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2. The gigantic dunes rising up out of the world’s oldest desert

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   The place is called Sossusvlei in Namib-Naukluft National Park in the middle of what researchers consider the world’s oldest desert — formed between 55 and 80 million years ago when dinosaurs ...

3. Code page - Wikipedia

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   Code page. In computing, a code page is a character encoding and as such it is a specific association of a set of printable characters and control characters with unique numbers. Typically each number represents the binary value in a single byte. (In some contexts these terms are used more precisely; see Character encoding § Terminology.)

4. Angelina Jolie Says She Is 'Never First' as a Mom to 6 ...

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   The 49-year-old actress spoke about the shift in focus her life took after welcoming children during a new interview with CR Fashion Book, published on Friday, Sept. 20. Talking of the lessons she ...

5. Black Codes (United States) - Wikipedia

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   The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...

6. Gray code - Wikipedia

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   A Gray code absolute rotary encoder with 13 tracks. Housing, interrupter disk, and light source are in the top; sensing element and support components are in the bottom. Gray codes are used in linear and rotary position encoders (absolute encoders and quadrature encoders) in preference to weighted binary encoding.

7. C (programming language) - Wikipedia

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   C (pronounced / ˈsiː / – like the letter c) [6] is a general-purpose programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie and remains very widely used and influential. By design, C's features cleanly reflect the capabilities of the targeted CPUs. It has found lasting use in operating systems code (especially in kernels [7 ...

8. American bison - Wikipedia

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   Wood bison (Bison bison subsp. athabascae) The American bison (Bison bison; pl.: bison), commonly known as the American buffalo, or simply buffalo (not to be confused with true buffalo), is a species of bison that is endemic (or native) to North America. It is one of two extant species of bison, along with the European bison.

9. Charles I of England - Wikipedia

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   Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) [a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life.