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  2. Variety show - Wikipedia

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    Variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts including musical performances, sketch comedy, magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism. It is normally introduced by a compère (master of ceremonies) or host. The variety format made its way from the Victorian era stage in ...

  3. Biodiversity - Wikipedia

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    An example of the biodiversity of fungi in a forest in North Saskatchewan (in this photo, there are also leaf lichens and mosses ). Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of varient at the genetic ( genetic variability ), species ( species diversity ), and ecosystem ...

  4. Tradecraft - Wikipedia

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    Analytic tradecraft is the body of specific methods for intelligence analysis. Black bag operations are covert or clandestine entries into structures or locations to obtain information for human intelligence operations. This may require breaking and entering, lock picking, safe cracking, key impressions, fingerprinting, photography, electronic ...

  5. Adat - Wikipedia

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    Adat ( Arabic: عادات; Chechen: Адат; Avar: Адат; Malay: عادت; Chagatay: ئادەت; Pashto: عادت; Serbian: адет adet) is a generic term derived from Arabic to describe a variety of local customary practices and traditions deemed compatible with Islam as observed by Muslim communities in the Balkans, North Caucasus ...

  6. Passion fruit (fruit) - Wikipedia

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    In a 100 gram reference amount, raw passion fruit supplies 97 calories, and is a rich source of vitamin C (36% of the Daily Value, DV) and a moderate source of riboflavin (11% DV), niacin (10% DV), iron (12% DV), and phosphorus (10% DV) (table). No other micronutrients are in significant content.

  7. Latitudinal gradients in species diversity - Wikipedia

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    Species richness, or biodiversity, increases from the poles to the tropics for a wide variety of terrestrial and marine organisms, often referred to as the latitudinal diversity gradient. [1] The latitudinal diversity gradient is one of the most widely recognized patterns in ecology. [1] It has been observed to varying degrees in Earth's past. [2]

  8. Cultural diversity - Wikipedia

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    Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to monoculture. It has a variety of meanings in different contexts, sometimes applying to cultural products like art works in museums or entertainment available online, and sometimes applying to the variety of human cultures or traditions in a specific region, or in ...

  9. Standard language - Wikipedia

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    Standard language. A standard language (or standard variety, standard dialect, standardized dialect or simply standard) is a language variety that has undergone substantial codification of its grammar, lexicon, writing system, or other features. [1] [2] Typically, the varieties that undergo standardization are those associated with centers of ...