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  2. Gold - Wikipedia

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    Gold is a chemical element; it has the symbol Au (from the Latin word " aurum ") and the atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal, a group 11 element, and one of the noble metals.

  3. Gold plating - Wikipedia

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    Gold plating. Gold-plated aluminium cover on Voyager space craft that protects a gold-plated Sounds of Earth record. A gold plated desktop Stirling engine. Gold plating is a method of depositing a thin layer of gold onto the surface of another metal, most often copper or silver (to make silver-gilt ), by chemical or electrochemical plating.

  4. United Arab Emirates - Wikipedia

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    امارات. United Arab Emirates portal. The United Arab Emirates [b] ( UAE ), or simply the Emirates, [c] is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East. Located at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula, it shares borders with Oman and Saudi Arabia; as well as maritime borders in the Persian Gulf with Qatar and Iran.

  5. Geno Auriemma - Wikipedia

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    2014 Turkey. FIBA Under-19 World Championship. 2001 Czech Republic. Luigi " Geno " Auriemma (born March 23, 1954) is an Italian-born American college basketball coach and, since 1985, the head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team.

  6. B. R. Ambedkar - Wikipedia

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    B. R. Ambedkar. /  19.02500°N 72.83389°E  / 19.02500; 72.83389. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Bhīmrāo Rāmjī Āmbēḍkar; 14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served as Law ...

  7. Of Mice and Men - Wikipedia

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    Of Mice and Men is a 1937 novella written by American author John Steinbeck. [1] [2] It narrates the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States .

  8. Australia - Wikipedia

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    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

  9. Fibonacci sequence - Wikipedia

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    Fibonacci sequence. A tiling with squares whose side lengths are successive Fibonacci numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 and 21. In mathematics, the Fibonacci sequence is a sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. Numbers that are part of the Fibonacci sequence are known as Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted Fn .