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  2. Institution - Wikipedia

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    One prominent Rational Choice Institutionalist definition of institutions is provided by Jack Knight who defines institutions as entailing "a set of rules that structure social interactions in particular ways" and that "knowledge of these rules must be shared by the members of the relevant community or society."

  3. List of mountain peaks by prominence - Wikipedia

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    World top 50 most prominent peaks, originally compiled by David Metzler and Eberhard Jurgalski, and updated with the help of others as new elevation information, especially SRTM, has become available. World top 100 most prominent peaks, from the same authors as the top 50. Map of the top 50 by Ken Jones

  4. Prominence (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Prominence or Prominent may also refer to: Celebrity, fame and public attention accorded by the mass media to individuals or groups; Prominence (phonetics), stress given to a certain syllable in a word, or to a word in a sentence; Prominence, a science fiction point and click adventure game; Maxillary prominence, part of the face

  5. Liberalism - Wikipedia

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    Prominent of the era were Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Namık Kemal and İbrahim Şinasi. However, the reformist ideas and trends did not reach the common population successfully, as the books, periodicals, and newspapers were accessible primarily to intellectuals and segments of the emerging middle class.

  6. Topographic prominence - Wikipedia

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    Contrast between topographic isolation and prominence. In topography, prominence or relative height (also referred to as autonomous height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it.

  7. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    Some of these movements (such as Dada and Beat) were defined by the members themselves, while other terms (for example, the metaphysical poets) emerged decades or centuries after the periods in question. Further, some movements are well defined and distinct, while others, like expressionism, are nebulous and overlap with other definitions.

  8. Freedom - Wikipedia

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    In one definition, something is "free" if it can change and is not constrained in its present state. Physicists and chemists use the word in this sense. [ 2 ] In its origin, the English word "freedom" relates etymologically to the word "friend". [ 2 ]

  9. Topic and comment - Wikipedia

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    זה ze this מאד meʾod very מענין meʿanyen interesting הספר ha-sefer book הזה ha-ze this זה מאד מענין הספר הזה ze meʾod meʿanyen ha-sefer ha-ze this very interesting book this "This book is very interesting." In American Sign Language, a topic can be declared at the beginning of a sentence (indicated by raised eyebrows and head tilt) describing the referent ...