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  2. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [31] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...

  3. Empirical evidence for the spherical shape of Earth - Wikipedia

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    The fact that different stars are visible from different locations on Earth was noticed in ancient times. Aristotle wrote that some stars are visible from Egypt which are not visible from Europe. [5] This would not be possible if Earth was flat. [1] A star has an altitude above the horizon for an observer if the star is visible.

  4. Problem finding - Wikipedia

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    Problem finding requires intellectual vision and insight into what is missing. Problem finding plays a major role in application of creativity. [1] Different terms have been used for problem finding in literature including problem discovery, problem formulation, problem identification, problem construction, and problem posing.

  5. Seek truth from facts - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, it is practice, and only practice, that can accomplish the task of testing the truth. Numerous facts in the history of science speak volumes about this problem. — Hu Fuming , "Practice is the Sole Criterion for Testing the Truth", Guangming Daily May 11, 1978, [ 8 ]

  6. Iterative deepening depth-first search - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, iterative deepening search or more specifically iterative deepening depth-first search [1] (IDS or IDDFS) is a state space/graph search strategy in which a depth-limited version of depth-first search is run repeatedly with increasing depth limits until the goal is found.

  7. Water surface searches - Wikipedia

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    Water surface searches are procedures carried out on or over the surface of a body of water with the purpose of finding lost vessels, persons, or floating objects, which may use one or more of a variety of search patterns depending on the target of the search, as the direction and rate of drift vary depending on the characteristics of the target and the water and weather conditions at the time.

  8. Patrick Berry - Wikipedia

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    Patrick D. Berry (born 1970) is an American puzzle creator and editor who constructs crossword puzzles and variety puzzles. He had 227 crosswords published in The New York Times from 1999 to 2018. His how-to guide for crossword construction was first published as a For Dummies book in 2004.

  9. Word search - Wikipedia

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    A word search, word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle is a word game that consists of the letters of words placed in a grid, which usually has a rectangular or square shape. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words hidden inside the box. The words may be placed horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.