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  2. Early spring or 6 more weeks of winter? AccuWeather ... - AOL

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    Meteorological spring kicks off on Friday, March 1, while astronomical spring begins on the equinox, which takes place at 11:06 p.m. EDT on March 19.

  3. Dongding Island - Wikipedia

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    In good weather, the light was expected to be visible from twenty-two miles away. [28] The lighthouse was renovated in 1913 and 1927. [29] In September 1954, it was noted in top secret American intelligence documents declassified in August 2000 that Nationalist guerrillas from Quemoy had gone to Tungting Island. [30]

  4. Cab Calloway - Wikipedia

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    [14] [15] After he was caught playing dice on the church steps, his mother sent him to Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural School in 1921, a reform school run by his mother's uncle in Chester County, Pennsylvania. [15] Calloway resumed hustling when he returned to Baltimore and worked as a caterer while he improved his education in school. [15]

  5. Lyme disease - Wikipedia

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    Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the genus Ixodes. [4] [9] [10] The most common sign of infection is an expanding red rash, known as erythema migrans (EM), which appears at the site of the tick bite about a week afterwards. [1]

  6. Coronavirus - Wikipedia

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    The name "coronavirus" is derived from Latin corona, meaning "crown" or "wreath", itself a borrowing from Greek κορώνη korṓnē, "garland, wreath". [8] [9] The name was coined by June Almeida and David Tyrrell who first observed and studied human coronaviruses. [10]

  7. November 1921 - Wikipedia

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    She lived for more than three weeks before dying of her injuries on December 8. [40] Born: Frank Rosenfelt, American film executive and onetime CEO of the MGM studio; in New York City (d. 2007). [41] Gu Yuezhen, Chinese opera singer who led her own opera troupe until her career was ended in the Cultural Revolution (committed suicide, 1970). [42]

  8. Environmental impact of aviation - Wikipedia

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    Other estimates include 4 to 200 × 10 15 particles for 0.1–0.7 gram, [62] or 14 to 710 × 10 15 particles, [63] or 0.1–10 × 10 15 black carbon particles for 0.046–0.941 g. [ 64 ] In the United States , 167,000 piston aircraft engines , representing three-quarters of private airplanes , burn Avgas , releasing lead into the air. [ 65 ]