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  2. Executive producer - Wikipedia

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    Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the production of media.Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights or royalties).

  3. Constructor (object-oriented programming) - Wikipedia

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    A new instance is created by calling the class as if it were a function, which calls the __new__ and __init__ methods. If a constructor method is not defined in the class, the next one found in the class's Method Resolution Order will be called. [14] In the typical case, only the __init__ method need be defined. (The most common exception is ...

  4. Billy Mitchell - Wikipedia

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    Although the 55-cent stamp met an airmail rate and portrayed a figure important to the development of aviation, it was not marked or issued as an airmail stamp. It also met the two-ounce first-class rate in effect at the time. Mitchell was named as the class exemplar at the United States Air Force Academy for the Class of 2001.

  5. American exceptionalism - Wikipedia

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    Critics such as Marilyn Young and Howard Zinn have argued that American history is so morally flawed because of slavery, civil rights, and social welfare issues that it cannot be an exemplar of virtue. [104] Zinn argues that American exceptionalism cannot be of divine origin because it was not benign, especially in dealing with Native Americans ...

  6. Iraq - Wikipedia

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    Winter temperatures infrequently exceed 15 °C (59.0 °F) with maxima roughly 5 to 10 °C (41.0 to 50.0 °F) and night-time lows 1 to 5 °C (33.8 to 41.0 °F). Typically, precipitation is low; most places receive less than 250 mm (9.8 in) annually, with maximum rainfall occurring during the winter months.

  7. Western world - Wikipedia

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    The origins of Western civilization can be traced back to the ancient Mediterranean world. Ancient Greece [d] and Ancient Rome [e] are generally considered to be the birthplaces of Western civilization—Greece having heavily influenced Rome—the former due to its impact on philosophy, democracy, science, aesthetics, as well as building designs and proportions and architecture; the latter due ...

  8. Jazz - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, I question the assumption that smooth jazz is an unfortunate and unwelcomed evolutionary outcome of the jazz-fusion era. Instead, I argue that smooth jazz is a long-lived musical style that merits multi-disciplinary analyses of its origins, critical dialogues, performance practice, and reception.

  9. Aristotle - Wikipedia

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    Philosophers of science have generally concluded that Aristotle was not interested in taxonomy, [108] [109] but zoologists who studied this question in the early 21st century think otherwise. [ 110 ] [ 111 ] [ 112 ] He believed that purposive final causes guided all natural processes; this teleological view justified his observed data as an ...