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2. Brazil - Wikipedia

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   The word Brazil probably comes from the Portuguese word for brazilwood, a tree that once grew plentifully along the Brazilian coast. [33] In Portuguese, brazilwood is called pau-brasil, with the word brasil commonly given the etymology "red like an ember", formed from brasa ('ember') and the suffix -il (from -iculum or -ilium). [34]

3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) - Wikipedia

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   Harry later finds the lifeless body of Barty Crouch Sr., a Ministry of Magic official, in the Forbidden Forest. In Dumbledore's office, he enters a Pensieve and witnesses the questioning of Igor Karkaroff, current headmaster of Durmstrang, by Barty Crouch Sr. Karkaroff is asked to name those who served Voldemort.

4. Ulysses (novel) - Wikipedia

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   The most striking feature of Mulligan's parody is the change to the words of transubstantiation, "This is my body," "This is my blood." —For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body and soul and blood and ouns. As he did in "The Sisters", the first Dubliners story, Joyce has replaced the Latin rite with a homely simulacrum. [99]

5. Russell 1000 Index - Wikipedia

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   The Russell 1000 Index is a U.S. stock market index that tracks the highest-ranking 1,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index, which represent about 93% of the total market capitalization of that index.

6. Heathrow Airport - Wikipedia

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   Heathrow Airport (/ ˌ h iː θ ˈ r oʊ, ˈ h iː θ r oʊ /), [6] called London Airport until 1966 (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL), [7] and now known as London Heathrow, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

7. Collective intelligence - Wikipedia

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   H.G. Wells World Brain (1936–1938). The concept (although not so named) originated in 1785 with the Marquis de Condorcet, whose "jury theorem" states that if each member of a voting group is more likely than not to make a correct decision, the probability that the highest vote of the group is the correct decision increases with the number of members of the group. [20]