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  2. Lemont Furnace, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Lemont Furnace is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in North Union Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located 3 miles (5 km) northeast of the city of Uniontown and approximately 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Pittsburgh .

  3. Satan - Wikipedia

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    Satan. Satan, [a] also known as the Devil, [b] and sometimes also called Lucifer in Christianity, is an entity in Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood. In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or "evil inclination".

  4. Oxycodone - Wikipedia

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    Oxycodone, sold under various brand names such as Roxicodone and OxyContin (which is the extended release form), is a semi-synthetic opioid used medically for treatment of moderate to severe pain. It is highly addictive [14] and is a commonly abused drug.

  5. Erasure code - Wikipedia

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    Most practical erasure codes are systematic codes-- each one of the original k symbols can be found copied, unencoded, as one of the n message symbols. (Erasure codes that support secret sharing never use a systematic code). Near-optimal erasure codes. Near-optimal erasure codes require (1 + ε)k symbols to recover the message (where ε>0 ...

  6. Greenwood Furnace State Park - Wikipedia

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    April 30, 1947. Greenwood Furnace State Park is a 423-acre (171 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Jackson Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is near the historic iron making center of Greenwood Furnace. The park includes the ghost town of Greenwood that grew up around the ironworks, old roads and charcoal hearths.

  7. Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.

  8. Sodom and Gomorrah - Wikipedia

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    Sodom and Gomorrah afire by Jacob de Wet II, 1680. In the Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah ( / ˈsɒdəm /; / ɡəˈmɒrə /) were two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness. [1] Their story parallels the Genesis flood narrative in its theme of God's anger provoked by man's sin (see Genesis 19:1–28).

  9. Reverberatory furnace - Wikipedia

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    Reverberatory furnace. A reverberatory furnace is a metallurgical or process furnace that isolates the material being processed from contact with the fuel, but not from contact with combustion gases. The term reverberation is used here in a generic sense of rebounding or reflecting, not in the acoustic sense of echoing .