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Mud is loam, silt or clay mixed with water. It is usually formed after rainfall or near water sources. Ancient mud deposits hardened over geological time...

An input method (or input method editor, commonly abbreviated IME) is an operating system component or program that enables users to generate characters...

The environmental effects of shipping include air pollution, water pollution, acoustic, and oil pollution. Ships are responsible for more than 18% of nitrogen...

The Buccinidae are a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks. The family includes more than 1500...

Equestrian competitions in all three disciplines at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from 9 August to 21 August at the Hong Kong Sports Institute...

A chuck is a specialized type of clamp used to hold an object with radial symmetry, especially a cylinder. In a drill, a mill and a transmission, a chuck...

The coastline of the Russian Federation is the fourth longest in the world after the coastlines of Canada, Greenland, and Indonesia. The Russian fishing...

Trophoninae is a subfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails and their allies. According to the...

In computer networking, the Name/Finger protocol and the Finger user information protocol are simple network protocols for the exchange of human-oriented...

A renal oncocytoma is a tumour of the kidney made up of oncocytes, epithelial cells with an excess amount of mitochondria. Renal oncocytomas are often...

Facets (/ˈfæsɪt/) are flat faces on geometric shapes. The organization of naturally occurring facets was key to early developments in crystallography,...

There is a large array of stakeholders that provide services through electricity generation, transmission, distribution and marketing for industrial, commercial...

The history of the programming language Scheme begins with the development of earlier members of the Lisp family of languages during the second half of...

Canine terminology in this article refers only to dog terminology, specialized terms describing the characteristics of various external parts of the domestic...

Mount Matutum is an active stratovolcano, is the highest point in the province of South Cotabato in the Philippines, with an elevation of 7,500 feet (2...

The Rolls-Royce Marine Spey is a marine gas turbine based on the Rolls-Royce Spey and TF41 aircraft turbofan engines. The Marine Spey currently powers...

The 2009 flu pandemic in the Philippines began on May 21, 2009, when a young Filipina girl first contracted the A(H1N1) virus while in the United States...

All phone numbers in Morocco are 9 digits in length (excluding the leading 0). Morocco uses a closed numbering plan, i.e. the prefix is not omitted for...

Robert Tucker Abbott (September 28, 1919 – November 3, 1995) was an American conchologist (seashells) and malacologist (molluscs). He was the author of...

Professor Michael H. Gleb (born 1957) is an American biochemist and chemist specializing in enzymes and particularly those of medical significance. He...