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  2. Ectotherm - Wikipedia

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    From another point of view, sit-and-wait predation may require very long periods of unproductive waiting. Endotherms cannot, in general, afford such long periods without food, but suitably adapted ectotherms can wait without expending much energy.

  3. United States Electoral College - Wikipedia

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    The next step is the selection of a president or chairman of the meeting, sometimes also with a vice chairman. The electors sometimes choose a secretary, often not an elector, to take the minutes of the meeting. In many states, political officials give short speeches at this point in the proceedings. [non-primary source needed]

  4. Currency substitution - Wikipedia

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    Currency substitution is the use of a foreign currency in parallel to or instead of a domestic currency. [1]Currency substitution can be full or partial. Full currency substitution can occur after a major economic crisis, such as in Ecuador, El Salvador, and Zimbabwe.

  5. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard discography - Wikipedia

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    The discography of Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard consists of 26 studio albums, 16 live albums (14 of which were released exclusively to Bandcamp), three compilation albums, one remix album, three extended plays, 59 singles, and 60 music videos. The band released their first album, 12 Bar Bruise, in 2012.

  6. Peirce quincuncial projection - Wikipedia

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    The maturation of complex analysis led to general techniques for conformal mapping, where points of a flat surface are handled as numbers on the complex plane.While working at the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce published his projection in 1879, [2] having been inspired by H. A. Schwarz's 1869 conformal transformation of a circle onto a ...

  7. John Maynard Keynes - Wikipedia

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    Like many members, Keynes retained a bond to the club after graduating and continued to attend occasional meetings throughout his life. Before leaving Cambridge, Keynes became the president of the Cambridge Union Society and Cambridge University Liberal Club. He was said to be an atheist. [23] [24]

  8. List of countries by system of government - Wikipedia

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    The following countries have presidential systems where a post of prime minister (official title may vary) exists alongside that of the president. The president is still both the head of state and government and the prime minister's roles are mostly to assist the president.

  9. Commonwealth of Independent States - Wikipedia

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    The Charter also defined that all countries that have ratified the Agreement on the Establishment of the CIS and its relevant (Alma-Ata) Protocol would be considered to be founding states of the CIS, with only those countries ratifying the Charter being considered to be member states of the CIS (art. 7).