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  2. Romain Gary - Wikipedia

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    Romain Gary ( pronounced [ʁɔ.mɛ̃ ga.ʁi]; 21 May [ O.S. 8 May] 1914 – 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew ( pronounced [kat͡sɛf], and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar ), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names.

  3. Interior, South Dakota - Wikipedia

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    46-31620 [5] GNIS feature ID. 1267435 [3] Interior ( Lakota: makȟóšiča otȟúŋwahe; [6] " Badlands village") is a town in Jackson County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 65 at the 2020 census. [7] Interior got its start in 1907 when the Milwaukee Railroad was extended to that point. [8]

  4. Modularity - Wikipedia

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    Broadly speaking, modularity is the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use. The concept of modularity is used primarily to reduce complexity by breaking a system into varying degrees of interdependence and independence across and "hide the complexity of each part behind an abstraction and interface".

  5. Module (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Module (mathematics) In mathematics, a module is a generalization of the notion of vector space in which the field of scalars is replaced by a ring. The concept of module also generalizes the notion of abelian group, since the abelian groups are exactly the modules over the ring of integers . Like a vector space, a module is an additive abelian ...

  6. Modula-2 - Wikipedia

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    Modula-2 is used to program some operating systems (OSs). The Modula-2 module structure and support are used directly in two related OSs. The OS named Medos-2, for the Lilith workstation, was developed at ETH Zurich, by Svend Erik Knudsen with advice from Wirth. It is a single user, object-oriented operating system built from Modula-2 modules.

  7. Whitewood, South Dakota - Wikipedia

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    The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.00. The age distribution was 27.4% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 29.7% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 14.6% 65 or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 101.4 males.

  8. Mount Rushmore - Wikipedia

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    The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore ( Lakota: Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe, or Six Grandfathers) in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakota, United States. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum designed the sculpture, called Shrine of Democracy, [2] and ...

  9. List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    2-letter codes used by the United States Coast Guard (bold red text shows differences between ANSI and USCG) Abbreviations: GPO. Older variable-length official US Government Printing Office abbreviations. AP. Abbreviations from the AP Stylebook (bold red text shows differences between GPO and AP) Name and status of region. ISO.