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  • 111rug and carpet — Any decorative textile normally made of a thick material and intended as a floor covering. Floor coverings made of plaited rushes date from the 5th or 4th millennium BC. Carpets were first made in central and western Asia as coverings for earthen …

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  • 112Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology       In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… …

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  • 113Berkeley, George — George Berkeley David Berman BACKGROUND AND EARLY WORK George Berkeley was born on 12 March 1685 in Co. Kilkenny, where he spent his early years. His father was from England, his mother (very probably) was born in Ireland.1 After attending… …

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  • 114Enlightenment (The Scottish) — The Scottish Enlightenment M.A.Stewart INTRODUCTION The term ‘Scottish Enlightenment’ is used to characterize a hundred years of intellectual and cultural endeavour that started around the second decade of the eighteenth century. Our knowledge of …

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  • 115Mondrian, Piet — orig. Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan born March 7, 1872, Amersfoort, Neth. died Feb. 1, 1944, New York, N.Y., U.S. Dutch painter. At the insistence of his father, headmaster of a Calvinist school, he obtained an education degree, but then immediately… …

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  • 116De Bruijn–Erdős theorem (graph theory) — This article is about coloring infinite graphs. For the number of lines determined by a finite set of points, see De Bruijn–Erdős theorem (incidence geometry). In graph theory, the De Bruijn–Erdős theorem, proved by Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn and… …

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  • 117Qualia — (pronEng|ˈkwɑːliə) is an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us [ [http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/quinqual.htm Dennett, D. Quining Qualia ] ] . They can be defined as qualities …

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  • 118Experimental mathematics — For the mathematical journal of the same name, see Experimental Mathematics (journal) Experimental mathematics is an approach to mathematics in which numerical computation is used to investigate mathematical objects and identify properties and… …

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  • 119Shell (projectile) — This article is about the artillery projectile. For the small arms ammunition, see Shotgun shell. Some sectioned shells from the First World War. From left to right: 90 mm fragmentation shell, 120 mm pig iron incendiary shell, 77/14 model 75 mm… …

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  • 120South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …

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