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  2. Autothysis - Wikipedia

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    Autothysis (from the Greek roots autos-αὐτός "self" and thysia θυσία "sacrifice") or suicidal altruism is the process where an animal destroys itself via an internal rupturing or explosion of an organ which ruptures the skin.

  3. Self-destruct - Wikipedia

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    A self-destruct is a mechanism that can cause an object to destroy itself or render itself inoperable after a predefined set of circumstances has occurred.. Self-destruct mechanisms are typically found on devices and systems where malfunction could endanger large numbers of people.

  4. Colobopsis saundersi - Wikipedia

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    Colobopsis saundersi 's two oversized, poison-filled mandibular glands run the entire length of its body from its head to its bulbous gaster at its posterior.. Its defensive behaviours include self-destruction by autothysis, a term coined by Maschwitz and Maschwitz (1974). [4]

  5. Self-destructive behavior - Wikipedia

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    Self-destructive behavior is often considered to be synonymous with self-harm, but this is not accurate. Self-harm is an extreme form of self-destructive behavior, but it may appear in many other guises. Just as personal experience can affect how extreme one's self-destructive behavior is, self-harm reflects this. [7]

  6. Smart mine - Wikipedia

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    Many are designed to self-destruct or self-deactivate at the end of a conflict or a preset period of time. [1] Others are so-called "self-healing" minefields which can detect when a gap in the field has been created and will direct its mines to reposition themselves to eliminate that gap, making it much more difficult and dangerous to create a ...

  7. List of image-sharing websites - Wikipedia

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    Free image hosting, no registration required. Yes Yes Unknown From 9 Feb 2015 all Imgur accounts are treated as Imgur pro accounts. No limits. [15] Ipernity: France [16] Photo, video & blog sharing. Operated by the world's largest non-commercial photo sharing community, without profit interest, advertising, data trading or sale of any content ...

  8. Jean Tinguely - Wikipedia

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    His best-known work, a self-destroying sculpture titled Homage to New York (1960), only partially self-destructed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, [4] [5] [6] although his later work, Study for an End of the World No. 2 (1962), detonated successfully in front of an audience gathered in the desert outside Las Vegas.

  9. Image sharing - Wikipedia

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    Image sharing, or photo sharing, is the publishing or transfer of digital photos online. Image sharing websites offer services such as uploading, hosting, managing and sharing of photos (publicly or privately). [1] This function is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images.