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Ticket to Childhood (Vietnamese: Cho tôi xin một vé đi tuổi thơ, literally "Please Give me a ticket to Childhood") is a 2008 novella by Nguyễn Nhật Ánh.With this novella, Nguyễn Nhật Ánh was awarded S.E.A. Write Award in 2010.
Mammoth tusks are among the largest known among proboscideans with some specimens over 4 m (13.1 ft) in length and likely 200 kg (440.9 lb) in weight with some historical reports suggesting tusks of Columbian mammoths could reach lengths of around 5 m (16.4 ft) substantially surpassing the largest known modern elephant tusks. [36]
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The English lawn became a symbol of status of the aristocracy and gentry; it showed that the owner could afford to keep land that was not being used for a building or for food production. 1668: Earliest concept of a metric system proposed by John Wilkins (1614–1672) in An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language .
The Discovery 4 (called LR4 in North America and the Middle East) is an updated version of the Discovery 3. [21] Using the same Integrated Body Frame structure, the new Discovery has altered front and rear light units and a restyled front grille and bumper to adopt the same smoother, rounder style as also adopted for the 2010 Range Rover and ...
Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]
German half-hour sand glass, first quarter of the 16th century, bronze-gilt and silver-gilt, height: 8.3 cm, diameter: 8.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) A winged hourglass as a literal depiction of the Latin phrase tempus fugit ("time flies") An hourglass in use, 2015
The earliest explicit written evidence of a magnifying device is a joke in Aristophanes's The Clouds [3] from 424 BC, where magnifying lenses to ignite tinder were sold in a pharmacy, and Pliny the Elder's "lens", [4] a glass globe filled with water, used to cauterize wounds.