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  2. Snapchat - Wikipedia

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    Snapchat is an American multimedia instant messaging app and service developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc.One of the principal features of Snapchat is that pictures and messages are usually only available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients.

  3. Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia

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    Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ oʊ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ /, US also / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː oʊ-/; Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]), was an Italian (Florentine) [a] astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.

  4. The Scream - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch.

  5. Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    Title page of Lucubrationes, 1541 edition, one of the first books to use a variant of the word encyclopedia in the title. An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopaedia (British English) [1] is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field or discipline. [2][3 ...

  6. Jeffrey Long - Wikipedia

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    Jeffrey Long. Jeffrey Long is an American author and researcher into the phenomenon of near-death experiences (NDEs). A physician by training, Long practices radiation oncology at a hospital in Kentucky. Long is the author of Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences, which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.

  7. Murder of Junko Furuta - Wikipedia

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    Furuta was born on 18 January 1971 and grew up in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, where she lived with her parents, older brother, and younger brother. [5] At the time of her murder, she was a 17-year-old senior at Yashio-Minami High School [], and worked a part-time job at a plastic molding factory from October 1988 to save up money for a planned graduation trip. [6]

  8. The Eminence in Shadow - Wikipedia

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    The Eminence in Shadow (Japanese: 陰の実力者になりたくて!, Hepburn: Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!) is a Japanese light novel series written by Daisuke Aizawa and illustrated by Tōzai. It began serialization online in May 2018 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. It was later acquired by ...

  9. History of photography - Wikipedia

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    View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection, the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light [2].