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The word "fop" is first recorded in 1440 and for several centuries just meant a fool of any kind; the Oxford English Dictionary notes first use with the meaning of "one who is foolishly attentive to and vain of his appearance, dress, or manners; a dandy, an exquisite" in 1672. [2]
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The game that eventually became Dandy was written in the fall of 1982 as Thesis of Terror, Jack Palevich's MIT bachelor's thesis. [6] The concept was for a five-person game: four players using an Atari computer as graphical terminal, and a fifth player acting as dungeon master controlling the action from a separate computer. [ 7 ]
The Dandy King: Joachim Murat, the French King of Naples. Regarding the existence and the political and cultural functions of the dandy in a society, in the essay L'Homme révolté (1951), Albert Camus said that: The dandy creates his own unity by aesthetic means. But it is an aesthetic of negation.
Dandy (mascot), a former mascot of the New York Yankees; Dandy Dam, Pakistan; Dandy loom, a cotton loom; Dandy (paddle steamer), built in England in 1823; Dandy rig, a British term for a sailing rig, similar to a yawl; HB-Flugtechnik Dandy, an Austrian ultralight aircraft; Dandie Fashions, sometimes called Dandy Fashions, a 1960s London boutique
The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that (apart from a corruption of specific) it could be connected with the use of the word in that period to mean a dandy or somebody smartly dressed (hence spiffy, and to spiff up - to improve the appearance of a place or a person), but nobody seems to have been able to disentangle the threads of which ...
Dendy The Dendy Junior with a cartridge and detachable controllers Developer Steepler Manufacturer TXC Corporation Subor "Tensor" factory, Dubna Product family Famicom hardware clone Type Home video game console Release date RUS: 17 December 1992 Discontinued 1998 Units sold 1.5 to 6 million Media ROM cartridge CPU Ricoh 2A03 Dendy is a series of home video game consoles that were unofficial ...
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