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  2. Tattersall (cloth) - Wikipedia

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    Tattersall is a style of tartan pattern woven into cloth. The pattern is composed of regularly-spaced thin, even vertical warp stripes, repeated horizontally in the weft , thereby forming squares. The stripes are usually in two alternating colours, generally darker on a light ground. [ 1 ]

  3. Tattersalls - Wikipedia

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    George Tattersall (1817–1849), a son of the second Richard Tattersall, who was a well-known sporting artist. [2] Tattersall, a type of cloth named after the business, [5] used commonly in modern shirts. During the 18th century at Tattersall's horse market blankets with this checked pattern were sold for use on horses. [6]

  4. Check (pattern) - Wikipedia

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    Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares.The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.

  5. Focus (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, focus (abbreviated FOC) is a grammatical category that conveys which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information. In the English sentence "Mary only insulted BILL", focus is expressed prosodically by a pitch accent on "Bill" which identifies him as the only person whom Mary insulted.

  6. Tattersall - Wikipedia

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    Jonathan Tattersall (born 1994), English cricketer; Kathleen Tattersall (1942–2013), British educationalist; Mark Tattersall (born c. 1984), British journalist; Philippa Tattersall (born 1975), Royal Marine officer; Richard Tattersall (1724–1795), founder of racehorse auctioneer Tattersalls; Roy Tattersall (1922–2011), English cricketer ...

  7. Ian Tattersall - Wikipedia

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    Ian Tattersall (born 1945) is a British-born American paleoanthropologist and a curator emeritus with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York. In addition to human evolution , Tattersall has worked extensively with lemurs .

  8. George Adams (businessman) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Within ten years, Adams was a wealthy man with the 'Tin Bar' replaced by the ' Marble Bar ' at the O'Brien Hotel for £32,000. Tattersall's Club members subscribed to sweepstakes run on race meetings throughout Australia and eventually Adams began to include his hotel regulars and in 1881 he ran the first public Tattersall's sweep on ...

  9. Cathemerality - Wikipedia

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    In 1987, Tattersall gave a formal definition of cathemeral, turning to its Ancient Greek roots. The word is a compound of two Greek terms: κᾰτᾰ́ (katá) 'through' and ἡμέρᾱ (hēmérā) 'day'. The term cathemeral, then, means 'through the day', where "day" refers to the full day from midnight to midnight. Tattersall credits his ...