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  2. Halifax Explosion - Wikipedia

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    The Halifax Explosion Memorial Bell Tower. The Halifax Explosion was one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions. An extensive comparison of 130 major explosions by Halifax historian Jay White in 1994 concluded that it "remains unchallenged in overall magnitude as long as five criteria are considered together: number of casualties ...

  3. Bedford Magazine explosion - Wikipedia

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    The Bedford Magazine explosion was a conflagration resulting in a series of explosions from July 18 to 19, 1945, in Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada. During World War II , the adjacent cities of Halifax and Dartmouth provided heavy support for Canada's war effort in Europe.

  4. Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion - Wikipedia

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    Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion is a two-part miniseries produced in 2003 by CBC Television. It presents a fictionalized version of the Halifax Explosion, a 1917 catastrophe that destroyed much of the Canadian city of Halifax. It was directed by Bruce Pittman and written by Keith Ross Leckie.

  5. List of unsolved problems in biology - Wikipedia

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    How do the descendants of monarch butterfly all over Canada and the US eventually, after migrating for several generations, manage to return to a few relatively small overwintering spots? Blue whale. There is not much data on the sexuality of the blue whale. [40] Gall-inducing insects. At least seven groups of insects, in six orders, have ...

  6. Microbiology - Wikipedia

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    Microbiology (from Ancient Greek μῑκρος (mīkros) 'small' βίος (bíos) 'life' and -λογία 'study of') is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular (single-celled), multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or acellular (lacking cells).

  7. John U. Bacon - Wikipedia

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    Hachette, 2007. The book includes chapters on Woody Hayes, Dave Brandon, Jim Hackett and Brad Bates. Three and Out: Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines in the Crucible of College Football. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011. Some of the players Bacon followed include Brandon Graham, Denard Robinson and Michael Martin, and strength coach Mike ...

  8. Annual Review of Microbiology - Wikipedia

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    The Annual Review of Microbiology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes review articles about microbiology. It was first published in 1947 as the third journal title released by Annual Reviews. It covers significant developments in the field of microbiology, including the study of bacteria, archaea, viruses, and unicellular eukaryotes.

  9. Microbial phylogenetics - Wikipedia

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    Microbial phylogenetics is the study of the manner in which various groups of microorganisms are genetically related. This helps to trace their evolution . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] To study these relationships biologists rely on comparative genomics , as physiology and comparative anatomy are not possible methods.