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A housecarl (Old Norse: húskarl; Old English: huscarl) was a non-servile manservant or household bodyguard in medieval Northern Europe. The institution originated amongst the Norsemen of Scandinavia, and was brought to Anglo-Saxon England by the Danish conquest in the 11th century. They were well-trained, and paid as full-time soldiers.
Performance artist Laimonas Zakas was inspired by Zalgo text to create Glitchr, a Facebook page that intentionally modifies and glitches Facebook code. [14] Though the most influential aspect of the original Zalgo creepypasta is the modified text characters, other aspects of the story have been popular as well.
fastText is a library for learning of word embeddings and text classification created by Facebook's AI Research (FAIR) lab. [3] [4] ...
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The Character Generator Protocol (CHARGEN) service is an Internet protocol intended for testing, debugging, and measurement purposes. The user receives a stream of bytes . Although the specific format of the output is not prescribed by RFC 864 , the recommended pattern (and a de facto standard ) is shifted lines of 72 ASCII characters repeating.
A character generator, often abbreviated as CG, is a device or software that produces static or animated text (such as news crawls and credits rolls) for keying into a video stream. Modern character generators are computer-based, and they can generate graphics as well as text.
Alf of Leifa-steads (~1200–1240) was a Housecarl, commander of the vårbelger (Norwegian Civil War), and liegeman of Duke Skule Bårdsson.He enters history as a Housecarl of Arnbjorn Johnson who was a kingsman.
A hersir was a local Viking military commander of a hundred (a county subdivision), of about 100 men, and owed allegiance to a jarl or king. They were also aspiring landowners, and, like the middle class in many feudal societies, supported the kings in their centralization of power.