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  2. Freerice - Wikipedia

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    Freerice, originally FreeRice, is a website-based application that allows players to donate rice to families in developing countries by playing a multiple-choice quiz game. For every question a user answers correctly, 10 grains of rice are donated via the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). There are over 50 categories, including English ...

  3. Quiz - Wikipedia

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    A printed quiz on health issues. A quiz is a form of mind sport in which people attempt to answer questions correctly on one or several topics. Quizzes can be used as a brief assessment in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and skills, or simply as a hobby.

  4. Rutan Long-EZ - Wikipedia

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    Rutan Long-EZ G-WILY fitted with baggage pods under wings. The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ is a tandem 2-seater homebuilt aircraft designed by Burt Rutan's Rutan Aircraft Factory. The Long-EZ has a canard layout, a swept wing with wingtip rudders, and a pusher engine and propeller.

  5. Long I - Wikipedia

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    In inscriptions dating to the early Roman Empire, it is used frequently but inconsistently to transcribe the long vowel /iː/.In Gordon's 1957 study of inscriptions, it represented this vowel approximately 4% of the time in the 1st century CE, then 22.6% in the 2nd century, 11% in the 3rd, and not at all from the 4th century onward, [1] reflecting a loss of phonemic vowel length by this time ...

  6. Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution

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    While profiting from expertise arriving from overseas (e.g. Lewis Paul), Britain was very protective of home-grown technology. In particular, engineers with skills in constructing the textile mills and machinery were not permitted to emigrate — particularly to the fledgeling America. [citation needed]

  7. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    Fitts's law is used to model the act of pointing, both in the real world, e.g. with a hand or finger, and on a computer, e.g. with a mouse. Flynn effect describes the phenomenon of an increase in IQ test scores for many populations at an average rate of three IQ points per decade since the early 20th century.

  8. List of fandom names - Wikipedia

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    The name takes the 'TR' from the group's name, the 'U' from the word 'Us,' and 'E' from the word 'Forever' to encompass the girl group's wishes to be with their fans forever. [388] True Blood: Truebies TV show [78] TVXQ: Cassiopeia Music group [4] Twenty One Pilots: Skeleton Clique, Clikkies Music group [389] Twice: Once Music group [390 ...

  9. Toucan - Wikipedia

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    A toucan's tongue is long (up to 15 cm or 6 in), narrow, grey, and singularly frayed on each side, adding to its sensitivity as a tasting organ. A structural complex probably unique to toucans involves the modification of several tail vertebrae. The rear three vertebrae are fused and attached to the spine by a ball and socket joint.