In biology, evolution is the process by which populations of organisms acquire and pass on novel traits from generation to generation. Its action over large stretches of time explains the origin of new species and ultimately the vast diversity of the biological world. The living species of today are related to each other through common descent, products of evolution and speciation over billions of years. The phylogenetic tree at right represents these re ...

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• Evolution - Overview of evolution
• Evolution - Evidence of evolution
• Evolution - History of evolutionary thought
• Evolution - Misconceptions of modern evolutionary biology
• Evolution - Social and religious controversies
• Evolution - Science of evolution
• Evolution - Academic disciplines
• Evolution - The Modern Synthesis
• Evolution - Heredity
• Evolution - Mechanisms of evolution
• Evolution - Speciation and extinction
• Evolution - Notes and references

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Gold is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Au (L. aurum) and atomic number 79. A soft, shiny, yellow, dense, malleable, ductile (trivalent and univalent) transition metal, gold does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine, fluorine and aqua regia. The metal occurs as nuggets or grains in rocks and in alluvial deposits and is one of the coinage metals. For millennia, gold has served as money and is also used in jewellery, dentistry, and in electronics. Gold forms t ...

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• Gold - Notable characteristics
• Gold - Applications
• Gold - History
• Gold - Value
• Gold - Gold and the money supply
• Gold - Restrictions on gold ownership
• Gold - Return of a gold standard?
• Gold - Gold in investment portfolios
• Gold - Occurrence
• Gold - Production
• Gold - Compounds/isotopes
• Gold - Precautions
• Gold - Symbolism

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Aristotle (Greek: Αριστοτέλης Aristotelēs 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote many books about physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, government, and biology. Aristotle, along with Plato and Socrates, is generally considered one of the most influential ancient Greek philosophers in Western thought. They transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it. The writings of Plato an ...

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• Aristotle - Biography
• Aristotle - Early life and studies at the Academy
• Aristotle - Aristotle as philosopher and tutor
• Aristotle - Founder and master of the Lyceum
• Aristotle - Methodology
• Aristotle - Aristotle's epistemology
• Aristotle - Logic
• Aristotle - Science
• Aristotle - Aristotle's metaphysics
• Aristotle - Aristotle's four causes
• Aristotle - The difference between natural objects and artifacts
• Aristotle - Modes of causation
• Aristotle - Chance
• Aristotle - The Five Elements
• Aristotle - Aristotle's ethics
• Aristotle - Nicomachean ethics
• Aristotle - Aristotle's critics
• Aristotle - Aristotle's mistake
• Aristotle - Bibliography
• Aristotle - Major works
• Aristotle - Specific editions
• Aristotle - Named after Aristotle

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N. acuminata N. alata N. attenuata N. clevelandii N. excelsior N. forgetiana N. glauca N. glutinosa N. langsdorffii N. longiflora N. obtusifolia N. paniculata N. plumbagifolia N. quadrivalvis N. repanda N. rustica N. suaveolens N. sylvestris N. tabacum N. tomentosa
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• Tobacco - History
• Tobacco - Cultivation
• Tobacco - Sowing
• Tobacco - Transplanting
• Tobacco - Topping and suckering
• Tobacco - Harvest
• Tobacco - Pests
• Tobacco - Curing
• Tobacco - Post-cure processing
• Tobacco - Types
• Tobacco - Fire-cured
• Tobacco - Brightleaf tobacco
• Tobacco - White burley
• Tobacco - Shade tobacco
• Tobacco - Perique
• Tobacco - Tobacco products
• Tobacco - Snuff
• Tobacco - Gutka
• Tobacco - Creamy snuff
• Tobacco - Tobacco water
• Tobacco - Bibliography

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A bicycle, or bike, is a pedal-driven land vehicle with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. First introduced in 19th-century Europe, bicycles evolved quickly into their familiar, current design. Numbering over 1,000,000,000 in the world today, bicycles provide the principal means of transportation in many regions and a popular form of recreational transport in others. To distinguish a bicycle from a mot ...

