…
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Mastodon | Description, Distribution, Extinction, & Facts | Britannica
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Mastodon, any of several extinct elephantine mammals (family Mammutidae, genus Mammut) that first appeared in the early Miocene and continued in various forms through the Pleistocene Epoch (from 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago). Learn more about mastodons in this article.
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Albert Hofmann | Swiss Chemist & LSD Discoverer | Britannica
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Albert Hofmann was a Swiss chemist who discovered the psychedelic drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), which he first synthesized in 1938 by isolating compounds found in ergot (Claviceps purpurea), a fungus affecting rye. Despite his family’s lack of means, Hofmann spent an idyllic childhood
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Historical U.S. Presidential Election Results | Britannica
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The president and vice president of the United States are formally elected through an electoral college. Members (“electors”) of this electoral college are chosen through the popular vote in each state, and to be elected president a candidate must receive a majority of the electoral votes. If no
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Moho | Crustal Discontinuity, Seismic Wave & Earth’s Interior | Britannica
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Moho, boundary between the Earth’s crust and its mantle. The Moho lies at a depth of about 22 mi (35 km) below continents and about 4.5 mi (7 km) beneath the oceanic crust. Modern instruments have determined that the velocity of seismic waves increases rapidly at this boundary. The Moho was named
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Bush v. Gore | Summary, Decision, Significance, & Facts | Britannica
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Bush v. Gore, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a Florida Supreme Court’s recount order of the state’s presidential ballots in 2000. With the termination of the recount, Florida’s electoral votes were awarded to George W. Bush, giving him the electoral votes needed to be...
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Edmund Fitzgerald | Great Lakes Shipwreck, History & Legacy | Britannica
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Edmund Fitzgerald, American freighter that sank during a storm on November 10, 1975, in Lake Superior, killing all 29 aboard. Its mysterious demise inspired Gordon Lightfoot’s hit song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (1976), which helped make it the most famous shipwreck in the Great Lakes. In
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Nazi Party - Rise to Power, Ideology, Germany | Britannica
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Nazi Party - Rise to Power, Ideology, Germany: Upon his release Hitler quickly set about rebuilding his moribund party, vowing to achieve power only through legal political means thereafter. The Nazi Party’s membership grew from 25,000 in 1925 to about 180,000 in 1929. Its organizational system...
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Fascism - Extreme Nationalism, Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism | Britannica
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Fascism - Extreme Nationalism, Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism: Whereas cosmopolitan conservatives often supported international cooperation and admired elite culture in other countries, fascists espoused extreme nationalism and cultural parochialism. Fascist ideologues taught that national...
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Machismo | Patriarchy, Gender Roles, Latin America | Britannica
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Machismo, Exaggerated pride in masculinity, perceived as power, often coupled with a minimal sense of responsibility and disregard of consequences. In machismo there is supreme valuation of characteristics culturally associated with the masculine and a denigration of characteristics associated with
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Soap and detergent | Chemistry, Uses, Properties, & Facts | Britannica
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Soap and detergent, substances that, when dissolved in water, possess the ability to remove dirt from surfaces such as human skin, textiles, and other solids. The seemingly simple process of cleaning a soiled surface is, in fact, complex. Learn more about soap and detergent in this article.
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David | Biography, Summary, Goliath, Bathsheba, Reign, & Facts | Britannica
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David, second ruler of the united kingdom of ancient Israel and Judah and an important figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He was the father of Solomon and united the tribes of Israel. The primary evidence for David’s career is found in books 1 and 2 Samuel in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament).
