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  • Solar System/Definition
    Our sun, [[Sol]] and the astronomical objects, like [[Planet Earth]], gravitational
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  • Light hour
    * the maximum distance between [[sun]] and [[Mercury]] is about 57.9 Mio km or 0.05 light hours * the maximum distance between [[sun]] and [[Venus]] is about 108.2 Mio km or 0.10 light hours
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  • The Book of the New Sun/Related Articles
    Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/The Book of the New Sun]]. Needs checking by a human. {{r|Sun}}
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  • Sunlight/Definition
    Total spectrum of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun.
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  • Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company
    '''Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company''' was a major shipbuilding company in [[Che ...war went on, making it the country's single largest shipyard. At its peak, Sun Ship operated four shipyards employing more than 40,000 workers. One of the
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  • Light minute
    * the maximum distance between [[sun]] and [[Merkur]] is about 57.9 Mio km or 3.2 light minutes * the maximum distance between [[sun]] and [[Venus]] is about 108.2 Mio km or 6.0 light minutes
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  • Sunshine (2007 film)/Definition
    ...film directed by Danny Boyle; deals with humanity's relationship with the sun.
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  • SPF
    {{r|Sun Protection Factor}}
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  • Sundial/Definition
    An instrument for measuring time, using the position of the sun in the sky.
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  • Shadehouse/Definition
    ...ered structure or an outbuilding, designed to protect plants from too much sun and heat
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  • Venus (planet)/Definition
    <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>The second planet from the Sun in our solar system; named after the Roman goddess of love.
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  • Mercury (planet)/Definition
    The first planet from the Sun in our solar system; named after the Roman messenger of gods.
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  • Sun Tzu
    :''For the mathematician, see Sun Tzu (mathematician).'' '''Sun Tzu''' (孫子; pinyin, Sūnzǐ) (<!-- AWAITING TEMPLATE {{zh-cp|c=孫子|
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  • Saturn (planet)/Definition
    The sixth planet from the Sun in our solar system; named after the Roman god of agriculture and harvest.
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  • Uranus (planet)/Definition
    The seventh planet from the Sun in our solar system; name after the Greek god of the sky.
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  • Neptune (planet)/Definition
    The eighth planet from the Sun in our solar system; named after the Roman god of the sea.
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  • Apollo (Greek mythology)/Definition
    ...ine]], [[healing arts|healing]] and [[light]], later associated with the [[Sun]].
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  • Year/Definition
    ...ime measurement that corresponds to one revolution of the earth around the sun, approximately 365¼ days.
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  • Ecliptic
    ...bit Earth.png|right|thumb|350px||Fig. 2. The Earth in its orbit around the Sun. The arrow on the Earth indicates the angle between the Earth axis and the ...e equally long, around September 21). The solstices are the dates that the Sun seems to stand still (around June 21 and December 21).
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  • Astronomical Unit/Definition
    <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>Mean distance from the Earth to the Sun used to provide relative distances within the solar system; value is approx
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  • Ernest Hemingway/Definition
    ...1899-1961) [[United States of America|American]] writer, author of ''[[The Sun Also Rises]]'', ''[[A Farewell to Arms]]''. and ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls
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  • K-type star/Definition
    Star which is usually slightly cooler than our Sun and often orange in colour; includes hydrogen-burning 'main sequence' stars
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  • Ra
    ...In relation to the sun he was said to control the chariot that pulled the sun across the sky. ...eagle's head that was adorned with a great disc, representing the noon day sun.
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  • Earth (planet)/Definition
    The third [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] in our [[solar system]]; the only place in the [[universe]] known by [[hu
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  • Java (programming language)/Definition
    ...ramming|object-oriented]] [[programming language]] originally created by [[Sun Microsystems]].