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• Bicycle - History
• Bicycle - Technical aspects
• Bicycle - Legal requirements
• Bicycle - Construction and parts
• Bicycle - Performance
• Bicycle - Bicycle physics
• Bicycle - Social and historical aspects
• Bicycle - Economic and social implications
• Bicycle - Bicycles at work
• Bicycle - Bicycle recreation
• Bicycle - Bicycles and war
• Bicycle - Bicycle racing
• Bicycle - Modal share: cycle use in modern cities
• Bicycle - Cycling activism
• Bicycle - Types of bicycle
• Bicycle - Standards
• Bicycle - Notes

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Jamo (자모; 字母) or natsori (낱소리) are the letters that make up the Hangul alphabet. Ja means letter or character, and mo means mother, so the name signifies that the jamo are the building-blocks of the script. There are 51 jamo, of which 24 are equivalents to letters of the Roman alphabet. The other 27 are clusters of two or sometimes three jamo. Of the 24 simple jamo, fourteen are consonants (ja-eum 자음, 子音: literally "child sounds") ...

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Hangul, Hangul - Names, Hangul - Official names, Hangul - Other names, Hangul - History, Hangul - Jamo, Hangul - Jamo design, Hangul - Jamo order, Hangul - Jamo names, Hangul - Obsolete jamo, Hangul - Syllabic blocks, Hangul - Orthography, Hangul - Mixed scripts, Hangul - Style

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Cocaine 3-benzoyloxy-8-methyl-8-azabicyclo [3.2.1]octane-4-carboxylic acid methyl ester CAS number 50-36-2 ATC code N01BC01 used rarely as a topical anesthetic Recreational uses: euphoria stimulant Other uses: local anesthetic cardiovascular disease Severe: (with chronic use) ? Cardiovasc ...

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• Cocaine - History
• Cocaine - The coca leaf
• Cocaine - Isolation
• Cocaine - Popularization
• Cocaine - Prohibition
• Cocaine - Modern usage
• Cocaine - Pharmacology
• Cocaine - Appearance
• Cocaine - Forms of cocaine
• Cocaine - Methods of administration
• Cocaine - Mechanism of action
• Cocaine - Metabolism and excretion
• Cocaine - Effects and health issues
• Cocaine - Cocaine as a local anesthetic
• Cocaine - Cocaine addiction
• Cocaine - Treatment
• Cocaine - Legal status
• Cocaine - Africa
• Cocaine - Asia
• Cocaine - Middle east
• Cocaine - Australia & Oceania
• Cocaine - Europe
• Cocaine - North America
• Cocaine - South America
• Cocaine - Usage
• Cocaine - In the United States
• Cocaine - Works concerning cocaine
• Cocaine - Books about cocaine
• Cocaine - Movies about cocaine

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Conscription National service Conscription crisis Conscientious objection Conscription in Australia Conscription in Germany Conscription in Greece Conscription in New Zealand Conscription in the United States Conscription is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority, but it is most often used in the specific sense of government policies that require (very often, male only) citizens to serve in their armed forces. It ...

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• Conscription - History
• Conscription - The invention of modern conscription during the French Revolution
• Conscription - Disputes over conscription WW I Vietnam War etc.
• Conscription - The Gender-issue
• Conscription - Conscientious objection
• Conscription - Draft evaders
• Conscription - Draft resisters
• Conscription - Countries with mandatory military service partial list
• Conscription - Austria
• Conscription - Belarus
• Conscription - Bermuda
• Conscription - Brazil
• Conscription - Bulgaria
• Conscription - Chile
• Conscription - China PRC
• Conscription - Croatia
• Conscription - Cyprus
• Conscription - Denmark
• Conscription - Egypt
• Conscription - Eritrea
• Conscription - Finland
• Conscription - Germany
• Conscription - Greece
• Conscription - Israel
• Conscription - Korea South
• Conscription - Lebanon
• Conscription - Malaysia
• Conscription - Mexico
• Conscription - Norway
• Conscription - Poland
• Conscription - Romania
• Conscription - Russia
• Conscription - Singapore
• Conscription - Sweden
• Conscription - Switzerland
• Conscription - Taiwan ROC
• Conscription - Turkey
• Conscription - Ukraine
• Conscription - Venezuela
• Conscription - Countries that do not currently have mandatory military service partial list
• Conscription - Argentina
• Conscription - Australia
• Conscription - Belgium
• Conscription - Canada
• Conscription - Czech Republic
• Conscription - France
• Conscription - Hungary
• Conscription - India
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• Conscription - Ireland
• Conscription - Italy
• Conscription - Japan
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• Conscription - Netherlands
• Conscription - New Zealand
• Conscription - Portugal
• Conscription - Slovakia
• Conscription - Slovenia
• Conscription - Spain
• Conscription - United Kingdom
• Conscription - United States
• Conscription - Arguments for conscription
• Conscription - Valuable training
• Conscription - The draft as protection against democracy-destroying military coups
• Conscription - Manpower
• Conscription - Personnel diversity
• Conscription - Conscript quality
• Conscription - Political and moral motives
• Conscription - Arguments against conscription
• Conscription - Conscription and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Conscription - The draft as slavery
• Conscription - Discipline problems
• Conscription - The draft as nationalism
• Conscription - The draft as justification for attacks on civilians
• Conscription - Questions of conscript quality
• Conscription - Economics

