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  2. List of ongoing armed conflicts - Wikipedia

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    List of ongoing armed conflicts. Map of ongoing armed conflicts (number of combat-related deaths in current or previous year): Major wars (10,000 or more) Wars (1,000–9,999) Minor conflicts (100–999) Skirmishes and clashes (1–99) The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.

  3. Black Death - Wikipedia

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    1346–1353. Deaths. 25,000,000 – 50,000,000 (estimated) The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. One of the most fatal pandemics in human history, as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia ...

  4. Fascism - Wikipedia

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    That means that fascism is an ideology that draws on old, ancient, and even arcane myths of racial, cultural, ethnic, and national origins to develop a plan for the 'new man. ' " [48] Griffin himself explored this 'mythic' or 'eliminable' core of fascism with his concept of post-fascism to explore the continuation of Nazism in the modern era. [49]

  5. Brașov-Ghimbav International Airport - Wikipedia

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    9,252. Concrete [1] [2] Brașov-Ghimbav International Airport ( Romanian: Aeroportul Internațional Brașov-Ghimbav, IATA: GHV, [3] ICAO: LRBV) is an airport located in Ghimbav, near Brașov, Romania, by the future A3 motorway. It is the first airport to be built in Romania in the last 50 years, [4] and the 17th commercial airport in the country.

  6. Schrödinger's cat - Wikipedia

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    Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source connected to a Geiger counter are placed in a sealed box. As illustrated, the objects are in a state of superposition: the cat is both alive and dead. In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, of quantum superposition.

  7. Charlotte's Web - Wikipedia

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    Charlotte's Web is a book of children's literature by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams; it was published on October 15, 1952, by Harper & Brothers. The novel tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte.

  8. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists. It allows documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet according to specific rules of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol ...

  9. Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

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    The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section II, of the U.S. Constitution. [a] By custom and House rules, the speaker is the political and parliamentary leader ...