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  2. Fly-by-wire - Wikipedia

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    The Airbus A320 family was the first airliner to feature a full glass cockpit and digital fly-by-wire flight control system. The only analogue instruments were the radio magnetic indicator, brake pressure indicator, standby altimeter and artificial horizon, the latter two being replaced by a digital integrated standby instrument system in later production models.

  3. Afterlife - Wikipedia

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  4. Wiley (publisher) - Wikipedia

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    The Hoboken, New Jersey, headquarters. The company was established in 1807 when Charles Wiley opened a print shop in Manhattan.The company was the publisher of 19th century American literary figures like James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as of legal, religious, and other non-fiction titles.

  5. The Water Is Wide (song) - Wikipedia

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    "The Water Is Wide" may be considered a family of lyrics with a particular hymn-like tune. [1]"O Waly Waly" (Wail, Wail) may be sometimes a particular lyric, sometimes a family tree of lyrics, sometimes "Jamie Douglas", sometimes one melody or another with the correct meter, and sometimes versions of the modern compilation "The Water Is Wide" (usually with the addition of the verse starting "O ...

  6. Data definition language - Wikipedia

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    In the context of SQL, data definition or data description language (DDL) is a syntax for creating and modifying database objects such as tables, indices, and users. DDL statements are similar to a computer programming language for defining data structures , especially database schemas .

  7. Buckeye - Wikipedia

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    Buckeye (nickname), a nickname for residents of the U.S. state of Ohio, the "buckeye state" Ohio State Buckeyes, the intercollegiate athletic teams of the Ohio State University

  8. Think tank - Wikipedia

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    According to historian Jacob Soll, while the term "think tank" is modern, with its origin traced to the humanist academies and scholarly networks of the 16th and 17th centuries, evidence shows that, in Europe, the origins of think tanks go back to the 800s when emperors and kings began arguing with the Catholic Church about taxes.

  9. Willy Wonka - Wikipedia

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    Willy Wonka is a fictional character appearing in British author Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, its 1972 sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and several films based on those books.