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  2. John the Baptist - Wikipedia

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    John the Baptist [note 1] (c. 1st century BC – c. AD 30) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD. [19] [20] He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, [21] and Prophet Yahya in Islam.

  3. Sign function - Wikipedia

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    Signum function = ⁡. In mathematics, the sign function or signum function (from signum, Latin for "sign") is a function that has the value −1, +1 or 0 according to whether the sign of a given real number is positive or negative, or the given number is itself zero.

  4. Check mark - Wikipedia

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    symbol code point name ⍻ u+237b: not check mark ☐ u+2610: ballot box ☑: u+2611: ballot box with check : u+2705: white heavy check mark u+2713: check mark

  5. Pound sign - Wikipedia

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    The £ grapheme in a selection of fonts The pound sign (£) is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories and previously of Great Britain and of the Kingdom of England.

  6. Passive sign convention - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of the "reference directions" of the current (), voltage (), and power () variables used in the passive sign convention.If positive current is defined as flowing into the device terminal which is defined to be positive voltage, then positive power (big arrow) given by the equation = represents electric power flowing into the device, and negative power represents power flowing out.

  7. Nina Simone - Wikipedia

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    Nina Simone (/ ˈ n iː n ə s ɪ ˈ m oʊ n / NEE-nə sim-OHN; [1] born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, composer, arranger, and civil rights activist.

  8. Hex sign - Wikipedia

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    12-pointed compass rose on a hex sign Hex signs are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art , related to fraktur , found in the Fancy Dutch tradition in Pennsylvania Dutch Country . [ 1 ] Barn paintings, usually in the form of "stars in circles", began to appear on the landscape in the early 19th century and became widespread decades later when ...

  9. Slash (punctuation) - Wikipedia

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    The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark /.It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names.Once used to mark periods and commas, the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, exclusive 'or' and inclusive 'or', and as a date separator.