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  2. Punched card - Wikipedia

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    A 12-row/80-column IBM punched card from the mid-twentieth century. A punched card (also punch card[1] or punched-card[2]) is a piece of card stock that stores digital data using punched holes. Punched cards were once common in data processing and the control of automated machines. Punched cards were widely used in the 20th century, where unit ...

  3. Origin of the Book of Mormon - Wikipedia

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    Critics argue that the works share several passages and many thematic elements. [31] [42] Book of Mormon witness and scribe Oliver Cowdery, and his family, had attended Ethan Smith's church since November 1821. Prior to his book's publication, Ethan Smith advocated his views regarding the origins of Native Americans in sermons to his congregations.

  4. The Big Book (Alcoholics Anonymous) - Wikipedia

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    The Big Book was written by William G. "Bill W." Wilson, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA or A.A.), with the help of various editors. The composition process was not collaborative other than editing. Bill wrote all of the chapters except for "To Employers" which was written by Bill's right-hand man, Hank Parkhurst.

  5. The Call of Cthulhu - Wikipedia

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    The Call of Cthulhu. Title page of "The Call of Cthulhu" as it appeared in Weird Tales, February 1928. Illustration by Hugh Doak Rankin. [1] " The Call of Cthulhu " is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928.

  6. Sahl ibn Bishr - Wikipedia

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    The work contains divinations based on the movements of the planets and comets. The Introduction to the Science of the Judgments of the Stars. Translated by James Herschel Holden (Tempe, Az.: A.F.A., Inc., 2008)ix, 213 pp. There are some books by Sahl ibn Bishr in Arabic such as: Ahkam fi al-Nujum ("Laws of the Astrology")

  7. PDF - Wikipedia

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    PostScript is a page description language run in an interpreter to generate an image. [ 6 ] It can handle graphics and has standard features of programming languages such as branching and looping. [ 6 ] PDF is a subset of PostScript, simplified to remove such control flow features, while graphics commands remain.

  8. Literature - Wikipedia

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    Definitions of literature have varied over time. [11] In Western Europe, prior to the 18th century, literature denoted all books and writing. It can be seen as returning to older, more inclusive notions, so that cultural studies, for instance, include, in addition to canonical works, popular and minority genres.

  9. Notebook - Wikipedia

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    Notebook. A notebook (also known as a notepad, writing pad, drawing pad, or legal pad) is a book or stack of paper pages that are often ruled and used for purposes such as note-taking, journaling or other writing, drawing, or scrapbooking. A selection of notebooks.