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  2. Voice over IP - Wikipedia

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    2007: VoIP device manufacturers and sellers boom in Asia, specifically in the Philippines where many families of overseas workers reside. [111] 2009: SILK codec introduced, using LPC algorithm, [112] and used for voice calling in Skype. [113] 2010: Apple introduces FaceTime, which uses the LD-MDCT-based AAC-LD codec. [114] 2011:

  3. Diving equipment - Wikipedia

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    Diving equipment, or underwater diving equipment, is equipment used by underwater divers to make diving activities possible, easier, safer and/or more comfortable. This may be equipment primarily intended for this purpose, or equipment intended for other purposes which is found to be suitable for diving use.

  4. Timeline of disability rights outside the United States

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    1714 – In English law, the Vagrancy Act 1714 (13 Ann. c. 26) allowed two justices of the peace to confine a dangerous lunatic.; 1729 – In 1729 punishment was recommended for people with physical disabilities, whether they were born with disabilities or acquired them later in life, who appeared in public.

  5. Mermaid - Wikipedia

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    The Swedish ballad "Hafsfrun" [168] (≈Havsfruns tärna , SMB 23, TSB A 51 [169]) is an instance where a mermaid kidnaps a human girl at age fifteen, and when the girl's brother accomplishes the rescue, the mermaid declares she would have cracked [u] her neck if she knew she would be thus betrayed. [171]

  6. Grading systems by country - Wikipedia

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    Universities use 0–100 point grade scaling similar to the United States grading. 71 is required to pass, or roughly the equivalent of a C. Schools use the 1–5 point system, meaning if a student has a 4.5 that is the equivalent of an A− or somewhere around the 95-point range.

  7. Chilean Spanish - Wikipedia

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    They can mean 'little', as in perrito 'little dog' or casita 'little house', but can also express affection, as with mamita 'mummy, mommy'. They can also diminish the urgency, directness, or importance of something to make something annoying seem more pleasant. [ 23 ]

  8. Quezon - Wikipedia

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    Poverty Incidence of Quezon 10 20 30 40 2000 11.95 2003 39.80 2006 33.48 2009 29.83 2012 27.54 2015 24.39 2018 13.49 2021 16.30 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Farming and fishing are the main sources of livelihood in the province. Commercial, industrial, and banking activities are mostly concentrated in the south-central part of the province. Agro-industry Coconut plantation at Villa ...