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  2. JADE (cipher machine) - Wikipedia

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    JADE was the codename given by US codebreakers to a Japanese World War II cipher machine. The Imperial Japanese Navy used the machine for communications from late 1942 until 1944. JADE was similar to another cipher machine, CORAL, with the main difference that JADE was used to encipher messages in katakana using an alphabet of 50 symbols.

  3. Japanese naval codes - Wikipedia

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    A cipher machine developed for Japanese naval attaché ciphers, similar to JADE. It was not used extensively, [5] [6] but Vice Admiral Katsuo Abe, a Japanese representative to the Axis Tripartite Military Commission, passed considerable information about German deployments in CORAL, intelligence "essential for Allied military decision making in the European Theater."

  4. List of names derived from gemstones - Wikipedia

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    Garnet (name) Given name Jade: Giada: Given name Means jade in Italian. Zircon (yellow) Goldie: Given name Pearl: Dara: Given name Feminine name. Means "compassion" or "pearl of wisdom" in Hebrew. Farida: Given name Means unique/ precious pearl in Arabic. Greet: Given name Greta (given name) Given name From the German word gret or grito meaning ...

  5. Type B Cipher Machine - Wikipedia

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    Analog of the Japanese Type B Cipher Machine (codenamed Purple) built by the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Service Purple analog in use. In the history of cryptography, the "System 97 Typewriter for European Characters" (九七式欧文印字機 kyūnana-shiki ōbun injiki) or "Type B Cipher Machine", codenamed Purple by the United States, was an encryption machine used by the Japanese Foreign ...

  6. Japanese cryptology from the 1500s to Meiji - Wikipedia

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    Japanese authors have identified two events that influenced the Japanese army's decision to invite a foreigner to improve their cryptology. The first was an incident during the Siberian Intervention. The Japanese army came into possession of some Soviet diplomatic correspondence, but their cryptanalysts were unable decipher the messages.

  7. Gestetner - Wikipedia

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    An A4-size Gestetner offset-printing machine. The Gestetner is a type of duplicating machine named after its inventor, David Gestetner (1854–1939). During the 20th century, the term Gestetner was used as a verb—as in Gestetnering. [1] The Gestetner company established its base in London, filing its first patent in 1879.

  8. 'Pawn Stars:' Book owned by Thomas Jefferson rakes in $50K - AOL

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    On Sunday night's episode of "Pawn Stars," shop owner Rick Harrison had one of his most intense negotiations yet. And it was over this copy of "Jay's Treaty" owned by Thomas Jefferson. "$50,000," the

  9. Seven Lucky Gods - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese name Daikoku is a direct translation of the Sanskrit name Mahākāla which means "Great Blackness". Per the Butsuzōzui compendium of 1690 (reprinted and expanded in 1796), Daikoku can also manifest as a female known as Daikokunyo (大黒女, lit. "She of Great Blackness") or Daikokutennyo (大黒天女, lit. "She of Great ...