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  2. Akha people - Wikipedia

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    They made their way from China into Southeast Asia during the early 20th century. Civil war in Burma and Laos resulted in an increased flow of Akha immigrants and there are now 80,000 people living in Thailand's northern provinces of Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai. [6] The Akha speak Akha, a language in the Loloish (Yi) branch of the Tibeto-Burman ...

  3. 2023 in science - Wikipedia

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    12 April: Researchers demonstrate an 'AI scientist' that can rediscover physical laws from axioms and data. 14 April: Launch of the JUICE mission to Jupiter. 3 April. Five employees at the National Hurricane Center publish a tropical cyclone report (TCR) on Hurricane Ian, which officially upgrades the hurricane from a Category 4 to a Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson scale.

  4. Flashbulb memory - Wikipedia

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    The term flashbulb memory was coined by Brown and Kulik in 1977. [2] They formed the special-mechanism hypothesis, which argues for the existence of a special biological memory mechanism that, when triggered by an event exceeding critical levels of surprise and consequentiality, creates a permanent record of the details and circumstances surrounding the experience. [2]

  5. Boston Marathon bombing - Wikipedia

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    At 5:00 p.m. on April 18, three days after the bombing, the FBI released images of two suspects carrying backpacks, asking the public's help in identifying them. [68] [69] The FBI said that they were doing this in part to limit harm to people wrongly identified by news reports and on social media. [70]

  6. How right-wing social media took false claims about Haitians ...

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    The accusation was shocking, but, in at least one way, it was like any other post on any other neighborhood Facebook page. Someone heard a rumor and decided to share it. No evidence.

  7. Effects of pornography on young people - Wikipedia

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    Gender stereotypical beliefs are understood as a belief that traditional, stereotypical ideas about male and female gender roles and gender relations dominate. These beliefs cover, progressive attitudes towards gender roles, conceptions of women as sexual objects, gender stereotypical beliefs about power imbalance in sexual relationships, and beliefs about gender equality.

  8. Eastern Lightning - Wikipedia

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    The Church of Almighty God [a] (simplified Chinese: 全能神教会; traditional Chinese: 全能神教會; pinyin: Quánnéng Shén Jiàohuì), also known as Eastern Lightning (simplified Chinese: 东方闪电; traditional Chinese: 東方閃電; pinyin: Dōngfāng Shǎndiàn), is a monotheistic new religious movement which was established in China in 1991. [2]