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If North Korea had long-range nuclear weapons, however, it might be able to change the strategic calculus, by threatening to launch a nuclear attack on the US mainland in response to US intervention on the Korean Peninsula.

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[The] Tasmanian devil is found only on the island of Tasmania, which is that small island just to the south of the mainland of Australia.

These are quartz crystals and feldspar, so most sand in the world on the mainland is made of quartz crystal and feldspar.

And there they survive on the mainland until about 10,000 years ago, and actually, surprisingly, on the small islands off of Siberia and Alaska until about 3,000 years ago.

All we know is, soon after the dingoes were brought in, thylacines were extinct in the Australian mainland, and after that they only survived in Tasmania.

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