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  • Mars (planet)/Definition
    The fourth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] in our [[solar system]]; named after the [[Mars (mythology)|Roman god of
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  • Earth (planet)
    ...]]. Earth [[orbit]]s around 93 million [[mile]]s (150 million km) from the sun, within a region neither too hot nor too cold for its inhabitants to exist. ...a great cloud of interstellar [[gas]] and dust that condensed to form the sun about 4.6 billion [[year]]s ago. Life is known to have found a foothold onl
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  • Effect of sun angle on climate
    == Geometry of sun angle == ...sunlight is spread over a larger area, and is therefore weaker than if the sun is higher overhead and the energy is concentrated on a smaller area. (See F
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  • Ocean circulation/Definition
    ...ion of the ocean waters caused by winds, the gravity pull of both Moon and Sun and seawater density differences.
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  • National Center for Atmospheric Research/Definition
    ..."exploring and understanding our atmosphere and its interactions with the Sun, the oceans, the biosphere, and human society."
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  • Dwarf planet/Definition
    A celestial object orbiting a sun that is massive enough to obtain a round shape but too small to clear its o
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  • Kuiper belt
    ...this reason it is largely believed that they comprise a ring orbiting the Sun, referred to as the Kuiper Belt.<ref>[http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jew ...inning of the solar system. These dark comets occasionally fall toward the Sun and become short-period comets.
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  • Astronomical Unit
    ...mate average (or mean) distance from the [[Earth_(planet)|Earth]] to the [[Sun]] used to provide relative distances within the [[solar system]]. ...s really somewhat less than the average distance between the Earth and the Sun (which is approximately 150 million km or 93 million miles).<ref>[http://ne
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  • Comet
    ...cal]] orbit around the [[Sun]]. Comets become visible as they approach the Sun and can be much larger than they seem - the tails of some comets are over 1
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  • Sunshine (2007 film)
    ...l cast, who portray the crew of a [[spaceship]] sent to reignite the dying sun with a nuclear weapon as the [[Earth]] of the year 2057 slowly freezes. [[p
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  • Arcturus (star)
    ...other stars, and in about 4,000 years will reach its closest point to the Sun. Arcturus can be identified via another 'arc', namely the shape of the [[Ur
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  • The Sun Sessions/Related Articles
    {{r|I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine}} {{r|Sun Studios}}
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  • Terrestrial planet/Definition
    ...of the four planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, or Mars, that are nearest the sun.
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  • News Corporation
    *[[Sun (UK)]] *[[Herald Sun]]
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  • Wolf 359 (star)/Definition
    Red dwarf star of absolute magnitude 16.6, it is 7.8 light-years from the sun and is a variable flare star, which may emit bursts of light and even radio
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  • Armand Fizeau/Definition
    ...l observations, and using photography took the first clear pictures of the Sun.
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  • Java (programming language)/External Links
    * [http://java.sun.com/reference/api/ Sun's Java API's], full online application programming interface reference for * [http://java.sun.com/docs/white/langenv/index.html The Java Language Environment], a white p
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  • Hill sphere
    ...ellite or moon can be in orbit around the planet, and outside of which the Sun or star's gravity prevents the smaller body from orbiting the planet. In ot ...r than Earth. The gravitational force from Earth must dominate that of the Sun in order for a satellite to orbit it, which only happens if the satellite i
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  • Helios/Definition
    ...[[Greek god|god]] known as a [[Titan (god)|Titan]] who is the god of the [[sun]].
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  • John Gilmore
    ..., porting GNU Emacs and other programs to the Sun environment. His time at Sun made John a millionaire, leaving him free to pursue other interests.
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  • Didymos
    ...e from the sun of about 1 AU and about 2.3 AU, respectively. It orbits the Sun every 2.1 years.
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  • Mercury (planet)
    '''Mercury''' at 0.4 AU (57,910,000 km) is the [[planet]] closest to our Sun, and it is the smallest of the eight planets in our solar system, with only ...to be called a planet, an object must have three traits. It must orbit the sun, be massive enough that its own gravity pulls it into a nearly round shape,
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  • Sphere (geometry)
    ...gly influenced by the Sun's gravitational pull than Earth's, and orbit the Sun instead.
