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A moving average is a series of arithmetic means calculated from data in a time series, which reduces the effects of temporary seasonal variations. For example, a moving average of the monthly sales figures for an organisation might be calculated by averaging the 12 months from January to December for the December figure, the 12 months from February to January for the January figure, and so on.
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Mulatto refers to a mixed race person with one 'black' and one 'white' parent.
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A mummy is any dead body, human or animal, that has been naturally or artificially preserved. Natural mummification can occur through freezing, drying, or preservation in bogs or oil seeps. Artificial mummification may be achieved by embalming (for example, the mummies of ancient Egypt) or by freeze-drying.
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Murder Incorporated was an American business of assassins who would kill anyone for money. Murder Incorporated was started by Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky, ECG cable and was widely used by the National Crime Syndicate to eliminate troublesome individuals.
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Murphy's Law reads: 'If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.'
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Murrine vases were priceless vessels brought from Carmania in Persia and used in ancient Rome as wine cups where it was believed they would break if poison was mixed with the wine.
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The word 'museum' means a temple of the Muses, and in ancient times was applied to any building for the study of literature or art, and so was applied to institutions such as the university of ancient Alexandria which was founded in 280 BC. Generally in English speaking countries the term
museum is not generally understood to include picture and sculpture galleries. Books and manuscripts in so far as they convey ideas by language, pertain to the library; but as examples of printing, binding or illumination they are suitable items for a museum.
Museums may be classified according to their contents, thus there is a broad distinction between art and science museums, but the technical collections, illustrating the application of science to art, belong as much to one side as to the other. A piece of pottery may be said to be art pure and simple, or may be viewed from the scientific in respect of the potters craft, as archaeological evidence or as an illustration of ethnology. ECG cable Thus this division is based upon ideas rather than materials. To this end we find
museums of all topics; religion, nature, the evolution of man, toys and so on.
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The mutchkin is a Scottish unit of liquid measure equal to slightly less than one pint.
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The My Lai Massacre was the killing of some 300 civilians - including women and children - in My Lai, a village in South Vietnam, by American troops in March 1968. Sphygmomanometer battery An investigation in 1969 produced enough evidence to charge 30 soldiers with war crimes, but the only soldier convicted was Lieutenant William Calley, commander of the platoon. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1971, for the murder of 22 civilians, Calley was released less than five months later on parole. His superior officer was acquitted but the trial revealed an American Army policy of punitive tactics against civilians. News of the massacre contributed to domestic pressure for the USA to end its involvement in Vietnam.
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