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  2. Pocket watch - Wikipedia

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    Chains were frequently decorated with a silver or enamel pendant, often carrying the arms of some club or society, which by association also became known as a fob. Ostensibly practical gadgets such as a watch winding key, vesta case , seal , and/or a cigar cutter also appeared on watch chains, although usually in an overly decorated style.

  3. Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man

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    The egg is a common subject in Dalí's work. Early in his career, eggs commonly symbolized hope and love. However, Child Watching the Birth of the New Man and other later works mimics the egg as a Christian symbol of purity and perfection. [4] Dalí uses the leaking yellow "yolk" of the egg to map the world onto the egg. [3]

  4. AP World History: Modern - Wikipedia

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    AP World History: Modern was designed to help students develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts as well as interactions between different human societies. The course advances understanding through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills.

  5. Stochastic chains with memory of variable length - Wikipedia

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    The class of stochastic chains with memory of variable length was introduced by Jorma Rissanen in the article A universal data compression system. [1] Such class of stochastic chains was popularized in the statistical and probabilistic community by P. Bühlmann and A. J. Wyner in 1999, in the article Variable Length Markov Chains.

  6. Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History - Wikipedia

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    The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.

  7. Gleipnir - Wikipedia

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    The dwarves made the chain magically from six things in the world (and these things are now missing in the world because they were taken away to be part of the chain) Even though Gleipnir is as thin as a silken ribbon, it is stronger than any iron chain. It was forged by the dwarves in their underground realm of Niðavellir.

  8. Kusari-fundo - Wikipedia

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    Kusari-fundo is a handheld weapon used in feudal Japan consisting of a length of chain (kusari) with a weight (fundo) attached to each end of the chain. [1] Various sizes and shapes of chain and weight were used as there was no set rule on the construction of these weapons. Other popular names are manrikigusari (萬力鏈) (lit.

  9. Examples of Markov chains - Wikipedia

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    A game of snakes and ladders or any other game whose moves are determined entirely by dice is a Markov chain, indeed, an absorbing Markov chain. This is in contrast to card games such as blackjack, where the cards represent a 'memory' of the past moves. To see the difference, consider the probability for a certain event in the game.