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  2. Telegram style - Wikipedia

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    The average length of a telegram in the 1900s in the US was 11.93 words; more than half of the messages were 10 words or fewer. [5] According to another study, the mean length of the telegrams sent in the UK before 1950 was 14.6 words or 78.8 characters. [6] For German telegrams, the mean length is 11.5 words or 72.4 characters. [6]

  3. Category : Fictional characters introduced in the 1900s

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  4. List of newspaper comic strips - Wikipedia

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    Many of characters appeared in both strip and comic book format as well as in other media. The word Reuben after a name identifies winners of the National Cartoonists Society 's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, but many of leading strip artists worked in the years before the first Reuben and Billy DeBeck Awards in 1946.

  5. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    4. Woman who is fat, clumsy, and lacks cleanliness; 1900-1930s [174] 5. Cheap room in hotel or bed; 1910s [174] 6. Abrupt change in political policy [174] 7. Seat [175] 8. Hit; knock down; 1910s [174] flophouse. Main article: Flophouse. 1. Cheap transient hotel used by people down on their luck [176] flour lover

  6. History of printing - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the 3rd century BCE, seals were also used for printing on pottery. In the Northern dynasties textual sources contain references to wooden seals with up to 120 characters. [7] The seals had a religious element to them. Daoists used seals as healing devices by impressing therapeutic characters onto the flesh of sick people. They ...

  7. History of Western typography - Wikipedia

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    Gutenberg employed the scribe Peter Schöffer to help design and cut the letterpunches for the first typeface—the D-K type of 202 characters used to print the first printed books in Europe. A second typeface of about 300 characters designed for the 42-line Bible c. 1455 was probably cut by the goldsmith Hans Dunne with the help of two others ...

  8. Fraktur - Wikipedia

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    Usage map: A map presenting the contemporary German view of the extent of scripts around 1900. In reality only German-speakers, Estonia, and Latvia still used Fraktur as the majority script at this time. Denmark had shifted to Antiqua during the mid 19th century, [5] and in Norway the majority of printed texts used Antiqua around 1900. [6]

  9. Regional handwriting variation - Wikipedia

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    German Kurrent and its modernized 20th-century school version Sütterlin, the form of handwriting taught in schools and generally used in Germany and Austria until it was banned by the Nazis in 1941, was very different from that used in other European countries. However, it was generally only used for German words.