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  2. Assassination market - Wikipedia

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    Assassination market. An assassination market is a prediction market where any party can place a bet (using anonymous electronic money and pseudonymous remailers) on the date of death of a given individual. This incentivises assassination, as parties with foreknowledge of an assassination can profit by placing bets on the time of the death.

  3. Black Codes (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...

  4. Information Age - Wikipedia

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    In 1962 AT&T deployed the T-carrier for long-haul pulse-code modulation (PCM) digital voice transmission. The T1 format carried 24 pulse-code modulated, time-division multiplexed speech signals each encoded in 64 kbit/s streams, leaving 8 kbit/s of framing information which facilitated the synchronization and demultiplexing at the receiver.

  5. Highway - Wikipedia

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    Italy was the first country in the world to build controlled-access highways reserved for fast traffic and for motor vehicles only. [9] [10] The Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Highway"), the first built in the world, connecting Milan to Lake Como and Lake Maggiore , and now parts of the A8 and A9 highways, was devised by Piero Puricelli and was ...

  6. Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.It is the eighth-most populous country in the world and is among the most densely populated countries with a population of nearly 170 million in an area of 148,460 square kilometres (57,320 sq mi).

  7. Percutaneous coronary intervention - Wikipedia

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    36.09, 00.66. [ edit on Wikidata] Percutaneous coronary intervention ( PCI) is a minimally invasive non-surgical procedure used to treat narrowing of the coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary artery disease. [2] The procedure is used to place and deploy coronary stents, a permanent wire-meshed tube, to open narrowed coronary arteries.

  8. List of country calling codes - Wikipedia

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    Zone 5 uses eight 2-digit codes (51–58) and two sets of 3-digit codes (50x, 59x) to serve South and Central America. Zone 6 uses seven 2-digit codes (60–66) and three sets of 3-digit codes (67x–69x) to serve Southeast Asia and Oceania. Zone 7 uses an integrated numbering plan; two digits (7x) determine the area served: Russia or Kazakhstan.

  9. David's Tomb - Wikipedia

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    Public access yes David's Tomb ( Hebrew : קבר דוד המלך Kever David Ha-Melekh ; Arabic : مقام النبي داود Maqam Al-Nabi Daoud ) is a site that, according to an early-medieval (9th-century) tradition, is associated with the burial of the biblical King David .