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  2. The Casual Vacancy - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 9781408704202. The Casual Vacancy is a 2012 novel written by J. K. Rowling. The book was published worldwide by the Little, Brown Book Group on 27 September 2012. A paperback edition was released on 23 July 2013. It was Rowling's first publication since the Harry Potter series, her first apart from that series, and her first novel for ...

  3. Henry Kissinger - Wikipedia

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    m.1949div. Henry Alfred Kissinger[ a ] (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

  4. List of United States presidential elections by popular vote ...

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    Kennedy is commonly provided the popular votes of the highest-voted Kennedy-pledged elector in Alabama, while the remainder of the Democratic vote is given to the unpledged electors. Proportionally alotting votes would give Nixon a national vote victory of 50,000 votes, or 0.07%, which would have been the closest popular vote margin in history.

  5. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - Wikipedia

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    Frequency. 0.8–1.5% (2019, using DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10) [ 2 ] Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by executive dysfunction occasioning symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity and emotional dysregulation that are excessive and pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and ...

  6. List of socialist states - Wikipedia

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    One-party Maoist [nb 8] socialist state. Founded in 1989, Wa State is governed by the United Wa State Party, a Maoist and Wa nationalist party, reported to have good relations and a close connection with the Communist Party of China. [27] Zapatista autonomous territory.

  7. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [5] [6] [7] 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; [8] the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3 ...

  8. Colon (punctuation) - Wikipedia

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    The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, [1] or a quoted sentence. [2] It is also used between hours and minutes in time, [1] between certain elements in medical journal citations, [3] between chapter and verse in Bible citations, [4] and, in the US, for salutations in business letters and other ...

  9. UTF-8 - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. UTF-8 is a character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit. [1] Almost every web page is stored in UTF-8. UTF-8 is capable of encoding all 1,112,064 [2] valid Unicode code points using a variable-width encoding of one to ...