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  2. Jinx Falkenburg - Wikipedia

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    Eugenia Lincoln "Jinx" Falkenburg (January 21, 1919 – August 27, 2003) was an American actress and model. She married journalist and publicist Tex McCrary in 1945. [1] [2] Known as "Tex and Jinx", the couple pioneered and popularized the talk show format, first on radio and then in the early days of television.

  3. Battle of An Lộc - Wikipedia

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    An Lộc is the capital of Bình Long Province located northwest of Military Region III.During North Vietnam's Easter Offensive (known in Vietnam as the Nguyen Hue Offensive) of 1972, An Lộc was at the centre of the PAVN strategy, its location on Route QL-13 near Base Area 708 in Cambodia allowed safeguarding supplies based out of a "neutral" location in order to reduce exposure to U.S. bombing.

  4. 2,4,6-Tri-tert-butylphenol - Wikipedia

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    [5] 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylphenol is also found as a by-product in the synthesis of the disubstitution products 2,4-DTBP and 2,6-DTBP, which are more widely used antioxidants. [2] Synthese von 2,4,6-Tri-tert-butylphenol mit Isobuten. A synthesis of 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylphenol has been described that is also suitable as a teaching experiment.

  5. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

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    One momme = 4.340 g/m 2; 8 mommes is approximately 1 ounce per square yard or 35 g/m 2. The momme is based on the standard width of silk of 45 inches (1.1 m) wide (though silk is regularly produced in 55-inch (1.4 m) widths and uncommonly in larger widths).

  6. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The term "second" comes from "the second minute division of an hour", as it is 160 of a minute, or 160 of 160 of an hour. While usually sub-second units are represented with SI prefixes on the second (e.g. milliseconds ), this system can be extrapolated further, such that a "Third" would mean 160 of a second (16.7 ...

  7. Sexagesimal - Wikipedia

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    The value of π as used by the Greek mathematician and scientist Ptolemy was 3;8,30 = 3 + ⁠ 8 / 60 ⁠ + ⁠ 30 / 60 2 ⁠ = ⁠ 377 / 120 ⁠ ≈ 3.141 666.... [28] Jamshīd al-Kāshī , a 15th-century Persian mathematician, calculated 2 π as a sexagesimal expression to its correct value when rounded to nine subdigits (thus to ⁠ 1 / 60 9 ...

  8. List of U.S. states' poets laureate - Wikipedia

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    The current poet laureate of Alabama is Ashley M. Jones. Alabama has had an official poet laureate since 1930. The Alabama Writer's Cooperative (formerly the Alabama Writers' Conclave), described as "a voluntary organization of Alabama historians, playwrights, fiction writers, poets, and newspaper writers" first recommended in 1930 Samuel Minturn Peck to Governor Bibb Graves.

  9. Carol M. Highsmith - Wikipedia

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    Carol McKinney Highsmith (born Carol Louise McKinney on May 18, 1946) is an American photographer and author. Her work documents the landscapes, architecture, and people of the rural and urban United States in a decades-long nationwide study, in progress since the 1980s.