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  2. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Wikipedia

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    Carl Sagan, seen here with a model of Viking lander, popularized the aphorism. " Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence " (sometimes shortened to ECREE), [ 1 ] also known as the Sagan standard, is an aphorism popularized by science communicator Carl Sagan. He used the phrase in his 1979 book Broca's Brain and the 1980 television ...

  3. Erin Brockovich - Wikipedia

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    Erin Pattee Brockovich was born in Lawrence, Kansas, the daughter of Betty Jo (born O'Neal; c. 1923–2008), a journalist, and Frank Pattee (1924–2011), an industrial engineer and football player. She has two brothers, Frank Jr. and Thomas (1954–1992), and a sister, Jodie. [5] She graduated from Lawrence High School, then attended Kansas ...

  4. Patent claim - Wikipedia

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    Patent law. In a patent or patent application, the claims define in technical terms the extent, i.e. the scope, of the protection conferred by a patent, or the protection sought in a patent application. In other words, the purpose of the claims is to define which subject-matter is protected by the patent (or sought to be protected by the patent ...

  5. Procuration - Wikipedia

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    Procuration (from Latin procurare 'to take care of') is the action of taking care of, hence management, stewardship, agency. The word is applied to the authority or power delegated to a procurator, or agent, as well as to the exercise of such authority expressed frequently by procuration (per procurationem), or shortly per pro., or simply p.p. [1]

  6. Planck relation - Wikipedia

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    The Planck relation [1] [2] [3] (referred to as Planck's energy–frequency relation, [4] the Planck–Einstein relation, [5] Planck equation, [6] and Planck formula, [7] though the latter might also refer to Planck's law [8] [9]) is a fundamental equation in quantum mechanics which states that the energy E of a photon, known as photon energy, is proportional to its frequency ν: =.

  7. King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy - Wikipedia

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    Headquarters. Olaya St., Riyadh City, P.O Box 2022، Riyadh 11451 KSA. President. H.E Dr. Khalid ben Saleh Al Sultan. Website. www.kacare.gov.sa. The King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (K.A.C.A.R.E.) is a scientific research and governmental entity in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and is chaired by the Minister of Energy.

  8. Reinsurance - Wikipedia

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    Reinsurance is insurance that an insurance company purchases from another insurance company to insulate itself (at least in part) from the risk of a major claims event. [1] With reinsurance, the company passes on ("cedes") some part of its own insurance liabilities to the other insurance company. The company that purchases the reinsurance ...

  9. List of compositions by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Wikipedia

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    The catalogue of Helm is now the preferred one for the works of C. P. E. Bach. This listing also substantially conforms to the works given by Grove Music Online. [3] The new complete edition of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's works [4] surpasses any other earlier organizational efforts in dating and cataloguing the enormous output of C. P. E. Bach.