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  2. Standing on the shoulders of giants - Wikipedia

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    The ancients had only the books which they themselves wrote, but we have all their books and moreover all those which have been written from the beginning until our time.… Hence we are like a dwarf perched on the shoulders of a giant. The former sees further than the giant, not because of his own stature, but because of the stature of his bearer.

  3. Tiger - Wikipedia

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    Tiger. The tiger ( Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia. It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail and orange fur with black, mostly vertical stripes. It is traditionally classified into nine recent subspecies, though some recognise only two ...

  4. Azrael - Wikipedia

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    Quran ( Surah As-Sajdah) Apocalypse of Peter. Azrael ( / ˈæzri.əl, - reɪ -/; Hebrew: עֲזַרְאֵל, romanized : ʿǍzarʾēl, 'God has helped'; [2] Arabic: عزرائيل, romanized : ʿAzrāʾīl or ʿIzrāʾīl) is the canonical angel of death in Islam, [3] and appears in the apocryphal text Apocalypse of Peter. [4]

  5. Cat's eye (road) - Wikipedia

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    Description. The cat's eye design originated in the UK in 1934 and is today used all over the world. [1] The original form consisted of two pairs of retroreflectors set into a white rubber dome, mounted in a cast iron housing. This is the kind that marks the centre of the road, with one pair of cat's eyes showing in each direction.

  6. Kodai Senga received an injection in his shoulder. What does ...

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    PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — A best-case scenario for Kodai Senga's return has been revealed. Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said Senga returned to New York to receive a platelet-rich plasma injection in ...

  7. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    First, prefixes and suffixes, most of which are derived from ancient Greek or classical Latin, have a droppable vowel, usually -o-. As a general rule, this vowel almost always acts as a joint-stem to connect two consonantal roots (e.g. arthr- + -o- + -logy = arthrology ), but generally, the -o- is dropped when connecting to a vowel-stem (e.g ...

  8. The meaning behind Chiefs safety Justin Reid’s cat ... - AOL

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    Regardless of the meaning, Reid was definitely referencing the “tuna in a can” comment following the Chiefs’ victory Sunday over Chase and the Bengals. Show comments Advertisement

  9. Priest-King (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    Dimensions. 17.5 cm × 11 cm (6.9 in × 4.3 in ) Location. National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi. The Priest-King, in Pakistan often King-Priest, [1] is a small male figure sculpted in steatite found during the excavation of the ruined Bronze Age city of Mohenjo-daro in Sindh, Pakistan, in 1925–26. It is dated to around 2000–1900 BCE, in ...