It is an undecipherable blur that he simply cannot remember.
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At roughly 4 million words, the tax code is all but undecipherable.
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Every single scene contains clues that are undecipherable, until you know the answer.
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The amplification level means that many of the lyrics are undecipherable to the previously uninitiated.
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After in-painting the cracks, the resulting would-be text looked as undecipherable to us as before.
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He's the best kind of quirky: an oddball who never crosses the line to become an undecipherable kook.
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When the product launches this October, Anki hopes consumers won't think of its AI robot as undecipherable technology.
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The undecipherable voice comes from an Armenian YouTube TV channel monologue, and has been distorted through an online graphic filter.
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Violence underpins its promise of oblivion; it is a word that leaves only palimpsests in its wake, undecipherable traces of whatever came before.
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But it was difficult to encode more than a few hundred letters with data without it turning into an undecipherable mess of gobbledygook.
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The ever-present buttes, mountains, and rock formations rise from the horizon that's is consistently some distance away that's totally undecipherable by the human eye.
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The sinister ambience of space disco and Greem's undecipherable mutterings, filtered through vocoders from late-80s acid house, amass in alien realms of demonic techno.
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To speed the process, the computer experts use superfast computers to match up the rough edges of the disassembled notes, many in nearly undecipherable handwriting.
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The intro begins with dialogue between two entities, but what that dialogue consists of is for the audience to react to, fill in the undecipherable babble with their own experiences.
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From pens used by various ex-employees to sign their original Nokia contracts, company swag adorned with sometimes undecipherable marketing jargon, to neon signs salvaged from Nokia factories since retired.
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Perhaps it's the undecipherable cut and paste vocal blips that make up the hook, or the pixie-esque white girl chanting "Gold up in my teeth," but Kiiara found herself a hit.
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From stadiums across Russia, pitchside advertising displays, beamed worldwide on television, carry many messages in Mandarin, undecipherable to most viewers, and unfamiliar Chinese logos leavening a diet of German sportswear and American soft drinks.
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"'Diverse' isn't half as bad as 'multicultural,' which is like saying if it isn't white, it's an undecipherable mass of otherness that we won't even bother to [give] actual cultural identities because they fit so neatly outside our main shelves," says Sonali Dev, author of, most recently, the novel The Bollywood Bride.
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Brown was one of 400 Navajo Code Talkers who used their native language to develop a secret and undecipherable code to help the United States defeat the Japanese during World War II. The messages were a key factor in securing U.S. military victories at Iwo Jima and several other battles in the Pacific theater.
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Word of the Day verb: remove completely from recognition or memory verb: do away with completely, without leaving a trace verb: mark for deletion, rub off, or erase verb: make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing adjective: reduced to nothingness _________ The word obliterate has appeared in 52 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Sept.
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MORE (R-Ariz.) There were more than 400 Navajo code talkers who used their native tongue to develop a secret and undecipherable code to help the United States defeat Japan during World War II. "Throughout our history, the Diné people have always been the caretakers and protectors of our land in every branch of the armed services, so we are very grateful that our people are being recognized through this historic announcement from the Navy," Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said in a statement.
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Assfort is a Japanese hardcore punk band from Tokyo. Their musical style is fast and loud with angry, fast, undecipherable vocals. Their style follows in the vein of old school 1980's japanese hardcore punk music, such as The Stalin and Gauze.
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Word!Word?Word! Issa Samb and the undecipherable form, the first monograph dedicated to the work of seminal Senegalese process-oriented artist Issa Samb. Besides a sustained theoretical and exhibition program at RAW Material Company, she maintains a dynamic international curatorial activity.
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Then, again in Metropolis, Dirk Armstrong discuss with Ashbury about her grades and drive her and Scorn home.Action Comics (vol. 1) #750 (January 1999) Shortly after returning to Metropolis Scorn vanished only leaving a note in his undecipherable alien language. He has not reappeared since.
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The double transposition cipher can be treated as a single transposition with a key as long as the product of the lengths of the two keys. In late 2013, a double transposition challenge, regarded by its author as undecipherable, was solved by George Lasry using a divide-and-conquer approach where each transposition was attacked individually.
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Undecipherable characters shore, 200 х 400 cm, canvas, oil, 1989 Deterrence&, 140 х 170 cm, oil on canvas, 1989 Daphne, 200 x 150 cm, oil on canvas, 1989 (Odessa Art Museum) Vasiliy Ryabchenko (born 23 July 1954, Odessa, USSR) is a Ukrainian painter, photographer, and installation artist. One of the key figures in contemporary Ukrainian art, and the "New Ukrainian Wave".
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Cryptographie indéchiffrable (subtitle: basée sur de nouvelles combinaisons rationelles) is a French book on cryptography written by Émile Victor Théodore Myszkowski (a retired French colonel) and published in 1902. His book described a cipher that the author had invented and claimed (incorrectly) was "undecipherable" (i.e. secure against unauthorised attempts to read it). It was based on a form of repeated-key transposition.
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Another similar concept is that of undeciphered cryptograms, or cipher messages. These are not writing systems per se, but a disguised form of another text. Of course any cryptogram is intended to be undecipherable by anyone except the intended recipient so vast numbers of these exist, but a few examples have become famous and are listed in the undeciphered historical codes and ciphers category.
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They were sent to Alison Rutherford at Newcastle University Medical School for multi-spectrum photography, which led to infra-red photographs showing the scripts for researchers for the first time. The results were initially disappointing as the scripts were undecipherable. However, Alan Bowman at Manchester University and David Thomas at Durham University analysed the previously unknown form of cursive script and were able to produce transcriptions.
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The arms recorded his name with a patronymic, but it is undecipherable. It is known that he had a brother, Vigaila, starosta of Ukmergė, but unknown whether he married or had any children. Die Littauischen Wegeberichte mention Czapornendorff between Rudamina and Šalčininkai (Theodor Hirsch identified the location with the village of Tabariškės on Merkys River). He also had an estate in Šalčininkai and funded a Catholic church there in 1410.
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The two wedgebills are nearly undecipherable except for their vocalisations and song. In contrast, the whipbirds (eastern and western) whilst sharing many similarities with the wedgebills, are evidently different, especially in plumage. The majority are olive-green with white malar patches, as well as black throats or upper chests. The vocalisations of the western whipbird are very similar to the wedgebills, however, the eastern whipbird differs once again in vocalisation.
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The valley of Les Combarelles Radiocarbon dating of bones found in the cave indicate the cave was inhabited by Cro-Magnon people 13,680–11,380 years before the present. During that period, these people produced hundreds of drawings on the sandy cave walls, traces of dye suggesting the engraved drawings were originally coloured. Scientists have identified 600–800 drawings of isolated animals and undecipherable tectiforms (i.e. upward-pointing wedges) in the cave.
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Though married for 20 years they had no children. Young could read and write Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, and Italian with some acquaintance with Arabic, Chaldean and Syriac, and he developed his own shorthand, which is still undecipherable. He helped establish Whitby Museum as the first secretary and a founding member of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society. He procured fossil and mineral collections for the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
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When the drilling is complete, the Doctor offers to go with Ida into the bowels of the planet. After travelling down the drill shaft, the Doctor and Ida find a large circular disk inscribed with more undecipherable markings. The Doctor believes it to be a door, and they watch as it opens. Suddenly, the Beast repossesses Toby before transferring into all the Ood as they refer to themselves as the Legion of the Beast.
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By 1995, the band achieved some form of stability with the addition of Pete Martin (guitar), David Palaitis (bass), and Scott Golley (drums). That same year, they released their second album, Hello Bastards on Jade Tree Records. Hello Bastards marked a slight shift in direction, incorporating more melodic punk leanings over a driving hardcore tempo. Ari Katz's lyrics, though sometimes undecipherable, dealt mainly with more introspective and personal themes such as relationships and youthful disaffection.
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These marks were particularly noticeable on Tabitha's hands and forehead. Later on, all the physicians who had previously examined the girl's body are found dead. All have expired by various means, the only pattern being that before death every one of them succumbed to a strange, crippling state of mystical psychosis. While the story portrays the phrase "Ό Λογος" as if it were undecipherable, in reality the Greek may roughly translate to "logos" or "word".
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In San Francisco during World War II, Dr. Carl Decker (J. Carrol Naish) is a local Nazi spy leader undercover as an optometrist. While he is walking on the San Francisco waterfront at night, his decoder book and list of West Coast spies are stolen by the waterfront thug, Adolph Mertz. Victor Marlow comes to town, contacts Decker for his next assignment but the message he has is undecipherable without the book.
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Tacked to a bulletin board in a corner of the garage was the message "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Hampton also created wall plaques with Roman numerals one through ten and his undecipherable script suggesting commandment-bearing tablets. The largest plaque on the left side of the display contains the text "Nations Readjustment Plan" and is trimmed in gold foil. Hampton approached local churches about using his creation as a teaching tool but none were interested.
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The people of Unther primarily worship the gods of the Sumerians, including Ishtar and Ramman. Chessenta (pages 50–64) describes Chessenta's people and society, geography, current economy, current politics, religion, personalities, mercenary companies, and culture. Pages 65–70 detail several short adventure scenarios appropriate for the Old Empires. Pages 71–80 detail the spells of Southern magic, a type of magic that is written in a manner that makes it undecipherable to a practitioner of standard magic.
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After releasing a four-song demo, their untitled debut full-length was released on October 4, 2005. The album is composed of eight tracks that are all instrumental. In 2010, it was re-issued on Sargent House. While some of the tracks on the album feature distorted vocals that are somewhat undecipherable, guitarist Nick Reinhart started contributing more prominent vocals to the music with the release of their 2007 split with By the End of Tonight, called Complex Full of Phantoms.
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Nagiko, now pregnant with Jerome's child, writes Book 7: The Book of The Seducer on a male messenger. The writing on him is almost destroyed and undecipherable when the publisher accidentally leaves the messenger out in the rain. Book 8: The Book of Youth is delivered as a series of photographs. A young Buddhist monk then arrives bearing Book 9: The Book of Secrets written on all his "secret" spots: in between his fingers and toes, the insides of his thighs, etc.
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Airėnai runic stone with inscriptions Airėnai II village was established in the early 20th century when Eastern Orthodox Ukrainians resettled in Airėnai I and Geisiškės. These Ukrainians were originally from Volhynia but moved to the vicinity of Brest in the second half of the 19th century (see Geisiškės for migration history). Dukštos oak forest with a walkway and Bradeliškės or Airėnai stone with undecipherable runes is located near the village. In the Neris river, there is a conglomerate stone named after the village.
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The first sign can be identified as a Ka-sign, but the first, introducing sign was copied by the pyramid excavator so fuzzy, that it remains undecipherable. Aidan Dodson is convinced of the depiction of a sitting Seth-animal, reading the royal name as Seth-Ka ("Seth is mine Ka"). In this case, Setka had actually followed his father onto the throne. Additionally, some scholars believe that Setka and his father Radjedef started some kind of family feud when he ascended the throne.
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American artist David Klamen has cited the novel as an important influence on his dark, slow-to-disclose paintings, noting a passage in the book in which a mysterious, undecipherable painting in a bar is gradually revealed to depict a whale.Schultz, Elizabeth. Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and Twentieth Century American Art, University Press of Kansas, 1995, p.329-330. American author Ralph Ellison wrote a tribute to the book in the prologue of his 1952 novel Invisible Man.
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Jacob Roggeveen was the first European to record contact with the Rapa Nui. Roggeveen allegedly set sail either in search of Juan Fernandez Islands or David's Island but instead arrived at Easter Island on April 5, 1722 (Easter Sunday). He remained on the island for about a week. Felipe González de Ahedo visited the Rapa Nui in 1770 and claimed the island for Spain on a document which the islanders wrote on in rongorongo, the now undecipherable Rapa Nui script.
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It was not a written language, but more a conversational one, used by families to keep conversations amongst themselves in public places such as markets unintelligible to others. It was not used in any official capacity in schools or administrative matters, and so lacked the vocabulary for these terms. Such terms were simply borrowed from English. However, to keep the language undecipherable to outsiders, the Romani speakers coined new terms that were a combination or variation of the original English terms.
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Adaptations of foreign stylistic elements from the Aegean, the Near East, and Egypt led to their reinterpretation and as a result incorporation into unique Cypriot customs. Particularly during the 12th century BC, bronze-work, writing, jewellery, and stone seal carvings were all influenced by the Aegean. From c. 1500 BC, Cypriots commenced using an undecipherable Cypro-Minoan script adopted from Crete which gave them the means to manage records and inventories at a time when social organisation was becoming increasingly complex.
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Jacobs remarks that this estimate is probably excessive. As regards the number of Jews in the Middle Ages, Benjamin of Tudela, about 1170, enumerates altogether 1,049,565; but of these 100,000 are attributed to Persia and India, 100,000 to Arabia, and 300,000 to an undecipherable "Thanaim", obviously mere guesses with regard to the Eastern Jews, with whom he did not come in contact. There were at that time probably not many more than 500,000 in the countries he visited, and probably not more than 750,000 altogether.
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King (impersonating the hero Hunahpu) piercing his penis with a spear to spill sacrificial blood. Fragment of west mural, San Bartolo San Bartolo is a small pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site located in the Department of Petén in northern Guatemala, northeast of Tikal and roughly fifty miles from the nearest settlement.Harvard Gazette: Oldest Mayan mural found by Peabody researcher San Bartolo's fame derives from its splendid Late-Preclassic mural paintings still heavily influenced by Olmec tradition and from examples of early and as yet undecipherable Maya script.
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It was the subject of scholarly discussion at the International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archæology at Budapest in 1876, where the prevalent opinion was that the swastika stood for "blessing" or "good luck". In 1889, in a review of a book by A. L. Lorange, Stephens noted that the sword had been treated with acid whilst at the Danish Museum, with the result that the sword and its inscription were severely damaged, and consequently the inscription shown in a colour plate in Lorange's book was undecipherable.
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An impossible trident with backgrounds, to enhance the illusion Roger Hayward's Undecidable Monument An impossible trident,Andrew M. Colman, A Dictionary of Psychology, Oxford University Press, 2009, , p. 369 also known as an impossible fork,Article "Impossible Fork" at MathWorld blivet,The Hacker's Dictionary, article "Blivet"; It lists the impossible fork among numerous meanings of the term poiuyt, or devil's tuning fork,Brooks Masterton, John M. Kennedy, "Building the Devil's Tuning Fork", Perception, 1975, vol. 4, pp. 107-109 is a drawing of an impossible object (undecipherable figure), a kind of an optical illusion.
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According to W.H. Suttor, "The proclamation of martial law was as undecipherable to the natives as an Egyptian hieroglyph".W.H. Suttor, Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life, Bathurst The natives continued with their attacks against the British, and skirmishes followed by massacres of warriors attempting to bury their dead. However, the majority of victims were native women and children gunned down from horseback, poisoned or driven into gorges. In October, the Sydney Gazette summed up the situation stating that "Bathurst and its surrounding vicinity is engaged in an exterminating war".
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The first sign can be identified as a Ka-sign, but the first (and former) sign was copied by the pyramid excavator so fuzzy, that it remains undecipherable. According to Stadelmann and Reisner, the first sign shows a walking ram, as it does in the birth name of the prince. Baka simply put his citizen name into a royal cartouche due his lifetime, but then the name was changed after his death into Bakarê ("soul and Ka of Râ"). In ancient Greek chronics Baka's name was hellenized into Bikheris.
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Critics noted the influence of the Tobe Hooper (above) film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). House of 1000 Corpses received a generally negative critical reception upon its release. Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "lives up to the spirit but not the quality of its inspirations" and is ultimately a "cheesy and ultragory exploitation horror flick" and "strangely devoid of thrills, shocks or horror." Clint Morris of Film Threat slammed the film as "an hour and a half of undecipherable plot" and found the film to be "sickening" overall.
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After the construction of the first floor, the beauty of the domes and mihrabs remain undecipherable where the former's view is completely obstructed by the roof of the first floor and the latter's size has been greatly altered. The architecture of the Bibi Maryam Masjid is defined by a combination of embellishments and proportional adjustment among elements such as arches, domes, mihrabs etc., all which have been used in a series of three members. In such elements the middle one is much larger and more emphasised than those that flank it.
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An opening that features the two main characters playing practical jokes on one another is followed by a night of heavy rain and fearful talk of Indian attack and The Black Dog, the latest fearsome-fantastic rumored to stalk the wilderness and a possible stand-in for Cerberus. On September 21, the first day of autumn, Mason & Dixon pass over South Mountain on their way toward Antietam Creek. There, they tour a cave system with spectacular formations and some ancient and undecipherable writings that produce profoundly different reactions in the polar temperaments of the surveyors.
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A common type of CAPTCHA is the test that requires the typing of distorted letters, numbers or symbols that appear in an image undecipherable by a computer. Proposed "universal intelligence" tests aim to compare how well machines, humans, and even non-human animals perform on problem sets that are generic as possible. At an extreme, the test suite can contain every possible problem, weighted by Kolmogorov complexity; unfortunately, these problem sets tend to be dominated by impoverished pattern-matching exercises where a tuned AI can easily exceed human performance levels.
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As a mature artist Amaral has focused on the creation of watercolor and ink drawings, artist's books, and an array of single-edition bronze sculptures. His bronzes have, in recent years, made a departure from human and animal figures towards desolate geometrical landscapes, ashen carts, and timeless machines that appear simultaneously futuristic and archaic, caught in a time beyond death. Mute and undecipherable, these artefacts inhabit a dimension where movement, time and sound disobey the laws of reality as we know them. Planes shift, cubes resonate, wheels spin, and spheres revolve.
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A survey conducted on the graves in 1994, determined that there were 127 graves in the churchyard and that a number of the gravestones were undecipherable due to weathering. The church was grade I listed in 1969 and its northern gateposts, which date from the 18th century, were grade II listed in 1987. The church and its surrounds are also included in the Catterick Village Conservation Area. In April 2018, it was revealed that the church was suffering a funding shortfall and appealed to the local community to help with an extra £10,000 a year that the church needed to keep open.
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This is also hinted at in Wintersmith, where Nanny Ogg's Place is given as Tir Nani Ogg, exhibiting Goidelic-type head-initial compounding. They also use the Yan Tan Tethera in counting occasionally. In Carpe Jugulum, their speech is almost undecipherable and has to be translated by Nanny Ogg; however, by the time they meet Tiffany Aching, they are somewhat more understandable to "bigjobs". In reality, since the books featuring the Nac Mac Feegle are targeted at young adults, "the simpler language of a children's book accounts for the readability of the Nac Mac Feegle's speech in the Tiffany Aching books".
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Most of these took the form of `register=value` pairs, leading to extremely long and almost undecipherable setup strings. In 1988 Telebit added the T1000, essentially a TrailBlazer limited to a lower-speed 9600 bit/s version of PEP, remaining compatible at that speed with existing TrailBlazers. The T2000 added support for synchronous communications, typically used between mainframe computers. The original TrailBlazer, T1000 and T2000 were backwards- compatible with the 2400 bit/s V.22bis standard, allowing them to connect with what was then the most common modem speed when talking to other brands of modems.
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Delirious, comical, brilliant, absurd, all amalgamated in the same identity, magic and undecipherable. The story of Dante Cornellius, character obsessed with excrements and whose hair, he believes, changes color every instant, will not leave anyone indifferent. It was greeted by Pere Gimferrer, literary director of Seix Barral as a new wave of fresh wind in contemporary young narrative. Ricardo Senabre underlined the twists and turns or stylistic games of the author in the El Cultural section of El Mundo, together with his passion for the defeated of every condition, the bohemians without solution, the damned who have only themselves.
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One of the main attractions of Cumbemayo, or "Narrow River" in Cajamarca Quechua, is the aqueduct. This is a canal of approximately 9 km in length, carefully carved in volcanic rock to divert the water from the hills to cultivation fields and a large reservoir; which is presumably originally at the foot of the Santa Apolonia Hill. Heading towards the aqueduct one can observe some stairways sculpted in stone, and a carved stone which had been used as a ceremonial altar. Also prominent is the Sanctuary a huge cliff resembling a man's head, whose mouth would be a grotto, where interesting but undecipherable petroglyphs have been found.
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Throughout the Middle Ages Montreuil was a place of pilgrimage on account of its possession of the Sainte Face (i.e. Holy Face) as the Veil of Veronica. This representation of the face of Christ, which was regarded by many as the original relic, was really a copy of the Vera Effigies in St. Peter's Basilica at Rome. It was presented in 1249 to the then Abbess of Montreuil, Sybilla, by her brother Jacques Pantaleon, afterwards Pope Urban IV. The painting, apparently of Eastern origin and already ancient when it came into the hands of the nuns, bore an inscription that seemed undecipherable, baffling even Mabillon.
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Shah and Sabir swore Bayat together, though Sabir later claimed that since the oath was simply repeating Arabic that was read to him by the FBI agent, he hadn't understood what was being said, and that the agent's primitive Arabic resulted in words like "al-Qaeda" being mispronounced and undecipherable, as demonstrated in audiotapes played for the courtroom. Federal prosecutor Karl Metzner argued that since Sabir had lived in Saudi Arabia for several months, he must be able to speak Arabic. Other evidence argued by Metzner included the fact that Sabir was a legal firearms owner. Sabir was found guilty on May 21, 2007, and expressed disappointment with the verdict through his lawyer Ed Wilford.
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Disregard for film aesthetics was something that Hurwitz opposed; after studying the techniques employed by many of the Soviet filmmakers of the time, Hurwitz recognized the importance of editing and the complex beauty of the juxtaposition of shots (in filmic montage) to convey an otherwise undecipherable message. Hurwitz joined together with a few other members of the League to create Nykino, an organization that strove to use artistic measures to appeal to audiences while still conveying a meaningful message. The formation of Nykino was not well received by the League, many of whose members saw the group as elitist, and veering away from the mission of the Workers Film and Photo League. The formation of Nykino also came while the League itself was in decline.
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It was captioned "The Radio Detective Who Unfathomed the Famous 'Nauen Buzz'" and the description read: > During the early days of the World War the incredibly rapid and > undecipherable radio signals between the most powerful broadcasting station > in Germany and the station of the "Telefunken Company" at Sayville, Long > Island, N. Y., aroused the attention of the U. S. officials. But it was > radio amateur, Charles E. Apgar of Westfield, N. J., who finally found the > solution by means of amplifiers that recorded these signals on wax > phonograph cylinders. By this means the messages were de-coded – and the > Long Island station was promptly seized. This picture shows Mr. Apgar > operating the same apparatus which he used on that historic occasion.
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Failure to "solve" the Babel Fish puzzle did not kill the player, but rendered the remainder of the game unwinnable, as one subsequent puzzle requires the player to gain a passcode based on Vogon-written instructions, otherwise undecipherable without the Fish. That particular puzzle became so notorious for its difficulty that Infocom wound up selling T-shirts bearing the legend, "I got the Babel Fish!"Interview with Steve Meretzky, co-author of the Game from BBC – Radio 4 Adams stated that the puzzle's difficulty, and the notable game play change that it begins, was intentional; "Just as the player gets comfortable in the narrow neck, the bottom drops out!" Another fiendish puzzle involved the ten tools scattered throughout the game's locations.
