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  2. List of largest seeds - Wikipedia

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    List of largest seeds. Lodoicea maldivica, native to the Seychelles Archipelago, found in the Indian ocean. The largest seed in the world is the coco de mer, [1] [2] the seed of a palm tree. [3] It can reach about 30 centimetres (12 inches) long, and weigh up to 18 kilograms (40 pounds). The coco de mer, which produces a giant, dark brown seed ...

  3. .17 HMR - Wikipedia

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    17-grain (1.1 g) A Sellier and Bellot .17 HMR round with a light green plastic tip. .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire, commonly known as the .17 HMR, is a rimfire rifle cartridge developed by Hornady [3] in 2002. It was developed by necking down a .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire case to take a .17 caliber (4.5mm) projectile.

  4. Boeing C-17 Globemaster III - Wikipedia

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    1991–2015 [1] Number built. 279 [1] Developed from. McDonnell Douglas YC-15. The McDonnell Douglas / Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft that was developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas. The C-17 carries forward the name of two previous piston ...

  5. Super-seeding - Wikipedia

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    Super-seeding. In file sharing, super-seeding is an algorithm developed by John Hoffman for the BitTorrent communications protocol that helps downloaders become uploaders more quickly, but it introduces the danger of total seeding failure if there is only one downloader. [citation needed] The algorithm applies when there is only one seed in the ...

  6. CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder - Wikipedia

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    In Pakistan: January 2008 – present. Number built. 170 (production aircraft) The CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder ( Urdu: جے ایف-17 گرج ), or FC-1 Xiaolong ( Chinese: 枭龙; pinyin: Xiāo Lóng; lit. 'Fierce Dragon'), is a lightweight, single-engine, multirole combat aircraft developed jointly by the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) and ...

  7. Hyderabad - Wikipedia

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    Hyderabad ( / ˈhaɪdərəbæd / ⓘ HY-dər-ə-bad; [5] Telugu: [ˈɦaɪ̯daraːbaːd], Urdu: [ˈɦɛːdəɾaːbaːd], ISO: Haidarābād) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies 650 km 2 (250 sq mi) on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India.

  8. Brachytherapy - Wikipedia

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    Body sites in which brachytherapy can be used to treat cancer. Brachytherapy is commonly used to treat cancers of the cervix, prostate, breast, and skin. [1]Brachytherapy can also be used in the treatment of tumours of the brain, eye, head and neck region (lip, floor of mouth, tongue, nasopharynx and oropharynx), [10] respiratory tract (trachea and bronchi), digestive tract (oesophagus, gall ...

  9. Biryani - Wikipedia

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    In Iran, during the Safavid dynasty (1501–1736), a dish called Beriyan Polo (Nastaliq script: بریان پلو) was made with lamb or chicken, marinated overnight—with yogurt, herbs, spices, dried fruits like raisins, prunes or pomegranate seeds—and later cooked in a tannour oven, then served with steamed rice.