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  2. Wilmot Proviso - Wikipedia

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    The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. [1] The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War .

  3. Entognatha - Wikipedia

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    The Entognatha are a class of wingless and ametabolous arthropods, which, together with the insects, makes up the subphylum Hexapoda. [1] [2] Their mouthparts are entognathous, meaning that they are retracted within the head, unlike the insects. [1] Entognatha are apterous, meaning that they lack wings.

  4. Apterygota - Wikipedia

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    The primary characteristic of the apterygotes is they are primitively wingless. While some other insects, such as fleas, also lack wings, they nonetheless descended from winged insects but have lost them during the course of evolution. By contrast, the apterygotes are a primitive group of insects that diverged from other ancient orders before ...

  5. Wingless insect - Wikipedia

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    There are various disparate groups of wingless insects. Apterygota are a subclass of small, agile insects, distinguished from other insects by their lack of wings in the present and in their evolutionary history. They include Thysanura (silverfish and firebrats). Some species lacking wings are members of insect orders that generally do have wings.

  6. Pterygota - Wikipedia

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    Pterygota (/ ˌ t ɛ r ə ˈ ɡ oʊ t ə / terrə-GOH-tə [2] Ancient Greek: πτερυγωτός, romanized: pterugōtós, lit. 'winged') is a subclass of insects that includes all winged insects and groups who lost them secondarily.

  7. Wilmot Works It Out - Wikipedia

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    Wilmot Works it Out is a 2024 puzzle video game developed by Hollow Ponds Games and Richard Hogg and published by Finji for Windows and MacOS. The game is a sequel to the developer's 2019 game Wilmot's Warehouse .

  8. Aptery - Wikipedia

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    Aptery is the anatomical condition of an animal completely lacking any kind of wings.An animal with this condition is said to be apterous.. Most animal species belong to and are phylogenetic descendants of apterous taxa.

  9. Zoraptera - Wikipedia

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    The insect order Zoraptera, commonly known as angel insects, contains small and soft bodied insects with two forms: winged with wings sheddable as in termites, dark and with eyes (compound) and ocelli (simple); or wingless, pale and without eyes or ocelli. They have a characteristic nine-segmented beaded (moniliform) antenna.