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  2. Hoarding - Wikipedia

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    Other items commonly hoarded include coins considered to have an intrinsic value, such as those minted in silver, or gold, as well as collectibles, jewelry, precious metals [4] and other luxuries. According to previous [ 5 ] studies, Anthropomorphism , or the propensity to attribute human characteristics to non-human items, has been associated ...

  3. Sixpence (British coin) - Wikipedia

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    Sixpences issued during the reign of Edward VI features a portrait of the king on the obverse, with a Tudor rose to the left, and the denomination VI to the right. Surrounding the portrait is the inscription EDWARD VI D G AGL FRA Z HIB REX , or similar, meaning " Edward VI, by the Grace of God, King of England, France and Ireland ". [ 16 ]

  4. Hoarding (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Commonly hoarded products include assets such as money, gold and public securities, [1] as well as vital goods such as fuel and medicine. [2] Consumers are primarily hoarding resources so that they can maintain their current consumption rate in the event of a shortage ( real or perceived ). [ 3 ]

  5. Sixpence - Wikipedia

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  6. Pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    A full proposal for the decimalisation of sterling was then tabled in the House of Commons in June 1855, by William Brown, MP for Lancashire Southern, with the suggestion that the pound sterling be divided into one thousand parts, each called a "mil", or alternatively a farthing, as the pound was then equivalent to 960 farthings which could ...

  7. FIGlet - Wikipedia

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    Being free software, FIGlet is commonly included as part of many Unix-like operating systems (Linux, [5] BSD, etc.) distributions, but it has been ported to other platforms as well. The official FIGlet FTP site includes precompiled ports for the Acorn , Amiga , Apple II , Atari ST , BeOS , Mac , MS-DOS , NeXTSTEP , OS/2 , and Microsoft Windows ...

  8. Strachey love letter algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The Mad Libs books were conceived around the same time as Strachey wrote the love letter generator. [3] It was also preceded by John Clark's Latin Verse Machine (1830-1843), the first automated text generator.

  9. MscGen - Wikipedia

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    Mscgen (short for MSC generator) is a software tool for drawing message sequence charts [1] from a simple to manage text-based source file. Rendered charts can be output in PNG, SVG and PostScript, with hyperlink information in ismap format.