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  2. Dermatophagia - Wikipedia

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    Dermatophagia. Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα — lit. skin and φαγεία lit. eating) or dermatodaxia (from δήξις, lit. biting) [3] is a compulsion disorder of gnawing or biting one's own skin, most commonly at the fingers. This action can either be conscious or unconscious [4] and it is considered to be a type of pica.

  3. Harbor Freight Tools - Wikipedia

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    Revenue. $8 billion (2024) [ 3] Number of employees. 26,000. Website. www .harborfreight .com. Harbor Freight Tools, commonly referred to as Harbor Freight, is an American privately held tool and equipment retailer, headquartered in Calabasas, California. It operates a chain of retail stores, as well as an e-commerce business.

  4. List of English words of French origin - Wikipedia

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    It excludes combinations of words of French origin with words whose origin is a language other than French — e.g., ice cream, sunray, jellyfish, killjoy, lifeguard, and passageway— and English-made combinations of words of French origin — e.g., grapefruit (grape + fruit), layperson (lay + person), mailorder, magpie, marketplace, surrender ...

  5. Eric Smidt - Wikipedia

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    1960 (age 63–64) Los Angeles, California, US. Occupation (s) Chairman & CEO of Harbor Freight Tools; Founder and President, The Smidt Foundation. Spouse. Susan Smidt. Eric L. Smidt (born 1960) is an American businessman. He is chairman and CEO of Harbor Freight Tools, which operates over 1,500 retail hardware stores in 48 states and generates ...

  6. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...

  7. Paixhans gun - Wikipedia

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    30 kg (66 lb) shell. Caliber. 220 mm (8.7 in) [ 1] Muzzle velocity. 400 m/s (1,300 ft/s) The Paixhans gun (French: Canon Paixhans, French pronunciation: [pɛksɑ̃]) was the first naval gun designed to fire explosive shells. It was developed by the French general Henri-Joseph Paixhans in 1822–1823. The design furthered the evolution of naval ...

  8. List of French words of Germanic origin - Wikipedia

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    The development of French. As a result of over 500 years of Germano-Latin bilingualism, many Germanic words became ingrafted into the Gallo-Romance speech by the time it emerged as Old French in AD 900. And after the Franks abandoned Frankish, their version of Old French tended to be heavily Frankish influenced, with a distinctively Frankish ...

  9. Influence of French on English - Wikipedia

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    The influence of French on Englishpertains mainly to its lexicon, including orthography, and to some extent pronunciation. Most of the Frenchvocabulary in Englishentered the language after the Norman Conquestin 1066. Old French, specifically the Old Normandialect, became the language of the new Anglo-Normancourt, the government, and the elites.