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  2. Kosong County - Wikipedia

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    History Ancient times. The region that forms modern day Kosong County of North Korea and Hyeonnaemyeon(of Goseong County, Gangwon) was called Dalhol(達忽,달홀) in the days of the kingdom of Goguryeo,which meant "high mountainous village" in the local language back then(The region that is modern day Goseong County, Gangwon of South Korea was called Suseong(守城)).The name of the region ...

  3. Dan Rather - Wikipedia

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    2. Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. ( / ˈræðər /; born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor. He began his career in Texas, becoming a national name after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in September 1961. Rather spontaneously created the first radar weather ...

  4. Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Artificial intelligence was founded as an academic discipline in 1956. [6] The field went through multiple cycles of optimism, [7] [8] followed by periods of disappointment and loss of funding, known as AI winter. [9] [10] Funding and interest vastly increased after 2012 when deep learning surpassed all previous AI techniques, [11] and after ...

  5. ASCII - Wikipedia

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    ASCII ( / ˈæskiː / ⓘ ASS-kee ), [3] : 6 an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices.

  6. Presidency of Barack Obama - Wikipedia

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    Barack Obama 's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, took office following his victory over Republican nominee John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Four years later, in the 2012 presidential election, he ...

  7. Go (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google [12] by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. [4] It is syntactically similar to C, but also has memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, [7] and CSP -style concurrency. [13]

  8. Malay styles and titles - Wikipedia

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    Syed (Malay), Sayyid or Sayed (Philippines), is a title inherited by male descendants, through the male line, from Muhammad via his grandsons Hassan and Hussein. Female descendants are known as Syarifah, Sharifah, or Sayyidah. Meor is a title inherited by the male issue of a Syarifah and non-Syed father.

  9. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3:1:1) in black ...