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  2. D. C. S. Oosthuizen - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Charl Stephanus Oosthuizen (also known as Daantjie Oosthuizen; 15 January 1926 – 4 April 1969) was a South African philosopher, and an early Afrikaner voice against Apartheid. The main direction of his philosophical work lay in the field of epistemology and the philosophy of mind.

  3. Jeanne Goosen - Wikipedia

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    [3] The novel Daantjie Dreamer (1993) is about a family from the 1950s. The narrator is the daughter Bubbles, who wants to free herself from the environment in which she grew up. Through her conversations with her philosophically inclined brother Daantjie Dreamer, she comes to new insights about political matters and she is aware of her own ...

  4. Pore space in soil - Wikipedia

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    The density of quartz is around 2.65 g/cm 3 but the dry bulk density of a soil can be less than half that value. Most soils have a dry bulk density between 1.0 and 1.6 g/cm 3 but organic soil and some porous clays may have a dry bulk density well below 1 g/cm 3.

  5. D. C. S. Oosthuizen Memorial Lecture - Wikipedia

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    André du Toit, The Legacy of Daantjie Oosthuizen:Revisiting the Liberal Defence of Academic Freedom Andrew Nash, Dialogue Alone: D. C. S. Oosthuizen’s Engagement with Three Philosophical Generations Charles Villa Vincencio, Thinking Outside the Hut Ian Macintosh, D. C. S. Oosthuizen's Legacy

  6. Babylonian Map of the World - Wikipedia

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    After an introduction, possibly explaining how to identify the first nagu, the next seven nagu are each introduced by the clause "To the n-th region [nagu], where you travel 7 leagues" (the distance of 7 leagues seems to indicate the width of the Ocean, rather than the distance between subsequent nagu).

  7. Daantjie - Wikipedia

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    Daantjie is a hypocorism of the given name Daniel. Notable people with the name include: Notable people with the name include: Daantjie Badenhorst [ 1 ] (born 1967), South African quiz show champion, journalist and author

  8. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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    For example, a 7.6 × 6.8 cm clay tablet found in 1930 at Ga-Sur, near contemporary Kirkuk, shows a map of a river valley between two hills. Cuneiform inscriptions label the features on the map, including a plot of land described as 354 iku (12 hectares) that was owned by a person called Azala.

  9. Cayley–Menger determinant - Wikipedia

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    Karl Menger was a young geometry professor at the University of Vienna and Arthur Cayley was a British mathematician who specialized in algebraic geometry. Menger extended Cayley's algebraic results to propose a new axiom of metric spaces using the concepts of distance geometry up to congruence equivalence, known as the Cayley–Menger determinant.