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  2. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [5] [6] [7] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [8] the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3 ...

  3. Thunder Run (Kentucky Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    Thunder Run is a wooden roller coaster at the Kentucky Kingdom amusement park in Louisville, Kentucky. The ride originally operated from August 1990 through to October 2009, when then-operators Six Flags abandoned the park. After remaining closed since 2009, Thunder Run reopened in May 2014 when Kentucky Kingdom reopened under new operators.

  4. Enter key - Wikipedia

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    Windows keyboards worldwide tend to simply label the key with the text ↵ Enter, while Apple uses the symbol ⌤ (U+2324 ⌤ UP ARROWHEAD BETWEEN TWO HORIZONTAL BARS [9] or U+2305 ⌅ PROJECTIVE) on ISO and JIS keyboards and the text ⌅ enter on ANSI US keyboards; [10] this is acknowledged by an annotation "enter key" on U+2324 in the Unicode ...

  5. Code of Hammurabi - Wikipedia

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    The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755–1750 BC. ... many Old Babylonian judgments run entirely counter to the Code's prescriptions. [103]

  6. J. Peterman Company - Wikipedia

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    The J. Peterman Company was founded in 1987 by John Peterman, an entrepreneur who was formerly a minor league baseball player. [3] In 1986, John Peterman bought a cowboy duster in Wyoming and received multiple compliments when he wore it.

  7. Yui Horie - Wikipedia

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    Yui Horie (堀江 由衣, Horie Yui, born September 20, 1976) is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with VIMS and Starchild. [2] [3] She has been affectionately nicknamed "Hocchan" (ほっちゃん) by her Japanese fans.

  8. Coupon collector's problem - Wikipedia

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    Graph of number of coupons, n vs the expected number of trials (i.e., time) needed to collect them all, E (T ) In probability theory, the coupon collector's problem refers to mathematical analysis of "collect all coupons and win" contests.

  9. Interwar unemployment and poverty in the United Kingdom

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    As the Government had funded the Great War largely through borrowing, Britain had run up a large national debt. A boom in the economy occurred in 1919 causing unemployment rates to decrease. The boom stopped in 1920 when unemployment began to increase, by the time that the Liberal-Conservative coalition lost power at the 1922 general election ...