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Adultery is consensual sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than that person’s spouse. Adultery is rarely charged as a crime.

Addiction is a common language term for the clinical entity known as Chemical Dependence. For decades Americans have known the term addiction to indicate an individual who is out of control in their use of mood-altering drugs.

Acculturation has been defined as the process of cultural change that immigrants undergo when they enter in contact with a new, host culture. Immigrants bring their own cultural identity, language, values, beliefs, and behaviors, which might differ from those of the host culture.

Such factors as being on the coast, sparsely populated and easily accessible by rail, road and sea, have all weighted with the scientist in selecting Sriharikota, Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, as a suitable place for launching rockets.

Hepatitis is a general term for the inflammation of the liver caused by virus, toxins, drugs or other factor.

Conferred by the FIDE (Federation International 'd Eches) or International Chess Federation, Grand-master is the highest title (beside World Champion) that one can achieve.

The Shimla Agreement was reached between the then Pakistan President Zulfiqur Ali Bhutto and the then Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi on July 2, 1972.

Sigmund Freud (1986 - 1939) is hailed as the Father of Psychology. He out forth many new concepts about sexuality, consciousness and instincts. He spent his whole life devoted to discovering the secrets of human nature.

The Constitution of India provides for the manner in which the accounts of the Government have to be kept.

Capital receipts are such items as loans raised by the Government from the public (these are called Market Loans), borrowings by the Government from the Reserve Bank of India

Supermassive black holes are those back holes whose mass in more tan 10,00,000 times the mass of the Sun.

By its very name, a Solar Cooker would mean cooking meals with solar energy without any conventional fuel.

We blink our eyes every six seconds. Although blinking eyes ins an involuntary action, we can raise or lower the number of blinks voluntarily.

A nebula is an enormous cloud of gas atoms and tiny particles. Even the smallest nebula are much larger than the Solar System, while the largest are hundreds of light years across.

The patent for the world's sewing machine lay buried among a sheaf of papers relating to the manufacture of boots and shoes for many years before it was discovered.

You can see yourself in a mirror because light rays bounce off its shiny surface. Light rays come from everything you can see, including yourself.