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  2. Russia - Wikipedia

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    RU. Internet TLD. .ru. .рф. Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.

  3. Indiana Jones - Wikipedia

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    Indiana Jones is an American media franchise consisting of five films and a prequel television series, along with games, comics, and tie-in novels, that depicts the adventures of Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. (portrayed in all films by Harrison Ford ), a fictional professor of archaeology. The series began in 1981 with the film Raiders ...

  4. Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles ). With over 279 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most-populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country.

  5. Solar System - Wikipedia

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    720,000 km/h (450,000 mi/h) [13] Orbital period. ~230 million years [13] The Solar System [b] is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it. [14] It was formed 4.6 billion years ago when a dense region of a molecular cloud collapsed, forming the Sun and a protoplanetary disc.

  6. Black hole - Wikipedia

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    A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light and other electromagnetic waves, is capable of possessing enough energy to escape it. [2] Einstein 's theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole.

  7. NATO - Wikipedia

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    NATO was established on 4 April 1949 by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty (Washington Treaty). The 12 founding members of the alliance were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [126] Four new members joined during the Cold War: Greece ...

  8. Legality of incest - Wikipedia

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    A person and the child of one of his full, consanguineous or uterine brothers or sisters or with a descendant thereof. The mother or the father and the husband or the wife, the widower or the widow of his child or of another of his descendants. Stepmother or stepfather and the descendant of the other spouse.

  9. LinkedIn - Wikipedia

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    LinkedIn ( / lɪŋktˈɪn /) is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps. It was launched on May 5, 2003 by Reid Hoffman and Eric Ly. [6] Since December 2016, LinkedIn has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. [7] The platform is primarily used for professional networking and ...