* Astronomy

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The Thargoids are an insectoid alien race who are said to originate outside of known space, in the original Elite games

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Bumbo (also known as Bombo or Bumboo) is a drink made from rum, water, sugar, and nutmeg.
Bumbo was popular in the Caribbean during the era of piracy, largely because it tasted better than Royal Navy Grog.

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Dschubba

Dschubba (Delta Scorpii) is a blue subgiant star in the constellation Scorpius.
The name comes from Arabic jabhat, "forehead" (of the scorpion).

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Hornblende

Hornblende is a complex inosilicate series of minerals (ferrohornblende magnesiohornblende). Hornblende is a common constituent of many igneous and metamorphic rocks such as granite, syenite, diorite, gabbro, basalt, andesite, gneiss, and schist.

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Bird's eye extinction

Bird's eye maple, or bird's eye extinction, is a specific type of extinction exhibited by minerals of the mica group under cross polarized light

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Campani's eyepiece

A Campani's eyepiece is a Huyghenian eyepiece applied to a microscope

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Tetrahedral hypothesis

The Tetrahedral hypothesis is an obsolete scientific theory attempting to explain the arrangement of the Earth's continents and oceans by referring to the geometry of a tetrahedron.

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Inaptronyms

An Inaptronym is a name unsuited to its owner

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Space roar

The space roar is a radio signal from outer space.