The British Vegan Society defines veganism as "the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals." [7] The American Vegan Society also gives a similar definition. [8] The word vegan pronounced /ˈviːgən/ [vee-gun], was originally derived from vegetarian in 1944 when Elsie Shrigley and Donald Watson, frustrated that the term "vegetarianism" had come to include the eating of dairy products, founded the UK Vegan Society. " Vegan ...

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Veganism, Veganism - Definition, Veganism - Animal products, Veganism - Motivation, Veganism - Ethics, Veganism - Health, Veganism - Environmental considerations, Veganism - Sexual and feminist motives, Veganism - Vegan cuisine, Veganism - Similar diets and lifestyles, Veganism - Vegan nutrition, Veganism - Cultural aspects, Veganism - Criticism and controversy, Veganism - Ethical criticism, Veganism - Health criticism, Veganism - Notes

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Dates have a high tannin content and are used medicinally as a detersive and astringent in intestinal troubles. As an infusion, decoction, syrup or paste, is administered for sore throat, colds, bronchial catarrh, and taken to relieve fever and number of other complaints. One traditional belief is that it can counteract alcohol intoxication. The seed powder is also used in some traditional medicines. A gum that exudes from the wounded trunk is employed in India for treating diarrhea and genito-urinary ailments. The roots are used against toothache. The pollen yields an estrogenic principl ...

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Date Palm, Date Palm - History of dates, Date Palm - Fruit, Date Palm - Cultivars of dates, Date Palm - Production, Date Palm - Food uses of Dates, Date Palm - Other uses of Date Palms, Date Palm - Traditional Medicinal Uses, Date Palm - Diseases

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There is no generally agreed classification, and some would add to or modify this list. Classical: The behaviorism of Watson; the objective study of behavior; no mental life, no internal states; thought is covert speech. Methodological: The objective study of third-person behavior; the data of psychology must be inter-subjectively verifiable; no theoretical prescriptions. It has been absorbed into general experimental and cognitive psychology. Radical: Skinnerian behaviorism; is considered ...

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Behaviorism, Behaviorism - Approaches, Behaviorism - Versions, Behaviorism - J. B. Watson, Behaviorism - Methodological behaviorism, Behaviorism - B.F. Skinner and radical behaviorism, Behaviorism - Definition, Behaviorism - Experimental and conceptual innovations, Behaviorism - Relation to language, Behaviorism - Molar versus molecular behaviorism, Behaviorism - Behaviorism in philosophy, Behaviorism - Behaviorists, Behaviorism - References and further reading

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Human - Anatomy and physiology. Main articles: Human anatomy, Human physical appearance & Human height Humans exhibit fully bipedal locomotion. This leaves the forelimbs available for manipulating objects using opposable thumbs. Humans vary substantially around the mean height and mean weight. Some of this variation is explained by locality and historical factors. Although body size is largely determined by genes, it is also significantly influenced by diet and ...

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Human, Human - Terminology, Human - Biology, Human - Anatomy and physiology, Human - Life cycle, Human - Genetics, Human - Race and ethnicity, Human - Habitat, Human - Population, Human - Human evolution, Human - Intelligence, Human - Culture, Human - Origins, Human - Language, Human - Music, Human - Emotion and sexuality, Human - Body image, Human - Trade and economics, Human - Artifacts technology and science, Human - Mind, Human - Psychology and human ethology, Human - Philosophy, Human - Motivation, Human - Self-reflection and humanism, Human - Spirit

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Montenegro under the Vladikas from the Petrovic dynasty (1697-1851) Danilo Petrovic, the founder of the Petrovic dynasty Vladika Danilo Petrovic established the hereditary theocracy in the Petrovic family of the Erakovic clan. Since Vladikas, as Orthodox Bishops, were celibate, the office of Vladika passed from uncle to nephew. Danilo led Montenegrins in many battles against the Turks. He won a decisive, major battle at Carev Laz in Ljesanska Nahija, on July 14-28, 1712 . The Turkish army of between 30,000 and 40,000 men was defeated ...

