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  2. Amate - Wikipedia

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    The crumpled piece of paper was found in the southern chamber of the site's shaft tomb, possibly associated with a male scribe. Rather than being produced from Trema micrantha from which modern amate is made, the amate found at Huitzilapa is made from Ficus tecolutensis (now F. aurea). [9]

  3. Crumpling - Wikipedia

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    Ball of crumpled paper. In geometry and topology, crumpling is the process whereby a sheet of paper or other two-dimensional manifold undergoes disordered deformation to yield a three-dimensional structure comprising a random network of ridges and facets with variable density.

  4. Hyperspace - Wikipedia

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    A piece of paper crumpled into a ball, representing a two-dimensional object distorted in the third dimension, making points that are far apart on its surface come close to each other or even touch. The basic premise of hyperspace is that vast distances through space can be traversed quickly by taking a kind of shortcut.

  5. Eve of Destruction (song) - Wikipedia

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    McGuire recalled in later years that "Eve of Destruction" had been recorded in one take on a Tuesday morning, with him reading lyrics scrawled on a crumpled piece of paper. He said the following Monday morning he received a phone call from the record company at 7am telling him to turn on the radio, his song was playing. [9]

  6. Topology - Wikipedia

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    A three-dimensional model of a figure-eight knot.The figure-eight knot is a prime knot and has an Alexander–Briggs notation of 4 1.. Topology (from the Greek words τόπος, 'place, location', and λόγος, 'study') is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling ...

  7. To a Wild Rose - Wikipedia

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    Normally, MacDowell discarded such fragments, and this particular morning he crumpled the paper and tossed it at the fireplace. He happened to miss the target, however, and rather than summarily throwing it away, Marian later picked up the paper, uncrumpled it, and looked it over. She played it at the piano and decided to keep it.

  8. Sandy Skoglund - Wikipedia

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    The utilization of repetitive, process-oriented techniques began early on in Skoglund's career. Her 1973 composition Crumpled and Copied was manifested by repeatedly crumpling and photocopying a piece of paper. [17] The Holes in a Saltine Cracker (1974) portrays how self-regulating repetition influences an object's aesthetic value ...

  9. Willson Contreras - Wikipedia

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    Willson and William would play baseball in the street as children by using a crumpled piece of paper as a ball. [4] At the age of 16, Contreras began attending a baseball academy in Venezuela run by the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). [3] [4]