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  2. Mikhail Botvinnik - Wikipedia

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    He also had a mathematics degree (honorary). Botvinnik was the first world-class player to develop within the Soviet Union. He also played a major role in the organization of chess , making a significant contribution to the design of the World Chess Championship system after World War II and becoming a leading member of the coaching system that ...

  3. Nebraska Cornhuskers football - Wikipedia

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    Many of these were throwback or "fauxback" uniforms, worn to commemorate past events or championships: 2009 (the 300th consecutive sellout at Memorial Stadium), [54] 2017 (the twentieth anniversary of Nebraska's 1997 national championship), [55] 2018 (the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I), [56] 2021 (the twentieth anniversary of ...

  4. Bohlen–Pierce scale - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, an interval of five such steps generates (octave-based) MOSes (moments of symmetry) with 8, 9, or 17 notes, and the 8-note scale (comprising degrees 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, and 35 of the 41-equal scale) could be considered the octave-equivalent version of the Bohlen–Pierce scale.

  5. Moon - Wikipedia

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    On average the Moon's surface gravity is 1.62 m/s 2 [4] (0.1654 g; 5.318 ft/s 2), about half of the surface gravity of Mars and about a sixth of Earth's. The Moon's gravitational field is not uniform. The details of the gravitational field have been measured through tracking the Doppler shift of radio signals emitted by orbiting spacecraft.

  6. Brian Aldiss - Wikipedia

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    Brian Wilson Aldiss OBE (/ ˈ ɔː l d ɪ s /; 18 August 1925 – 19 August 2017) was an English writer, artist and anthology editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories.

  7. Significant figures - Wikipedia

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    Likewise 0.0123 can be rewritten as 1.23 × 102. The part of the representation that contains the significant figures (1.30 or 1.23) is known as the significand or mantissa. The digits in the base and exponent (10 3 or 102) are considered exact numbers so for these digits, significant figures are irrelevant.

  8. Breaker Morant - Wikipedia

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    Morant's patrol left Fort Edward on 16 September 1901 with orders from Lenehan that Kelly and his men were to be captured and brought back alive if possible. Covering 130 miles (210 km) in a week of hard riding, they left their horses 2 miles (3.2 km) from Kelly's laager and went the rest of the way on foot. During the early hours of the next ...