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About 40 years ago ( i. e., in 1958 ), Corvin's prospects as an astronaut had been dashed when Gerson, who at the time was a senior Air Force officer, replaced Corvin and his three-man team with a chimp.
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About 30 countries maintain about seventy research stations ( 40 year-round or permanent, and 30 summer-only ) in Antarctica, with an approximate population of 4000 in summer and 1000 in winter.
About 50 % are Baya-Mandjia, 40 % Banda ( largely located in the northern and central parts of the country ), and 7 % are M ' Baka ( southwestern corner of the CAR ).
About 40 % of all described insect species are beetles ( about 400, 000 species ), and new species are discovered frequently.
About 6. 50 % of families and 9. 00 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 12. 40 % of those under age 18 and 6. 10 % of those age 65 or over.
" About a year after the Court's jurisdictional decision, the United States took the further, radical step of withdrawing its consent to the Court's compulsory jurisdiction, ending its previous 40 year legal commitment to binding international adjudication.
About 24. 5 % of families and 27. 4 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 40. 6 % of those under age 18 and 24. 8 % of those age 65 or over.
About half of the calories in Nutella come from fat ( 11 g in a 37 g serving, or 99 kcal out of 200 kcal ) and about 40 % of the calories come from sugar ( 20 g, 80 kcal ).
Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know About Shock Treatment reports before-and-after IQ testing of persons receiving ECT, including the author, that show 30 to 40 point losses.
About 4. 00 % of families and 6. 40 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 7. 30 % of those under age 18 and 6. 90 % of those age 65 or over.
About 40, 000 fans visit a regular match at home while top classes versus Ajax, PSV and European Cup opponents are sold out most of the time.
About 7. 40 % of families and 9. 70 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 10. 40 % of those under age 18 and 8. 70 % of those age 65 or over.
About 4. 90 % of families and 7. 40 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 8. 30 % of those under age 18 and 5. 30 % of those age 65 or over.
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About a thousand years after that, when the Roman Empire was divided, it became capital of the Eastern section.
About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).
About 15 % of the population is foreign, most of them immigrants from Argentina, Ecuador, and Colombia who have arrived in the previous 10 years.
About 4, 000 years ago, migrating Native Americans settled in the fertile valleys and coastal areas of what is present day Chile.
About seven million years old, an age that makes it one of the youngest open clusters in the Milky Way, it appears to have the shape of a letter A.
About two years after Cyril of Alexandria's death in 444, an aged monk from Constantinople named Eutyches began teaching a subtle variation on the traditional Christology in an attempt ( as he described in a letter to Pope Leo I in 448 ) to stop a new outbreak of Nestorianism.
About 75, 000 years ago, this Indonesian volcano released about 2, 800 </ sup > km < sup > 3 </ sup > DRE of ejecta, the largest known eruption within the Quaternary Period ( last 1. 8 million years ) and the largest known explosive eruption within the last 25 million years.
About half of the world's original forests had been destroyed by 2011, the majority during the previous 50 years.
About 1. 5 million immigrants had been processed at the first building during its five years of use.
About 300, 000 years after this event, atoms of hydrogen and helium began to form, in an event called recombination.
About 30 years later American engineer and inventor Laurens Hammond filed U. S. Patent 1, 956, 350 for a new type of " electrical musical instrument " that could recreate a pipe organ-type sound.
About 25 years after Herodotus, Thucydides, perhaps the most important of historians, pioneered a different form of history, one much closer to reportage.
About 90 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous Period, the Indian Plate began moving north at about 15 cm / year ( 6 in / yr ).
About 50 to 55 million years ago, in the Eocene Epoch of the Cenozoic Era, the plate collided with Asia after covering a distance of, having moved faster than any other known plate.
About eight to 12 annual changing exhibitions and permanent collection exhibitions provide educational opportunities for all ages, from learning the history of a quilt hand-stitched over 100 years ago to discovering how scientists analyze the physical properties of artists ' materials, such as glass or stone.
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