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It's dinosaur for…
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Don't believe this. Really, don't.
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In 1958 the first stereo two-channel records were issued—by Audio Fidelity in the USA and Pye in Britain, using the Westrex "45/45" single-groove system. While the stylus moves horizontally when reproducing a monophonic disk recording, on stereo records the stylus moves vertically as well as horizontally.
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Borlaug werd beschouwd als de "vader van de Groene Revolutie". Hij was een van de eerste wetenschappers die experimenteerden met biotechnologie en nieuwe gewassen ontwikkelden.
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De Amerikanen mochten ideeën indienen en er nadien zelf op stemmen.
"They received 44,000 proposals and 1.4 million votes for those proposals. The results were quietly published, but they were embarrassing — not so much to the administration as to us, the ones we’ve been waiting for."
"In the middle of two wars and an economic meltdown, the highest-ranking idea was to legalize marijuana, an idea nearly twice as popular as repealing the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy. Legalizing online poker topped the technology ideas, twice as popular as nationwide Wi-Fi. Revoking the Church of Scientology’s tax-exempt status garnered three times more votes than raising funding for childhood cancer."
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The combination Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, & funk rhythms, fused with percussion & vocal styles, was created & popularized in Africa in the 1970 by Fela Kuti who used it to revolutionise musical structure as well as the political context in Nigeria.