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A Christmas Carol

Summary: {{Template}} '''''A Christmas Carol''''' is a [[novella]] by English author [[Charles Dickens]], first published by [[Chapman & Hall]] on 19 December 1843. The story tells of sour...

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The Rescue (statue)

Summary: {{Template}} '''''The Rescue''''' (1837–50) is a large marble sculpture group assembled in front of the east façade of the [[United States Capitol]] building and exhibited there from 1853...

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Emma Lazarus

Summary: [[Image:L'Absinthe (1876) - Edgar Degas.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[L'Absinthe]]'' ([[1876]]) - [[Edgar Degas]]<br><small>"Give me your [[tired]], your [[poor]], <br/> Your...

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Uncle Sam holds a finger to his lips

Summary: {{Template}} '''"I'm counting on you!"''' is a color [[poster]] with blue background. [[Uncle Sam]] holds his [[index finger]] to his [[lips]], indicating [[silence]]. ==See also== *[[Gestures...

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Index (typography)

Summary: {{Template}} The symbol ''☞'' is a [[punctuation]] mark, called an '''index''', '''manicule''' (from the Latin root 'manus' for 'hand') or '''fist'''. Though rare today, this symbol was in...

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Digit (anatomy)

Summary: {{Template}} A '''digit''' is one of several most [[Proximo-distal#Proximal_and_distal|distal]] parts of a [[Limb (anatomy)|limb]], such as [[finger]]s or [[toe]]s, present in many...

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Adventure game

Summary: {{Template}} '''''Myst''''' (or '''''MYST''''') is a [[adventure game|graphic adventure]] [[computer game]] designed and directed by the brothers [[Robyn Miller|Robyn]] and [[Rand Miller]]. It...

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The Sims

Summary: {{Template}} '''''Myst''''' (or '''''MYST''''') is a [[adventure game|graphic adventure]] [[computer game]] designed and directed by the brothers [[Robyn Miller|Robyn]] and [[Rand Miller]]. It...

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Macintosh

Summary: {{Template}} The '''Macintosh''' marketed as '''Mac''', is a line of [[personal computer]]s (PCs) designed, developed, and marketed by [[Apple Inc.]] It is targeted mainly at the home,...

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HyperTalk

Summary: {{Template}} '''HyperTalk''' is a high-level, [[Procedural programming|procedural]] [[programming language]] created in 1987 by [[Dan Winkler]] and used in conjunction with [[Apple...

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Scripting language

Summary: {{Template}} A '''scripting language''' or '''script language''' is a [[programming language]] that supports the writing of '''scripts''', programs written for a [[software environment]] that...

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Danger music

Summary: {{Template}} '''Danger music''' is an experimental form of [[avant-garde]] 20th and 21st century music. It is based on the concept that some pieces of music can or will harm either the...

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Moscow Conceptualists

Summary: {{Template}} The '''Moscow Conceptualist''', or '''Russian Conceptualist''', movement began with the [[Sots art]] of [[Komar and Melamid]] in the early 1970s, and continued as a trend in...

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Sonic weapon

Summary: {{Template}} '''Sonic and ultrasonic weapons''' (USW) are weapons of various types that use sound to injure, incapacitate, or kill an opponent. Some sonic weapons are currently in limited use...

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Gestures of silence

Summary: {{Template}} Placing the [[index finger]] in front of closed [[lips]] is the most widely recognized [[gesture]] of [[silence]]. The gesture can be used to demand silence without raising one's...

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Street Haunting: A London Adventure

Summary: {{Template}} :''[[Haunting]]''"[[Street Haunting: A London Adventure]]" is a short essay by [[Virginia Woolf]]. ==Full text== Street Haunting: A London Adventure Virginia Woolf (1930) No one...

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Virginia Woolf bibliography

Summary: {{Template}} This is a bibliography of works by the English novelist and essayist '''[[Virginia Woolf]]'''. ==Novels== *''[[The Voyage Out]]'' (1915) *''[[Night and Day (Woolf novel)|Night and...

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Marotte

Summary: {{Template}} A '''marotte''' is a prop stick or [[sceptre]] with a carved head on it. The word is borrowed from the [[French language|French]], where it signifies either a fool's (literal)...

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Julius Held

Summary: {{Template}} '''Julius Samuel Held''' (* [[15. April]] [[1905]] in [[Mosbach]]; † [[22. Dezember]] [[2002]] in [[Bennington (Vermont)|Bennington]], Vermont) war ein deutsch-amerikanischer...

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Evert Collier

Summary: {{Template}} '''Evert Collier''' (26 January 1642 - few days before September 8, 1708) was a [[Dutch Golden Age]] still-life painter known for [[vanitas]] and [[trompe l'oeil]] paintings. His...

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