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1712, 1712 - Events, 1712 - Ongoing events, 1712 - Births, 1712 - Deaths

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Designed as project ADO15 (Austin Drawing Office), the first models were marketed with the names Austin Seven (often written as SE7EN) and Morris Mini-Minor (Latin "Small-Smaller") in England. Until 1962, they appeared as the Austin 850 and Morris 850 in North America and France. The production model differed from the original prototype (affectionately named "The Orange Box" because of its colour) due to the addition of front and rear subframes to take the suspension loads and by the engine being mounted with the carburettor at the back, rat ...

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Mini, Mini - The Mk I Mini - 1959 to 1967, Mini - Varients, Mini - The Mini Cooper and Cooper S, Mini - The Mk II Mini - 1967 to 1970, Mini - The Mini Clubman 1970 to 1980, Mini - The Mk III Mini - 1971 to 2000, Mini - Unproduced prototypes, Mini - Awards, Mini - Minis in the United States, Mini - The new MINI, Mini - Sources

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List of Discworld locations - Main continent. Ankh-Morpork (city-state) Unseen University Tower of Art Betrek Borogravia (featured in Monstrous Regiment) Kneck Keep Kneck River Munz Plün PrinceMarmadukePiotrAlbertHansJosephBernhardtWillhelmsberg (capital) Brindisi Chimeria Chirm (city-state?) Djelibeybi (featured in Pyramids)

The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat appearing in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It appears and disappears at will, engaging Alice in amusing but sometimes vexing conversation. The cat often points out philosophical points that annoy Alice. At one point, the cat disappeared gradually until nothing was left but its grin, prompting Alice to remark that she had often seen a cat without a grin but never a grin with ...

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Invasive species - Ecological circumstances of invasive species. Although an invasive species is often defined as an introduced species that has spread widely and causes harm, some species native to a particular area can, under the influence of natural events such as longterm rainfall changes or human modifications to the habitat, increase in numbers and become invasive. The Pied Currawong of south-east Australia is an example: as a result of human changes to the landscape, Pied Currawongs increased greatly in range during the 20th century and have caused substantial declines in th ...

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Invasive species, Invasive species - Ecology of invasive species, Invasive species - Ecological circumstances of invasive species, Invasive species - Traits of invasive species, Invasive species - Traits of invaded ecosystems, Invasive species - Vectors, Invasive species - Impacts of invasive species, Invasive species - Ecological impacts, Invasive species - Economic impacts, Invasive species - The threat to global biodiversity

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CD36 is an integral membrane protein found on the surface of many cell types in vertebrate animals and is also known as FAT, SCARB3, GP88, glycoprotein IV (gpIV) and glycoprotein IIIb (gpIIIb). CD36 binds many ligands including collagen (Tandon et al, 1989), thrombospondin (Silverstein et al, 1992), erythrocytes parasitized with Plasmodium falciparum (Oquendo et al, 1989), oxidized low density lipoprotein (Nicholson et al, 1995), native lipoproteins (Calvo et al, 1998), oxidized phospholipids (Podrez ...

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CD36 - Introduction CD36 - Protein Structure and Classification CD36 - Genetics Gene Expression and Regulation CD36 - Functions of CD36 CD36 - CD36 Deficiency and Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia

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David Bruce Cassidy (born April 12, 1950) is an American actor and musician who starred in the television series The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974. He is the son of Irish Catholic actor Jack Cassidy and actress Evelyn Ward, who was of English Protestant descent. Prior to The Partridge Family, Cassidy appeared on Marcus Welby, M.D., The Mod Squad, Bonanza, and Ironside. When he started working on The Partridge Family nobody knew that he could sing, until Cassidy himself broug ...

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Sigmund Freud - Psychotherapy. Freud trained as a medical doctor, and as such, he believed his research methods and conclusions were scientific. However, his research and practice were condemned by many of his peers, as well as later psychologists and academics. Some, like Juliet Mitchell, have suggested that this is because his basic claim, that many of our conscious thoughts and actions are motivated by unconscious fears and desires, implicitly challenges universal and objective claims about the world (some pro ...

