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  2. Jimmy Garoppolo - Wikipedia

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    Traded to the San Francisco 49ers near the end of the 2017 season, Garoppolo helped revitalize a 1–10 team by winning the five remaining games that year. His most successful season was in 2019 when he guided the 49ers to the top seed in the NFC and an appearance in Super Bowl LIV .

  3. Réunion - Wikipedia

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    At the 2019 census, 82.4% of the inhabitants of La Réunion were born on the island, 11.7% were born in Metropolitan France, 1.0% were born in Mayotte, 0.3% were born in the rest of Overseas France, and 4.6% were born in foreign countries (46% of them children of French expatriates and settlers born in foreign countries, such as children of ...

  4. Zero-based numbering - Wikipedia

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    Zero-based numbering is a way of numbering in which the initial element of a sequence is assigned the index 0, rather than the index 1 as is typical in everyday non-mathematical or non-programming circumstances.

  5. Light-emitting diode - Wikipedia

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    Green electroluminescence from a point contact on a crystal of SiC recreates Round's original experiment from 1907. Close-up of a 1 watt red power led. Electroluminescence as a phenomenon was discovered in 1907 by the English experimenter H. J. Round of Marconi Labs, using a crystal of silicon carbide and a cat's-whisker detector.

  6. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    To help compare different orders of magnitude, this section lists lengths between 107 and 10 −6 m (100 nm and 1 μm). 100 nm – greatest particle size that can fit through a surgical mask [69] 100 nm – 90% of particles in wood smoke are smaller than this. [citation needed] 120 nm – greatest particle size that can fit through a ULPA ...

  7. Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    The name Mongolia means the "Land of the Mongols" in Latin. The Mongolian word "Mongol" (монгол) is of uncertain etymology, given variously as the name of a mountain or river; as a corruption of the Mongolian Mongkhe-tengri-gal ("Eternal Sky Fire"); [13] or as a derivation from Mugulü, the 4th-century founder of the Rouran Khaganate, [14] first attested as the 'Mungu', [15] (Chinese ...

  8. Azores - Wikipedia

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    Gaspar Frutuoso wrote Saudades da Terra, the first history of the Azores and Macaronesia, in the 1580s.. A small number of alleged hypogea (underground structures carved into rocks) have been identified on the islands of Corvo, Santa Maria, and Terceira by Portuguese archaeologist Nuno Ribeiro, who speculated that they might date back 2,000 years, implying a human presence on the island before ...

  9. London - Wikipedia

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    London is an ancient name, attested in the first century AD, usually in the Latinised form Londinium. [37] Modern scientific analyses of the name must account for the origins of the different forms found in early sources: Latin (usually Londinium), Old English (usually Lunden), and Welsh (usually Llundein), with reference to the known developments over time of sounds in those different languages.