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  2. Riven - Wikipedia

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    Riven combined the pre-rendered backgrounds with live action footage, in order to increase the player's immersion level. [6] [11] Riven was the first game in which any of its designers had directed live actors, and Vander Wende was apprehensive about their use. [6] Rand Miller had to reprise his role of Atrus from Myst, even though he hated ...

  3. Ruler - Wikipedia

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    A variety of rulers A carpenter's rule Retractable flexible rule or tape measure A closeup of a steel ruler A ruler in combination with a letter scale. A ruler, sometimes called a rule, scale or a line gauge or metre/meter stick, is an instrument used to make length measurements, whereby a length is read from a series of markings called "rules" along an edge of the device. [1]

  4. Imperial, royal and noble ranks - Wikipedia

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    Teigne, ruler of Baol, previously a pre-colonial Serer kingdom. Tlahtloāni, the Classical Nahuatl term for the ruler of an āltepētl, a pre-Hispanic city-state in Mesoamerica, variously translated in English as "king," "ruler," (or "speaker" in the political sense). A siwātlahtoāni is a female ruler, or queen regnant. [17]

  5. De principis instructione - Wikipedia

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    De principis instructione (Instruction for a Ruler) is a Latin work by Gerald of Wales.It is divided into three "Distinctions". The first contains moral precepts and reflections; the second and third deal with the history of the later 12th century, with a focus on the character and acts of king Henry II of England and especially his disputes with the kings of France, Louis VII and Philip II ...

  6. Square (tool) - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] Centre squares are also manufactured to be used as a head for a combination square. [7] Combination square, or sliding square A combination square features a ruler (the blade) which can be slid and adjusted within a head (the stock). The head usually has one face at 90° to the ruler, and another face at 45° to the ruler.

  7. Genaille–Lucas rulers - Wikipedia

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    Genaille–Lucas rulers (also known as Genaille's rods) are an arithmetic tool invented by Henri Genaille, a French railway engineer, in 1891. The device is a variant of Napier's bones . By representing the carry graphically, the user can read off the results of simple multiplication problems directly, with no intermediate mental calculations .

  8. Lufkin (brand) - Wikipedia

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    Early Lufkin logo. The company was founded by Edward Taylor Lufkin, an American Civil War veteran of the Sixtieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry [1] in Cleveland, Ohio, 1869 [2] and was originally named E.T. Lufkin Board and Log Rule Manufacturing Company.

  9. Rubik's Magic - Wikipedia

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    The puzzle has 12 panels interconnected with nylon wires in a 2 × 6 rectangular shape, measuring approximately 4.25 inches (10.5 cm) by 13 inches (32 cm). The goal of the game is the same as for Rubik's Magic, which is to fold the puzzle from a 2 × 6 rectangular shape into a W-like shape with a certain tile arrangement.