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Blast, thermal radiation, and prompt ionizing radiation cause significant destruction within seconds or minutes of a nuclear detonation.

The delayed effects, such as radioactive fallout and other environmental effects, inflict damage over an extended period ranging from hours to years

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Southwest Asia is the cradle of three great monotheistic systems: Judaism and its offshoots Christianity and Islam.

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About WAF

Full form: Women's Action Forum

Founding place: Karachi

Founding year: 1981

Type: Women's organization

Purpose: To protect women's rights

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George VI replaced Edward VIII in 1936.

George VI remained UK king until 1952.

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David Copperfield is the protagonist after which the 1850 Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield was named

David Copperfield is the central character in the novel and tells the story of his life from birth to adulthood

Charles Dickens published serially in 1849–50 and in book form in 1850.

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Gautam Budha was born in 623 BC.

Language of discourse/lectures of Budhha was: Pali 

Gautam Budha was the founder of Buddhism.

Gautam Budha was born in Lumbini, Nepal.

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Vincent Atanasoff and his student Clifford Berry, during the 1940s, created the ABC.

ABC was the first electronic digital computer.

ABC stands for Atanasoff-Berry Computer.

AGM 07.5.23

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In December 1917, Germany agreed to an armistice and peace talks with Russia, and Lenin sent Leon Trotsky to Brest-Litovsk in Belarus to negotiate a treaty.

The talks broke off after Germany demanded independence for Russian holdings in Eastern Europe, and in February 1918 fighting resumed on the eastern front. They signed the Peace Treaty.

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Perhaps one of the most spectacular of Olympic cauldron lighting ceremonies took place at the 1992 Summer Olympics, when Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo lit the cauldron by shooting a burning arrow over it, which ignited gas rising from the cauldron.