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  2. Otis Spofford - Wikipedia

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    Otis's pranks are typically innocuous, such as firing spitballs in class. Near the end of the book he finally "gets his comeuppance," as Mrs. Gitler has long predicted. In order to impress his classmates on a dare, he cuts off a chunk of Ellen's hair, which she had been painstakingly trying to grow "long enough for pigtails".

  3. Shoelaces - Wikipedia

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    Shoelaces, also called shoestrings (US English) or bootlaces (UK English), are a system commonly used to secure shoes, boots, and other footwear.

  4. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...

  5. How to turn your shoelaces into a work of art - AOL

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  6. Vitamin D may not prevent fractures or falls in older adults ...

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    Researchers believe there may be a link between long-term vitamin D deficiency and the development of autoimmune conditions, such as type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis, but more research is ...

  7. Poulaine - Wikipedia

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    A woodcut of Kraków (Latin: Cracovia) in Poland from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle. The usual English name poulaine [1] [2] (/ p u ˈ l eɪ n /) is a borrowing and clipping of earlier Middle French soulers a la poulaine ("shoes in the Polish fashion") from the style's supposed origin in medieval Poland. [3]

  8. Members of Congress may be about to get a pay raise for the ...

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    That's due to a provision in a must-pass funding bill that's set to get a vote this week. Rank-and-file lawmakers have been making $174,000 since 2009. For the first time since 2009, members of ...

  9. Shoelace knot - Wikipedia

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    The shoelace knot, or bow knot, is commonly used for tying shoelaces and bow ties. The shoelace knot is a doubly slipped reef knot formed by joining the ends of whatever is being tied with a half hitch , folding each of the exposed ends into a loop ( bight ) and joining the loops with a second half hitch.