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He became interested in crossword puzzles in his senior year of college in 1990. [4] While in graduate school, he often solved crosswords in free newspapers found in cafés. [5] [6] Sharp joined the English department of Binghamton University in 1999. [7] He has taught classes on medieval literature, crime fiction, and comic books.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Wednesday or Thursday" in difficulty. [7] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.
Conscript or Conscription may refer to: Constructed script; The Conscript, a 1974 Belgian film; Conscription, the process of drafting a country's population into involuntary labour. The ConScript Unicode Registry for coordinating Unicode private-use area assignments. Conscript, basic infantry for the Soviet Union in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
In times of peace, the general conscription method was to conscript young men, either 18 or 19 who had just finished high school or completed a trade. Under the 1938 law, one call up was conducted each year in October/November to induct conscripts for three years of service, unless they were in the Navy for which service terms were 4 years. [2]
Aspel was born on 12 January 1933 in Battersea in London. During the Second World War, he was evacuated from the area and spent nearly five years in Chard, Somerset.He attended Emanuel School after passing his eleven-plus in 1944 and served as a conscript during his national service, in the ranks of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, from 1951 to 1953.
Simon Jones, Infiltration by Close Order: André Laffargue and the Attack of 9 May 1915. Kraus, Jonathan. Early Trench Tactics in the French Army: The Second Battle of Artois May–June 1915. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4094-5500-4. Kraus, Jonathan. Podcast: The Second Battle of Artois, May 1915: the new turning-point. Laffargue, André.
These code charts represent block allocations by the ConScript Unicode Registry and its continuation as the "Under-ConsScript Unicode Registry". CSUR/UCSUR is a Private Use Area agreement for representing constructed writing and notation systems, and the allocations of characters to these code points is by private agreement only.