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  2. Map seed - Wikipedia

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    In video games using procedural world generation, the map seed is a (relatively) short number or text string which is used to procedurally create the game world ("map"). "). This means that while the seed-unique generated map may be many megabytes in size (often generated incrementally and virtually unlimited in potential size), it is possible to reset to the unmodified map, or the unmodified ...

  3. Cloud - Wikipedia

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    The grouping of clouds into levels is commonly done for the purposes of cloud atlases, surface weather observations, [7] and weather maps. [40] The base-height range for each level varies depending on the latitudinal geographical zone. [7] Each altitude level comprises two or three genus-types differentiated mainly by physical form. [41] [5]

  4. Burkina Faso - Wikipedia

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    Formerly the Republic of Upper Volta, the country was renamed "Burkina Faso" on 4 August 1984 by then-President Thomas Sankara.The words "Burkina" and "Faso" stem from different languages spoken in the country: "Burkina" comes from Mooré and means "upright", showing how the people are proud of their integrity, while "Faso" comes from the Dyula language (as written in N'Ko: ߝߊ߬ߛߏ߫ faso ...

  5. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    Map of stars cataloged by the Gaia release in 2021, displayed as density mesh in the diagram. The ESA spacecraft Gaia provides distance estimates by determining the parallax of a billion stars and is mapping the Milky Way with four planned releases of maps in 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2024. [97] [98] Data from Gaia has been described as ...

  6. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    For example, a Facebook user can link their email account to their Facebook to find friends on the site, allowing the company to collect the email addresses of users and non-users alike. [216] Over time, countless data points about an individual are collected; any single data point perhaps cannot identify an individual, but together allows the ...

  7. Dodo - Wikipedia

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    The dodo was variously declared a small ostrich, a rail, an albatross, or a vulture, by early scientists. [3] In 1842, Danish zoologist Johannes Theodor Reinhardt proposed that dodos were ground pigeons, based on studies of a dodo skull he had discovered in the collection of the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

  8. The Sword of Truth - Wikipedia

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    The Sword of Truth is a series of 21 sword and sorcery novels and six novellas written by Terry Goodkind.The books follow the protagonists Richard Cypher, Kahlan Amnell, Nicci, Cara, and Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander on their quest to defeat oppressors who seek to control the world and those who wish to unleash evil upon the world of the living.

  9. International trade - Wikipedia

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    International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories [1] because there is a need or want of goods or services. [2] ...