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Robert Musil | Modernist, Novelist, Essayist | Britannica
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Robert Musil was an Austrian-German novelist, best known for his monumental unfinished novel Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (1930–43; The Man Without Qualities). Musil received a doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1908 and then held jobs as a librarian and an editor before serving in the
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Rose of Jericho | Definition, Plant, Types, & Facts | Britannica
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Rose of Jericho, either of two species of unrelated plants known for their ability to survive dessication. The true rose of Jericho (Anastatica hierochuntica) is native to western Asia and is the only species of the genus Anastatica of the mustard family (Brassicaceae). The small gray plant curls
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The Protestant Heritage | Reformation, Beliefs & Impact | Britannica
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The Protestant Heritage, Protestantism originated in the 16th-century Reformation, and its basic doctrines, in addition to those of the ancient Christian creeds, are justification by grace alone through faith, the priesthood of all believers, and the supremacy of Holy Scripture in matters of faith
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What led to the Enlightenment? | Britannica
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What led to the Enlightenment? The roots of the Enlightenment can be found in the humanism of the Renaissance, with its emphasis on the study of Clas
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Brett Kavanaugh | Supreme Court, Biography, Controversy, & Facts | Britannica
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Brett Kavanaugh, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 2018. He was narrowly confirmed by the U.S. Senate following contentious hearings at which he was accused of having sexually assaulted a female acquaintance in the early 1980s, when both were high-school students.
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Gunpowder Plot | Definition, Summary, & Facts | Britannica
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Gunpowder Plot, conspiracy of English Roman Catholics to blow up Parliament and James I, his queen, and his eldest son on November 5, 1605.
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Spain | History, Map, Flag, Population, Currency, Climate, & Facts | Britannica
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Spain, country located in extreme southwestern Europe. It occupies about 85 percent of the Iberian Peninsula, which it shares with its smaller neighbor Portugal. Spain is a storied country of stone castles, snowcapped mountains, vast monuments, and sophisticated cities.
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Mongol empire | Time Period, Map, Location, & Facts | Britannica
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The Mongol empire was founded by Genghis Khan in 1206. It extended from the Pacific Ocean to the Danube River and the Persian Gulf. At its greatest extent, it covered some 9 million square miles of territory, making it the largest contiguous land empire in history. Learn more about the Mongol...
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Santeria | Definition, Meaning, History, & Facts | Britannica
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Santeria, the most common name given to a religious tradition of African origin that was developed in Cuba and then spread throughout Latin America and the United States. It centers on the personal relationship between practitioners and the orishas, the deities of the Yoruban nations of West Africa.
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Puerto Rico - US Rule, History, Culture | Britannica
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Puerto Rico - US Rule, History, Culture: On October 18, 1898, Gen. John R. Brooke became military governor of Puerto Rico. Spain subsequently ceded the island to the United States by the Treaty of Paris, which was signed in December 1898 and ratified by the U.S. Senate in February 1899. The...
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The following is a list of saints recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and/or Oriental Orthodox churches, organized alphabetically by country or nation of origin or
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Jill Stein is an environmental activist and the 2024 presidential nominee of the Green Party of the United States.
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Nature worship - Heaven, Earth, Deities | Britannica
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Nature worship - Heaven, Earth, Deities: The god of heaven in many areas is a partner of an earth deity. In such cases, other numina (spirits) are missing or are subject to one of the two as spirits of nature or ancestors. Myths depicting the heaven-earth partnership usually describe the...
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Who were Adolf Hitler’s most important officers? | Britannica
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Who were Adolf Hitler’s most important officers? A key figure of Hitler’s inner circle was Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda and a fervent follo
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Denial of service attack (DoS attack) | Definition & Facts | Britannica
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Denial of service (DoS) attack, type of cybercrime in which an Internet site is made unavailable, typically by using multiple computers to repeatedly make numerous requests that tie up the site and prevent it from responding to requests from legitimate users.
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The “Howl” Heard Round the World | Britannica
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In 1956, Allen Ginsberg’s groundbreaking Beat poem “Howl” was published in the collection Howl and Other Poems.
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Game theory - Prisoners' Dilemma, Strategy, Economics | Britannica
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Game theory - Prisoners' Dilemma, Strategy, Economics: To illustrate the kinds of difficulties that arise in two-person noncooperative variable-sum games, consider the celebrated prisoner’s dilemma (PD), originally formulated by the American mathematician Albert W. Tucker. Two prisoners, A and...
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Cabeus | crater, Moon | Britannica
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Other articles where Cabeus is discussed: LCROSS: …from LCROSS and traveled toward Cabeus, a crater caused by an impact event at the Moon’s south pole. Since the floor of Cabeus is permanently in shadow, it was thought that water might survive there as ice just underneath the surface. Such water...
