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14 hours ago · Afrikaans is a separate but mutually intelligible sister language of modern Dutch, and a daughter language of an earlier form of Dutch. It is spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa.
14 hours ago · Females become sexually mature at a younger age, between 5 and 8 years old, when they are about 3.4 metres (11 ft) long. The pigmentation of the narwhal is a mottled pattern, with blackish-brown markings over a white background. At sexual maturity, white patches grow on the navel and genital slit. The skin is darkest at birth and pales ...
14 hours ago · This resource had become nearly depleted by mid-2010s. Production of beryllium in Russia was halted in 1997, and is planned to be resumed in the 2020s. Beryllium is most commonly extracted from the mineral beryl, which is either sintered using an extraction agent or melted into a soluble mixture.
- white-gray metallic
- group 2 (alkaline earth metals)
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14 hours ago · Anthropologist Rosemary Joyce agrees, writing that "gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as "male" and "female."
14 hours ago · Insurance became far more sophisticated in Enlightenment-era Europe, where specialized varieties developed. Lloyd's Coffee House was the first organized market for marine insurance. Property insurance as we know it today can be traced to the Great Fire of London, which in 1666 devoured more than 13,000 houses.
