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Victor A. McKusick

Summary: {{Template}} '''Victor Almon McKusick''' (October 21, 1921 – July 22, 2008), internist and medical [[geneticist]], was University [[Professor]] of Medical Genetics and Professor of Medicine at...

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Specialization (functional)

Summary: {{Template}} '''Specialisation''' is the separation of tasks within a system. In a multicellular creature, cells are specialized for functions such as bone construction or oxygen transport. In...

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Gilligan's Island

Summary: {{Template}} '''''Gilligan's Island''''' is an [[United States|American]] [[sitcom]] created and produced by [[Sherwood Schwartz]] and originally produced by [[United Artists Television]]. The...

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Summary: {{Template}} '''''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang''''' is a 1968 British [[musical film]] loosely based on [[Ian Fleming]]'s novel ''[[Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang|Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical...

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The Prestige

Summary: {{Template}} '''''The Prestige''''' is a 1995 novel by British writer [[Christopher Priest (novelist)|Christopher Priest]]. The novel is [[Epistolary novel|epistolary]] in structure: that is,...

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Tin Man

Summary: {{Template}} '''Tin Man''' may refer to: * [[Tin Woodman]], a character in the fictional ''Land of Oz'' created by American author L. Frank Baum * [[Ted McMinn]], a footballer nicknamed ''The...

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List of high fantasy fiction

Summary: {{Template}} This list contains a variety of examples of [[high fantasy]] fiction. The list is ordered alphabetically by author's last name. __NOTOC__ == Books == ===A=== *[[Joe...

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Micronation

Summary: {{Template}} '''Micronations''', sometimes also referred to as '''model countries''' and '''new country projects''', are entities that claim to be independent [[nation]]s or [[sovereign...

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January 28, 2013

Summary: {{Template}} ''[[Darwin. Art and the Search for Origins]]'' (2009) was an exhibition curated by [[Pamela Kort]] and [[Max Hollein]] held at the [[Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt]]. {{GFDL}}

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Diogenes syndrome

Summary: {{Template}} '''Diogenes syndrome''', also known as '''senile squalor syndrome''', is a disorder characterized by extreme [[self-neglect]], domestic squalor, social withdrawal, [[apathy]],...

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Self-neglect

Summary: {{Template}} '''Self-neglect''' is a [[behavioural]] condition in which an individual neglects to attend to their basic needs, such as [[personal hygiene]], appropriate clothing, feeding, or...

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Thomas Abbt

Summary: {{Template}} '''Thomas Abbt''' (25 November 1738 – 3 November 1766) was a [[Germany|German]] [[mathematician]] and writer. Born in [[Ulm]], Abbt visited a secondary school in Ulm, then moved...

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Vom Tode für's Vaterland

Summary: {{Template}} ''[[Vom Tode für's Vaterland]]'' (1761, On dying for one's nation) by [[Thomas Abbt]] (1738–1766). {{GFDL}}

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Brights movement

Summary: {{Template}} The '''Brights movement''' is a sociocultural movement that aims to promote public understanding and acknowledgment of [[metaphysical naturalism|naturalistic]], unspiritual and...

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Unitarian Universalism

Summary: {{Template}} '''Unitarian Universalism''' is a [[theologically]] [[liberal religion]] characterized by support for a "free and responsible search for [[truth]] and [[meaning of...

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Bonum sane

Summary: {{Template}} '''Bonum sane''' was a [[motu proprio]] on [[Saint Joseph]] written by [[Pope Benedict XV]] and delivered on July 25, 1920. The pope warned against world...

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Antinaturalism (sociology)

Summary: {{Template}} '''Antinaturalism''' or '''postnaturalism''' can have the following meanings: *[[Antinaturalism (sociology)]] *[[Antinaturalism (politics)]] == See also == *[[Appeal to nature]]...

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Appeal to nature

Summary: {{Template}} An '''appeal to nature''' is an [[argument]] or [[rhetoric]]al tactic in which it is proposed that "a thing is good ''because'' it is 'natural', or bad ''because'' it is...

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Antinaturalism (politics)

Summary: {{Template}} As a [[political movement]] in [[France]], '''antinaturalism''' is closely linked to the [[animal welfare]] movement; some antinaturalists posit that any reference to [[Natural...

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Bruno Latour

Summary: {{Template}} '''Bruno Latour''' (born 22 June 1947) is a [[France|French]] [[sociologist]] of science and [[Anthropology|anthropologist]] and an influential theorist in the field of [[Science...

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