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  2. Glossary of sewing terms - Wikipedia

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    Serging is the binding-off of an edge of cloth. sewing. Sewing is an ancient craft involving the stitching of cloth, leather, animal skins, furs, or other materials, using needle and thread. Its use is nearly universal among human populations and dates back to Paleolithic times (30,000 BC).

  3. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword(or crossword puzzle) is a word gameconsisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to separate ...

  4. The New York Times crossword - Wikipedia

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    French-, Spanish-, or Latin-language answers, and more rarely answers from other languages are indicated either by a tag in the clue giving the answer language (e.g., [Summer: Fr.] for ETE) or by the use in the clue of a word from that language, often a personal or place name (e.g. [Friends of Pierre] for AMIS or [The ocean, e.g., in Orleans ...

  5. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  6. Spanish units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    5,000. 1.3932 km. legua. "league". 15,000. 4.1795 km. There are a number of Spanish units of measurement of length or area that are virtually obsolete due to metrication. They include the vara, the cordel, the league and the labor. The units of area used to express the area of land are still encountered in some transactions in land today.

  7. List of newspapers in Spain - Wikipedia

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    Po Russki - Costa del Sol / Costa Blanca / Costa Almeria / Mallorca / - 25,000 - website. The Ibizan- Ibiza & Formentera - 30,000 - website. The Weekend World Newspaper- Andalucía - 25,000 - website. The CoastRider- Costa Blanca / Costa Calida - 20,000. Newsbriefs News app- Spain news in English - 30,000.

  8. List of jazz guitarists - Wikipedia

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    List of jazz guitarists. Appearance. The following is a list of notable jazz guitar players, including guitarists from related jazz genres such as Western swing, Latin jazz, and jazz fusion. For an article giving a short history, see jazz guitarists. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

  9. List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by length of tenure

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    Notable lengths. 20 years and 314 days: Robert Walpole (1721–1742) Longest term and longest total tenure. 12 years and 126 days: William Ewart Gladstone (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886, and 1892–1894) Most non-consecutive terms. 11 years and 208 days: Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990)[ 3 ] Longest-serving prime minister in the 20th century.