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  2. List of obsolete technology - Wikipedia

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    Ballpoint pen, felt tip pen, brush pen. Calligraphy; ink drawing; personal preference; acting and historical re-enacting. Fountain pens in particular maintain use as fairly standard writing implements, and are in a state of co-existence, rather than of obsolescence, despite reduced usage. Sundial. Clock.

  3. Human vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    Ileum, caecum and colon of rabbit, showing Appendix vermiformis on fully functional caecum The human vermiform appendix on the vestigial caecum. In modern humans, the appendix was once believed to be a vestige of a redundant organ that in ancestral species had digestive functions, much as it still does in extant species in which intestinal flora hydrolyze cellulose and similar indigestible ...

  4. Category:Obsolete occupations - Wikipedia

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  5. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    List of paradoxes. Outline of public relations – Overview of and topical guide to public relations. Map–territory relation – Relationship between an object and a representation of that object (confusing map with territory, menu with meal) Mathematical fallacy – Certain type of mistaken proof.

  6. List of former and unopened London Underground stations

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    Piccadilly. 30 September 1994. Station and route closed. Building remains and platforms sometimes used for cinematic purposes. Terminus of Piccadilly line branch line from Holborn; closed because of low passenger numbers and cost of replacing lifts [5] Aylesbury. Metropolitan. 10 September 1961. Service withdrawn.

  7. List of recessions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The 1815 panic was followed by several years of mild depression, and then a major financial crisis – the Panic of 1819, which featured widespread foreclosures, bank failures, unemployment, a collapse in real estate prices, and a slump in agriculture and manufacturing. [9] 1822–1823 recession. 1822–1823. ~1 year.

  8. Historic recurrence - Wikipedia

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    Historic recurrence is the repetition of similar events in history. [a][b] The concept of historic recurrence has variously been applied to overall human history (e.g., to the rises and falls of empires), to repetitive patterns in the history of a given polity, and to any two specific events which bear a striking similarity. [4]

  9. Vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    Vestigiality. In humans, the vermiform appendix is sometimes called a vestigial structure as it has lost much of its ancestral digestive function. Vestigiality is the retention, during the process of evolution, of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral function in a given species. [1]