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In some cases, with awareness of the word's offensive connotation, but without intention to cause offense, it can refer to a "victim of prejudice likened to that endured by African Americans" (as in John Lennon's 1972 song "Woman Is the Nigger of the World"). [2]
Glycerol from triglycerides is produced on a large scale, but the crude product is of variable quality, with a low selling price of as low as US$0.02–0.05 per kilogram in 2011. [12] It can be purified, but the process is expensive.
Code: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, pointing to its ISO 3166-2 article Country name : English short name officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA) Year : Year when alpha-2 code was first officially assigned (1974, first edition of ISO 3166)
Bates's 1863 The Naturalist on the River Amazons Manaus, with 2.2 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Amazon basin The Yanomami are a group of approximately 32,000 indigenous people who live in the Amazon rainforest. [10] Members of an uncontacted tribe encountered in the Brazilian state of Acre in 2009 Ribeirinhos dwellings.
The site was launched as 4chan.net on October 1, 2003, by Christopher Poole, a then-15-year-old student from New York City using the online handle "moot". [25] Poole had been a regular participant on Something Awful's subforum "Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse" (ADTRW), where many users were familiar with the Japanese imageboard format and Futaba Channel ("2chan.net"). [16]
While in 2006 the cost of a D-STAR radio was compared to that of a standard analog radio, and the price difference was nearly double, in 2024 D-STAR is standard fare in many amateur radio transceivers, fixed-base (Icom IC-9700), mobile (Icom IC-7100) and hand-held (Icom IC-705, IC-905, IC-50A and IC-52A). [21]
Phonological awareness is an individual's awareness of the phonological structure, or sound structure, of words. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Phonological awareness is an important and reliable predictor of later reading ability and has, therefore, been the focus of much research.
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.