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  2. List of string figures - Wikipedia

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    "Opening A", seen from below "Two Diamonds" Heraklas' "Plinthios Brokhos" made in a doubled cord.Resembles "A Hole in the Tree" with different crossings. "Cradle", the first (and opening) position of Cat's cradle "Soldier's Bed" from Cat's cradle "Candles" from Cat's cradle "Diamonds" from Cat's cradle "Cat's Eye" from Cat's cradle "Fish in a Dish" from Cat's cradle "Grandfather Clock" from ...

  3. String figure - Wikipedia

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    It was long believed that anthropologist Franz Boas was the first to describe the construction of string figures (a pair of Inuit string figures) in 1888 (Boas 1888a, 1888b, Abraham 1988:12).", [6] but actually string figure instructions already feature in several 19th century European books on children's games prior to that.

  4. Crystal radio - Wikipedia

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    Galena (lead sulfide) was the most common crystal used, [80] [92] [94] but various other types of crystals were also used, the most common being iron pyrite (fool's gold, FeS 2), silicon, molybdenite (MoS 2), silicon carbide (carborundum, SiC), and a zincite-bornite (ZnO-Cu 5 FeS 4) crystal-to-crystal junction trade-named Perikon.

  5. Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers for Sunday ...

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    For every 3 non-theme words you find, you earn a hint. Hints show the letters of a theme word. If there is already an active hint on the board, a hint will show that word’s letter order.

  6. Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers for Friday ...

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    For every 3 non-theme words you find, you earn a hint. Hints show the letters of a theme word. If there is already an active hint on the board, a hint will show that word’s letter order.

  7. Whiskers - Wikipedia

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    A cat with vibrissae A chinchilla with large macrovibrissae. Whiskers or vibrissae (/ v ə ˈ b r ɪ s i /; sg.: vibrissa; / v ə ˈ b r ɪ s ə /) are a type of stiff, functional hair used by most therian mammals to sense their environment. [1] These hairs are finely specialised for this purpose, whereas other types of hair are coarser as ...

  8. Shut the box - Wikipedia

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    2 to go – Standard game, the numbers 1 to 9 start up. On the first roll, the number 2 must be one of the ones dropped. Any player who rolls a 4 on their first roll loses immediately. 3 to go – The same as "2 to go" but the number 3 must be dropped instead. 3 down extreme – Numbers 13 are pre-dropped, leaving numbers 4–9 up.

  9. Crystal detector - Wikipedia

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    A crystal detector is an obsolete [1] electronic component used in some early 20th century radio receivers. It consists of a piece of crystalline mineral that rectifies an alternating current radio signal. [2] It was employed as a detector (demodulator) to extract the audio modulation signal from the modulated carrier, to produce the sound in ...