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  2. Pirahã people - Wikipedia

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    The Pirahã (pronounced [piɾaˈhɐ̃]) [a] are an indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. They are the sole surviving subgroup of the Mura people, and are hunter-gatherers. They live mainly on the banks of the Maici River in Humaitá and Manicoré in the state of Amazonas. As of 2018, they number 800 individuals. [2]

  3. Etrigan the Demon - Wikipedia

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    Etrigan the Demon is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.Created by Jack Kirby, Etrigan is a demon from Hell who, despite his violent tendencies, usually finds himself allied with the forces of good, mainly because of the alliance between the heroic characters of the DC Universe and Jason Blood, a human to whom Etrigan is bound.

  4. Mythic humanoids - Wikipedia

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    Mythic humanoids are legendary, folkloric, or mythological creatures that are part human, or that resemble humans through appearance or character. Each culture has different mythical creatures that come from many different origins, and many of these creatures are humanoids. They are often able to talk and in many stories they guide the hero on ...

  5. Pirahã language - Wikipedia

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    Pirahã (also spelled Pirahá, Pirahán ), or Múra-Pirahã, is the indigenous language of the isolated Pirahã people of Amazonas, Brazil. The Pirahã live along the Maici River, a tributary of the Amazon River . Pirahã is the only surviving dialect of the Mura language; all others having died out in the last few centuries as most groups of ...

  6. Amazon (company) - Wikipedia

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    Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington. [6] The company originally started as an online marketplace for books but gradually expanded its offerings to include a wide range of product categories. This diversification led to it being referred to as "The Everything Store". [7]

  7. Sophia (robot) - Wikipedia

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    Sophia is a social humanoid robot developed by the Hong Kong -based company Hanson Robotics. [1] Sophia was activated on February 14, 2016, [2] and made her first public appearance in mid-March 2016 at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, United States. [3] Sophia is marketed as a "social robot" who can mimic social behavior and induce ...

  8. Anthropomorphism - Wikipedia

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    Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. [1] It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. [2] Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts such as nations, emotions, and natural forces, such as seasons and weather.

  9. Amazon Mechanical Turk - Wikipedia

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    Amazon Mechanical Turk ( MTurk) is a crowdsourcing website with which businesses can hire remotely located "crowdworkers" to perform discrete on-demand tasks that computers are currently unable to do as economically. It is operated under Amazon Web Services, and is owned by Amazon. [1] Employers, known as requesters, post jobs known as Human ...