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  2. Reappropriation - Wikipedia

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    Reclaimed words often remain controversial for a time, due to their original pejorative nature. For some terms, even "reclaimed" usage by members of the community concerned is a subject of controversy. [1] Often, not all members of a given community support the idea that a particular slur should be reclaimed at all. [1]

  3. Land reclamation - Wikipedia

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    East Coast Park in Singapore was built on reclaimed land with a human-made beach. The Flevopolder in the Netherlands, reclaimed from the IJsselmeer, is the largest reclaimed artificial island in the world. Land Reclamation in the Beirut Central District The whole district of Fontvieille, Monaco was reclaimed from the sea

  4. Waste picker - Wikipedia

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    Many terms are used to refer to people who salvage recyclables from the waste stream for sale or personal consumption. In English, these terms include rag picker, reclaimer, informal resource recoverer, binner, recycler, poacher, salvager, scavenger, and waste picker; in Spanish cartonero, chatarrero, pepenador, clasificador, minador and reciclador; and in Portuguese catador de materiais ...

  5. The World Without Us - Wikipedia

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    304.2 22. LC Class. GF75 .W455 2007. The World Without Us is a 2007 non-fiction book about what would happen to the natural and built environment if humans suddenly disappeared, written by American journalist Alan Weisman and published by St. Martin's Thomas Dunne Books. [ 1 ] It is a book-length expansion of Weisman's own February 2005 ...

  6. Reclaimed water - Wikipedia

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    The use of reclaimed water to create, enhance, sustain, or augment water bodies including wetlands, aquatic habitats, or stream flow is called "environmental reuse".[16] For example, constructed wetlandsfed by wastewater provide both wastewater treatmentand habitatsfor flora and fauna. [citation needed]

  7. Talk:Reclaimer (Halo) - Wikipedia

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    Personally i think all humans are "reclaimers" but that is opinion not fact. The reclaimers were originally beleieved to be the forerunners, this is now clarified as humans are the true reclaimers. This is shown at the end of Halo 2. There are also other references to this throughout much of the halo canon. Spoliers - Below.

  8. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    The quotation "all men are created equal" is found in the United States Declaration of Independence. The final form of the sentence was stylized by Benjamin Franklin, and penned by Thomas Jeffersonduring the beginning of the Revolutionary Warin 1776.[1] It reads: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that ...

  9. Reclaimer - Wikipedia

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    A reclaimer is a large machine used in bulk material handling applications. A reclaimer's function is to recover bulk material such as ores and cereals from a stockpile. A stacker is used to stack the material. Reclaimers are volumetric machines and are rated in m 3 /h (cubic meters per hour) for capacity, which is often converted to t/h ...