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  • Thumbnail for Time zone
    American government, influenced in part by Abbe's 1879 paper, adopted the time-zone system. It was a version proposed by William F. Allen, the editor...
    90 KB (5,602 words) - 19:12, 31 December 2024
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    The New Year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one. Many cultures celebrate the event...
    47 KB (5,846 words) - 07:08, 8 January 2025
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    after 9:00 p.m., when a Berlin fire station received an alarm call. By the time police and firefighters arrived, the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house)...
    51 KB (6,237 words) - 10:38, 3 January 2025
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    with a two-hour time period. The hour of the snake is 9:00 to 11:00 a.m., the time when the Sun warms up the Earth, and snakes are said to slither out of...
    7 KB (701 words) - 20:02, 8 January 2025
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    pressures of early stardom affected her physical and mental health from the time she was a teenager; her self-image was influenced by constant criticism...
    130 KB (14,751 words) - 21:19, 5 January 2025
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    first lieutenant (A.R.C.) and tenente (Italian Army). He was only 18 at the time. Hemingway later said of the incident: "When you go to war as a boy you...
    101 KB (12,756 words) - 21:11, 7 January 2025
  • the time of their presidential inauguration (first inauguration if elected to multiple and consecutive terms), upon leaving office, and at the time of...
    38 KB (566 words) - 22:17, 7 January 2025
  • After bludgeoning the old woman's corpse, Elphaba learns from the Clock of the Time Dragon that the Wizard is her biological father, making her the child of...
    33 KB (3,493 words) - 07:10, 3 January 2025
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    Bateman made his directorial debut with an episode of The Hogan Family, at the time setting the record for the youngest director in the Directors Guild of...
    33 KB (3,262 words) - 09:21, 7 January 2025
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    Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. The signs have been used to determine the time of the year by identifying each sign with the days of the year the Sun...
    65 KB (6,648 words) - 14:47, 31 December 2024
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    context is given. The term "GMT" is also used as one of the names for the time zone UTC+00:00 and, in UK law, is the basis for civil time in the United...
    21 KB (2,461 words) - 00:32, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Taj Mahal
    to have been completed in its entirety in 1653 at a cost estimated at the time to be around ₹5 million, which in 2023 would be approximately ₹35 billion...
    73 KB (7,943 words) - 16:07, 8 January 2025
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    high school. However, the United States was involved in World War II at the time, and Serling decided to enlist rather than start college immediately after...
    92 KB (10,652 words) - 01:33, 8 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Benford's law
    the time, while 9 appears as the leading significant digit less than 5% of the time. Uniformly distributed digits would each occur about 11.1% of the...
    65 KB (7,408 words) - 15:41, 17 December 2024
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    Love's Alright (1993). He is also known for his 1985 single "Party All the Time", which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Murphy was born...
    65 KB (6,385 words) - 06:24, 7 January 2025
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    recognized and tracked. By extension, the term "year" can also be applied to the time taken for any astronomical object to revolve around its primary, as for...
    52 KB (5,719 words) - 15:43, 8 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for The Twilight Zone
    Playhouse, discovered "The Time Element" in CBS' vaults while searching for an original Serling script to add prestige to his show. "The Time Element" (introduced...
    69 KB (6,665 words) - 23:31, 4 January 2025
  • true name being spoken, with the nature of these finally revealed in "The Time of the Doctor". Spin-off media offer the explanation that the Doctor's...
    171 KB (23,293 words) - 23:53, 20 December 2024
  • advancing the calendar one year forward to 1358 DR, referring to the gap as the Time of Troubles. In early 1990, the hardcover Forgotten Realms Adventures by...
    78 KB (8,526 words) - 20:34, 6 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    000 copies, which quickly sold out. It had sold three million copies by the time it entered the public domain in 1956. It was often reprinted under the...
    66 KB (7,741 words) - 07:17, 21 December 2024
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