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  2. Sam Worthington - Wikipedia

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    3 Samuel Henry John Worthington (born 2 August 1976) is an Australian actor. He is known for playing Jake Sully in the Avatar franchise (2009–present), Marcus Wright in Terminator Salvation (2009), and Perseus in Clash of the Titans (2010) and its sequel Wrath of the Titans (2012).

  3. Percy Jackson & the Olympians - Wikipedia

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    The original series is set in the mid-2000s and follows Perseus "Percy" Jackson, a 12-year-old boy who learns he is the son of the Greek god Poseidon. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades had sworn not to father any more children after World War II, and as such, Poseidon did not interact with him as a child. The gods took that pledge because their ...

  4. Bathymetry - Wikipedia

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    The first recorded evidence of water depth measurements are from Ancient Egypt over 3000 years ago. [3] Bathymetry has various uses including the production of bathymetric charts to guide vessels and identify underwater hazards, the study of marine life near the floor of water bodies , coastline analysis and ocean dynamics , including ...

  5. Swan song - Wikipedia

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    Aesop's fable of "The Swan and the Goose" incorporates the swan song legend as saving its life when it was caught by mistake instead of the goose but was recognized by its song. [3] There is a subsequent reference in Aeschylus' Agamemnon from 458 BCE. [1] In that play, Clytemnestra compares the dead Cassandra to a swan who has "sung her last ...

  6. Platypus - Wikipedia

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    These ten chromosomes form five unique pairs of XY in males and XX in females, i.e. males are X 1 Y 1 X 2 Y 2 X 3 Y 3 X 4 Y 4 X 5 Y 5. [103] One of the X chromosomes of the platypus has great homology to the bird Z chromosome. [104] The platypus genome also has both reptilian and mammalian genes associated with egg fertilisation.

  7. List of suicides - Wikipedia

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    Art Acord (1931), American actor and rodeo champion, ingestion of poison [2] [3] Manuel Acuña (1873), Mexican poet, ingestion of potassium cyanide [ 4 ] [ 5 ] George Washington Adams (1829), American politician, lawyer, and eldest son of John Quincy Adams , drowning in Long Island Sound [ 6 ]

  8. 2022 in science - Wikipedia

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    3 November – Astronomers using the IXPE space observatory report that 4U 0142+61, a magnetar found 13,000 light-years from Earth, likely has a solid surface with no atmosphere. [ 710 ] [ 711 ] 4 November – The discovery of Gaia BH1 , a binary system containing what is likely the closest known black hole to Earth, is reported by astronomers ...