|"The Leader". Name used by the fascists to identify Mussolini.
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|"The Leader." Name used by the fascists to identify Mussolini.
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|quantum mechanics
|quantum mechanics
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|(early 1900s) this breakthrough in physics is the foundation of electronic technology: there is an underlying uncertainty in subatomic particles, such that they have probabilities of being in different places at the same time until they are observed
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|(early 1900s) this breakthrough in physics is the foundation of electronic technology: there is an underlying uncertainty in the position of subatomic particles until they are observed, and these particles are easy to use for storing or controlling information
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|[[Niels Bohr]]
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|East Germany
|East Germany
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|an atheistic, communistic nation until demonstrations broke out in October 1989, which not even its ruthless dictator Erich Honecker could control; he resigned and his successor opened the Berlin Wall in November 1989, whereupon the people tore the wall down
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|an atheistic, communist nation until demonstrations broke out in October 1989, which not even its ruthless dictator Erich Honecker could control; he resigned and his successor opened the Berlin Wall in November 1989, whereupon the people tore the wall down