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  2. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script .

  3. Keraunography - Wikipedia

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    Keraunography or keranography is the belief that lightning, when striking an object (generally a human body), can leave markings which constitute a photographic image of surrounding objects. It is generally considered a myth: lightning can leave markings, but they are not photographic.

  4. Superstition in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Superstition in Pakistan (Urdu: پاکستانی توهم پرستی) is widespread and many adverse events are attributed to the supernatural effect. [1] [2] Superstition is a belief in supernatural causality: that one event leads to the cause of another without any physical process linking the two events, such as astrology, omens, witchcraft, etc., that contradicts natural science. [3]

  5. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin with an arrow pointing to the problematic text. Different languages use different proofreading marks and sometimes publishers have their own in-house proofreading marks. [1]

  6. Mojibake - Wikipedia

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    A similar effect can occur in Brahmic or Indic scripts of South Asia, used in such Indo-Aryan or Indic languages as Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, and others, even if the character set employed is properly recognized by the application. This is because, in many Indic scripts, the rules by which individual letter symbols ...

  7. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    coughing or Valsalve accentuates the venous markings of an erysipeloid rash Mentzer index: William C. Mentzer Jr. hematology: microcytic anemia: differentiates iron deficiency anaemia from beta thalassaemia Miller Fisher test: C. Miller Fisher: neurology: normal pressure hydrocephalus

  8. Dermatographic urticaria - Wikipedia

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    Dermatographic urticaria is sometimes called "skin writing", as it is possible to mark deliberate patterns onto the skin. The condition manifests as an allergic-like reaction, causing a warm red wheal to appear on the skin. As it is often the result of scratches, involving contact with other materials, it can be confused with an allergic ...

  9. Skin marking - Wikipedia

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    Skin marking may refer to: Scarifying, scratching, etching, burning / branding, or cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification. Hyperkeratosis, a skin condition; Cutaneous condition, any of various skin conditions; Mole (skin marking), a benign tumor on human skin, usually with darker pigment; Tattoo; Body art