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  1. 1 day ago · The term gerrymandering is a portmanteau of a salamander and Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States at the time of his death, who, as governor of Massachusetts in 1812, signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a mythological salamander. The term has negative connotations ...

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › SunSun - Wikipedia

    6 hours ago · The tidal effect of the planets is weak and does not significantly affect the shape of the Sun. The Sun rotates faster at its equator than at its poles. This differential rotation is caused by convective motion due to heat transport and the Coriolis force due to the Sun's rotation. In a frame of reference defined by the stars, the rotational ...

    • ≈4.6 billion years (4.6×10⁹ years)
    • Solar (/ˈsoʊlər/)
    • −26.74
    • 1.9885×10³⁰ kg, 332,950 Earths
  4. 6 hours ago · Two other effects which occurred between reionization and our observations of the cosmic microwave background, and which appear to cause anisotropies, are the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect, where a cloud of high-energy electrons scatters the radiation, transferring some of its energy to the CMB photons, and the Sachs–Wolfe effect, which causes ...

  5. 1 day ago · All versions incorporate a top-loading slot for game cartridges, although the shape of the slot differs between regions to match the different shapes of the cartridges. The MULTI OUT connector (later used on the Nintendo 64 and GameCube ) can output composite video , S-Video and RGB signals, as well as RF with an external RF modulator .

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  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AlgaeAlgae - Wikipedia

    6 hours ago · The shape can vary; they may be of discoid, plate-like, reticulate, cup-shaped, spiral, or ribbon shaped. They have one or more pyrenoids to preserve protein and starch. The latter chlorophyll type is not known from any prokaryotes or primary chloroplasts, but genetic similarities with red algae suggest a relationship there.

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › IceIce - Wikipedia

    6 hours ago · The effect of expansion during freezing can be dramatic, and ice expansion is a basic cause of freeze-thaw weathering of rock in nature and damage to building foundations and roadways from frost heaving. It is also a common cause of the flooding of houses when water pipes burst due to the pressure of expanding water when it freezes.

    • 1.309
    • 3400 to 37,500 kg-force/cm³
    • 5 to 18 kg-force/cm²
  8. 1 day ago · Interchanging two rows or two columns affects the determinant by multiplying it by −1. Using these operations, any matrix can be transformed to a lower (or upper) triangular matrix, and for such matrices, the determinant equals the product of the entries on the main diagonal; this provides a method to calculate the determinant of any matrix.

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