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  2. List of televised academic student quiz programs - Wikipedia

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    Kennedy High School on WMAQ-TV's It's Academic in 1967 Student quiz shows have appeared on television as both local and national programs since the second half of the 20th century. The following is a list of quiz programs that have aired on local or national television, featuring teams from schools, colleges, or universities in academic ...

  3. Pantograph - Wikipedia

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    Drafting pantograph in use Pantograph used for scaling a picture. The red shape is traced and enlarged. Pantograph 3d rendering. A pantograph (from Greek παντ- 'all, every' and γραφ- 'to write', from their original use for copying writing) is a mechanical linkage connected in a manner based on parallelograms so that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical ...

  4. Physiognotrace - Wikipedia

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    A pantograph connected to a pencil produced within a few minutes a "grand trait", a contour line on a piece of paper. With the help of a second scaling-down pantograph, the basic features of the portrait were transferred from the sheet in the form of dotted lines to a copper plate, which had previously been prepared with a ground for etching.

  5. Reducing machine - Wikipedia

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    A reducing machine was a type of pantograph lathe used until the 21st century to manufacture coin dies. Prior to the machine's introduction, designs were cut by hand into metal dies by a specialist engraver. The reducing machine changed this by allowing artists to create designs on a larger surface area and then have them scaled down and cut ...

  6. National Beta Club - Wikipedia

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    The first Beta Club chapter was established at Landrum High School in Landrum, South Carolina on January 8, 1934, by incorporating the fifteen members of the pre-existing Landrum High School Literary Society. [1] The club's sponsor was teacher Helen Prince. [1]

  7. Pantograph (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A pantograph is a mechanical connected linkage of a writing instrument, like a pen, such that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical movements in a second pen. Pantograph may also refer to: Pantograph (lighting suspension), an overhead lighting system used in television and photography

  8. Five Lines - Wikipedia

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    Five Lines (Greek: πέντε γραμμαί, romanized: pente grammai) is the modern name of an ancient Greek tables game. [1] [2] Two players each move five counters on a board with five lines, with moves likely determined by the roll of a die. The winner may have been the first one to place their pieces on the central "sacred line".

  9. Harmonograph - Wikipedia

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    A particular type of harmonograph, a pintograph, is based on the relative motion of two rotating disks, as illustrated in the links below. (A pintograph is not to be confused with a pantograph, which is a mechanical device used to enlarge figures.)