The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres...
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The West Bank barrier, West Bank wall or the West Bank separation barrier, is a separation barrier built by Israel along the Green Line and inside parts...
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The Thames Barrier is a retractable barrier system built to protect the floodplain of most of Greater London from exceptionally high tides and storm surges...
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In theories of competition in economics, a barrier to entry, or an economic barrier to entry, is a fixed cost that must be incurred by a new entrant, regardless...
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Quantum tunnelling (redirect from Barrier penetration)
In physics, quantum tunnelling, barrier penetration, or simply tunnelling is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which an object such as an electron or...
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Edgar Barrier (March 4, 1907 – June 20, 1964) was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles'...
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The sound barrier or sonic barrier is the large increase in aerodynamic drag and other undesirable effects experienced by an aircraft or other object when...
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The Outer Barrier, also known as the Long Island and New York City barrier islands, refers to the string of barrier islands that divide the lagoons south...
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The Steel And Foam Energy Reduction Barrier (SAFER Barrier), sometimes generically referred to as a soft wall, is a technology found on oval automobile...
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The Weismann barrier, proposed by August Weismann, is the strict distinction between the "immortal" germ cell lineages producing gametes and "disposable"...
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The Belize Barrier Reef is a series of coral reefs straddling the coast of Belize, roughly 300 metres (980 ft) offshore in the north and 40 kilometres...
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Placenta (redirect from Placental barrier)
million to 200 million years ago. The protein syncytin, found in the outer barrier of the placenta (the syncytiotrophoblast) between mother and fetus, has...
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Lagoon (redirect from Barrier lagoon)
landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses. Lagoons are commonly divided into coastal lagoons (or barrier lagoons) and atoll...
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228–229. Sorel, Georges (1895). "Les théories de M. Durkheim". Le Devenir Social. 1: 168. Sorel, Georges (1896). "Study on Vico". Georges Sorel's Study...
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Barrier Highway is a highway in South Australia and New South Wales, and is designated part of route A32. The name of the highway is derived from the...
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Reference Work article about "Georges Clemenceau". The Clemenceau museum Encyclopædia Britannica, Georges Clemenceau Works by Georges Clemenceau at Project Gutenberg...
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Mexico–United States border wall (redirect from United States Mexico barrier)
vertical barriers along the Mexico–United States border intended to reduce illegal immigration to the United States from Mexico. The barrier is not a...
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Coral reef (redirect from Barrier Reef)
larger barrier reef further from the shore with a bigger and deeper lagoon inside. Ultimately, the island sinks below the sea, and the barrier reef becomes...
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constructed a barrier or dike where 165th Street meets the border of Gary, to keep toxic flood water out. Originally intended as temporary, the barrier sparked...
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Green Card (film) (redirect from Georges Faure (Green Card character))
apartment for an unannounced visit, Georges pretends to be the handyman. When Brontë's boyfriend Phil returns from a trip, Georges reveals that he is married to...
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Broken Barrier is a 1952 New Zealand film. It was directed and produced by John O'Shea (director) and Roger Mirams, and written by O'Shea. It starred...
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Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (redirect from Way, Way Out Past the Barrier)
ship takes his son and friends deep into space. 2 "Way, Way Out Past the Barrier" David Lowery Christopher Ford & Jon Watts December 2, 2024 (2024-12-02)...
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musical theatre. Georges Bizet was born in Paris on 25 October 1838. He was registered as Alexandre César Léopold, but baptised as "Georges" on 16 March 1840...
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Georges Louis Frédéric Boillot (3 August 1884 – 19 May 1916) was a French racing driver and World War I fighter pilot. Born in Valentigney, Doubs, Boillot...
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Magic circle (redirect from Magical energy barrier)
Traditionally, circles are believed by ritual magicians to form a protective barrier between themselves and what they summon. One text known as the Heptameron...
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The Flame Barrier is a 1958 American jungle adventure/science fiction film produced by Arthur Gardner and Jules V. Levy, directed by Paul Landres, and...
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The Rural Municipality of Barrier Valley No. 397 (2021 population: 485) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census...
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St. George is a barrier island 28 miles (45 km) long and 1 mile (2 km) wide at its widest point. St. George Island is adjacent to Cape St. George Island...
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The Indian barrier state was a British proposal to establish a Native American buffer state in the portion of the Great Lakes region of North America...
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Rabbit-proof fence (redirect from State Barrier Fence of Western Australia)
The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia, formerly known as the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the State Vermin Fence, and the Emu Fence, is a pest-exclusion...
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