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  • 51Excitable medium — An excitable medium is a nonlinear dynamical system which has the capacity to propagate a wave of some description, and which cannot support the passing of another wave until a certain amount of time has passed (known as the refractory time). A… …

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  • 52London — /lun deuhn/, n. 1. Jack, 1876 1916, U.S. short story writer and novelist. 2. a metropolis in SE England, on the Thames: capital of the United Kingdom. 3. City of, an old city in the central part of the former county of London: the ancient nucleus …

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  • 53Sri Lankan Civil War — Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India Date July 23, 1983 – May 18, 2009 …

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  • 54Desafuero of AMLO — Desafuero process of Andrés Manuel López Obrador is one of the most famous desafuero processes in recent Mexican history took place during 2004 and 2005. This process was originated by a land owner who sued the Federal District s government on… …

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  • 55Desafuero of Manuel López Obrador — Andrés Manuel López Obrador Desafuero process of Andrés Manuel López Obrador is one of the most famous desafuero processes in recent Mexican history took place during 2004 and 2005. This process was originated by a land owner who sued the Federal …

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  • 56A few acres of snow — [ Frederick II in Potsdam, Prussia. Partial view of an engraving by Pierre Charles Baquoy, after N. A. Monsiau.] A few acres of snow (in the original French, quelques arpents de neige ) is one of several quotations from Voltaire, the 18th century …

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  • 57Ulverstone, Tasmania — Infobox Australian Place | type = town name = Ulverstone state = Tasmania pop = 9,760 pop footnotes = postcode = 7315 est = lga = Central Coast Council stategov = Braddon fedgov = Braddon location1= Penguin dist1=18 location2= Devonport dist2=21… …

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  • 58Black history in Puerto Rico — initially began with the African freeman who arrived with the Spanish Conquistadors. The Spaniards enslaved the Tainos who were the native inhabitants of the island and many of them died as a result of the treatment that they had received. This… …

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  • 59San Sebastián — For Peninsular War siege, see Siege of San Sebastián. For other uses, see San Sebastian (disambiguation). Donostia San Sebastián Donostia (Basque) San Sebastián (Spanish) …

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  • 60Cyclic succession — is a pattern of vegetation change in which in a small number of species tend to replace each other over time in the absence of large scale disturbance. Observations of cyclic replacement have provided evidence against traditional Clementsian… …

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