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  2. Markus Persson - Wikipedia

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    Markus Alexej Persson ( / ˈmɑːrkəs ˈpɪərsən / ⓘ, Swedish: [ˈmǎrkɵs ˈpæ̌ːʂɔn] ⓘ; born 1 June 1979), also known as " Notch ", [ 3] is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is the creator of the video game Minecraft, which since its release has become the best-selling video game in history. He founded the video game ...

  3. Sweden - Wikipedia

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    The name for Sweden is generally agreed to derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(w)e, meaning "one's own", referring to one's own tribe from the tribal period. [15] [16] [17] The native Swedish name, Sverige (a compound of the words Svea and rike, first recorded in the cognate Swēorice in Beowulf), [18] translates as "realm of the Swedes", which excluded the Geats in Götaland.

  4. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

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    Scraps of wool fabric from the Bronze Age and Iron Age have been found in the salt mines of Hallstatt Austria. The fabric scraps were residuals of rags used in the mines. The rags, in turn were scraps from worn out garments. The Bronze age fabrics are relatively coarse in part due to the coarse wool available from the sheep at the time.

  5. Fabric computing - Wikipedia

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    While the term has been in use since the mid to late 1990s [2] the growth of cloud computing and Cisco's evangelism of unified data center fabrics followed by unified computing (an evolutionary data center architecture whereby blade servers are integrated or unified with supporting network and storage infrastructure) starting March 2009 has renewed interest in the technology.

  6. Gravity - Wikipedia

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    In physics, gravity (from Latin gravitas 'weight' [1]) is a fundamental interaction primarily observed as mutual attraction between all things that have mass.Gravity is, by far, the weakest of the four fundamental interactions, approximately 10 38 times weaker than the strong interaction, 10 36 times weaker than the electromagnetic force and 10 29 times weaker than the weak interaction.

  7. COVID-19 - Wikipedia

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    COVID‑19 transmission occurs when infectious particles are breathed in or come into contact with the eyes, nose, or mouth. The risk is highest when people are in close proximity, but small airborne particles containing the virus can remain suspended in the air and travel over longer distances, particularly indoors.

  8. Timiș County - Wikipedia

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    Timiș (Romanian pronunciation:) is a county of western Romania on the border with Hungary and Serbia, in the historical region of Banat, with the county seat at Timișoara.

  9. Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

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    The timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic lists the articles containing the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, [ 1] the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic . The first human cases of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, on or about 17 November 2019. [ 2]