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  2. Race and ethnicity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The 20th century one-drop rule made it relatively difficult for anyone of known black ancestry to be accepted as white. The child of a black sharecropper and a white person was considered black by the local communities, and would likely become a sharecropper as well, thus adding to the landholder or employer's labor force. Because the ...

  3. Cryptocurrency ‘pig butchering’ scam wrecks Kansas bank ...

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    The former CEO of a small Kansas bank was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for looting the bank of $47 million — which he sent to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by scammers who had ...

  4. The C Programming Language - Wikipedia

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    The C Programming Language (sometimes termed K&R, after its authors' initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the C programming language, as well as co-designed the Unix operating system with which development of the language was closely intertwined.

  5. List of largest Central Ohio employers - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the forty largest employers in the Columbus MSA as of 2016. Asterisks denote companies headquartered locally. Asterisks denote companies headquartered locally. Company/Organization

  6. Generation X - Wikipedia

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    Generation X (often shortened to Gen X) is the demographic cohort following the Baby Boomers and preceding Millennials.Researchers and popular media often use the mid-1960s as its starting birth years and the late 1970s as its ending birth years, with the generation being generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980.

  7. Contact geometry - Wikipedia

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    Given an n-dimensional smooth manifold M, and a point p ∈ M, a contact element of M with contact point p is an (n − 1)-dimensional linear subspace of the tangent space to M at p. [2] [3] A contact element can be given by the kernel of a linear function on the tangent space to M at p.

  8. ADP/ATP translocase 3 - Wikipedia

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    ADP/ATP translocase 3, also known as solute carrier family 25 member 6, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC25A6 gene. [3] Identical copies of this gene reside on the pseudoautosomal regions of the X and Y chromosomes .

  9. Contact mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Contact mechanics is the study of the deformation of solids that touch each other at one or more points. [1] [2] A central distinction in contact mechanics is between ...