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Bad Ragaz has an area, as of 2006, of 25.4 km 2 (9.8 sq mi). Of this area, 45.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 9.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (10.1%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes).
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Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ oʊ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ /, US also / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː oʊ-/, Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]), was a Florentine astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.
The first [2] dedicated online chat service that was widely available to the public was the CompuServe CB Simulator in 1980, [3] created by CompuServe executive Alexander "Sandy" Trevor in Columbus, Ohio. Chat rooms gained mainstream popularity with AOL. [4] Jarkko Oikarinen created Internet Relay Chat (IRC) in 1988.