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A pearl-handled black-backed bath brush. In addition, verify class-of-service.
Function keys are labeled F1 thru F10. Slim Sam slid sideways, sliding slowly.
Juggling 9 balls simultaneously- hurts! From three to 50 items may be ordered.
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Cross crossroad crossings cautiously! Friday the 13th occurs several times.
Six silver thimbles, two yellow yo-yo's Page 3-65; A Summary of DOS Commands.
Double bubble gum bubbles dangerously. The two twenty-two tore through town.
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The dude dropped in at the Dew Drop Inn. Good eye contact is developed in stages.
The box is 12-1/8W x 15-3/4H x 17-3/8L. Which wristwatches are Swiss watches?
What! How can this item cost $3,693.88? Sally's six sick shellfish seldom sell.
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Shipping weight: 3 pounds + 10 ounces. When does a wristwatch strap shop shut?
Init. a diskette; FORMAT [d][/S[/1]. Six broken rubber baby buggy bumpers.
The Async. card measures 4"H x 5"W. Nine nimble noblemen nibbled nine nuts.
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It uses 4 'C' batteries (not included). First select I/O addresses 3F8 to 3FF.
Flocking shoppers shopping for flour. This item's stock # is X33-HY-80343F.
Wise wives whistle while weaving wares. Your shipment will arrive in two days.
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Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks. The Color Adapter operates at 15,750Hz.
Multiply 62.5 times 43 then by .0188. She says she shall sew a sheet soon.
More pure food for four pure mules. Tuesday's stew day. Stew day's Tuesday.
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100% solid-state, 12-1/2" speakers. Break codes are formed by adding x'80'.
Davy dined on the deck of a dinghy. One lemon, half a lemon, left a half.
Seven strange strategic statistics. 10 milligrams [mg.] = 1 centigram [cg.]
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One duck? Which duck? That duck? No! Review the basic formula for p{n,t}.
The display buffer starts at X'b8000'.
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Sarah sings a sappy song soulfully.
Lumps of red leather, red leather lumps.
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"Cogito ergo spud." - I think, therefore I yam.
"Veni, vidi, Visa." - We came, we saw, we shopped.
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Does the wristwatch shop shut soon? 24 grains (gr.) = 1 pennyweight (pwt.).
Sick sheep should sleep in sick sheds. A plane flew from Boston to San Diego!
Fresh fish fish for Fritz Fischer. The interface contains power at [5Vdc].
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Raw wheat, raw rice, raw eggs. 1 millimeter[mm.]=.001 = .03937 inches.
Refer to Example 15, pg.31 in the text. Select either 40x25 or 80x25 ALPHAmode.
PC-FASTYPE is a great typing tutor! Red leather, yellow leather.
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The Oscillator operates @ 14.31818Mhz. We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
French friars fanning a fainted flea. FACTORS of numbers are exact divisors.
Six cents for these six sick sausages? A 17.0-cubic ft. HIGH-EFFICIENCY model.
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60 seconds [sec. or "] = 1 minute [']. Do not pepper the porker with paprika.
His chest size is 2XL (50-52 inches). The green grub goes to the green grass.
D=BR states that D is equal to B * R. Wild winds whipped Whit from the wharf.
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In addition, a string enclosed in matched pairs of single quotes
('), or double-quotes ("), forms a
partial word; metacharacters in such a string, including any
SPACE or TAB characters, do not form separate words.
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Within pairs of quote (') or double-quote (") characters, a
NEWLINE preceded by a backslash (\) gives a true NEWLINE
character. Additional functions of each type of quote are
described, below, under Variable Substitution,
Command Substitution, and Filename Substitution.
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A simple command is composed of a sequence of words. The
first word (that is not part of an I/O redirection) specifies
the command to be executed. A simple command, or a set
of simple commands separated by a vertical-bar (|) or vertical-bar
and ampersand together (|&), forms a pipeline.
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Variable substitution can be suppressed by preceding the $
(dollar sign) with a \, except within double-quotes where it always
occurs. Within single-quotes, variable substitution is
suppressed. A $ is "escaped" if followed by a SPACE, TAB or
NEWLINE.
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It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I
should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I
like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and watch it for hours
at a time. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of
it nearly breaks my heart.
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I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.
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If I had a nickle for every time I typed
"Now is the time for all good men to come to
the aid of their country", I could have
retired years ago. - Author, PC-FasType
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To type words in ALL CAPITALS, use the CAPS LOCK
key on the keyboard.  If you do this you will
be able to type SMOOTHER and FASTER.  Don't forget
to release the CAPS LOCK key or ALL OF YOUR
REMAINING TEXT WILL LOOK LIKE THIS.
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Famous quotes:
Don't be humble, you're not that great. -Golda Meir
I never met a kid I liked. -W.C. Fields
I hate quotations. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President.
All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?"
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
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"Bad spellers of the world, untie!" - Graffiti
Dr. Livingstone I Presume
-- is the full name of Dr. Presume.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers"
-- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
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Dear Mary, I'm very glad to hear that your sister-in-law
Margaret passed the examination for high school teacher.
