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  2. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history, [3] [4] and is consistently ranked among the ten most visited websites; as of April 2024, it was ranked fourth by Semrush, [5] and seventh by Similarweb. [6]

  3. Rapperswil - Wikipedia

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    Rapperswil ( Swiss German: [ˈrɑpːərʃˌʋiːl] or [ˈrɑpːərsˌʋiːl]; [2] short: Rappi) is a former municipality and since January 2007 part of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the Wahlkreis ( constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, located between Obersee and the main part of Lake Zurich .

  4. Mat Kilau (film) - Wikipedia

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    Mat Kilau: Kebangkitan Pahlawan (English: Mat Kilau: The Rise of a Warrior) is a 2022 Malaysian Malay-language epic biographical action adventure film that is inspired by historical events directed by Syamsul Yusof, starring Adi Putra [citation needed] as Mat Kilau bin Imam Rasu, a Malay warrior who fought the British colonialists during the Pahang Uprising in Pahang, British Malaya before ...

  5. Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg - Wikipedia

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    The Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg ( French: [ʃɑto dy o kœniksbuʁ]; German: Hohkönigsburg ), sometimes also Haut-Kœnigsbourg, is a medieval castle located in the commune of Orschwiller in the Bas-Rhin département of Alsace, France. [1] [2] Located in the Vosges mountains just west of Sélestat, situated in a strategic area on a rocky spur ...

  6. Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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    Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly called Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. [13] The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with Maryland to its north and east. Washington, D.C., was named for George Washington, a Founding Father ...

  7. Hyperinflation - Wikipedia

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    In economics, hyperinflation is a very high and typically accelerating inflation. It quickly erodes the real value of the local currency, as the prices of all goods increase. This causes people to minimize their holdings in that currency as they usually switch to more stable foreign currencies. [1] When measured in stable foreign currencies ...

  8. Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] ( USSR ), [s] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [t] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with twelve countries.

  9. Richard E. Mayer - Wikipedia

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    Richard E. Mayer (born 1947) is an American educational psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) where he has served since 1975. He received a PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan (1973), and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Indiana University (1973–1975).