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  2. Secret Service code name - Wikipedia

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    Secret Service code name. President John F. Kennedy, codename "Lancer" with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, codename "Lace". The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. [1] The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when ...

  3. Voynich manuscript - Wikipedia

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    The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as 'Voynichese.'. [18] The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438). Stylistic analysis has indicated the manuscript may have been composed in Italy during the Italian Renaissance.

  4. List of Apple codenames - Wikipedia

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    For OS X releases beginning with 10.9, and for macOS releases, landmarks in California were used as public names. For OS X releases beginning with 10.11, and for macOS releases, varieties of apples were used as internal code names. Mac OS X: Cyan, Siam (in reference to joining Mac OS and Rhapsody) Mac OS X Developer Preview 3 – Bunsen

  5. List of occult terms - Wikipedia

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    Afflatus, revelation given (typically to a human or other mortal being) by a deity. Afterlife, a theoretical world inhabited by humans after death. Agalma, a votive statue made with the intent to please the gods. Agartha, a land at the center of the Earth. Age of Aquarius, an astrological age of massive change.

  6. Codex Gigas - Wikipedia

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    The codex 's bookbinding is wooden boards covered in leather, with ornate metal guards and fittings. At 92 cm (36 in) long, 50 cm (20 in) wide and 22 cm (8.7 in) thick, it is the largest known medieval manuscript. [6] Weighing 74.8 kg (165 lb), Codex Gigas is composed of 310 leaves of vellum claimed to be made from the skins of 160 donkeys, or ...

  7. List of pseudonyms - Wikipedia

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    d'Artagnan ( Charles de Batz-Castelmore) – The Three Musketeers. Dylan Sharp (Deryn Sharp – Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld) Jeff (Othello Jeffries from the comic strip Mutt and Jeff) Locke ( Peter Wiggin) – Ender's Game series – OSC. M ( Sir Miles Messervy) – James Bond novels. Q ( Major Boothroyd) – James Bond novels.

  8. List of Microsoft codenames - Wikipedia

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    Internet Explorer 1. Internet Explorer 1, first shipped in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95: The codename O'Hare ties into the Chicago codename for Windows 95: O'Hare International Airport is the largest airport in the city of Chicago, Illinois — in Microsoft's words, "a point of departure to distant places from Chicago".

  9. CIA cryptonym - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] TRIGON, for example, was the code name for Aleksandr Ogorodnik, a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the former Soviet Union, whom the CIA developed as a spy; HERO was the code name for Col. Oleg Penkovsky, who supplied data on the nuclear readiness of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.