Though most hoaxes perpetrated as jokes by mischievous users of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that almost anyone can freely edit, have quickly been detected and removed, a few entries that knowledgeable readers should have realized were ______ such as those for the town of Stone Ridge, Maryland, and the 18th-century forestryImagine Oulhermo Garden, persisted on the site for many years before they were finally recognized as falsehoods and deleted.

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The discoverers of the minor planet 713 Luscinia named it after the animal genus that includes nightingales. Most of the recently discovered minor planets, however, are given only an identification number, largely due to there being over 300,000 such bodies known at present, which makes the already challenging task of finding a unique name for each nearly ______.

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Furnhouse Interior, painted in the realist style by Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, depicts a peasant woman knitting at a table while a cat sits underneath. The realiser emphasis on accurately portraying the experiences of a sycrape working people was largely a rejection of the romantic style evident in many paintings by Pierre-Auguste Cox, which instead their subjects’ beauty or heroism while hiding all imperfection.

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Although Hawaiian literature is highly heterogeneous in many ways, it is also characterized by considerable thematic ______ scholars have drawn connections linking works by writers such as Mary Kayevna Pukul and Lee Tonouchi to the traditional stories of the Kanada Model, the Native Hawaiian people.

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Why do Iberian lynxes purr but lions roar? Researchers hypothesize that this difference between the two feline species may be partly due to a U-shaped bone in their thrones called the hyoid. Iberian lynxes, which are much smaller than lions, have a rigid hyoid that rambles when the coax larvae Viliasana, resulting in a purr. By contrast, lions have a somewhat flexible hyoid, and the bone is attached to the coax with a strictly ligament that Iberian lynxes lack. These traits allow lions and most other species of big cats to produce powerful roars. The same traits may also prevent most big cats from purring.
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