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  2. Social media - Wikipedia

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    The practice of harnessing social media personalities to market or promote a product or service to their following is commonly referred to as influencer marketing. Social media can also be used to directly advertise. Placing an advertisement on Facebook's Newsfeed, for example, can provide exposure of the brand to a large number of people.

  3. Vikings - Wikipedia

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    One of the primary sources of profit for the Vikings had been slave-taking from other European peoples. The medieval Church held that Christians should not own fellow Christians as slaves, so chattel slavery diminished as a practice throughout northern Europe. This took much of the economic incentive out of raiding, though sporadic slaving ...

  4. Family medicine - Wikipedia

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    Hospitals, clinics, emergency departments, long-term care. Family medicine [note 1] is a medical specialty within primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body. [2] [3] The specialist, who is usually a primary care physician, is named a ...

  5. Sati (practice) - Wikipedia

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    History Earliest records Early Greek sources. Among those that do reference the practice, the lost works of the Greek historian Aristobulus of Cassandreia, who travelled to India with the expedition of Alexander the Great in c. 327 BCE, are preserved in the fragments of Strabo. There are different views by authors on what Aristobulus hears as ...

  6. India - Wikipedia

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    The appearance of ahimsa, or the avoidance of violence toward all forms of life in many religious orders early in Indian history, especially Upanishadic Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, is thought to have contributed to the predominance of vegetarianism among a large segment of India's Hindu population, especially in southern India, Gujarat, the ...

  7. WhatsApp - Wikipedia

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    WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta. It allows users to send text, voice messages and video messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.

  8. Hermaphrodite - Wikipedia

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    Hermaphrodite. Garden snails mating. A hermaphrodite ( / hərˈmæfrəˌdaɪt /) is a sexually reproducing organism that produces both male and female gametes. [1] Animal species in which individuals are of different sexes, either male or female but not both, are gonochoric, which is the opposite of hermaphroditic. [2]

  9. Netflix - Wikipedia

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    Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple languages.