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Sigmund Freud, Sigmund Freud - Life, Sigmund Freud - Innovations, Sigmund Freud - Early work, Sigmund Freud - The unconscious, Sigmund Freud - Psychosexual development, Sigmund Freud - The id ego and superego, Sigmund Freud - Defense mechanisms, Sigmund Freud - The life and death instincts, Sigmund Freud - Psychology of religion, Sigmund Freud - Freud's legacy, Sigmund Freud - Psychotherapy, Sigmund Freud - Philosophy, Sigmund Freud - Critical reactions, Sigmund Freud - Patients, Sigmund Freud - Major works, Sigmund Freud - Books about Freud and psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud - Psychoanalysis: theory and practice, Sigmund Freud - Conceptual critiques, Sigmund Freud - Biographies, Sigmund Freud - Biographical critiques

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While it was the first story written, The Hard Goodbye was not the first story chronologically, with the first section of That Yellow Bastard as the first. The Dwight-related stories fall in between these, with the short stories fleshing out the time between the main stories. Here is a rough chronology of the "Yarns": The first section of That Yellow Bastard, wherein Detective John Hartigan rescues Nancy Callahan from Roark Jr., resulting in Hartigan and Junior winding up in the hospital, occurs about 12 yea ...

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Sin City, Sin City - Setting, Sin City - Characters, Sin City - Protagonists, Sin City - Antagonists, Sin City - Others, Sin City - Sin City yarns, Sin City - The Hard Goodbye, Sin City - A Dame To Kill For, Sin City - The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories, Sin City - Silent Night, Sin City - The Big Fat Kill, Sin City - That Yellow Bastard, Sin City - Daddy's Little Girl, Sin City - Lost Lonely & Lethal, Sin City - Sex & Violence, Sin City - Just Another Saturday Night, Sin City - Family Values, Sin City - Hell and Back a Sin City Love Story, Sin City - Booze Broads & Bullets, Sin City - New stories, Sin City - Compilations, Sin City - Chronology, Sin City - Awards, Sin City - Trivia

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Birdwings are typified by large size (up to a maximum body length of 7.6 cm [3 inches] and a wingspan of 28 cm [>11 inches] in O. alexandrae), showy coloration (in contrasting shades of green, yellow, black, white, and sometimes blue or orange), and slender, lanceolate forewings. With few exceptions (i.e., the New Guinean O. meridionalis and O. paradisea), the hindwings lack tails. Sexual dimorphism is strong in Ornithoptera species only, with fe ...

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Birdwing, Birdwing - Adult physical description, Birdwing - Life history, Birdwing - List of species

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MDMA has complex nonlinear pharmacokinetics, due MDMA's ability to inhibit CYP2D6 and CYP2d8. It is metabolised via N-demethylation to several active metabolites including MDA, although the conversion rate in humans is low. The metabolism is primarily by the cytochrome P450 enzymes CYP2D6 (in humans, but CYP2D1 in mice), and CYP3A4 . Large increases in blood and brain concentrations are mostly due to autoinhibition of CYP2D6 metabolism--if the user takes consecutive doses of the drug, disproportionately high plasma concentrations can result. A significant quantity is excreted unchanged in the urine, e ...

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Ecstasy drug, Ecstasy drug - History, Ecstasy drug - Chemistry, Ecstasy drug - Pharmacokinetics, Ecstasy drug - Ecstasy as a recreational drug, Ecstasy drug - Supply and administration, Ecstasy drug - Effects, Ecstasy drug - Pharmacodynamics, Ecstasy drug - Other short-term effects, Ecstasy drug - Long-term effects, Ecstasy drug - Systemic effects, Ecstasy drug - Ecstasy and Parkinson's, Ecstasy drug - Ecstasy and the law, Ecstasy drug - Medical use, Ecstasy drug - Safety

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Alejandro Jodorowsky (born February 7, 1929, in Tocopilla, Chile to Ashkenazi Jewish parents) is an actor, director, producer, composer, mime, comic book writer and psychotherapist. He is particularly known for having directed a handful of esoteric, surreal and shocking films, and for having written several comic books. The revered cult filmmaker once stated, "I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs." He is also a New Age spiritualist, and one of the world's leading researchers of the Tarot. Jodorowsk ...

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As his autobiography The Real Frank Zappa Book notes, his real name was "Frank", never "Francis". Until rediscovering his birth certificate as an adult, Zappa himself believed he had been christened Francis, and he is credited as Francis on some of his early albums. Some encyclopedias still incorrectly claim that his real name was "Francis". Zappa is Italian for hoe. ...

