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  2. Aircraft in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The A-10 Thunderbolt II is among the player-flyable aircraft in the 1989 video game U.N. Squadron. [23] The aircraft is also featured in the 1989 video game A-10 Tank Killer. [24] It has since appeared in the Ace Combat series [25] and is a study-level aircraft in the combat flight simulator DCS World. [26]

  3. Nicholas Alkemade - Wikipedia

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    Nicholas Stephen Alkemade (10 December 1922 – 22 June 1987) was a British tail gunner in the Royal Air Force during World War II who survived a freefall of 18,000 feet (5,490 m) without a parachute after abandoning his out-of-control, burning Avro Lancaster heavy bomber over Germany.

  4. 5000 metres - Wikipedia

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    The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to 3 miles 188 yards or 16,404 feet 2 inches.It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 laps of a standard 400 m track, or 25 laps on an indoor 200 m track.

  5. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. - Wikipedia

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    The bane of Bart's existence is the hated piano lessons he endures under the tutelage of the authoritarian Dr. Terwilliker (Hans Conried). Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's influence, and gripes to their plumber, August Zabladowski (Peter Lind Hayes), without result. While hammering at his lessons, Bart dozes off and ...

  6. Feeding the multitude - Wikipedia

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    Feeding the multitudes by Bernardo Strozzi, early 17th century.. In Christianity, feeding the multitude comprises two separate miracles of Jesus, reported in the Gospels, in which Jesus used modest resources to feed thousands of followers who had gathered to see him heal the sick.

  7. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    15.24 meters – width of an NBA basketball court (50 feet) 18.44 meters – distance between the front of the pitcher's rubber and the rear point of home plate on a baseball field (60 feet, 6 inches) [126] 20 meters – length of cricket pitch (22 yards) [127] 27.43 meters – distance between bases on a baseball field (90 feet)

  8. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    2) Period (or full stop), the thousands separator used in many non-English speaking countries. 3) Comma, the thousands separator used in most English-speaking countries. A decimal separator is a symbol that separates the integer part from the fractional part of a number written in decimal form (e.g., "."

  9. Debt: The First 5,000 Years - Wikipedia

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    Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a book by anthropologist David Graeber published in 2011. It explores the historical relationship of debt with social institutions such as barter, marriage, friendship, slavery, law, religion, war and government.