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  2. Capital One Arena - Wikipedia

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    Capital One Arena is an indoor arena in Washington, D.C. Located in the Chinatown section of the larger Penn Quarter neighborhood, the arena sits atop the Gallery Place rapid transit station of the Washington Metro. The arena was opened on December 2, 1997 as MCI Center but renamed to Verizon Center in 2006 when MCI was acquired by Verizon ...

  3. Home sign - Wikipedia

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    Home sign. Home sign (or kitchen sign) is a gestural communication system, often invented spontaneously by a deaf child who lacks accessible linguistic input. [1] Home sign systems often arise in families where a deaf child is raised by hearing parents and is isolated from the Deaf community. Because the deaf child does not receive signed or ...

  4. Number sign - Wikipedia

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    The symbol # is known variously in English-speaking regions as the number sign, hash, or pound sign. The symbol has historically been used for a wide range of purposes including the designation of an ordinal number and as a ligatured abbreviation for pounds avoirdupois – having been derived from the now-rare ℔ .

  5. OpenWrt - Wikipedia

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    Free software ( GPL and other licenses) Official website. openwrt .org. OpenWrt (from open wireless router) is an open-source project for embedded operating systems based on Linux, primarily used on embedded devices to route network traffic. The main components are Linux, util-linux, musl, [4] and BusyBox.

  6. Deaths in 2024 - Wikipedia

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    B. Sampath Kumar, Indian politician. [38] (death announced on this date) Brian Phelan, 89, Irish actor ( The Criminal, Accident ), dramatist and screenwriter ( Little Mother ). [39] (death announced on this date) Tina Serrano [ es], 82, Argentine actress ( Night of the Pencils, I Don't Want to Talk About It ).

  7. Dollar sign - Wikipedia

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    The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital S crossed with one or two vertical strokes ( $ or depending on typeface ), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "dollar" or "peso". The explicitly double-barred sign is called cifrão in ...

  8. English Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    English Wikipedia (marked blue in the graph) is the most-read version of Wikipedia, accounting for 48% of the website's global traffic as of 2021. The English Wikipedia is the most edited Wikipedia's language version of all time. The English Wikipedia reached 4,000,000 registered user accounts on 1 April 2007, [23] over a year since the ...

  9. Router (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Router (computing) Rack containing a service-provider–class router connected to multiple networks. A router [a] is a computer and networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks, including internetworks such as the global Internet. [2] [3] [4] A router is connected to two or more data lines from different IP networks.