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Social Security Act | History & Facts | Britannica
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Social Security Act, U.S. legislation establishing a permanent national old-age pension system through employer and employee contributions; the system was later extended to include dependents, the disabled, and other groups. Congress enacted the Social Security Act in 1935, during the Great Depression.
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Dictatorship | Definition, Characteristics, Countries, & Facts | Britannica
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Dictatorship, form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations. Dictators usually resort to force or fraud to gain despotic political power, which they maintain through the use of intimidation, terror, and the...
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Hegelianism - Atheistic, Political, Radicalism | Britannica
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Hegelianism - Atheistic, Political, Radicalism: The ensuing years marked one of the most intense periods in the cultural life of modern Europe. Advancing from Aristotelian presuppositions, an important critique against the Hegelian logic was presented by the classical philosopher and...
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More than a third of the countries of the world have been led by a woman. Learn which women became the first to lead their country and what year they came to power.
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Aristotle - Philosopher, Logic, Metaphysics | Britannica
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Aristotle - Philosopher, Logic, Metaphysics: The way in which Aristotle seeks to show that the universe is a single causal system is through an examination of the notion of movement, which finds its culmination in Book XI of the Metaphysics. As noted above, motion, for Aristotle, refers to...
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Mandela effect | Examples, Definition, & Origin | Britannica
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Mandela effect, popularized phenomenon in which a group of people collectively misremember facts, events, or other details in a consistent manner. Paranormal researcher and author Fiona Broome conceptualized the effect after discovering that she and others possessed strong, yet false, memories
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Fulgencio Batista | Dictatorship, Coup, & Facts | Britannica
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Fulgencio Batista, soldier and political leader who twice ruled Cuba—first in 1933–44 with an efficient government and again in 1952–59 as a dictator, jailing his opponents, using terrorist methods, and making fortunes for himself and his associates. He was toppled by the rebel forces led by...
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Myth | Definition, History, Examples, & Facts | Britannica
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Myth, a symbolic narrative, usually of unknown origin and at least partly traditional, that is especially associated with religious belief. Myths often relate extraordinary events in a time that is unspecified but which is understood as existing apart from ordinary human experience.
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Megiddo | Ancient City, Biblical Armageddon, Palestine | Britannica
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Megiddo, important town of ancient Palestine, overlooking the Plain of Esdraelon (Valley of Jezreel). It lies about 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Haifa in northern Israel. Megiddo’s strategic location at the crossing of two military and trade routes gave the city an importance far beyond its size.
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Macedonianism | Description, Beliefs, & History | Britannica
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Macedonianism, a 4th-century Christian heresy that denied the full personhood and divinity of the Holy Spirit. According to this heresy, the Holy Spirit was created by the Son and was thus subordinate to the Father and the Son. Learn more about the heresy.
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Imperial units | History, Measurements, & Facts | Britannica
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Imperial units, units of measurement of the British Imperial System, the official system of weights and measures used in Great Britain from 1824 until the adoption of the metric system in 1965. The U.S. Customary System of weights and measures is derived from it. Imperial units are now legally...
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Jazz Music Portal | Britannica
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Do you prefer your music to be a little off-the-cuff? Perhaps jazz would fit the bill. Jazz music, which was developed by African Americans and was influenced by both African rhythms and European harmonic...
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Baalbek | Lebanon, Temple, Ruins, & Facts | Britannica
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Baalbek, large archaeological complex encompassing the ruins of an ancient Roman town in eastern Lebanon. Among its notable ruins are a Temple of Jupiter and a Temple of Bacchus, and an annual music festival takes place at the temple complex. Baalbek was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984.
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China - Bureaucracy, Imperialism, Dynasties
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China - Bureaucracy, Imperialism, Dynasties: Regular posts in the Nan Song civil service numbered about 20,000, without counting numerous sinecures, temporary commissions, and a slightly larger number of military officers. Besides eliminating most patronage privileges—by which high officials...
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Phrenology | History, Theory, & Pseudoscience
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Phrenology, the study of the conformation of the skull as indicative of mental faculties and traits of character, especially according to the hypotheses of Franz Joseph Gall and 19th-century adherents Johann Kaspar Spurzheim and George Combe. Phrenology has since been discredited by scientific research.
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