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  2. Decoupage - Wikipedia

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    Decoupage or découpage ( / ˌdeɪkuːˈpɑːʒ /; [ 1] French: [dekupaʒ]) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf, and other decorative elements. Commonly, an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from ...

  3. Economic geography - Wikipedia

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    More specifically, Evolutionary Economic Geography uses concepts and ideas from evolutionary economics to understand the evolution of cities, regions, and other economic systems. [6] Critical economic geography is an approach taken from the point of view of contemporary critical geography and its philosophy.

  4. Origins of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    A consensus of historians who address the origins of the American Civil War agree that the preservation of the institution of slavery was the principal aim of the eleven Southern states (seven states before the onset of the war and four states after the onset) that declared their secession from the United States (the Union) and united to form ...

  5. Advanced Placement - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Placement ( AP) [ 4] is a program in the United States and Canada created by the College Board. AP offers undergraduate university-level curricula and examinations to high school students. Colleges and universities in the US and elsewhere may grant placement and course credit to students who obtain qualifying scores on the examinations.

  6. Arthashastra - Wikipedia

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    Arthashastra Books 2.10, 6-7, 10 A notable structure of the treatise is that while all chapters are primarily prose, each transitions into a poetic verse towards its end, as a marker, a style that is found in many ancient Hindu Sanskrit texts where the changing poetic meter or style of writing is used as a syntax code to silently signal that the chapter or section is ending. All 150 chapters ...

  7. AP English Language and Composition - Wikipedia

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    Course. AP English Language and Composition is a course in the study of rhetoric taken in high school. Many schools offer this course primarily to juniors and the AP English Literature and Composition course to seniors. Other schools reverse the order, and some offer both courses to both juniors and seniors.

  8. Factors of production - Wikipedia

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    The utilized amounts of the various inputs determine the quantity of output according to the relationship called the production function. There are four basic resources or factors of production: land, labour, capital and entrepreneur (or enterprise). [ 1] The factors are also frequently labeled " producer goods or services " to distinguish them ...

  9. Meritocracy - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Meritocracy ( merit, from Latin mereō, and -cracy, from Ancient Greek κράτος kratos 'strength, power') is the notion of a political system in which economic goods or political power are vested in individual people based on ability and talent, rather than wealth, social class, [ 1] or race. Advancement in such a system is based ...