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  2. Patricia Davies (codebreaker) - Wikipedia

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    They were where secret German military communications were intercepted, transcribed and, if in a code other than morse, passed on to Bletchley Park. Owtram's first post was in Yorkshire. She later transferred to Lyme Regis in 1943 as Chief Petty Officer, and then to Dover (opposite Cape Gris Nez) where she turned 21 two weeks after D Day. In Y ...

  3. Konami Code - Wikipedia

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    The code is also known as the "Contra Code" and "30 Lives Code", since the code provided the player 30 extra lives in Contra. The code has been used to help novice players progress through the game. [10] [12] The Konami Code was created by Kazuhisa Hashimoto, who was developing the home port of the 1985 arcade game Gradius for the NES.

  4. Code (cryptography) - Wikipedia

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    One-part codes are more vulnerable to such educated guesswork than two-part codes, since if the codenumber "26839" of a one-part code is determined to stand for "bulldozer", then the lower codenumber "17598" will likely stand for a plaintext word that starts with "a" or "b".

  5. Classified information - Wikipedia

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    Top Secret is the highest level of classified information. [4] Information is further compartmented so that specific access using a code word after top secret is a legal way to hide collective and important information. [5] Such material would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security if made publicly available. [6]

  6. Signal lamp - Wikipedia

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    An Ottoman heliograph crew using a A Blinkgerät (left) Begbie signalling oil lamp, 1918 Signal lamps were pioneered by the Royal Navy in the late 19th century. They were the second generation of signalling in the Royal Navy, after the flag signals most famously used to spread Nelson's rallying-cry, "England expects that every man will do his duty", before the Battle of Trafalgar.

  7. Barcode - Wikipedia

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    Williams also developed Code 128, and the structure of 16K is based on Code 128. Not coincidentally, 128 squared happened to equal 16,384 or 16K for short. Code 16K resolved an inherent problem with Code 49. Code 49's structure requires a large amount of memory for encoding and decoding tables and algorithms. 16K is a stacked symbology. [41] [42]

  8. Enochian - Wikipedia

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    Enochian (/ ɪ ˈ n oʊ k i ə n / ə-NOH-kee-ən) is an occult constructed language [3] — said by its originators to have been received from angels — recorded in the private journals of John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in late 16th-century England. [4]

  9. Shelta - Wikipedia

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    Shelta (/ ˈ ʃ ɛ l t ə /; [2] Irish: Seiltis) [3] is a language spoken by Irish Travellers (Mincéirí), particularly in Ireland and the United Kingdom. [4] It is widely known as the Cant, to its native speakers in Ireland as de Gammon or Tarri, and to the linguistic community as Shelta. [5]