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  2. Paris Hilton - Wikipedia

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    Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) [3] [4] is an American media personality, businesswoman, and socialite. Born in New York City, and raised there and in Los Angeles, she is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels. She first attracted tabloid attention in the late 1990s for her presence in NYC's social ...

  3. List of genocides - Wikipedia

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    The Ikiza was a series of mass killings which were committed in Burundi in 1972 by the Tutsi -dominated army and government, primarily against educated and elite Hutus who lived in the country. As much as 10% to 15% of the Hutu population of Burundi killed [76] Bangladesh genocide. East Pakistan (now Bangladesh ) 1971.

  4. Cloud seeding - Wikipedia

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    Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation, mitigate hail or disperse fog. The usual objective is to increase rain or snow, either for its own sake or to prevent precipitation from occurring in days afterward.

  5. Steam (service) - Wikipedia

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    Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve Corporation. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide game updates automatically for Valve's games, and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005. Steam offers various features, like game server matchmaking with Valve ...

  6. Railgun - Wikipedia

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    The test utilized a single 20-ft cargo container that served as a charger and a 5 MJ-capacity capacitor consisting of three 20-ft cargo containers to fire two types of projectiles (total length about 160 mm, mass about 320 g): a separated projectile (分離弾), which would be similar to actual use and has armor piercing in mind, and an ...

  7. Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    On July 20, 2012, Microsoft posted its first quarterly loss ever, despite earning record revenues for the quarter and fiscal year, with a net loss of $492 million due to a writedown related to the advertising company aQuantive, which had been acquired for $6.2 billion back in 2007.

  8. Python (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation.. Python is dynamically typed and garbage-collected.

  9. Islam - Wikipedia

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    Most estimates indicate China has approximately 20 to 30 million Muslims (1.5% to 2% of the population). [308] [309] Islam in Europe is the second-largest religion after Christianity in many countries, with growth rates due primarily to immigration and higher birth rates of Muslims in 2005, [310] accounting for 4.9% of all of Europe's ...