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Frank Zappa, Frank Zappa - Early life and influences, Frank Zappa - The Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa - 1970s, Frank Zappa - Läther, Frank Zappa - 1980s, Frank Zappa - 1990s, Frank Zappa - Other information, Frank Zappa - Note on his name, Frank Zappa - Samples, Frank Zappa - Discography, Frank Zappa - Filmography, Frank Zappa - Theatrical releases, Frank Zappa - Honker Home Video

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Prior to invasion, the United States and other coalition forces involved in the 1991 Persian Gulf War had been engaged in a low-level conflict with Iraq, enforcing Iraqi no-fly zones. Iraqi air-defense installations were engaged on a fairly regular basis after repeatedly targeting American and British air patrols. In mid-2002, the U.S. began to change its response strategy, more carefully selecting targets in the southern part of the country in order to disrupt the military command structure in Iraq. A change in enforcement tactics was acknowledged at the time, but it was not made public that this was ...

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2003 Invasion of Iraq, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Political and diplomatic aspects, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Military aspects, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Prelude, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Rationale, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Weapons of mass destruction, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Sanctions, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Human Rights, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Libyan disarmament, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Purported links between the government of Iraq and terrorist organizations, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Legitimacy and legality, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Invasion legitimacy, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Countries supporting and opposing the invasion, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Legality of the invasion, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Opposition view of the invasion, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Invasion, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Opening attack, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Special Operations, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Fall of Baghdad April 2003, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Other areas, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Summary of the invasion, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Security looting and war damage, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - End of major combat operations May 2003, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Deaths, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Related propaganda and phrases, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Media coverage, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Veterans Organizations

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In zoology, a chimera is an animal which has two or more different populations of cells, which are genetically distinct and which originated in different zygotes (fertilized eggs). Chimeras are named after the mythological creature Chimera. Chimeras have either 4 parents (2 fertilized eggs or early embryos are fused together) or 3 parents (a fertilized egg is fused with an unfertilized egg or a fertilized egg is fused with an extra sperm). Each population of cells keeps its own character and the resulting animal is a mosaic of ...

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Chimera genetics - Natural chimerism
Chimera genetics - Microchimerism
Chimera genetics - Research chimerism Chimera genetics - Chimera Proteins

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Aspartame's attractiveness as a sweetener comes from the fact that it is approximately 180 times sweeter than sugar in typical concentrations without the high energy value of sugar. While aspartame, like other peptides, has a caloric value of 4 kilocalories (17 kilojoules) per gram, the quantity of aspartame needed to produce a sweet taste is so small as to make its caloric contribution negligible, which makes it a popular sweetener for those trying to avoid calories from sugar. The taste of aspartame is not identical to sugar: aspartame's s ...

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Aspartame, Aspartame - Chemistry, Aspartame - Properties and use, Aspartame - Discovery and approval, Aspartame - Conflicts of interest, Aspartame - Health risks controversy, Aspartame - Methanol, Aspartame - Phenylalanine, Aspartame - Aspartic acid, Aspartame - Aspartylphenylalanine diketopiperazine, Aspartame - Responses, Aspartame - Recently published research, Aspartame - Products with Aspartame

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Albany was one of the earlier permanent settlements in the thirteen original American colonies and is the second oldest chartered city in the United States. Its colonial history began when Englishman Henry Hudson, exploring for the Dutch East India Company on the Halve Maen (or Half Moon) reached the area in 1609. In 1614, the company constructed Fort Nassau, its first fur trading post near present-day Albany. Commencement of the fur trade provoked hostility from the French colony in Canada and amongst the native tribes, who vi ...

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Albany New York, Albany New York - History, Albany New York - Geography, Albany New York - Demographics, Albany New York - Education, Albany New York - Additional facts about Albany, Albany New York - Transportation, Albany New York - Culture, Albany New York - Sports, Albany New York - Minor league teams, Albany New York - Defunct teams, Albany New York - NCAA Division I Schools

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Main article History of cats Cats have been kept with humans since the days of Ancient Egypt through various cultures. A person who loves, owns or studies cats is known as an ailurophile. ...

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Cat, Cat - Characteristics, Cat - Physical, Cat - Senses, Cat - Communication, Cat - Hunting and diet, Cat - Hygiene, Cat - Environment, Cat - Reproduction and genetics, Cat - Domestication, Cat - Feral cats, Cat - Environmental issues, Cat - Scientific classification, Cat - Varieties of domestic cat, Cat - History and mythology

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