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Queens is a borough of New York City. The current borough president is Democrat Helen Marshall. Queens is considered a volatile swing county in New York politics. Although it is heavily Democratic, Republicans who do well in Queens usually win statewide or citywide, like former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, current Mayor Michael Bloomberg and current New York Governor George Pataki. Despite being largely liberal, Queens is the home of State Senator Serphin Maltese, a conservative Republican wh ...

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Queens, Queens - Geography, Queens - History, Queens - Neighborhoods, Queens - Economy, Queens - Law, government, and politics, Queens - Transportation, Queens - Demographics, Queens - Famous people from Queens, Queens - Sports and other attractions, Queens - Education

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Many aspects of the abiogenic theory were developed in the former Soviet Union by Russian and Ukrainian scientists during the Cold War. Some proponents see a pro-Western bias in the promotion of the biogenic theory. Thus, in addition to the scientific merits of competing hypothoses, political and economic considerations often influence discussions of petroleum origins. The topic of the origin of petroleum is also linked to discussions of projected declines in petroleum production, variously referred to as "peak oil" or "Hubbert's peak ...

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Abiogenic petroleum origin, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Comparison of theories, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Raw material, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Events before conversion, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Conversion to petroleum and methane, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Formation of coal, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Evidence supporting abiogenic theory, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Supergiant oil fields, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Extraterrestrial methane, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Existence of hydrocarbon deposits, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Methane on Earth, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Cold planetary formation, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Unusual deposits, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Deep microbes, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Helium, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Trace metals, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Diamondoids, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Hydrogen, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Thermodynamics, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Biology, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Serpentinization and chemical synthesis of oil, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Deep structures and petroleum association, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Why is oil frequently found in sedimentary basins?, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Ambiguous results, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Biomarkers or Chemofossils, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Deep hot carbon sources, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Evidence supporting biogenic theory, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Unusual deposits, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Biomarkers, Abiogenic petroleum origin - Petroleum origin, peak oil, and politics, Abiogenic petroleum origin - The future of the abiogenic theory

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1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1950s - Events and trends. The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the baby boom from returning GIs who went to college under the G.I. Bill and settled in suburban America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlie ...

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The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The 90s were marked with rapid progression of democracy, globalization and global capitalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Key forces shaping the decade were the Gulf War; popularization of Personal Computers and the Internet, leading to the .com boom. ...

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Fifty to ninety percent of the world's languages are predicted to disappear in the next century, many with little or no significant documentation. Much of the work that has been done, especially on smaller languages, remains hidden away in personal research files or poorly preserved in under-funded archives. As part of the effort to secure this critical legacy of linguistic diversity, the Long Now Foundation is creating a broad online survey and near-permanent physical archive of 1,000 of the a ...

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Rosetta Project, Rosetta Project - Concept

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