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  2. Lost City of Z - Wikipedia

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    The British surveyor Percy Fawcett in 1911, who believed an indigenous city, which he called "the Lost City of Z", had existed in the Brazilian jungle. Fawcett found a document known as Manuscript 512, held at the National Library of Brazil, believed to have been written by Portuguese bandeirantes João da Silva Guimarães [].

  3. Survey of English Dialects - Wikipedia

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    A map displaying the localities included in the Survey of English Dialects. The Survey of English Dialects was undertaken between 1950 and 1961 under the direction of Harold Orton of the English department of the University of Leeds. It aimed to collect the full range of speech in England and Wales before local differences were to disappear. [1]

  4. Genset - Wikipedia

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    Genset or generator set may refer to: Diesel generator , a combination of diesel engine and electric generator Engine-generator , a machine used to generate electricity

  5. Chromebook - Wikipedia

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    The first Chromebooks for sale, by Acer Inc. and Samsung, were announced at the Google I/O conference on May 11, 2011 and began shipping on June 15, 2011. [7] Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard (now HP Inc.) and Google itself entered the market in early 2013.

  6. 2022 Bihar caste-based survey - Wikipedia

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    The 2022 Bihar Caste Based Survey was notified by the Government of Bihar on 6 June 2022 by gazette notification after a Supreme Court ruling. [3] [4] The survey was conducted in two phases, house listing and caste and economic enumeration. The data collection for the survey began on 7 January 2023 and the data was released on 2 October 2023.

  7. Catalina Real-time Transient Survey - Wikipedia

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    The Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey is a collaboration using three telescopes looking for optical transients. The same telescopes are used as in the Catalina Sky Survey . They are Mt. Lemmon Survey , Catalina Sky Survey , and Siding Spring Survey .

  8. Dominion Land Survey - Wikipedia

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    The first survey began in 1871 and ended in 1879 and covers some of southern Manitoba and a little of Saskatchewan. The second and smallest survey, in 1880, was used in only small areas of Saskatchewan. This system differs from the first survey because rather than running section lines parallel to the eastern boundary they run true north–south.

  9. Alternator - Wikipedia

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    An alternator (or synchronous generator) is an electrical generator that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current. [2] For reasons of cost and simplicity, most alternators use a rotating magnetic field with a stationary armature . [ 3 ]