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    statesman André François Miot de Mélito. The word semaphoric was first printed in English in 1808: "The newly constructed Semaphoric telegraphs (...) have been...
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    described by Émile Zola in his sixth letter published by the newspaper Le Sémaphore de Marseille on May 31: "After the Red Terror, a new and particular terror...
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    voltage, electric motor automatic block signal semaphore made its debut. By 1898, the US&S Style "B" semaphore, the first successful low voltage, entirely...
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    André François Miot de Mélito. Today, in order to distinguish it from subsequent telegraph systems, the French name for Chappe's semaphore telegraph system...
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    parisiennes: Une exposition: les peintres impressionnistes" published in Le Sémaphore de Marseille in 1877. As with many of Caillebotte's paintings, it remained...
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    later episodes, where a train is seen leaving, the camera zooms in on a semaphore signal, a play on the name of the company involved, Se-Ma-For. Colargol...
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  • Founded as the LeFevre Peninsula Football Club in 1873. Later renamed Semaphore Central in 1898. In 1979 absorbed the Exeter Football Club and renamed...
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    Q
    design over another: Adrian Frutiger, famous for the airport typeface that bears his name, remarked that most of his typefaces feature a Q tail that meets...
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  • light, bells rang as the small red and green lights with "Stop" and "Go" semaphore arms changed — a process that took five seconds. Examples which specifically...
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    Perryman, John; Djokovic, Petar (February 2015). "Ships Named Anzac". Semaphore. 2015 (2). Sea Power Centre Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2015. Websites...
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    commissioned an art installation titled San Jose Semaphore by Ben Rubin, at the top of its headquarters building. Semaphore is composed of four LED discs which "rotate"...
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  • The series featured the 300th episode. Kellie Crawford – Word Play Kathleen de Leon Jones – Puzzles and Patterns Nathan Foley – Shapes in Space Tim Harding...
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    Police are advising users to ensure that any mobile networking connections are de-activated if laptops and other devices are left in this way. In April 2006...
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  • (1986 on B Records) Concrete LP (1988 on Bear Label) Hologram Sky LP and CD (1990 on Bear Label thru Semaphore in Germany) Concrete Sky CD, a compilation...
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    the sea with the band's singer, Kavyen Temperley. Palmer relocated from Semaphore Beach in Adelaide to Los Angeles in May 2007 to further her career, and...
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    Fort du Salbert (category Séré de Rivières system)
    Belfort forts by the Chemins de fer du Territoire de Belfort strategic railroad. The fort was equipped with optical semaphores allowing communications with...
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    The Charterhouse of Parma (French: La Chartreuse de Parme) is a novel by French writer Stendhal, published in 1839. Telling the story of an Italian nobleman...
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    2021. Cailliet, G.M.; Andrews, A.H.; Burton, E.J.; Watters, D.L.; Kline, D.E.; Ferry-Graham, L.A. (2001). "Age determination and validation studies of...
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    photophone : les contributions indirectes de Graham Bell à l'idée de la vision à distance par l'électricité" at the Histoire de la télévision Newspaper clippings...
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  • a heavy smoker. Her father Robert Dearheart, founded the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company and was conned out of it by Reacher Gilt. Adora was forced to...
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  • there were many old wooden buildings in the area, including the historic semaphore tower which dated back to the eighteenth century which was completely...
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  • man-made. Russian cargo ship Sevmorput and Chinese cargo ship Newnew Polar Bear are suspected to be involved in the incident. Both ships travelled near EE-S1...
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    it is widespread and abundant. French naturalist Christophe-Paulin de La Poix de Fréminville described the species in 1813, though early records confused...
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    record peaked at #94 in Billboard's Hot 100 in the spring of 1976. "Teddy Bear" by Red Sovine (1976) charted in the UK at #6 in late summer. Rod Hart's...
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  • History of the alphabet (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Braille, semaphore, maritime signal flags, and the Morse codes are essentially arbitrary geometric forms. The shapes of the English Braille and semaphore letters...
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    activists in the US and elsewhere. The symbol is a superposition of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D", taken to stand for "nuclear disarmament"...
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  • and any means of airborne communications (namely semaphore and carrier pigeon). The banning of semaphore led to the Borogravians cutting down the clacks...
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  • Jamboree was held at Rolling Hills, Balarâ, Quezon City. Dr. Mariano Villarama de Los Santos served on the World Scout Committee from 1957 until 1959 as its...
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  • width or position, respectively.[citation needed] In this respect, PCM bears little resemblance to these other forms of signal encoding, except that...
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    mastigure (Uromastyx macfadyeni), Lanza's gecko (Hemidactylus granchii), the semaphore gecko, and a wall lizard from either Mesalina or Eremias. The colubrid...
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