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This is a list of characters appearing in The Sandman. This page discusses not only events which occur in The Sandman, but also some occurring in spinoffs of The Sandman and in stories The Sandman was based on. Characters of The Sandman - Cain and Abel. Cain and Abel are a pair of fictional characters in the DC Comics universe based on the Biblical Cain and Abel. Characters of The Sandman - Before The Sandman. Originally they were ...

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• Characters of The Sandman - Cain and Abel
• Characters of The Sandman - Before The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - In The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - The Corinthian
• Characters of The Sandman - Eve
• Characters of The Sandman - Fiddler's Green
• Characters of The Sandman - Gregory
• Characters of The Sandman - Goldie
• Characters of The Sandman - In The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - After The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - Lucien
• Characters of The Sandman - Matthew
• Characters of The Sandman - Mervyn Pumpkinhead
• Characters of The Sandman - Minor dreams
• Characters of The Sandman - The Basanos
• Characters of The Sandman - Bast
• Characters of The Sandman - The Creator
• Characters of The Sandman - The Endless
• Characters of The Sandman - Loki
• Characters of The Sandman - Odin
• Characters of The Sandman - The Three
• Characters of The Sandman - In The Sandman
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• Characters of The Sandman - Minor gods
• Characters of The Sandman - Duma
• Characters of The Sandman - Before The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - In The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - After The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - Azazel
• Characters of The Sandman - Beelzebub
• Characters of The Sandman - In The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - After The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - Choronzon
• Characters of The Sandman - Lucifer
• Characters of The Sandman - Mazikeen
• Characters of The Sandman - In The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - After The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - Remiel
• Characters of The Sandman - In The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - After The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - Minor angels and demons
• Characters of The Sandman - Hob Gadling
• Characters of The Sandman - Orpheus
• Characters of The Sandman - Thessaly
• Characters of The Sandman - Minor immortals
• Characters of The Sandman - The Cluracan
• Characters of The Sandman - Nuala
• Characters of The Sandman - Oberon
• Characters of The Sandman - Titania
• Characters of The Sandman - In The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - After The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - Puck
• Characters of The Sandman - Alex Burgess
• Characters of The Sandman - Roderick Burgess
• Characters of The Sandman - Johanna Constantine
• Characters of The Sandman - After The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - John Constantine
• Characters of The Sandman - After and/or Before The Sandman
• Characters of The Sandman - Ethel Cripps
• Characters of The Sandman - Doctor Dee
• Characters of The Sandman - Wesley Dodds
• Characters of The Sandman - Foxglove
• Characters of The Sandman - In The Sandman
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• Characters of The Sandman - Daniel Hall
• Characters of The Sandman - Lyta Hall
• Characters of The Sandman - John Hathaway
• Characters of The Sandman - Unity Kinkaid
• Characters of The Sandman - Prez Rickard
• Characters of The Sandman - Ruthven Sykes
• Characters of The Sandman - Jed Walker
• Characters of The Sandman - R