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  • 101Dike (construction) — A dike (or dyke), levee, levée, embankment, floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial slope or wall, usually earthen and often parallels the course of a river. [ Citation | title=Levees and Other Raised Ground | author=Henry Petroski |… …

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  • 102Economic democracy — is a socioeconomic philosophy that suggests a shift in decision making power from a small minority of corporate shareholders to a larger majority of public stakeholders. There is no single definition or approach for economic democracy, but most… …

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  • 103Reservoir — This article is about an artificial body of water. For other uses, see Reservoir (disambiguation). The Jhonghua Dam on the Dahan River in Taoyuan County, Taiwan. A reservoir (pronounced either REZ ur vore or REZ er vwar, etymology: from French… …

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  • 104Laredo, Texas — City of Laredo   City   …

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  • 105Ada Ciganlija — or colloquially just Ada (Serbian Cyrillic Ада Циганлија , pronounced| ada t͡siga nlija) is a river island, artificially turned into a peninsula, in the Sava River s course through central Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is also colloquially… …

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  • 106Object-oriented programming — Programming paradigms Agent oriented Automata based Component based Flow based Pipelined Concatenative Concurrent computing …

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  • 107Lovell Telescope — Infobox Telescope name = Lovell Telescope caption = The 76 m Lovell Telescope organization = Jodrell Bank Observatory location = Cheshire, UK coords = coord|53|14|13.2|N|2|18|25.74|W|display=inline,title altitude = wavelength = Up to 5 GHz… …

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  • 108brazil — /breuh zil /, n. brazilwood. [1350 1400; ME brasile < ML < It < Sp brasil, deriv. of brasa live coal (the wood being red in color) < Gmc; see BRAISE] * * * Brazil Introduction Brazil Background: Following three centuries under the rule of&#8230; …

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  • 109Brazil — Brazilian /breuh zil yeuhn/, adj., n. /breuh zil /, n. a republic in South America. 164,511,366; 3,286,170 sq. mi. (8,511,180 sq. km). Cap.: Brasília. Portuguese and Spanish, Brasil. Official name, Federative Republic of Brazil. * * * Brazil&#8230; …

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  • 110china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …

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