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  2. History of Central America - Wikipedia

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    History of Central America. 20th century political map of Central America. Central America is commonly said to include Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. This definition matches modern political borders. Central America begins geographically in Mexico, at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico's narrowest ...

  3. Death of Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia

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    Death of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin [a] after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe. Eva Braun, his wife of one day, also ...

  4. Lake Central School Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Lake Central School Corporation is a public school district in St. John Township, Indiana.. Its students come from the towns of St. John (the majority), Dyer (north of 101st Ave), almost the entire town of Schererville, the southeastern section of Griffith that is within St. John Township, a small section of Crown Point, and unincorporated areas with Crown Point postal addresses (north of ...

  5. Central nervous system - Wikipedia

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    The central nervous system ( CNS) is the part of the nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord, the retina and optic nerve, and the olfactory nerve and epithelia. The CNS is so named because the brain integrates the received information and coordinates and influences the activity of all parts of the bodies of bilaterally symmetric ...

  6. Portal (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Portal. (video game) Portal is a 2007 puzzle - platform game developed and published by Valve. It was released in a bundle, The Orange Box, for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and has been since ported to other systems, including Mac OS X, Linux, Android (via Nvidia Shield ), and Nintendo Switch .

  7. Web portal - Wikipedia

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    Web portal. A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information (a portlet ); often, the user can configure which ones to display.

  8. Central processing unit - Wikipedia

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    A central processing unit ( CPU ), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer. [1] [2] Its electronic circuitry executes instructions of a computer program, such as arithmetic, logic, controlling, and input/output (I/O) operations. [3] [4] [5] This role contrasts with ...

  9. Central bank - Wikipedia

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    A central bank, reserve bank, national bank, or monetary authority is an institution that manages the currency and monetary policy of a country or monetary union. [1] In contrast to a commercial bank, a central bank possesses a monopoly on increasing the monetary base.