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  2. Trap music - Wikipedia

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    Trap is a subgenre of hip hop music that originated in the Southern United States, with lyrical references to trap starting in 1991 but the modern sound of trap appearing in 1999. [1] [3] The genre gets its name from the Atlanta slang term "trap house", a house used exclusively to sell drugs. [4] Trap music uses synthesized drums and is ...

  3. Metabolism - Wikipedia

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    Metabolism (/ m ə ˈ t æ b ə l ɪ z ə m /, from Greek: μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.The three main functions of metabolism are: the conversion of the energy in food to energy available to run cellular processes; the conversion of food to building blocks of proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and some carbohydrates; and the ...

  4. So Ji-sub - Wikipedia

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    Early life. So Ji-sub was born on November 4, 1977, in Seoul, South Korea and moved to Incheon when he was in his third year of elementary school. [1] Self-described as introverted and insecure in his childhood and teenage years, So trained to become a professional swimmer [4] for 11 years and bagged the bronze medal at the Korean National ...

  5. Multiple-vortex tornado - Wikipedia

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    A multiple-vortex tornado outside Dallas, Texas, on April 2, 1957. A multiple-vortex tornado is a tornado that contains several vortices (called subvortices or suction vortices) revolving around, inside of, and as part of the main vortex. The only times multiple vortices may be visible are when the tornado is first forming or when condensation ...

  6. Narco-submarine - Wikipedia

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    Narco-submarine. A narco-submarine (also called a drug sub or narco-sub) is a type of custom ocean-going, self-propelled, semi-submersible or fully- submersible vessel built by (or for) drug smugglers. [2] [3] [4] Newer semi-submersibles are "nearly-fully" submersible in order to reduce likelihood of detection by visual, radar, sonar, or ...

  7. Minoan eruption - Wikipedia

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    Eruption dating. The Minoan eruption is an important marker horizon for the Bronze Age chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean realm. It provides a fixed point for aligning the entire chronology of the second millennium BCE in the Aegean, as evidence of the eruption is found throughout the region.

  8. Subadditivity - Wikipedia

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    Subadditivity. In mathematics, subadditivity is a property of a function that states, roughly, that evaluating the function for the sum of two elements of the domain always returns something less than or equal to the sum of the function's values at each element. There are numerous examples of subadditive functions in various areas of ...

  9. Digital object identifier - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .doi .org. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). [1] DOIs are an implementation of the Handle System; [2] [3] they also fit within the URI system ( Uniform Resource Identifier ).