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  2. Shamanism - Wikipedia

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    Shamanism is a spiritual practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, ...

  3. Macro (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    However, the macro facilities of more sophisticated assemblers, e.g., IBM High Level Assembler (HLASM) can't be implemented with a preprocessor; the code for assembling instructions and data is interspersed with the code for assembling macro invocations. A classic use of macros is in the computer typesetting system TeX and its derivatives ...

  4. Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain - Wikipedia

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    The Tribal Hidage is evidence of the existence of numerous smaller provinces, meaning that southern and eastern Britain may have lost any macro-political cohesion in the fifth and sixth centuries and fragmented into many small autonomous units, though late Roman administrative organisation of the countryside may have helped dictate their ...

  5. Economics - Wikipedia

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    The earlier term for the discipline was "political economy", but since the late 19th century, it has commonly been called "economics". [22] The term is ultimately derived from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia) which is a term for the "way (nomos) to run a household (oikos)", or in other words the know-how of an οἰκονομικός (oikonomikos), or "household or homestead manager".

  6. Addiction - Wikipedia

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    Classic signs of addiction include compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, preoccupation with substances or behavior, and continued use despite negative consequences. Habits and patterns associated with addiction are typically characterized by immediate gratification (short-term reward), [ 8 ] [ 9 ] coupled with delayed deleterious effects ...

  7. Phonograph record - Wikipedia

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    Three vinyl records of different formats, from left to right: a 12 inch LP, a 10 inch LP, a 7 inch single. A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English) or a vinyl record (for later varieties only) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

  8. Maasai people - Wikipedia

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    Most of the tested Maasai belonged to various macro-haplogroup L sub-clades, including L0, L2, L3, L4 and L5. Some maternal gene flow from North and Northeast Africa was also reported, particularly via the presence of mtDNA haplogroup M lineages in about 12.5% of the Maasai samples.

  9. Photography - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. Art and practice of creating images by recording light For other uses, see Photography (disambiguation). Photography of Sierra Nevada Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically ...