Erlang

A general-purpose concurrent, functional programming language and runtime system designed by Ericsson to support distributed, fault-tolerant, soft-real-time, non-stop applications:


Erlang

Erlang was originally a proprietary language within Ericsson, but was released as open source in 1998.

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Rhetoric

The art and study of the use of language with persuasive effect:


Rhetoric

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Personification

An ontological metaphor; such as Father Time and Mother Nature, in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person:


Personification

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Alliteration

The repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases:


Alliteration

Examples:

1) dressy daffodils

2) Dewdrops Dancing Down Daisies by Paul Mc Cann

Don't delay dawns disarming display.
Dusk demands daylight.
Dewdrops dwell delicately
drawing dazzling delight.
Dewdrops dilute daisies domain.
Distinguished debutantes. Diamonds defray delivered
daylights distilled daisy dance.

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Figurative Art

Art that describes artwork, particularly paintings and sculptures, which are clearly derived from real object sources:


Figurative Art

Figurative art refers to any art that represents an image from the real world. Though the term figurative art commonly refers to art which represents the human figure, or even an animal figure, the term can also be used in the more general sense of distinguishing representational art from abstract art.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (Pablo Picasso completed Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907)

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Windows 8

The next major release of Microsoft Windows that may be released in 2012:


Windows 8

Windows 8

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Ophthalmoscopy

A test, as part of a routine physical examination, that allows a health professional to see inside the fundus of the eye and other eye structures:


Ophthalmoscopy

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Fundus

The interior surface of the eye, opposite the lens, and includes the retina, optic disc, macula and fovea, and posterior pole:


Fundus

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Runic Alphabet

A set of related alphabets to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet:


Runic Alphabet

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Lesotho

A landlocked country and enclave, surrounded by the Republic of South Africa with a population of 2,000,000:


Lesotho (officially the Kingdom of Lesotho)

Lesotho

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Enclave

A territory whose geographical boundaries lie entirely within the boundaries of another territory:


Enclave

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I Love Lucy

An American television sitcom, black-and-white series, starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, originally ran from 1951 to 1957:

I Love Lucy

Note: A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features recurring characters in a common environment such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue. Such programs originated in radio, but today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms, and art forms [read more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitcom].

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Napoleonic Wars

A series of conflicts declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815:


Napoleonic Wars

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English Channel

An arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic:


English Channel

English Channel (image source: http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/englishchannel.htm)

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eBookstore

An online bookstore, stocked with over 3 million titles, by Google:


Google eBookstore

Google eBookstore 

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Chromebook

A line of notebook computers unveiled by Google that operate with no programs on them using Google's novel web-based operating system Google Chrome OS:


Chromebook

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Google Chrome OS

An operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications:


Google Chrome OS

Google announced Chrome OS in July 2009 and then made it an open source project called Chromium OS in that November.

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