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Hippopotamus

Hippopotamus — The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), (hippopotamos, hippos meaning “horse” and potamos meaning “river”), often shortened to “hippo”, is a large, mostly plant-eating African mammal, one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae (the other being the Pygmy Hippopotamus). The hippopotamus is semi-aquatic, inhabiting rivers and lakes in sub-Saharan Africa in large groups of up to 40 hippos. …

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Mastodon

Mastodon — Mastodons or Mastodonts are members of the extinct genus Mammut of the order Proboscidea and form the family Mammutidae; they resembled, but were distinct from, the woolly mammoth which belongs to the family Elephantidae. Mastodons were browsers while mammoths were grazers. Mastodons are thought to have first appeared almost four million years ago. They were native to both …

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Kila Raipur Sports Festival

Kila Raipur Sports Festival was started by the founder of Grewal Sports Association, Inder Singh Grewal way back in 1930 to encourage local youths of Kila Raipur and surrounding areas to participate in sports and recreational activities that could keep them fit and healthy. Today Kila Raipur Sports Festival lives up to its moniker of the ‘Rural Olympics’ of the region …

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Uncategorized Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Uncategorized Acronyms 2.5G — Second-and-a-half-generation Mobile Telephone System 2D — Two 2G — Second 3D — Three 3G — Third 3I — Investors In Industry (venture Capitalists) 3M — Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company 4D — Four-dimensional (usually Three Spatial Plus One Temporal Dimension 4G — Fourth-generation Mobile Telephone System 4GL — Fourth-generation Programming Language 4WD — …

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Atmospheric Research Center Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Atmospheric Research Center Acronyms (A3) — Armor/anti-armor (AA3) — Accident Analysis Computer Program (C3) — Command (C4) — Center For Clouds (ES) — Sporadic E 3CPO — Cloud Chemistry And Cloud Physics Organization 4DDD — Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation A&C — Abatement & Control A&R — Air And Radiation A/C — Aircraft A/C — Air Conditioning A/D — …

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