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  2. Bachelor party - Wikipedia

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    Bachelor party. A bachelor party (in the United States and in Canada), also known as a stag weekend, stag do or stag party (in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth countries, and Ireland), or a buck's night (in Australia), [1] is a party held/arranged by the man who is shortly to enter marriage . A stag night is usually planned by the groom's ...

  3. Palacký University Olomouc - Wikipedia

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    upol.cz. Faculty of Science stairwell. Palacký University Olomouc ( Czech: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci) is the oldest university in Moravia and the second-oldest in the Czech Republic. It was established in 1573 as a public university led by the Jesuit order in Olomouc, which was at that time the capital of Moravia and the seat of the ...

  4. STAG2 - Wikipedia

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    STAG2. Cohesin subunit SA-2 ( SA2) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the STAG2 gene. [5] [6] SA2 is a subunit of the Cohesin complex which mediates sister chromatid cohesion, homologous recombination and DNA looping. In somatic cells cohesin is formed of SMC3, SMC1, RAD21 and either SA1 or SA2 whereas in meiosis, cohesin is formed of ...

  5. Red deer - Wikipedia

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    The red deer ( Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species. A male red deer is called a stag or hart, and a female is called a doe or hind. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Anatolia, Iran, and parts of western Asia. It also inhabits the Atlas Mountains of Northern Africa; being the only living species ...

  6. Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór - Wikipedia

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    In Norse mythology, four stags or harts (male red deer) eat among the branches of the world tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. The morning dew gathers in their horns and forms the rivers of the world. Their names are given as Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór.

  7. Stag beetle - Wikipedia

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    Male stag beetles are known for their oversize mandibles used to wrestle each other for favoured mating sites in a way that parallels the way stags fight over females. Fights may also be over food, such as tree sap and decaying fruits. Despite their often fearsome appearance, they are not normally aggressive to humans.

  8. Stag hunt - Wikipedia

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    The stag hunt and social cooperation "Nature and Appearance of Deer" taken from "Livre du Roy Modus", created in the 14th century. Although most authors focus on the prisoner's dilemma as the game that best represents the problem of social cooperation, some authors believe that the stag hunt represents an equally (or more) interesting context in which to study cooperation and its problems (for ...

  9. Lucanus cervus - Wikipedia

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    Lucanus cervus. Scarabaeus tridentatus Linnaeus, 1758 (partim.) Lucanus cervus, known as the European stag beetle, or the greater stag beetle, is one of the best-known species of stag beetle (family Lucanidae) in Western Europe, and is the eponymous example of the genus. L. cervus is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN Red List.