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2. Lossless JPEG - Wikipedia

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   General description. JPEG-LS is a lossless/near-lossless compression standard for continuous-tone images. [6] Its official designation is ISO-14495-1/ITU-T.87. [7] It is a simple and efficient baseline algorithm which consists of two independent and distinct stages called modeling and encoding.

3. Help:Download as PDF - Wikipedia

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   In the left sidebar, under Print/export select Download as PDF. The rendering engine starts and a dialog appears to show the rendering progress. When rendering is complete, the dialog shows "The document file has been generated. Download the file to your computer." Click the download link to open the PDF in your selected PDF viewer.

4. Lion - Wikipedia

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   The English word lion is derived via Anglo-Norman liun from Latin leōnem (nominative: leō), which in turn was a borrowing from Ancient Greek λέων léōn. The Hebrew word לָבִיא lavi may also be related. The generic name Panthera is traceable to the classical Latin word 'panthēra' and the ancient Greek word πάνθηρ 'panther ...

5. Action at Barfleur - Wikipedia

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   The action at Barfleur was part of the battle of Barfleur-La Hougue during the War of the Grand Alliance.A French fleet under Anne Hilarion de Tourville was seeking to cover an invasion of England by a French army to restore James II to the throne, but was intercepted by an Anglo-Dutch fleet under Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford on 19 May Old Style (29 May New Style) 1692.

6. Syria - Wikipedia

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   Syria, [a] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [b] is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. Cyprus lies to the west across the Mediterranean ...

7. East India Company - Wikipedia

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   The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...