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  2. Frederick McKinley Jones - Wikipedia

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    After military service in World War I, Jones returned to Hallock. He worked as a mechanic while learning about electronics. He built a transmitter for the town's first radio station. [17] He also invented a device to combine sound with motion pictures. [18] This attracted the attention of local entrepreneur Joseph A. Numero of Minneapolis ...

  3. Cardmaking - Wikipedia

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    Hand made greeting card. Card making is the craft of hand-making greeting cards.It shares skills in common in allied crafts such as scrapbooking and stamping.. Unlike handcrafted cards, mass-produced printed greeting cards have been faced with competition from electronic greeting cards.

  4. Greeting card - Wikipedia

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    This was followed by new trends like Christmas cards, the first of which appeared in published form in London in 1843 when Sir Henry Cole hired artist John Calcott Horsley to design a holiday card that he could send to his friends and acquaintances. In the 1860s, inventor Hugh Pierce Jr., inspired by the Christmas card, invented the Birthday card.

  5. Charles F. Brush - Wikipedia

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    The San Francisco system was the first case of a utility selling electricity from a central plant to multiple customers via distribution lines. [11] The California Electric Light Company (now PG&E) [13] [14] purchased two generators from Charles Brush's company in 1879 and soon opened a second plant with four additional generators.

  6. Birthday card - Wikipedia

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    A birthday card is a greeting card given or sent to a person to celebrate their birthday. Similar to a birthday cake , birthday card traditions vary by culture but the origin of birthday cards is unclear. [ 1 ]

  7. PDF - Wikipedia

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    PDF 2.0 defines 256-bit AES encryption as the standard for PDF 2.0 files. The PDF Reference also defines ways that third parties can define their own encryption systems for PDF. PDF files may be digitally signed, to provide secure authentication; complete details on implementing digital signatures in PDF are provided in ISO 32000-2.

  8. History of PDF - Wikipedia

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    The final revised documentation for PDF 1.7 was approved by ISO Technical Committee 171 in January 2008 and published as ISO 32000-1:2008 on July 1, 2008, and titled Document management – Portable document format – Part 1: PDF 1.7. ISO 32000-1:2008 is the first ISO standard for full function PDF.

  9. Mariage (card game) - Wikipedia

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    The game, first documented in 1715 in Leipzig, spawned numerous offshoots throughout continental Europe and gives its name to the marriage group of card games, the widest known of which is probably sixty-six. Many of these are still the national card games of their respective countries.