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  2. Chalkydri - Wikipedia

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    Chalkydri (Ancient Greek: χαλκύδραι khalkýdrai, compound of χαλκός khalkós "brass, copper" + ὕδρα hýdra "hydra", "water-serpent" — lit. "brazen hydras", "copper serpents") are mythical creatures mentioned in the apocryphal Second Book of Enoch from the 1st century CE, often seen as an angelic species.

  3. Quimbaya artifacts - Wikipedia

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    Map of pre-Columbian cultures Poporo Quimbaya in the Gold Museum, Bogotá Colombia Seated gold figure from the Museo de América (Museum of America). Quimbaya artifacts refer to a range of primarily ceramic and gold objects surviving from the Quimbaya civilisation, one of many pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia inhabiting the Middle Cauca River valley and southern Antioquian region of modern ...

  4. List of chemical compounds with unusual names - Wikipedia

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    Chemical nomenclature, replete as it is with compounds with very complex names, is a repository for some names that may be considered unusual. A browse through the Physical Constants of Organic Compounds in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (a fundamental resource) will reveal not just the whimsical work of chemists, but the sometimes peculiar compound names that occur as the ...

  5. The Weird and Wonderful World of Radioactive Glassware ... - AOL

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    Cooper is among the nearly 3 million members of a Facebook group called "Weird and Wonderful Secondhand Finds That Just Need to Be Shared." And one of that group's favorite finds is uranium glass ...

  6. Boring Cubicles, Begone! 20 Weird And Wonderful Office ... - AOL

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    Boring Cubicles, Begone! 20 Weird And Wonderful Office Supplies To The Rescue. Viktorija Strelciunaite. November 27, 2024 at 6:07 AM.

  7. Weird and wonderful discoveries in Tashkent – six places you ...

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    Weird and wonderful discoveries in Tashkent – six places you should visit in the Uzbek capital. ... In the early 1980s, whilst the TV tower was under construction, mass graves were found: the ...

  8. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    It is found all throughout the Milky Way and was discovered on Earth's mantle during the early 22nd century. However, it can also be synthesized. Dysonium fuel cores look like glowing, blue spheres. Element Zero (0-Ez) Mass Effect: Element Zero, or "Eezo", is naturally created in dying stars and harvested from supernovas.

  9. Wikipedia:Unusual articles/Technology, inventions and products

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    Possibly the largest example of fossilised human feces ever found, discovered under the future site of a Lloyds Bank in England. Shit flow diagram: This is the technical term. Stainless steel soap: Metallic soap that removes odours from the hands, allegedly. Toilet-related injury: Not all injuries and deaths linked to toilets are urban legends.