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Score: 5/5 (32 votes) Herodotus is undoubtedly the “Father of History.” Born in Halicarnassus in Ionia in the 5th century B.C., he wrote “The Histories.” In this text are found his “inquiries” which later became to modern scholars to mean “facts of history.” He is best known for recounting, very obj...
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Score: 4.3/5 (5 votes) 1 : one of two Roman officers or magistrates constituting a board or court. 2 : one of two people jointly holding power.What does Duumvir mean in Latin?one of two coequal magistrates or officers. either of two men who exercise a joint authority. Word origin. C16: from Latin, f...
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Score: 4.2/5 (49 votes) The hognose snake, or “puff-adder,” inhabits sandy forests and open fields throughout Michigan's Lower Peninsula, and Menominee County in the U.P. Its range in the U.S. extends from southern New England west to eastern Minnesota, south to eastern Texas, east to Florida, ...
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Score: 4.4/5 (35 votes) Jumping and climbing are instinctive behaviors for cats. Some breeds are more comfortable with heights than others, but perching above ground level enables a cat to survey its territory for dangers. Suddenly, your cat seems to be reluctant to leap to higher elevations than wa...
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Score: 4.3/5 (65 votes) From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishLongman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishFrom Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrange1 /reɪndʒ/ ●●● S1 W1 AWL noun 1 variety of things/people [countable usually singular] a number of people or things that are all differe...
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Score: 4.6/5 (53 votes) Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (/ˈsʌlə/; 138–78 BC), commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He won the first large-scale civil war in Roman history, and became the first man of the republic to seize power through force.How did Sulla help Rome?Sulla, in full...
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Score: 5/5 (52 votes) The mAadhaar app allows users to lock or unlock their biometric data. This means that once an Aadhaar holder enables biometric locking system, his/her biometric data remains locked till he/she chooses to either unlock it (which is temporary) or disable the locking system.How do...
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Score: 4.6/5 (57 votes) Toowoomba, known in its early years as “The Swamp,” is built in a cavity on the side of a volcano. The town is shaped like a bowl, with streets running up the rim on three sides. Huge open culverts allow large amounts of storm water to escape into the drains and be carried to...
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Score: 4.6/5 (5 votes) In electronics, a shunt is a device that creates a low-resistance path for electric current, to allow it to pass around another point in the circuit. The origin of the term is in the verb 'to shunt' meaning to turn away or follow a different path.What is the purpose ...
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Score: 4.3/5 (10 votes) Elevators are flight control surfaces, usually at the rear of an aircraft, which control the aircraft's pitch, and therefore the angle of attack and the lift of the wing. The elevators are usually hinged to the tailplane or horizontal stabilizer.Can a plane fly without e...
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