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  2. Masyu - Wikipedia

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    The solver has to find out which of these gray circles are white and which are black. The diagram is a Toroid ; i.e. the left and the right edge of the diagram as well as the top and the bottom edge of the diagram are glued together.

  3. Nacre - Wikipedia

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    The iridescent nacre inside a nautilus shell Nacreous shell worked into a decorative object. Nacre (/ ˈ n eɪ k ər / NAY-kər, also / ˈ n æ k r ə / NAK-rə), [1] also known as mother-of-pearl, is an organic–inorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer.

  4. Cryptic crossword - Wikipedia

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    A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.

  5. Wikipedia:Language learning centre/Word list - Wikipedia

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    11 L. 12 M. 13 N. 14 O. 15 P. 16 Q. 17 R. ... Drawing up a comprehensive list of words in English is important as a reference when learning a language as it will show ...

  6. Cultured pearl - Wikipedia

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    White pearl necklace. A pearl nucleus or a bead for cultured pearl is a sphere (usually) or other shape (occasionally) formed only by cutting and polishing a nacreous shell used to accommodate the nacre secreted from a graft of mantle tissue, that eventually forms the centre of a beaded cultured pearl. [2]

  7. Trifid cipher - Wikipedia

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    The trifid cipher is a classical cipher invented by Félix Delastelle and described in 1902. [1] Extending the principles of Delastelle's earlier bifid cipher, it combines the techniques of fractionation and transposition to achieve a certain amount of confusion and diffusion: each letter of the ciphertext depends on three letters of the plaintext and up to three letters of the key.

  8. Pearl - Wikipedia

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    The correct definition of a South Sea pearl – as described by CIBJO and GIA – is a pearl produced by the Pinctada maxima [21] pearl oyster. South Sea pearls are the color of their host Pinctada maxima oyster – and can be white, silver, pink, gold, cream, and any combination of these basic colors, including overtones of the various colors ...

  9. Pearl S. Buck - Wikipedia

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    Friend to Friend: A Candid Exchange between Pearl S. Buck and Carlos P. Romulo (New York: John Day, 1958) For Spacious Skies (1966) The People of Japan (1966) To My Daughters, with Love (New York: John Day, 1967) The Kennedy Women (1970) China as I See It (1970) The Story Bible (1971) Pearl S. Buck's Oriental Cookbook (1972) Words of Love (1974 ...