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  2. Mongrel - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the term mixed-breed is a favored synonym over mongrel among people who wish to avoid negative connotations associated with the latter term. [2] The implication that such dogs must be a mix of defined breeds may stem from an inverted understanding of the origins of dog breeds.

  3. Mongrel Mob - Wikipedia

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    The Mongrel Mob, also known as the Mighty Mongrel Mob or simply 'the Mob,' is a prominent organised crime group and prison gang based in New Zealand. With over thirty chapters across the country and additional operations in Australia and Canada, it is the largest gang in New Zealand.

  4. Babylonian cuneiform numerals - Wikipedia

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    Although they understood the idea of nothingness, it was not seen as a number—merely the lack of a number. Later Babylonian texts used a placeholder ( ) to represent zero, but only in the medial positions, and not on the right-hand side of the number, as we do in numbers like 100 .

  5. Catch points - Wikipedia

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    A trap road with stops is a short dead-end siding leading to some method of stopping a vehicle, such as a sand drag or buffer stop. Wide to gauge trap points have switches that work in opposite directions and are therefore either both open or both closed. Vehicles derailed at these points will tend to continue in a forward direction rather than ...

  6. Counting rods - Wikipedia

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    Moving the batch of rods representing 9 to the left one position (i.e., to the tens place) gives 9[] or 90. Shifting left again to the third position (to the hundreds place) gives 9[][] or 900. Each time one shifts a number one position to the left, it is multiplied by 10. Each time one shifts a number one position to the right, it is divided ...

  7. Religion in Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    Megjid Janraisig Temple, the main temple of Gandantegchinlen Monastery, the major monastery of Mongolian Buddhism located in Ulaanbaatar.. Religion in Mongolia has been traditionally dominated by the schools of Mongolian Buddhism and by Mongolian shamanism, the ethnic religion of the Mongols.

  8. Bulls and cows - Wikipedia

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    The digits must be all different. Then, in turn, the players try to guess their opponent's number who gives the number of matches. The digits of the number guessed also must all be different. If the matching digits are in their right positions, they are "bulls", if in different positions, they are "cows". Example: Secret number: 4271

  9. Two envelopes problem - Wikipedia

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    After the switch, denote that content by B and reason in exactly the same manner as above. The person concludes that the most rational thing to do is to swap back again. The person will thus end up swapping envelopes indefinitely. As it is more rational to just open an envelope than to swap indefinitely, the player arrives at a contradiction.