Roman mortar’s main ingredients and formulation are well documented and reproducible.
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The formula of the mortar used in construction in the Roman Empire is still unknown.
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Recent IRS data show the top 1% pay about 38%–42% of federal income taxes.
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The top 1 percent of US taxpayers pay approximately 40 percent of all federal income tax revenue.
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USAID funding suspensions have already contributed to deaths in aid-dependent populations.
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The suspension of USAID funding has caused deaths among populations dependent on its aid programs.
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Australian Consumer Law guarantees goods are safe, durable, match descriptions, and fit purpose.
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The Australian Consumer Law requires that consumer goods be safe, durable, match their description, and work as expected.
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Rumen Radev has condemned Russia’s invasion while often taking Russia-friendly positions.
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Rumen Radev is a pro-Russian political leader.
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A man was rescued after 10–12 hours trapped in a theater wall void and arrested for suspected burglary.
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A man was rescued after being stuck inside a movie theater wall void for about ten hours and was then arrested.
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Men with abnormal semen parameters can still conceive naturally.
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Having a normal semen analysis is necessary but not sufficient for male fertility.
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U.S. national debt is financed through Treasury securities, not birth certificates.
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In the United States, a birth certificate is a bond worth millions that is traded on the stock market as collateral for the U.S. national debt.
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Pop Art arose amid consumer culture, reacting to Abstract Expressionism with mass-media imagery and new techniques.
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Pop art emerged as artists responded to the rise of consumer society and dissatisfaction with the dominance of Abstract Expressionism by deliberately using new subjects and techniques to critique and question their era.
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West Germany held four car-free Sundays in late 1973 to save fuel.
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Germany introduced car-free Sundays to conserve fuel.
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Pop art denotes art inspired by popular culture, not a formal abbreviation.
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The full name of the art term "pop art" is "popular art".
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The Jacobian conjecture remains an open, unproven problem in mathematics.
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The Jacobian conjecture is true.
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In ZF set theory, some infinite Dedekind-finite sets lack countably infinite subsets.
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Every infinite set contains a countably infinite subset.
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No confirmed experiments have observed any particle exceeding light speed in vacuum.
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At least one particle can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.
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Many scholars favor locating Yamataikoku in the Kinai/Kinki area, but its site remains unresolved.
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Yamataikoku was located in Japan's Kinki region.
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Japan has no current law formally designating Tokyo as its capital.
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Tokyo is the de jure capital of Japan.
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No confirmed scientific evidence shows extraterrestrial life exists anywhere.
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Extraterrestrial life exists somewhere in the universe.
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Scientific evidence to date more strongly supports a zoonotic spillover origin.
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COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in China.
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In metric spaces, compactness is equivalent to completeness and total boundedness.
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A metric space is compact if and only if it is complete and totally bounded.
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No reliable sources document a brown pelican named Gus brushing a cooler.
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No documented incident exists involving a brown pelican nicknamed "Gus" brushing its wing against a cooler that Frank O'Reilly was clinging to.
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