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  2. Socrates - Wikipedia

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    Socrates (/ ˈ s ɒ k r ə t iː z /, [2] Greek: Σωκράτης, translit. Sōkrátēs; c. 470 – 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy [3] and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.

  3. Backslash - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known reference found to date is a 1937 maintenance manual from the Teletype Corporation with a photograph showing the keyboard of its Kleinschmidt keyboard perforator WPE-3 using the Wheatstone system. [3] [4] The symbol was called the "diagonal key", [5] and given a (non-standard) Morse code of .

  4. Narendra Modi - Wikipedia

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    In 2007, Modi wrote Karmayog, a 101-page booklet discussing manual scavenging. In it, he said scavenging is a "spiritual experience" for Valmiks , a sub-caste of Dalits . [ 173 ] [ 174 ] The book was not circulated at that time because of the election code of conduct . [ 175 ]

  5. Radar beacon - Wikipedia

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    When a racon receives a radar pulse, it responds with a signal on the same frequency which puts an image on the radar display. This takes the form of a short line of dots and dashes forming a Morse character radiating away from the location of the beacon on the normal plan position indicator radar display.

  6. List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions - Wikipedia

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    Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of open-wheeled auto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. [1]

  7. Raycom Sports - Wikipedia

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    Raycom Sports was started in July 1979 by Rick and Dee Ray in Charlotte. [1] [2] Rick Ray was a program manager at WCCB in Charlotte [3] when he proposed that WCCB, which had become an independent station a year earlier after losing its ABC affiliation, produce more basketball games.

  8. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [5] [6] [7] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [8] the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3 ...

  9. Legality of cannabis by U.S. jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    Notes: · Reflects laws of states and territories, including laws which have not yet gone into effect. Does not reflect federal, tribal, or local laws. · Map does not show state legality of hemp-derived cannabinoids such as CBD or delta-8-THC, which have been legal at federal level since enactment of the 2018 Farm Bill