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  2. Mithridatism - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the toxin, the practice can lead to the lethal accumulation of a poison in the body. Results depend on how each poison is processed by the body, i.e. on how the toxic compound is metabolized or passed out of the body. [8] However, in some cases, it is possible to build up a metabolic tolerance against specific non-biological poisons.

  3. Mithridates VI Eupator - Wikipedia

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    Mithridates or Mithradates VI Eupator (Ancient Greek: Μιθριδάτης; [2] 135–63 BC) was the ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus in northern Anatolia from 120 to 63 BC, and one of the Roman Republic's most formidable and determined opponents.

  4. Allusions to Poe's "The Raven" - Wikipedia

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    The album, Poe for Moderns, includes a condensed, jazzy version of "The Raven". The hip hop group Cyne included a track called "The Raven" on their 2009 album Water for Mars. The group paraphrases Poe's famous line in a few cynical lines (e.g. "Nevermore said the raven, goodbye to innocence").

  5. Death of Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    Poe's funeral was a simple one, held at 4 p.m. on Monday, October 8, 1849, in Baltimore. [37] Few people attended the ceremony. Poe's uncle, Henry Herring, provided a simple mahogany coffin, and a cousin, Neilson Poe, supplied the hearse. [47] Moran's wife made his shroud. [48]

  6. List of battle royale games - Wikipedia

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    The player can build structures as defense or buildings. It is a companion game to Fortnite: Save the World. September 30, 2017 (Beta) Garena Free Fire: 111 Dot Studio Garena: Android, iOS Third-person Yes Yes also known as Free Fire: Battlegrounds: October 11, 2017: Surviv.io: Justin Kim and Nick Clark Kongregate. Justin Kim and Nick Clark ...

  7. Sontaran - Wikipedia

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    The Sontarans are a race of humanoids with a stocky build, a distinctive dome-shaped head, and they have only three fingers on each hand, though some members of their species do have five fingers. Their musculature is designed for load-bearing rather than leverage, because of the high gravity on their home planet.

  8. Iodine pit - Wikipedia

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    The iodine pit, also called the iodine hole or xenon pit, is a temporary disabling of a nuclear reactor due to buildup of short-lived nuclear poisons in the reactor core.The main isotope responsible is 135 Xe, mainly produced by natural decay of 135 I.

  9. Polyethylene glycol - Wikipedia

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    Polyethylene glycol (PEG; / ˌ p ɒ l i ˈ ɛ θ əl ˌ iː n ˈ ɡ l aɪ ˌ k ɒ l,-ˈ ɛ θ ɪ l-,-ˌ k ɔː l /) is a polyether compound derived from petroleum with many applications, from industrial manufacturing to medicine.