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  • 31Insect wing — Original veins and wing posture of a dragonfly. Hoverflies hovering to mate …

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  • 32falconiform — /fawl koh neuh fawrm , fal , faw koh , fawl keuh neuh , fal , faw keuh /, adj. of, pertaining to, or belonging to the order Falconiformes, comprising the vultures, hawks, eagles, ospreys, falcons, caracaras, etc. [ < NL falconiformes; see FALCON …

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  • 33Border Gateway Protocol — BGP redirects here. For the Formula One Team, see Brawn GP. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the protocol backing the core routing decisions on the Internet. It maintains a table of IP networks or prefixes which designate network reachability …

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  • 34Rhotic and non-rhotic accents — English pronunciation can be divided into two main accent groups: a rhotic (pronounced /ˈroʊtɨk/, sometimes /ˈrɒtɨk/) speaker pronounces a rhotic consonant in words like hard; a non rhotic speaker does not. That is, rhotic speakers pronounce /r/&#8230; …

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  • 35Confuciusornis — Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 125–120&#160;Ma …

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  • 36Bird flight — Flight is the main mode of locomotion used by most of the world s bird species. Flight assists birds while feeding, breeding and avoiding predators.Evolution of bird flightMost paleontologists agree that birds evolved from small theropod&#8230; …

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  • 37Helicopter rotor — This article is about helicopter main rotor systems. For antitorque control, see tail rotor. Helicopter rotor The rotor head of a Sikorsky S 92 A helicopter main rotor or rotor system is a type of fan that is used to generate both the aerodynamic …

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  • 38Grimus — infobox Book | name = Grimus title orig = translator = image caption = First edition cover author = Salman Rushdie cover artist = country = Great Britain language = English series = genre = Fantasy novel/Science Fiction publisher = Gollancz&#8230; …

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  • 39Timeline of aviation - 19th century — 1800s*1803 **July 18, Etienne Gaspar Robertson and Lhoest climb from Hamburg (Germany) up to 7,280 m in a balloon. **October 3 4, Frenchman André Jaques Garnerin covered a distance of 395 km from Paris to Clausen with his Montgolfière. **Count&#8230; …

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  • 40Entomopter — (England), ETS Labs and others.The name Entomopter is derived from entomo (meaning insect as in entomology) + pteron meaning wing. Michelson s Entomopter is a type of ornithopter , which is the broader term for any device intended to fly by&#8230; …

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