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  2. 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery - Wikipedia

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    The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against enslavement of Africans made by a religious body in the Thirteen Colonies. Francis Daniel Pastorius authored the petition; he and the three other Quakers living in Germantown, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia), Garret Hendericks, Derick op den Graeff, and Abraham op den Graeff, signed it on behalf of the ...

  3. Chegg - Wikipedia

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    Chegg, Inc., is an American education technology company based in Santa Clara, California.It provides homework help, digital and physical textbook rentals, textbooks, online tutoring, and other student services.

  4. History of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    It was founded at Roanoke Island in what was then Virginia, now part of Dare County, North Carolina. Between 1584 and 1587, there were two major groups of settlers sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh who attempted to establish a permanent settlement at Roanoke Island, and each failed. The final group disappeared completely after supplies from ...

  5. Dimensional analysis - Wikipedia

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    In engineering and science, dimensional analysis is the analysis of the relationships between different physical quantities by identifying their base quantities (such as length, mass, time, and electric current) and units of measurement (such as metres and grams) and tracking these dimensions as calculations or comparisons are performed.

  6. Physics in the medieval Islamic world - Wikipedia

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    The primary subject of physics, according to Aristotle, was motion or change; there were three factors involved with this change, underlying thing, privation, and form. In his Metaphysics , Aristotle believed that the Unmoved Mover was responsible for the movement of the cosmos, which Neoplatonists later generalized as the cosmos were eternal ...

  7. United States Department of Energy National Laboratories

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    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Princeton, New Jersey, 1951 Princeton University (since 1951) 414 US$83,000,000 SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: Menlo Park, California, 1962 Stanford University (since 1962) 1,684 US$434,000,000 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Richland, Washington, 1965 Battelle Memorial Institute ...

  8. CIELAB color space - Wikipedia

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    CIELAB D50 is available in Adobe Photoshop, where it is called "Lab mode". [15] [16] CIELAB is available in Affinity Photo by changing the document's Colour Format to "Lab (16 bit)". The white point, which defaults to D50, can be changed by ICC profile. CIELAB D50 is available in ICC profiles as a profile connection space named "Lab color space ...

  9. Answers.com - Wikipedia

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    Answers.com, formerly known as ... GuruNet was founded in Jerusalem during 1999 to develop technology that intelligently and automatically integrates and retrieves ...