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  2. Huntsville, Alabama - Wikipedia

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    The population density was 985.7 inhabitants per square mile (380.6/km 2) There were 100,391 housing units. The racial makeup of the city was 55.17% White, 29.0% Black or African American, 0.40% Native American, 2.51% Asian, 0.12% Pacific Islander, and 4.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race were 7.75% of the population.

  3. Concessionary fares on the British railway network - Wikipedia

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    The 16-17 Saver was introduced in 2019 [3] in order to allow people aged 16 and 17 to access child fares, which are normally only available to children under 16. [4] The railcard costs £30.00 for a year (or until the holder's 18th birthday, whichever is sooner), [5] and offers up to 50% off rail fares, the same as child rate tickets.

  4. Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    The atmospheric release of xenon-133, with a half-life of 5 days, is estimated at 5200 PBq. [2] 50 to 60% of all core radioiodine in the reactor, about 1760 PBq (1760 × 10 15 becquerels), or about 0.4 kilograms (0.88 lb), was released, as a mixture of sublimed vapour, solid particles, and organic iodine compounds. Iodine-131 has a half-life of ...

  5. Human rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    From 1775 until 1807, the state constitution in New Jersey permitted all persons worth over fifty pounds (about $7,800 adjusted for inflation, with the election laws referring to the voters as "he or she") to vote; provided they had this property, free black men and single women regardless of race therefore had the vote until 1807, but not ...

  6. Euro - Wikipedia

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    On 13 July 2022, the two currencies hit parity for the first time in nearly two decades due in part to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [18] Then, in September 2022, the US dollar again had a face value higher than the Euro, at around US dollar 0.95 per euro. [19] [20]

  7. Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event - Wikipedia

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    After about 700,000 years, some mammals had reached 50 kilos (110 pounds), a 100-fold increase over the weight of those which survived the extinction. [159] It is thought that body sizes of placental mammalian survivors evolutionarily increased first, allowing them to fill niches after the extinctions, with brain sizes increasing later in the ...

  8. 1948 Arab–Israeli War - Wikipedia

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    The battle was planned to begin on the Shabbat, at 20:00 on 16 July, two days before the second ceasefire of the war. The plan went wrong from the beginning and was postponed first to 23:00 and then to midnight. It was not until 02:30 that the battle actually began.

  9. Melbourne, Florida - Wikipedia

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    Evidence for the presence of Paleo-Indians in the Melbourne area during the late Pleistocene epoch was uncovered during the 1920s. C. P. Singleton, a Harvard University zoologist, discovered the bones of a mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) on his property along Crane Creek, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Melbourne, and brought in Amherst College paleontologist Frederick B. Loomis to excavate the skeleton.