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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. Intrinsics - Wikipedia

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    Intrinsics or intrinsic may refer to: Intrinsic and extrinsic properties, in science and engineering; Intrinsic motivation in psychology; Intrinsic muscle, in anatomy; Intrinsic function, a function in a programming language that is dealt with specially by a compiler; X Toolkit Intrinsics, a library; Intrinsic factor (biology)

  4. Intrinsic value (ethics) - Wikipedia

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    Intrinsic monism (from Greek monos, 'single') holds that there is one thing with intrinsic value. This view may hold only life stances that accept this object as intrinsically valuable. Intrinsic multism (from Latin multus, 'many') holds that there are many things with intrinsic value. In other words, this view may hold the instrinsic values of ...

  5. Ken Jennings - Wikipedia

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    Kenneth Wayne Jennings III was born on May 23, 1974, [2] in Edmonds, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. [3] [4] His father was an international lawyer, and moved the family to South Korea when Ken was in the first grade.

  6. The medium is the message - Wikipedia

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    The phrase was coined by Marshall McLuhan. "The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by the Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan and the name of the first chapter [1] in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964.

  7. Eigengrau - Wikipedia

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    Eigengrau (German for "intrinsic gray"; pronounced [ˈʔaɪ̯gŋ̍ˌgʁaʊ̯] ⓘ), also called Eigenlicht (Dutch and German for "intrinsic light"), dark light, or brain gray, is the uniform dark gray background color that many people report seeing in the absence of light.

  8. Yin and yang - Wikipedia

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    Yin and yang transform each other: like an undertow in the ocean, every advance is complemented by a retreat, and every rise transforms into a fall. Thus, a seed will sprout from the earth and grow upwards towards the sky—an intrinsically yang movement. Then, when it reaches its full potential height, it will fall.

  9. Tungsten - Wikipedia

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    Polycrystalline tungsten is an intrinsically brittle [18] [19] [20] and hard material (under standard conditions, when uncombined), making it difficult to work into metal. However, pure single-crystalline tungsten is more ductile and can be cut with a hard-steel hacksaw .