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  • Lapland
    ...so enjoys [[midnight sun]]s during the summer. In the heart of winter, the sun never rises, making this area ideal for viewing the [[Aurora Borealis]] &md
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  • Kuiper belt/Definition
    ...nding from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 55 AU from the Sun, containing thousands of icy bodies, some of which are on highly elliptical
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  • Jupiter (planet)/Definition
    The fifth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] in our [[solar system]]; named after the [[Roman]] [[god]] [[Jupiter (myt
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  • IDL
    ...nd computer languages. Software systems that use (different) IDLs include Sun's ONC RPC, The Open Group's Distributed Computing Environment, IBM's System
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  • Day
    ...her the entire period between sunrise and sunset, or one full cycle of the sun's motion, starting variously at sunset, sunrise, midnight, or noon (mid-day ...between transits of "fixed" stars. Due to the motion of planets around the sun, there will be either one more or one less sidereal day in a [[year]] than
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  • The Book of the New Sun
    ...shadow & claw.jpg|right|200px|The first two books of ''The Book of the New Sun'', 2000 omnibus printing.}}--> ...mporary English. The series takes place in the distant future, where the [[Sun]] has dimmed considerably and the Earth (referred to in the series as "Urth
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  • MySQL
    MySQL AB was bought by SUN Microsystems on Feb 26, 2008 for $1B USD. Ref:[[http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/2008-0116/index.jsp]].
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  • Tropic/Definition
    ...the equator, representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead.
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  • Hots On for Nowhere/Catalogs
    * 2007: Stevie Salas (''Sun and the Earth'')
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  • Terrestrial planet
    ...e moves out some. If the star is less than about 0.5 times the size of the Sun, or more than 3 times as large, there may not be any zone-of-life. ...t over from the formation of Titan, but streaming solar particles from the Sun at that distance give methane a half life of 10**6 years. Since Titan is as
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  • Tide
    ...e [[ocean]] rises or falls due to [[tidal force]]s. The [[moon]] and the [[sun]] both exert tidal forces on the earth and the earth's ocean. The movement ...in water level experienced is dependent upon the relative position of the sun and the moon and the shape and orientation of the coastline.
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  • Radiative forcing
    ...mple, a change in the concentration of carbon dioxide or the output of the Sun. ...can be caused, for instance, by more intense insolation (radiation by the Sun), or by a [[carbondioxide]] increase in the atmosphere.
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  • Bear (disambiguation)
    {{rpl|Sun bear}}
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  • Leyte Gulf, battle of/Bibliography
    * Spector, Ronald. ''Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan'' (1985), brief summary ...zer Prize history from Japanese perspective; [http://www.amazon.com/Rising-Sun-Decline-Japanese-1936-1945/dp/0812968581/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qi
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  • JavaScript
    ...://www.sun.com/suntrademarks/ Sun Trademarks]</ref> in return for bundling Sun's Java runtime with the popular [[Netscape Browser]]<ref>http://web.archive
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  • Astronomical Unit/Related Articles
    {{r|Sun}}
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  • Beck's Bolero/Catalogs
    * 2004: STS (''Shooting the Sun'')
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  • The Sun Sessions
    ...ernational in the [[United Kingdom]], [[Europe]], and [[Canada]], as ''The Sun Collection'' (1975), in vinyl disc (AFM1-1675) and cassette format (APK1-16 #'I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine' (Mack David) - 2:23
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  • National Post/Related Articles
    {{r|Toronto Sun}}
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  • Distributed Management Task Force/Related Articles
    {{r|Sun Microsystems}}
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  • Gamma Andromedae
    ...sun. The star is large enough to fill the orbit of Venus if it were in the sun's position.<ref name="Kaler" />
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  • Silicon Valley/Related Articles
    {{r|Sun Microsystems}}
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  • Antoine-Henri Jomini/Bibliography
    * Handel, Michael I. ''Masters of War: Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, and Jomini'' (1992) 176 pp.
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  • Electromagnetic radiation
    ...stored sources of energy received in the past millions of years from the Sun.
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  • Caraway
    ...s wild in open, grassy areas. As an ornamental garden plant, it needs full sun and deep soil, and is propagated from seed in the spring.
