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  2. A picture is worth a thousand words - Wikipedia

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    Origin/etymology. A pic with thousands words. Meaning. Seeing something is better for learning than having it described. Original form. "A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed." Coined by. Henrik Ibsen. " A picture is worth a thousand words " is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes ...

  3. Scriptio continua - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] That is easy because 22 letters have a final form, which is comparable to initial, or capital, form for the Latin alphabet since the Renaissance. Six letters have only one form, and whenever they occur in a word, there is some space in it that was originally as wide as the space between words. There was also no hyphenation either.

  4. Picture superiority effect - Wikipedia

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    Pictures hold two encoding advantages over words. Pictures are perceptually more distinct from one another than are words, thus increasing their chance for retrieval. In experiments when similarity among pictures was high, no picture superiority effect was present. Pictures are also believed to assess meaning more directly than words.

  5. No Words - Wikipedia

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    Side two. "Mamunia". "No Words". "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)" "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five". " No Words " is a song written by Paul McCartney and Denny Laine, and first released on 7 December 1973 on Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings. The song was Laine's first co-writing on a Wings album and his only writing credit on ...

  6. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    (Antibiotics could still be used to cure illnesses, but they are no longer needed because a better pill has been invented.) Standard: The security system has two levels of redundancy. Non-standard: Over-use of antibiotics risks making them redundant. (This should read: over-use of antibiotics risks making them ineffective)

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Captions - Wikipedia

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    A caption is text that appears below an image. [a] Most captions draw attention to something in the image that is not obvious, such as its relevance to the text. A caption may be a few words or several sentences. Writing good captions takes effort; along with the lead and section headings, captions are the most commonly read words in an article ...

  8. Just When I Needed You Most - Wikipedia

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    VanWarmer was inspired to write "Just When I Needed You Most" by two events: his old car, that he loved and used for years, broke down on his way to work in Denver, Colorado, and he experienced a "devastating" breakup with a girlfriend. He wrote the song six months after that breakup, co-writing it with Tony Wilson of the group Hot Chocolate [1 ...

  9. Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about images on ...

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    There is more to our images than you can see at first look. If you click on any image on Wikipedia, you will go to a page about the image itself. This image page will have information on the image's source, authorship, and copyright licensing, along with a more detailed description of the image. Unless the image is very small, you will see a ...