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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PennsylvaniaPennsylvania - Wikipedia

    15 hours ago · Pennsylvania (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ɪ l ˈ v eɪ n i ə / ⓘ, lit. ' Penn's forest country '), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Social_mediaSocial media - Wikipedia

    15 hours ago · Early computing. The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online ...

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

    15 hours ago · The Latin word comes from mell-, which comes from mel, meaning "honey"; sweetness; pleasant thing, and the suffix -ītus, whose meaning is the same as that of the English suffix "-ite". It was Thomas Willis who in 1675 added "mellitus" to the word "diabetes" as a designation for the disease, when he noticed the urine of a person with diabetes ...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Grand_CanyonGrand Canyon - Wikipedia

    15 hours ago · Even though it is not the deepest canyon in the world (Kali Gandaki Gorge in Nepal is much deeper), the Grand Canyon is known for its visually overwhelming size and its intricate and colorful landscape. Geologically, it is significant because of the thick sequence of ancient rocks that are well preserved and exposed in the walls of the canyon.

  5. 15 hours ago · A sequined drapo flag, depicting the vèvè symbol of the lwa Loko Atison; these symbols play an important role in Vodou ritual. Haitian Vodou (/ ˈ v oʊ d uː /) is an African diasporic religion that developed in Haiti between the 16th and 19th centuries.

  6. 15 hours ago · The Post published a picture of her but altered the photograph to remove the name of the Daily News as printed on a placard she was wearing. [122] In 2004, the Post ran a full-page cover photo of 19-year-old New York University student Diana Chien jumping to her death from the twenty-fourth story of a building.

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › 66 - Wikipedia

    15 hours ago · Sex-is a Latin prefix meaning "six". Thus: Senary is the ordinal adjective meaning "sixth" People with sexdactyly have six fingers on each hand; The measuring instrument called a sextant got its name because its shape forms one-sixth of a whole circle; A group of six musicians is called a sextet; Six babies delivered in one birth are sextuplets

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