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  2. List of cocaine analogues - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of cocaine analogues.A cocaine analogue is an (usually) artificial construct of a novel chemical compound from (often the starting point of natural) cocaine's molecular structure, with the result product sufficiently similar to cocaine to display similarity in, but alteration to, its chemical function.

  3. Myopia - Wikipedia

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    Myopia; Other names: near-sightedness, short-sightedness: Diagram showing changes in the eye with myopia: Specialty: Ophthalmology, optometry: Symptoms: Distant objects appear blurry, close objects appear normal, headaches, eye strain [1]

  4. Goodyera pubescens - Wikipedia

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    Goodyera pubescens is a plant in the Orchidaceae (orchid) family that is commonly found in North America. The genus Goodyera are terrestrial plants with a fleshy rhizome with basal evergreen leaves in a rosette pattern - frequently having white or pale green markings.

  5. Occam's razor - Wikipedia

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    In philosophy, Occam's razor (also spelled Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; Latin: novacula Occami) is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements.

  6. Paleopathology - Wikipedia

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    To analyze human remains of the past, different techniques are used depending on the type of remains that are found. For example, "the approach to palaeopathological samples depends on the nature of the sample itself (e.g. bone, soft tissue or hair), its size (from minimal fragments to full bodies), the degree of preservation and, very importantly, the manipulation allowed (from intact sample ...

  7. Don Quixote - Wikipedia

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    For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, did not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.

  8. Nosferatu - Wikipedia

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    Nosferatu (1922). In 1838, in the fictional German town of Wisborg, [1] [9] Thomas Hutter is sent to Transylvania by his employer, estate agent Herr Knock, to visit a new client, Count Orlok, who is planning on buying a house across from Hutter's own residence.

  9. Untouchables (law enforcement) - Wikipedia

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    Eliot Ness around 1933. The Untouchables were special agents, also known as "dry agents," of the U.S. Bureau of Prohibition led by Eliot Ness, who, from 1930 to 1932, worked to end Al Capone's illegal activities by aggressively enforcing Prohibition laws against his organization.