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  • Supernova/Definition
    ...ther a white dwarf system or an aged star about five times the size of the sun, which occurs when the star collapses; a neutron star or a black hole may b
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  • Star/Related Articles
    {{r|Sun}}
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  • Pew Charitable Trusts
    ...ization combines the assets of seven funds of the Pew Family, heirs of the Sun Oil Company.
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  • Garden heliotrope
    They are best grown in moist but well-drained [[soil]], in full sun. They are planted in the spring. While some varieties are perennials, and m
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  • Avant (company)
    | founded_by = Al Goldstein, John Sun, Paul Zhang ...was founded in 2012 by serial [[entrepreneur]] Albert ‘Al’ Goldstein, John Sun and Paul Zhang.<ref>{{cite web
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  • Abbey Road
    #'Here Comes the Sun' (Harrison) #'Sun King'
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  • Miami Marlins
    <ref>https://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/ballparks/sun-life-stadium/</ref> ...adium in 1997, Dolphin(s) Stadium in 2005, Land Shark Stadium in 2009, and Sun Life Stadium in 2010)
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  • Titans/Definition
    ...nd [[Themis]]. The next [[generation]] included [[Eos]], [[Helios]] (the [[sun]] god), [[Selene]] as well as [[Leto]] and [[Asteria]], [[Atlas]], [[Promet
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  • Mercury (planet)/External Links
    ....html Illustration comparing the sizes of the planets with each other, the sun, and other stars]
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  • Solar System/External Links
    ....html Illustration comparing the sizes of the planets with each other, the sun, and other stars]
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  • Orbit
    ...] depicted orbiting around the [[Sun]]. One orbit of the Earth around the Sun lasts a year.}} ...hat of the larger object. Examples include planets orbiting a more massive sun, or satellites orbiting a planet. Additionally, the center of the larger ob
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  • Claudia Rosett/Related Articles
    {{r|New York Sun}}
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  • Cut Loose/Related Articles
    {{r|Rising Sun (song)}}
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  • Ursus/Related Articles
    {{r|Sun bear}}
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  • Sunspot cycle
    ...University of Oregon]</ref><ref>"... the number of sunspots visible on the sun waxes and wanes with an approximate 11-year cycle." [http://solarscience.ms ...the mid-1800s." [http://www.santafenewmexican.com/HealthandScience/A-quiet-sun Low sunspot cycle fascinates scientists, who say there's no reason to panic
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  • Gravitational wave
    ...o very massive objects, where the objects are much more massive than the [[Sun]], e.g. neutron stars or black holes.
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  • Mikhail Borodin/Related Articles
    {{r|Sun Yat-sen}}
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  • Sun/Related Articles
    Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Sun]]. Needs checking by a human. {{r|The Book of the New Sun}}
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  • A-ha
    ...f America]]. The music videos of the album's singles "Take on Me" and "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." became very popular, and won in two categories at th ...ays'' (1986). They released ''Stay on These Roads'' in 1988, ''East of the Sun, West of the Moon'' in 1990, and ''Memorial Beach'' in 1993. These albums d
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  • Tychonic system/Related Articles
    {{r|Sun}}
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  • Mike Filey
    ...n Parker (Toronto Sun)|Alan Parker]], another columnist at the ''[[Toronto Sun]]'', Filey is known as ''“Toronto’s best-known historian”''. | publisher = [[Toronto Sun]]
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  • Battle of Okinawa/External Links
    ...zer Prize history from Japanese perspective; [http://www.amazon.com/Rising-Sun-Decline-Japanese-1936-1945/dp/0812968581/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qi
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  • NMR instrumentation/Bibliography
    | last2 = Sun | first2 = N.
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  • Neo-Druidism/Related Articles
    {{r|Sun}}
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  • Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company/Related Articles
    Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company]]. Needs checking by a human.
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  • Sundial/Related Articles
    {{r|Sun}}
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  • Effect of sun angle on climate/Related Articles
    Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Effect of sun angle on climate]]. Needs checking by a human.
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