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  2. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    1/52! chance of a specific shuffle Mathematics: The chances of shuffling a standard 52-card deck in any specific order is around 1.24 × 10 −68 (or exactly 1 ⁄ 52!) [4] Computing: The number 1.4 × 10 −45 is approximately equal to the smallest positive non-zero value that can be represented by a single-precision IEEE floating-point value.

  3. List of historical acts of tax resistance - Wikipedia

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    Two hundred Irish settlers in Gatineau refused to pay a county tax. According to one account: When a deputy sheriff went to make seizures, the residents threatened to string him to the nearest tree. Finally, they compelled him to eat the writs he had, and then gave him a limited time to get out of the township. [77]

  4. Gangaridai - Wikipedia

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    Gangaridai in Ptolemy's Map. Gangaridai (Greek: Γαγγαρίδαι, Latin: Gangaridae) is a term used by the ancient Greco-Roman writers (1st century BCE–2nd century AD) to describe people or a geographical region of the ancient Indian subcontinent.

  5. Criticism of the Book of Abraham - Wikipedia

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    Represents God sitting upon his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand Key-words of the Priesthood; as, also, the sign of the Holy Ghost unto Abraham, in the form of a dove. "Behind (and facing away from) Hathor and the goddess appears the enthroned and ithyphallic Min-Amon, in half human and half bird form, raising his arm with a ...

  6. Juan José de Amézaga - Wikipedia

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    Law 10511 of August 1944 authorized the Executive Power “to dispose of up to the amount of ten million pesos for the construction of buildings for the operation of urban and rural schools.” [40] Law 10526 of September 1944 authorized the Executive Power “to allocate the equivalent of up to one hundred thousand dollars ($/a 100,000.00) as ...

  7. Demographic history of Transylvania - Wikipedia

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    Andreas Teutsch (1669-1730) writes in his Historia Regni sive Principatus Transylvaniae that the Vlachs form the most numerous ethnic group and that all Transylvanian writers consider them to be descendants from Roman colonists in Dacia. [65] [70] In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Ottoman conquest turned Kingdom of Hungary into a battlefield ...

  8. Urban planning in communist countries - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, chronic housing shortages and overcrowding required an extensive program of new construction. As a result, most communist countries adopted the solution used in the USSR which included strict limits on the living space to which each person was entitled. Generally, each person was entitled to about 9-10 square meters (100 square feet).