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It's true that Bluetooth is named after Harald "Blatand" Gormsson, a Viking king who ruled Denmark and Norway.
The name "Bluetooth" was proposed in 1997 by Jim Kardach of Intel, one of the founders of the Bluetooth SIG.The name was inspired by a conversation with Sven Mattisson who related Scandinavian history through tales from Frans G. Bengtsson's The Long Ships, a historical novel about Vikings and the 10th-century Danish king Harald Bluetooth.
The game exclusively shows Niko's viewpoint, employing a top-down perspective, [3] while the player is separate, referred to by the name provided in their user account. Throughout the game, the player can make Niko sleep, causing the program to close; upon reopening, a short dream sequence is played showing Niko's old life with their mother. [2 ...
Single-shot refers to firearms which hold only a single round of ammunition. Single shot or single-shot may refer to: A Single Shot, 2013 American film; One-shot (comics) also known as a single-shot comic, a term used in the American comic book industry to denote a pilot comic; A single shot, or solo, of espresso coffee
Ralph Henry Baer (born Rudolf Heinrich Baer; March 8, 1922 – December 6, 2014) was an American inventor, game developer, and engineer.. Baer's Jewish family fled Germany just before World War II and Baer served the American war effort, gaining an interest in electronics shortly thereafter.
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He included only four "S" tiles so that the ability to make words plural would not make the game too easy. [9] Butts initially called the game Lexiko, but later changed the name to Criss Cross Words after considering It, and began to seek a buyer. The game makers he originally contacted rejected the idea, but Butts was tenacious.