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  • 71E-mail spam — E mail spam, also known as bulk e mail or junk e mail, is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by e mail. A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e mail (UBE). Definitions of spam usually… …

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  • 72heraldry — heraldist, n. /her euhl dree/, n., pl. heraldries. 1. the science of armorial bearings. 2. the art of blazoning armorial bearings, of settling the rights of persons to bear arms or to use certain bearings, of tracing and recording genealogies, of …

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  • 73Iraq — /i rak , i rahk /, n. a republic in SW Asia, N of Saudi Arabia and W of Iran, centering in the Tigris Euphrates basin of Mesopotamia. 22,219,289; 172,000 sq. mi. (445,480 sq. km). Cap.: Baghdad. Also, Irak. * * * Iraq Introduction Iraq Background …

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  • 74Sweden — /sweed n/, n. a kingdom in N Europe, in the E part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. 8,946,193; 173,732 sq. mi. (449,964 sq. km). Cap.: Stockholm. Swedish, Sverige. * * * Sweden Introduction Sweden Background: A military power during the 17th… …

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  • 75painting, Western — ▪ art Introduction       history of Western painting from its beginnings in prehistoric times to the present.       Painting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of pigment (but see also drawing for discussion of depictions in …

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  • 76International Phonetic Alphabet — Not to be confused with NATO phonetic alphabet. IPA redirects here. For other uses, see IPA (disambiguation). For usage of IPA in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:IPA or Wikipedia:IPA/Introduction International Phonetic Alphabet …

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  • 77Sketches from Late Night with Conan O'Brien — The following is a list of sketches performed on the late night program Late Night with Conan O Brien .Major sketchesActual ItemsA parody of Jay Leno s Headlines segment on The Tonight Show in which Leno finds humorous mistakes in various… …

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  • 78Hard disk drive — Hard drive redirects here. For other uses, see Hard drive (disambiguation). Hard disk drive Mechanical interior of a modern hard disk drive Date invented 24 December 1954 [1] …

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  • 79Domain name speculation — is the practice of identifying and registering or acquiring Internet domain names with the intent of selling them later for a profit. The main targets of domain name speculation are generic words which can be valuable for type in traffic and for… …

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  • 80The Stephanie Miller Show — Infobox Radio show show name = The Stephanie Miller Show imagesize = caption = other names = The Stephanie Miller Newscast format = Political satire Observational comedy Wit Word play runtime = 3 hours country = United States language = English… …

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