Say Joe, do you happen to know how far the equator is from
Houston, Texas? What do you estimate?
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The mighty Babe Ruth and the great hitter Ted Williams are
the only two sluggers in baseball history to receive more
than 2,000 bases-on-balls (walks).  Babe Ruth drew 2.056,
and Ted Williams, 2,018.
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Alexander Cartwright, a New York sportsman, drew up the first
rules for the game of baseball in the year 1845, when he
organized the first baseball club, the "Knickerbocker Base
Ball Club of New York".  Cartwright's rules established
foul lines, the strikeout, three-out innings, nine-man teams, and
a distance of 90 feet between bases.
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The "Father of Baseball" is considered to be Alexander Cartwright,
Jr., a member of one of the first baseball teams in the early 1800's
- the New York Knickerbockers, is considered by many sports experts
to be the "Father of Baseball". Cartwright is credited with formulating
the first baseball rules and getting them published in 1845.
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The only baseball player who holds the National League
record for the highest season batting average is Hugh Duffy
of the old Boston Red Stockings.  In 1894, Duffy batted a
hefty .438 - a BA that has never been topped.
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Many of the measurements we use today are combinations of
the basic "dimensions": mass (weight), length (distance), and
time. Speed is a combination of distance traveled in a give
time.
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Atmospheric pressure is the "weight" of air acting on a given
area (length by length) of the Earth's surface.
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Absolute zero is the lowest temperature that can be obtained
theoretically - 0 Absolute or - -459.6 degrees F (-273.1 degrees C).
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Galileo saw Saturn's rings through his telescope in 1610.
He was probably the first person to do so, but he could
not see them clearly and reported them as odd bulges. "Saturn
has hears," he wrote. In 1656 the Dutch astronomer Christian
Huygens identified the "ears" as a ring.
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Neptune's puzzling moons don't act like any other planet's.
Nereid, only 200 km wide, follows the most elliptical path
of any satellite. It needs an entire Earth year to complete
one orbit.
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The greatest distance ever covered in one hour on a bicycle was
accomplished by Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium when he covered 76
miles, 604 yards during the Montlhery Motor Circuit in France
on September 30, 1928.
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The world record for the greatest recorded number of sit-ups is
25,222. It was established at Idaho Falls High School's gymnasium
on December 23, 1972 by Richard John Knecht, who was eight (yes - 8)
years old at the time.
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Chiquito de Cambo (Joseph Apesteguy), whose career spanned 38
years from 1900 to 1938, was one of the best jai alai players who
ever lived. Jai alai is the fastest and most dangerous ball game
in the world. The world's largest jai alai "fronton" is in Bridgeport,
Connecticut. Built at a cost of $16 million, it seats 12,000 people.
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Christopher Sholes, born on February 14, 1819, made the first
practical typewriter.  He got a patent for his machine in 1868.
Touch typing, though, was first introduced in 1878 by Frank
E. McGurrin.
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Good skills, of course, will help you get that job. Yet is not
enough to make you hold it and get ahead in it. You must also
learn to work well with the others in a helpful and good-will
spirit.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, born January 30, 1882, became President
on March 4, 1933. He was re-elected in 1936, 1940, and 1944.
On August 14, 1941 he joined in drafting the structure of the
Atlantic Charter.
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Here is what it cost us to put our men on the moon: $1.1 billion
for research; $3.3 billion for designing; $9.4 billion for the
Saturn Rocket Engines; $7.8 billion for spacecraft; and $2.25 billion
for salaries to scientists, office supplies, and help. Total cost
of the moon flight: about $24 billion
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The World Health Organization (WHO) was established on April 7,
1948 when 26 members of the U.N. had accepted its constitution,
adopted July 22, 1946, by the International Health Conference
in New York City.
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The Warsaw Pact was signed on May 14, 1955, by Albania, Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the
U.S.S.R. Albania, barred from meetings in 1962, withdrew in 1968
after ideological differences.
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The Wisconsin region was first explored for France by Jean Nicolet,
who landed at Green Bay in 1634.  In 1660 a French trading post
and Roman Catholic mission were established near present-day Ashland.
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The history of America is closely tied to that of Virginia, particularly
in the Colonial period. Jamestown, founded in 1607, was the first
permanent English settlement in North America.
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Kingman Reef, located about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, was discovered
by Capt. E. Fanning in 1798, but named for Capt. W. E. Kingman, who
rediscovered it in 1853.
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The Caroline Islands, east of the Philippines and south of the Marianas,
include the Yap, Truk, and the Palau groups and the islands of
Ponape and Kosrae, as well as many coral atolls.
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Selected Degree Abbreviations:
B. A. Bachelor of Arts
B. E. Bachelor of Education
B. E. E. Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
M. D. Doctor of Medicine
M. C. S. Master of Computer Science
M. B. A. Master of Business Administration
Ph. D.  Doctor of Philosophy
S. Sc. D. Doctor of Social Science