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  2. JD Vance - Wikipedia

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    The Times listed it among "6 Books to Help Understand Trump's Win", [45] and Vance was profiled in The Washington Post, where he was characterized as "the voice of the Rust Belt". [46] In The New Republic , Sarah Jones criticized Vance as "liberal media's favorite white trash –splainer" and a "false prophet of blue America ", calling the book ...

  3. Claudia Sheinbaum - Wikipedia

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    [45] [46] On 5 December 2017, Sheinbaum resigned as mayor of Tlalpan in order to register her precandidacy. [ 47 ] At her campaign launch on 1 April 2018, Sheinbaum prioritized fighting crime, stating that she would hold regular public hearings, publish reported crime statistics, and rely on the Security Council for guidance.

  4. Sylvester Stallone - Wikipedia

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    Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone [5] [6] [7] was born in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City's Manhattan borough [8] on July 6, 1946, [9] the elder son of women's professional wrestling promoter Jacqueline "Jackie" Stallone (née Labofish; 1921–2020) and hairdresser Francesco "Frank" Stallone Sr. (1919–2011). [10]

  5. Brittney Griner - Wikipedia

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    Brittney Griner accepting Wade Trophy at the WBCA Awards show in Denver Colorado 2012. Brittney Yvette Griner (/ ˈ ɡ r aɪ n ər /; born October 18, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). [1]

  6. Awkwafina - Wikipedia

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    Awkwafina was born in Stony Brook, New York, [4] the only child of Wally Lum, a Chinese American, and Tia Lum, a Korean American. [5] Her father worked in the information technology field, [4] and comes from a family of restaurateurs—her great-grandfather immigrated to the United States in the 1940s, and opened the Cantonese restaurant Lum's in Flushing, Queens, [6] one of the neighborhood's ...

  7. Code of Hammurabi - Wikipedia

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    Linking the Code to the scribal tradition within which "list science" emerged also explains why trainee scribes copied and studied it for over a millennium. [24] The Code appears in a late Babylonian (7th–6th century BC) list of literary and scholarly texts. [122] No other law collection became so entrenched in the curriculum. [123]

  8. Nikola Tesla - Wikipedia

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    The project came to a halt in 1905, and in 1906, the financial problems and other events may have led to what Tesla biographer Marc J. Seifer suspects was a nervous breakdown on Tesla's part. [169] Tesla mortgaged the Wardenclyffe property to cover his debts at the Waldorf-Astoria, which eventually amounted to $20,000 ($608,400 in today's ...

  9. Quantum error correction - Wikipedia

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    A generalisation of the technique used by Steane, to develop the 7-qubit code from the classical [7, 4] Hamming code, led to the construction of an important class of codes called the CSS codes, named for their inventors: Robert Calderbank, Peter Shor and Andrew Steane. According to the quantum Hamming bound, encoding a single logical qubit and ...