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  2. Clock King - Wikipedia

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    The Clock King is the name of three supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.The first Clock King debuted in World's Finest Comics #111 (August 1960), and was created by France Herron and Lee Elias.

  3. Blinking twelve problem - Wikipedia

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    The usage emanates from the 'clock' feature provided on many VCRs manufactured in the late 1980s or early 1990s. The clock could be set by using a combination of buttons provided on the VCR in a specific sequence that was found complicated by most users. As a result, VCR users were known to seldom set the time on the VCR clock.

  4. Flash lock - Wikipedia

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    Flash locks of this type have been documented in China since at least the 1st century BCE and on the Thames since at least 1295. [5] [6] Flash locks were commonly built into small dams or weirs where a head of water was used for powering a mill. The lock allowed boats to pass the weir while still allowing the mill to operate when the gate was ...

  5. Grandmaster Flash - Wikipedia

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    Punch phrasing (or clock theory): This technique involved isolating very short segments of music, typically horn hits, and rhythmically punching them over the sustained beat using the mixer. Scratching : Although the invention of record scratching as a form of adding to the musical entertainment is generally credited to Grand Wizzard Theodore ...

  6. The Button (comics) - Wikipedia

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    The story arc consists of four issues from DC's Batman and Flash publications, functioning in part as a larger buildup towards the "Doomsday Clock" event. [1] The plot was written by Joshua Williamson and Tom King , with art by Jason Fabok and Howard Porter .

  7. Serial Peripheral Interface - Wikipedia

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    Memory: flash and EEPROMs; Real-time clocks; LCDs, sometimes even for managing image data; Any MMC or SD card (including SDIO variant [note 3]) Shift registers for additional I/O [8] [9] Board real estate and wiring savings compared to a parallel bus are significant, and have earned SPI a solid role in embedded systems.

  8. EEPROM - Wikipedia

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    Flash memory is a type of EEPROM designed for high speed and high density, at the expense of large erase blocks (typically 512 bytes or larger) and limited number of write cycles (often 10,000). There is no clear boundary dividing the two, but the term "EEPROM" is generally used to describe non-volatile memory with small erase blocks (as small ...

  9. 2010 flash crash - Wikipedia

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    The May 6, 2010, flash crash, [1] [2] [3] also known as the crash of 2:45 or simply the flash crash, was a United States trillion-dollar [4] flash crash (a type of stock market crash) which started at 2:32 p.m. EDT and lasted for approximately 36 minutes.