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  2. Libration point orbit - Wikipedia

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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is in a libration point orbit around the L2 Lagrange point of the Sun, and Earth-Moon barycenters. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Because libration point orbits are quasiperiodic, the telescope must make frequent small burns to maintain proximity to the L2 point, as part of orbital station keeping , limiting the lifespan of ...

  3. TopoZone - Wikipedia

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    TopoZone. TopoZone is a website operated by Locality LLC that offers free online topographic maps. It was founded in November 1999 by Ed McNierney whose company Maps a la carte, Inc. operated out of North Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Prior to founding the company, McNierney, an organic chemistry graduate of Dartmouth College, was chief technology ...

  4. Motivation in second-language learning - Wikipedia

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    Motivation is the most used concept for explaining the failure or success of a language learner. [1] Second language (L2) refers to a language an individual learns that is not his/her mother tongue, but is of use in the area of the individual. It is not the same as a foreign language, which is a language learned that is not generally spoken in ...

  5. List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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    (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 million 199 million 1.140 billion Hindi (excl. Urdu) Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 345 million 264 million 609 million ...

  6. Lineage II - Wikipedia

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    Lineage II. Lineage II is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Windows and the second game in the Lineage series. It is a prequel to Lineage and is set 150 years before the first game. [2] It has become popular since its October 1, 2003 launch in South Korea, reporting 40,027,918 unique users during the month of March 2007.

  7. Lagrange point - Wikipedia

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    In celestial mechanics, the Lagrange points (/ ləˈɡrɑːndʒ /; also Lagrangian points or libration points) are points of equilibrium for small-mass objects under the gravitational influence of two massive orbiting bodies. Mathematically, this involves the solution of the restricted three-body problem. [1]

  8. Generative second-language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    The generative approach to second language (L2) acquisition (SLA) is a cognitive based theory of SLA that applies theoretical insights developed from within generative linguistics to investigate how second languages and dialects are acquired and lost by individuals learning naturalistically or with formal instruction in foreign, second language ...

  9. Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol - Wikipedia

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    Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol. In computer networking, Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) is a tunneling protocol used to support virtual private networks (VPNs) or as part of the delivery of services by ISPs. It uses encryption ('hiding') only for its own control messages (using an optional pre-shared secret), and does not provide any encryption ...