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Ticker tape was the earliest electrical dedicated financial communications medium, transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines, in use from around 1870 to 1970. It consisted of a paper strip that ran through a machine called a stock ticker , which printed abbreviated company names as alphabetic symbols followed by numeric stock ...
Quoted-Printable and Base64 are the two MIME content transfer encodings, if the trivial "7bit" and "8bit" encoding are not counted. If the text to be encoded does not contain many non-ASCII characters, then Quoted-Printable results in a fairly readable [1] and compact encoded result. On the other hand, if the input has many 8-bit characters ...
<1 Democratic: 1857–1861 1791–1868 Abraham Lincoln <1 Republican / National Union: 1861–1865 1809–1865 Andrew Johnson <1 National Union / Democratic: 1865–1869 1808–1875 Ulysses S. Grant <1 Republican: 1869–1877 1822–1885 James A. Garfield <1 Republican: 1881 1831–1881 Chester A. Arthur <1 Republican: 1881–1885 1829–1886 ...
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Lincoln maintains the range of musical styles present on the previous album, They Might Be Giants, and lyrically attempts to merge word play into narrative songs. Lyrical themes are broadened with the inclusion of songs detailing troubled romantic relationships ("Ana Ng", "They'll Need a Crane", "I've Got a Match"), [1] [2] and songs that verge on social or political satire ("Purple Toupee ...
McCullough became an ardent supporter of Lincoln beginning with Lincoln's successful run for Congress in 1846. With the start of the Civil War, McCullough petitioned Lincoln to allow him to enlist despite his health problems and age. McCullough's request was granted, and he was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the 4th Illinois Cavalry. [1]
The poem uses the image of a flowering plant - specifically that of a chasmophyte rooted in the wall of the wishing well - as a source of inspiration for mystical/metaphysical speculation [1] and is one of multiple poems where Tennyson touches upon the topic of the relationships between God, nature, and human life.