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  2. To Kill a Mockingbird - Wikipedia

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    A 2008 survey of secondary books read by students between grades 9–12 in the U.S. indicates the novel is the most widely read book in these grades. A 1991 survey by the Book of the Month Club and the Library of Congress Center for the Book found that To Kill a Mockingbird was fourth in a list of books that are "most often cited as making a ...

  3. Oliver Cromwell - Wikipedia

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    Oliver Cromwell. Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, initially as a senior commander in the Parliamentarian army ...

  4. Marie Curie - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie's birthplace, 16 Freta Street, Warsaw, Poland. Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie (/ ˈ k j ʊər i / KURE-ee, French: [maʁi kyʁi]), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

  5. Inferno (Dante) - Wikipedia

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    Inferno at Wikisource. Inferno ( Italian: [iɱˈfɛrno]; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri 's 14th-century narrative poem The Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso.

  6. Fentanyl - Wikipedia

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    Fentanyl is a highly potent synthetic piperidine opioid primarily used as an analgesic. It is 20 to 40 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine; [8] its primary clinical utility is in pain management for cancer patients and those recovering from painful surgeries. [9] [10] Fentanyl is also used as a sedative. [11]

  7. World Trade Center (1973–2001) - Wikipedia

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    The original World Trade Center ( WTC) was a large complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001. At the time of their completion, the Twin Towers, including the original 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower) at ...

  8. Anne Frank - Wikipedia

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    Anne Frank at the 6th Montessori School, 1940. Photographs of Anne Frank, 1939. Frank was born Annelies [6] or Anneliese [7] Marie Frank on 12 June 1929 at the Maingau Red Cross Clinic [8] in Frankfurt, Germany, to Edith ( née Holländer) and Otto Heinrich Frank. She had an older sister, Margot. [9]

  9. Schrödinger's cat - Wikipedia

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    Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source connected to a Geiger counter are placed in a sealed box. As illustrated, the quantum description uses a superposition of an alive cat and one that has died. In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, of quantum ...