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  2. PDF - Wikipedia

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    HTML Form format HTML 4.01 Specification since PDF 1.5; HTML 2.0 since 1.2 Forms Data Format (FDF) based on PDF, uses the same syntax and has essentially the same file structure, but is much simpler than PDF since the body of an FDF document consists of only one required object. Forms Data Format is defined in the PDF specification (since PDF 1.2).

  3. Usurper - Wikipedia

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    A usurper is an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy. [1] [2] In other words, one who takes the power of a country, city, or established region for oneself, without any formal or legal right to claim it as one's own. [3]

  4. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be ) comprises all its conjugations ( is , was , am , are , were , etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. [ 5 ]

  5. Impressment - Wikipedia

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    Impressment, colloquially "the press" or the "press gang", is a type of conscription of people into a military force, especially a naval force, via intimidation and physical coercion, conducted by an organized group (hence "gang"). European navies of several nations used impressment by various means.

  6. PDF (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    PDF (gene), a gene that in humans encodes the enzyme peptide deformylase; Palladium fluoride (PdF), a series of chemical compounds; Parton distribution function, in particle physics; Peak draw force, in a compound bow in archery; Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art; Pigment dispersing factor, in biology; Planar deformation features, in geology

  7. History of PDF - Wikipedia

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    The Portable Document Format (PDF) was created by Adobe Systems, introduced at the Windows and OS/2 Conference in January 1993 and remained a proprietary format until it was released as an open standard in 2008. Since then, it has been under the control of an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee of industry experts.

  8. Shanghaiing - Wikipedia

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    Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as crimps.

  9. Forced conversion - Wikipedia

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    New York Times summarised the view of Hindu groups that these seemingly voluntary conversions "take place under such economic duress that they are tantamount to a forced conversion anyway." [183] In October 2020, the Pakistani High Court upheld the validity of a forced marriage between 44-year-old Ali Azhar and 13-year-old Christian Arzoo Raja.