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  2. The Frontier Post - Wikipedia

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    The Frontier Post is an independent English language daily newspaper founded in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1985. It publishes from Peshawar , Lahore , Islamabad , Karachi , and Quetta . History [ edit ]

  3. Safe mode in spacecraft - Wikipedia

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    Safe mode is entered automatically upon the detection of a predefined operating condition or event that may indicate loss of control or damage to the spacecraft. Usually the trigger event is a system failure or detection of operating conditions considered dangerously out of the normal range. Cosmic rays penetrating spacecraft electrical systems ...

  4. Westward Expansion Trails - Wikipedia

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    Westward Expansion Trails. In the history of the American frontier, pioneers built overland trails throughout the 19th century, especially between 1829 and 1870, as an alternative to sea and railroad transport. These immigrants began to settle much of North America west of the Great Plains as part of the mass overland migrations of the mid-19th ...

  5. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    It was formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago, is a terrestrial planet and is the second smallest of the Solar System 's planets with a diameter of 6,779 km (4,212 mi). A Martian solar day ( sol) is 24.5 hours and a Martian solar year is 1.88 Earth years (687 Earth days). Mars has two small and irregular natural satellites: Phobos and Deimos.

  6. Frontier myth - Wikipedia

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    Frontier myth. The frontier myth or myth of the West is one of the influential myths in American culture. The frontier is the concept of a place that exists at the edge of a civilization, particularly during a period of expansion. The American frontier occurred throughout the 17th to 20th centuries as European Americans colonized and expanded ...

  7. Frontier Thesis - Wikipedia

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    Frontier Thesis. The Frontier Thesis, also known as Turner's Thesis or American frontierism, is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the settlement and colonization of the rugged American frontier was decisive in forming the culture of American democracy and distinguishing it from European nations.

  8. Tor (network) - Wikipedia

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    Running a few computers to eavesdrop on a lot of traffic, a selective denial of service attack to drive traffic to your computers, that's like a tens-of-thousands-of-dollars problem." At the most basic level, an attacker who runs two poisoned Tor nodes—one entry, one exit—is able to analyse traffic and thereby identify the tiny, unlucky ...

  9. Adémaï au poteau-frontière - Wikipedia

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    4 September 1950. ( 1950-09-04) Running time. 96 minutes. Country. France. Language. French. Adémaï au poteau-frontière English: Ademaï in the frontier post, is a French comedy film from 1950, directed by Paul Colline, written by Paul Colline, and starring Colline as a peasant and featuring Louis de Funès as a soldier.