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  2. Strixhaven: School of Mages - Wikipedia

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    At the center of the university is the library known as the Biblioplex. [7] [8] This library contains both the Hall of Oracles and the Mystical Archive.This archive "is said to contain a copy of every spell ever created in the Multiverse"; [7] this provides a lore explanation for the Mystical Archive cards where "all the uncommons are reprints of Standard-legal instants and sorceries, while ...

  3. Innistrad - Wikipedia

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    The events of the Innistrad block center on the events after the sundering of the Helvault, a giant chunk of silver metal that was used by the archangel Avacyn to imprison Innistrad's worst horrors, the demons. It is then revealed why the archangel Avacyn vanished from the plane in the first place, leaving the humans of the plane defenseless ...

  4. Mage: The Awakening - Wikipedia

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    Mage: The Awakening is a tabletop role-playing game originally published by White Wolf Publishing on August 29, 2005, and is the third game in their Chronicles of Darkness series. The characters portrayed in this game are individuals able to bend or break the commonly accepted rules of reality to perform subtle or outlandish acts of magic .

  5. Riot shield - Wikipedia

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    In response, the shield-bearer will drop to one knee while keeping the riot shield affixed in front. The officer with the projectile weapon will lean into the shield-bearer's back with their knee, extend the barrel of their weapon over the shield and fire. This method allows maximum protection to both the firer and the shield-bearer. [12 ...

  6. Shield wall - Wikipedia

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    The second row's purpose was to kill the soldiers of the first line of an enemy shield wall, and thus break the line. [citation needed] The Roman scutum was a large shield designed to fit with others to form a shield wall but not overlap. Roman legions used an extreme type of shield wall called a testudo formation that covered front, sides and ...

  7. Irresistible force paradox - Wikipedia

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    The irresistible force paradox (also unstoppable force paradox or shield and spear paradox), is a classic paradox formulated as "What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?" The immovable object and the unstoppable force are both implicitly assumed to be indestructible, or else the question would have a trivial resolution.

  8. Mage Knight - Wikipedia

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    The Mage Knight Logo. Mage Knight is a miniatures wargame using collectible figures, created by WizKids, Inc, and is the earliest example of what is now known as a collectible miniatures game (or CMG). The game was designed by founder Jordan Weisman along with Kevin Barrett.

  9. Buffer overflow protection - Wikipedia

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    Canaries or canary words or stack cookies are known values that are placed between a buffer and control data on the stack to monitor buffer overflows. When the buffer overflows, the first data to be corrupted will usually be the canary, and a failed verification of the canary data will therefore alert of an overflow, which can then be handled, for example, by invalidating the corrupted data.