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  2. Illuminati - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on 1 May 1776 in Bavaria, today part of Germany. The society's stated goals were to oppose superstition , obscurantism , religious influence over public life, and abuses of state power .

  3. Base pair - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] [5] A kilobase (kb) is a unit of measurement in molecular biology equal to 1000 base pairs of DNA or RNA. [6] The total number of DNA base pairs on Earth is estimated at 5.0 × 10 37 with a weight of 50 billion tonnes. [7] In comparison, the total mass of the biosphere has been estimated to be as much as 4 TtC (trillion tons of carbon). [8]

  4. Octet (computing) - Wikipedia

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    1 o = 8 bits The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits . The term is often used when the term byte might be ambiguous, as the byte has historically been used for storage units of a variety of sizes.

  5. Panama Canal - Wikipedia

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    The single-stage Pedro Miguel Lock, which is 1.4 km (7 ⁄ 8 mi) long, is the first part of the descent with a lift of 9.4 m (31 ft). The artificial Miraflores Lake 1.8 km (1 + 18 mi) long, and 16 m (54 ft) above sea level. The two-stage Miraflores Locks is 1.8 km (1 + 18 mi) long, with a total descent of 16 m (54 ft) at mid-tide.

  6. Headphones - Wikipedia

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    Headphones that use cables typically have either a 1 ⁄ 4 inch (6.4 mm) or 18 inch (3.2 mm) phone jack for plugging the headphones into the audio source. Some headphones are wireless, using Bluetooth connectivity to receive the audio signal by radio waves from source devices like cellphones and digital players. [5]

  7. Operant conditioning - Wikipedia

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    This schedule typically generates rapid, persistent responding. Slot machines pay off on a variable ratio schedule, and they produce just this sort of persistent lever-pulling behavior in gamblers. The variable ratio payoff from slot machines and other forms of gambling has often been cited as a factor underlying gambling addiction. [61]

  8. 1 - Wikipedia

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    1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. 1 is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers.This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, a determiner for singular nouns, and a ...

  9. History of the halfpenny - Wikipedia

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    The halfpennies of Queen Victoria's long reign (1837–1901) can be basically divided into the copper issue of 1838–1860, where the coins were 9.1–9.5 grams in weight and 28 millimetres in diameter, and which were very similar to the halfpennies of her two predecessors (with the obvious substitution of REG for REX on the reverse), and the ...