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Technology & inventions · Challenging

Vehicle registration plates of Croatia

) The standard licence plates in Croatia consist of a two-letter city code which is separated by the coat of arms of Croatia from three or four numbers and one or two letters. The standard regular plate consists of three

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Ideas & learning · Accessible

Georgic and Merlin

Georgic and Merlin is a French fairy tale collected by François Cadic in "La Paroisse bretonne". It is Aarne-Thompson type 502. The oldest known tale of this type is Guerrino and the Savage Man. Another variant is Iron J

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Technology & inventions · Developing

Piana Canova PC.100

The Piana Canova PC.100 was a primary glider designed and built in Italy in the 1930s. It had many of the characteristics of these simple aircraft but differed greatly in using a wing of rhomboidal plan. Only one was bui

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Language & communication · Developing

History of the Lord's Prayer in English

The Lord's Prayer has been translated and updated throughout the history of the English language. Here are examples which show the major developments: The text of the Matthean Lord's Prayer in the King James Version (KJV

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Starlight Sequence

The Starlight Sequence is a showstopper from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express. It is performed by Rusty, a young, naive Steam Locomotive and the Starlight Express, a magical Steam Locomotive that comes at midnight

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Language & communication · Challenging

Misnomer

Word or term that suggests a meaning that is known to be wrong

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History & culture · Developing

Fort Johnson (19th century)

Fort Johnson was a U.S. Army post built on bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River in modern-day Warsaw, Illinois, during the War of 1812. The fort was established in September 1814 by Major Zachary Taylor, future 12th

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Technology & inventions · Challenging

Hopscotch hashing

Hopscotch hashing is a scheme in computer programming for resolving hash collisions of values of hash functions in a table using open addressing. It is also well suited for implementing a concurrent hash table. Hopscotch

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Everyday life · Challenging

One player to a hand

One player to a hand is an important poker rule, designed to promote fair play that is universally applied in casino play. It states that all game decisions about the play of each hand must be made by one player without

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