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41Hacker (programmer subculture) — In one of several meanings of the word in computing, a hacker is a member of the programmer subculture originated in the 1960s in the United States academia, in particular around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) s Tech Model… …
42Wild Lily student movement — Taiwan s Wild Lily student movement (zh t|t=野百合學運) or March student movement was a six day student demonstration in 1990 for democratic reform. The sit in at Memorial Square in Taipei, initiated by only a few students from National Taiwan… …
43Hokan languages — Hypothetical superfamily of North American Indian languages uniting a number of languages and language families of the western U.S. and Mexico. The Hokan hypothesis was first proposed by Roland B. Dixon and Alfred L. Kroeber in 1913 and refined… …
44Similarity heuristic — The similarity heuristic is a lesser known psychological heuristic pertaining to how people make judgments based on similarity. More specifically, the similarity heuristic is used to account for how people make judgments based on the similarity… …
45double fertilization — the fertilization process characteristic of flowering plants, in which one sperm cell of a pollen grain fertilizes an egg cell while a second fuses with two polar nuclei to produce a triploid body that gives rise to the endosperm. [1905 10] * * * …
46baking — Process of cooking by dry heat, especially in an oven. Baked products include bread, cookies, pies, and pastries. Ingredients used in baking include flour, water, leavening agents (baker s yeast, baking soda, baking powder), shortening (fats,… …
47economic development — Process whereby simple, low income national economies are transformed into modern industrial economies. Theories of economic development the evolution of poor countries dependent on agriculture or resource extraction into prosperous countries… …
48Cucuteni-Trypillian culture — Characteristic example of Cucuteni Trypillian pottery …
49metasomatic replacement — Process of simultaneous solution and deposition in which one mineral replaces another. It is the method by which wood is petrified (silica replaces the wood fibres), minerals form pseudomorphs (new minerals that preserve the characteristic… …
50Decline and end of the Cucuteni–Trypillian culture — Characteristic example of Cucuteni Trypillian pottery …
