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  2. Chosen-ciphertext attack - Wikipedia

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    The term "lunchtime attack" refers to the idea that a user's computer, with the ability to decrypt, is available to an attacker while the user is out to lunch. This form of the attack was the first one commonly discussed: obviously, if the attacker has the ability to make adaptive chosen ciphertext queries, no encrypted message would be safe ...

  3. 12-hour clock - Wikipedia

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    The 12-hour clock was used throughout the British empire. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the 12-hour analog dial and time system gradually became established as standard throughout Northern Europe for general public use. The 24-hour analog dial was reserved for more specialized applications, such as astronomical clocks and chronometers.

  4. Lunch - Wikipedia

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    Lunch in Denmark, referred to as frokost, [10] is a light meal. Often it includes rye bread with different toppings such as liver pâté, herring, and cheese. [11] [12] [13] Smørrebrød is a Danish lunch delicacy that is often used for business meetings or special events. Lunch in Finland usually includes a small salad as a starter.

  5. Lunch atop a Skyscraper - Wikipedia

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    Lunch atop a Skyscraper. Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam of the RCA Building, 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground during the construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City. It was a staged photograph arranged as a publicity ...

  6. Hungry judge effect - Wikipedia

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    The hungry judge effect is a term originally coined to describe a data pattern that judges' verdicts are more lenient after a meal break. Since the original study, the term has morphed to encompass a stream of research concerned with implications of hunger on economic and social behavior. It has been suggested that this may be an artifact of ...

  7. Outline of meals - Wikipedia

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    Lunch – midday meal [17] of varying size depending on the culture. The origin of the words lunch and luncheon relate to a small meal originally eaten at any time of the day or night, but during the 20th century gradually focused toward a small or mid-sized meal eaten at midday. Lunch is the second meal of the day after breakfast.

  8. Tea (meal) - Wikipedia

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    Until the late 18th century dinner was eaten at what is now called "lunchtime", or in the early afternoon; supper was a later and lighter meal. Dinner remains a midday meal in some regions. Dinner remains a midday meal in some regions.

  9. George Gale (journalist) - Wikipedia

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    After Auberon Waugh changed Gale's name in the published list of contributors to either "Lunchtime O'Booze" or "Lunchtime O'Gale" (accounts vary, but "Lunchtime O'Booze" is the Private Eye term for the archetypal drunken journalist), Waugh was sacked from The Spectator by its then editor Nigel Lawson. Gale, ironically, invited Waugh back after ...