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  2. Wikipedia:Example requests for permission - Wikipedia

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    This is a modification of the Epopt's letter above. Changes have been made to make it less specific to the particular situation that inspired the original letter, and more applicable to other cases. Name or Title Address. Dear <NAME>: I am an editor of Wikipedia, a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate encyclopedia by open editing.

  3. Category:Mail-order retailers - Wikipedia

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  4. Help:Authority control - Wikipedia

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    More generally, authority control is a method of creating and maintaining index terms for bibliographical material in a library catalog, similar to the Dewey Decimal System. The links produced by the authority control template on Wikipedia go to authority control data in worldwide library catalogs.

  5. Postal censorship - Wikipedia

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    Part of message obliterated by indelible pencil. Postal censorship is the inspection or examination of mail, most often by governments.It can include opening, reading and total or selective obliteration of letters and their contents, as well as covers, postcards, parcels and other postal packets.

  6. Petition to the King - Wikipedia

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    The Petition to the King was a petition sent to King George III by the First Continental Congress in 1774, calling for the repeal of the Intolerable Acts.The King's rejection of the Petition, was one of the causes of the later United States Declaration of Independence and American Revolutionary War.

  7. Ben Franklin effect - Wikipedia

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    The Ben Franklin effect is a psychological phenomenon in which people like someone more after doing a favor for them. An explanation for this is cognitive dissonance . People reason that they help others because they like them, even if they do not, because their minds struggle to maintain logical consistency between their actions and perceptions.

  8. Star catalogue - Wikipedia

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    The Guide Star Catalog is an online catalogue of stars produced for the purpose of accurately positioning and identifying stars satisfactory for use as guide stars by the Hubble Space Telescope program. The first version of the catalogue was produced in the late 1980s by digitizing photographic plates and contained about 20 million stars, out ...

  9. Thought Catalog - Wikipedia

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    Thought Catalog’s content, which includes listicles, essays, and think pieces, has been noted for its "millennial" voice. [2] [16] Many well-known authors have contributed to the site including Simon Critchley, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Tao Lin, Nick Mullen, Robert Greene, James Altucher, Mélanie Berliet, Gavin McInnes and Tim Ferriss, in addition to previously unpublished essayists.