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  2. United States Electoral College - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the Electoral College is the group of presidential electors that is formed every four years during the presidential election for the sole purpose of voting for the president and vice president. The process is described in Article II of the U.S. Constitution. [1] The number of electoral votes a state has equals its number ...

  3. Liquid-crystal display - Wikipedia

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    Improved versions of the prism sheet have a wavy rather than a prismatic structure, and introduce waves laterally into the structure of the sheet while also varying the height of the waves, directing even more light towards the screen and reducing aliasing or moiré between the structure of the prism sheet and the subpixels of the LCD.

  4. Nintendo 64 - Wikipedia

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    The Nintendo 64[a] (N64) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on June 23, 1996, in North America on September 29, 1996, and in Europe and Australia on March 1, 1997. The successor to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, it was the last major home console to use cartridges as its primary ...

  5. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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    1.24 5-tool player. 1.25 6. 1.26 6-4-3 double ... Download QR code; Wikidata item; Print/export ... Sometimes when a pitcher tries a bit too carefully to control the ...

  6. Dred Scott v. Sandford - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 September 2024. 1857 U.S. Supreme Court case on the citizenship of African-Americans 1857 United States Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court of the United States Argued February 11–14, 1856 Reargued December 15–18, 1856 Decided March 6, 1857 Full case name Dred Scott v. John F ...

  7. Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    Mongolia[ b ] is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of 1,564,116 square kilometres (603,909 square miles), with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's most sparsely populated sovereign state. Mongolia is the world's largest landlocked country that does not ...

  8. Cold War - Wikipedia

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    The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale ...

  9. AIM-9 Sidewinder - Wikipedia

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    AIM-9 Sidewinder. The AIM-9 Sidewinder ("AIM" for "Air Interception Missile") [ 3 ] is a short-range air-to-air missile. Entering service with the United States Navy in 1956 and the Air Force in 1964, the AIM-9 is one of the oldest, cheapest, and most successful air-to-air missiles. [ 4 ] Its latest variants remain standard equipment in most ...