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  2. Halifax Gibbet - Wikipedia

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    Halifax was once part of the Manor of Wakefield, where ancient custom and law gave the Lord of the Manor the authority to execute summarily by decapitation any thief caught with stolen goods to the value of 13 1 ⁄ 2 d or more (equivalent to £10 in 2023), or who confessed to having stolen goods of at least that value. Decapitation was a ...

  3. Portal:Architecture - Wikipedia

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    The building's design has been heavily modified throughout the years, and all of its original architectural detail has since been removed. One Times Square's primary design features are the advertising billboards on its facade, added in the 1990s. Due to the large amount of revenue generated by its signage, One Times Square is one of the most ...

  4. Portal rendering - Wikipedia

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    The use of portals simplifies the game engine's task of determining visible areas and objects from any given point of view of the level, and simplifies rendering by allowing it to use each portal as a viewing frustum for the area it leads to. Ideally, portals are formed of confined areas (like doors or tunnels), connecting two complex areas of ...

  5. Nether - Wikipedia

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    The Nether, a hell-like dimension in the video game Minecraft The Nether , a sci-fi play Nether (video game) , a first-person multiplayer survival video game for Microsoft Windows

  6. Wikipedia:Portal - Wikipedia

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    Before creating a portal, check to see if the subject is already covered at Portal:Contents/Portals (look for synonyms). There is no single standard design for portals. For further ideas on portal design, browse existing portals. Unlike WikiProjects, portals should not be created for an article maintenance category, but only for encyclopedic ...

  7. Portal axle - Wikipedia

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    Comparison between normal and portal axles Pinzgauer portal axle. A portal axle (or portal gear lift) is an off-road vehicle suspension and drive technology where the axle tube or the half-shaft is offset from – usually above – the center of the wheel hub and where driving power is transferred to each wheel via a simple gearbox, built onto each hub. [1]

  8. Wikipedia : Village pump (proposals)/Archive 60

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    This is in accordance with the fundamental philosophy of a wiki, which is to make bad edits easy to correct rather than hard to make. Of course, regular deletion and oversighting remain available for pages we are legally required to remove from view of non-sysops or non-oversight users, respectively.

  9. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Titles of works/Archive 1

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    In all this, custom should rule, and where custom is mixed then individual decisions by editors should be made. Editors writing in particular areas mostly know artistic works are normally referred to in English and should follow normal custom, using forms most likely to be found in discussions outside Wikipedia.