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  2. Great Raft - Wikipedia

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    The raft blocked the mouth of Twelve Mile Bayou, impeding settlement in the area west of Shreveport. There were many smaller logjams on the Red River. [2] The raft raised the banks of the river, creating bayous and several lakes. Called the Great Raft Lakes, these included Caddo and Cross Lakes, along the lower reaches of the Red River's ...

  3. Log jam - Wikipedia

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    The most famous natural wood raft is the Great Raft on the Red River in Louisiana, which prior to its removal in the 1830s affected between 390 and 480 km (240–300 mi) of the main channel. [3] It has been suggested that such extensive log rafts may have been common in Europe in prehistory. [ 4 ]

  4. The Secret Code (serial) - Wikipedia

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    The Secret Code (1942) was the 19th serial released by Columbia Pictures. It features the masked hero "The Black Commando" facing Nazi saboteurs, inspired by Republic Pictures' successful Spy Smasher serial of the same year. The chapters of this serial each ended with a brief tutorial in cryptography.

  5. Henry Miller Shreve - Wikipedia

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    As a result of the success of his design, Shreve was ordered in 1832 by Secretary of War Lewis Cass to clear the Great Raft, 150 miles (240 km) of dead wood on the Red River. [2] Shreve successfully removed the Raft by 1839. [1] [2] [26] The area of the Red River where the Raft was most concentrated is today his namesake city of Shreveport. [1] [6]

  6. The Secret Code - Wikipedia

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    The Secret Code can refer to: The Secret Code, a 1918 film starring Gloria Swanson; The Secret Code, a 1942 film serial "The Secret ...

  7. Logjam (computer security) - Wikipedia

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    Logjam is a security vulnerability in systems that use Diffie–Hellman key exchange with the same prime number. It was discovered by a team of computer scientists and publicly reported on May 20, 2015. [1] The discoverers were able to demonstrate their attack on 512-bit (US export-grade) DH systems. They estimated that a state-level attacker ...

  8. RSA Secret-Key Challenge - Wikipedia

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    The recovered plaintext was: The unknown message is: It's time to move to a longer key length. RC5-32/12/8 also carried a US$10,000 prize and was completed by distributed.net on 14 July 2002. It took the group 1,757 days to locate the key, revealing the plaintext: The unknown message is: Some things are better left unread .

  9. Thor Heyerdahl - Wikipedia

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    Heyerdahl was born in Larvik, [8] Norway, the son of master brewer Thor Heyerdahl (1869–1957) and his wife, Alison Lyng (1873–1965). As a young child, Heyerdahl showed a strong interest in zoology, inspired by his mother, who had a strong interest in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.