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  2. Cryptic crossword - Wikipedia

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    A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.

  3. Scopophobia - Wikipedia

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    Then, there is a fear of being seen and a shamefacedness, which one sees in asylums. [...] We called it scopophobia — a morbid dread of being seen. In minor degree, it is morbid shamefacedness, and the patient covers the face with his or her hands. In greater degree, the patient will shun the visitor and escape from his or her sight where ...

  4. Negative capability - Wikipedia

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    "Negative capability" is the capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty. The term, first used by John Keats in 1817, has been subsequently used by poets, philosophers and literary theorists to describe the ability to ...

  5. Mark Hollis - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. English musician and singer-songwriter (1955–2019) For other uses, see Mark Hollis (disambiguation). Mark Hollis Hollis in 1988 Background information Birth name Mark David Hollis Born (1955-01-04) 4 January 1955 Tottenham, London, England Died February 2019 (2019-02-00) (aged 64) [a ...

  6. What is it like being featured on 'This Old House'? Ask the ...

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    Kay Bhothinard and Peter Field knew their home was in need of some TLC. But they didn't know it would end up on PBS's "This Old House."

  7. IBM Watson - Wikipedia

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    The high-level architecture of IBM's DeepQA used in Watson [9]. Watson was created as a question answering (QA) computing system that IBM built to apply advanced natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge representation, automated reasoning, and machine learning technologies to the field of open domain question answering.

  8. List of Dickensian characters - Wikipedia

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    Little Wackford is kept fat as an advertisement of the supposed plenty provided at the school. He is spoiled by being given any gifts intended for pupils of the school by their families in Nicholas Nickleby. Squod, Phil Mr George's ugly little assistant at the shooting gallery in Bleak House. Formerly a travelling tinker.

  9. List of The Venture Bros. characters - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture (voiced by James Urbaniak): Dean and Hank's father, head of Venture Industries, and clone-brother of The Monarch.He is a capable scientist and inventor, but his greed, lack of formal education, and insistence on cutting corners result in his attempts at technological innovation failing, causing chaos for him, his family, friends, and sometimes the world at large.