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  2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Wikipedia

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    Gawain's function, as medieval scholar Alan Markman says, "is the function of the romance hero … to stand as the champion of the human race, and by submitting to strange and severe tests, to demonstrate human capabilities for good or bad action." [75] Through Gawain's adventure, it becomes clear that he is merely human. The reader becomes ...

  3. Health threat from cosmic rays - Wikipedia

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    Health threats from cosmic rays are the dangers posed by cosmic rays to astronauts on interplanetary missions or any missions that venture through the Van-Allen Belts or outside the Earth's magnetosphere. [ 1][ 2] They are one of the greatest barriers standing in the way of plans for interplanetary travel by crewed spacecraft, [ 3][ 4][ 5] but ...

  4. Two-second rule - Wikipedia

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    The two-second rule is useful as it can be applied to any speed. Drivers can find it difficult to estimate the correct distance from the car in front, let alone remember the stopping distances that are required for a given speed, or to compute the equation on the fly (for example, braking distance is roughly calculated as b = s 2 /20, where b is the braking distance in metres and s is car ...

  5. Cosmic ray visual phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Cosmic ray visual phenomena, or light flashes ( LF ), also known as Astronaut's Eye, are spontaneous flashes of light visually perceived by some astronauts outside the magnetosphere of the Earth, such as during the Apollo program. While LF may be the result of actual photons of visible light being sensed by the retina, [ 1] the LF discussed ...

  6. List of songs by Taylor Swift - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Her early-career songwriting outputs featured collaborations with Liz Rose, who co-wrote with Swift for the albums Taylor Swift (2006), Fearless (2008), and Red (2012). [4] She was the sole writer of the majority of Fearless and Red , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and she wrote her third studio album, Speak Now , solely herself. [ 7 ]

  7. List of films with post-credits scenes - Wikipedia

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    In the second mid-credits scene, Snoopy, Fifi, Woodstock, the Beagle Scouts, and Snoopy's siblings celebrate Snoopy's victory over the Red Baron with root beer, that is until the Red Baron shows up again and knocks Snoopy into the root beer causing him to angrily shout "Curse you, Red Baron!" (via thought bubble).

  8. List of concept albums - Wikipedia

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    This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Concept albums have been produced by bands and solo artists across all musical genres. In popular music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." The following ...

  9. Bleeding time - Wikipedia

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    Bleeding time is a medical test done on someone to assess their platelets function. It involves making a patient bleed, then timing how long it takes for them to stop bleeding using a stopwatch or other suitable devices. The term template bleeding time is used when the test is performed to standardized parameters.