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  2. Ray Kurzweil - Wikipedia

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    Ray Kurzweil decided at age five that he wanted to be an inventor. [4] As a young boy, he had an inventory of parts from various construction toys he had been given and old electronic gadgets he had collected from neighbors. In his youth, Kurzweil was an avid reader of science fiction.

  3. Rorschach test - Wikipedia

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    As pertains to response form, a concept of "form quality" was present from the earliest of Rorschach's works, as a subjective judgment of how well the form of the subject's response matched the inkblots (Rorschach would give a higher form score to more "original" yet good form responses), and this concept was followed by other methods ...

  4. Firearms regulation in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    On 31 December 1996, prior to the large-calibre handgun ban, there were 133,600 FACs on issue in England and Wales; by 31 December 1997 it had fallen to 131,900. On 31 December 2001, five years after the large calibre ban, the number had fallen to 119,600 and 117,700 the following year. [29] This represents a net drop of 24,200 certificates.

  5. The Gentlemen (2024 TV series) - Wikipedia

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    The Gentlemen is an action comedy television series created by Guy Ritchie for Netflix.It is a spin-off of Ritchie's 2019 film of the same name.The series stars Theo James in the lead role and was released on March 7, 2024.

  6. JD Vance - Wikipedia

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    James Donald Bowman was born on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio, [11] [12] to Beverly Carol (née Vance; born 1961) and Donald Ray Bowman (1959–2023). He is of Scots-Irish descent. [13] [14] His parents divorced when he was a toddler. [12]

  7. Breaking Bad - Wikipedia

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    Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan for AMC.Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an underpaid, dispirited high-school chemistry teacher struggling with a recent diagnosis of stage-three lung cancer.

  8. High Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector - Wikipedia

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    The High Resolution Fly's Eye or HiRes detector was an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray observatory that operated in the West Desert of Utah from May 1997 until April 2006. . HiRes (HiRes-I, HiRes-II, and HiRes prototype) used the "atmospheric fluorescence" technique that was pioneered by the Utah group first in tests at the Volcano Ranch experiment and then with the original Fly's Eye exper

  9. Test Ban Treaty - Wikipedia

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    Three test ban treaties aimed at prohibiting most nuclear weapons testing have been adopted: The Partial Test Ban Treaty , adopted in 1963, signed by the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, prohibited all testing except underground tests