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  • 81Absolute time and space — See also: Absolute rotation, Bucket argument, Rotating spheres, and Inertial frame of reference Originally introduced by Sir Isaac Newton in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, the concepts of absolute time and space provided a… …

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  • 82List of James Bond gadgets — A popular element of the James Bond franchise is the exotic equipment and vehicles he is assigned on his missions, which often prove to be critically useful.The original books and early adaptations had only relatively minimal pieces like the… …

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  • 83The Cantos — by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto . Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards.… …

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  • 84Time discipline — In sociology and anthropology, time discipline is the general name given to social and economic rules, conventions, customs, and expectations governing the measurement of time, the social currency and awareness of time measurements, and people s… …

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  • 85DUT1 — This graph shows the historical evolution of DUT1 between 1985 and 2009. The vertical segments are due to leap seconds. The time correction DUT1 (sometimes also written DUT) is the difference between Universal Time (UT1), which is defined by… …

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  • 86Ulysse Nardin — is a watch manufacturer founded in 1846 in Le Locle, Switzerland. Historically Ulysse Nardin was best known for being a manufacturer of marine chronometers, but today Ulysse Nardin produces complicated mechanical watches.HistoryFounder,… …

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  • 87East Indiaman — An East Indiaman was a ship operating under charter or licence to the Honourable East India Company. The company itself did not generally own merchant ships, but held a monopoly granted to it by Queen Elizabeth I of England for all English trade… …

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  • 88Formula One Grand Prix (video game) — Infobox VG |title = Formula One Grand Prix developer = Microprose publisher = Microprose designer = Geoff Crammond engine = released = 1992 genre = Sim racing modes = Single player, Multiplayer ratings = platforms = PC (DOS), Amiga, Atari ST… …

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  • 89Mechanical filter — Figure 1. A mechanical filter made by the Kokusai Electric Company intended for selecting the narrow 2 kHz bandwidth signals in SSB radio receivers. It operates at 455 kHz, a common IF for these receivers, and is dimensioned 45×15×15 mm ( …

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  • 90Power reserve — Indicator originally called fr. Réserve de Marche is a complication of the watch, which is designed to show the amount of remaining autonomy. In its essence, the power reserve indicator shows the tension on the mainspring at any particular moment …

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