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Hasan tries to justify the research and experiments by claiming that they could be used as a weapon to defeat the enemies of the Ottomans. Murat forbids experiments on dead human bodies but gives his blessing to the duo's research on flying, hoping for a new army of flying soldiers that could get past ground level barriers like walls and the sea, and drop bombs. To go about their task, Hezarfen and Hasan tell Murat of the undecipherable script and ask him to release the girl from the dungeon. The script belongs to Leonardo da Vinci and they realise that he too had the same idea of flying with wings, but the text is coded so they are unable to read it.
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The games in Borderlands primarily take place on the planet Pandora. Pandora is believed to be rich with mineral wealth leading several interstellar megacorporations to send colony ships there to capitalize on it, but once they arrive, they find little of value outside of undecipherable alien artifacts from a long-extinct race known as the Eridians, and numerous native lifeforms make it too dangerous. Many of the corporations abandon the planet, leaving behind their workforce, former prisoners coerced into employment, who take over much of the planet as bandits and raiders. However, a study of the alien artifacts leads to the discovery of mythical Eridian Vaults filled with untold treasure and wealth, which are guarded by extremely powerful and ancient monsters.
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One, over a doorway in the centre and highest part of the fort (see picture), reads as follows: > This castle was commanded to be built by the Viceroy of India Dom Filipe > Mascarenhas in November of the year 1646 and Fernão Miranda Henriques being > Captain of Chaul, and was finished in May 1680, Cristóvão de Abreu de > Azevedo being Captain of this fort. The inscription is surmounted by a cross with a coat of arms having the Portuguese stars in the centre and surrounded by seven castles. Other inscriptions over the main entrance and over an altar in the chapel are worn out and undecipherable. During the brief Maratha rule, some of the names of the bastions were changed but now the only indication of their presence is some dismantled shrines.
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Another important example of Cormier's work can be found on another Quebec university campus, the Casault pavilion of Université Laval, familiarly known by students as the 'Louis-Jacques'. Designed in 1948 but only completed in 1960, it is a massive cathedral-like building, originally designed as Quebec City's Grand Séminaire, which is particularly spectacular viewed from a distance along the impressive mall that runs along the east-west axis of the campus grounds.Photo Despite an unfortunate renovation scheme in the 1970s, which gutted the chapel, filled in the magnificent enclosed courtyard and transformed the interior into an undecipherable labyrinth, the building has become the most recognized landmark of the second-oldest university in North America and home to Laval's faculties of Music and Communications, as well as to Quebec's National Archives.
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The physical world has a "tendency toward disorder." Entropy (although a broad concept used in somewhat different ways across disciplines) roughly describes the way that isolated systems naturally become less and less organized with the passage of time; popularly understood as meaning a gradual decline into a state of chaos, the concept more accurately refers to the diffusion of energy toward a state of equilibrium, following the second law of thermodynamics. Wiener believed that communication of information is essentially negentropic – it resists entropy –, because it relies on organizational structures. There are two kinds of possible disorganizational forces, passive and active: > "Nature offers resistance to decoding, but it does not show ingenuity in > finding new and undecipherable methods for jamming our communication with > the outer world" (pp. 35–36).
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It ranked "Future Times/Rejoice" as the best track on Tormato. In The Pittsburgh Press, Pete Bishop noted the hard rock sound of Going for the One continues on Tormato though it's "not the best idiom" for Anderson's vocals but cites "Don't Kill the Whale" and "Release, Release" as highlight tracks. Nonetheless he notes that "it's hard to fault any of the music on this album" with each member "playing up a storm", but continues to say that the songs never get further "than your eardrums" because of the "rapid, say-nothing lyrics it always has". In the Detroit Free Press, reviewer Bill Braunstein ranked the album as the band's best album since Close to the Edge and contains "all the Yes trademarks" of "intricate sophisticated arrangements", Anderson's "undecipherable" lyrics and a "strongly stylized sound".
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Tunic is played nominally in an isometric view, allowing the player to maneuver their character, an anthropomorphic fox, around the game's world, interacting with objects and fighting enemies; if necessary the player can switch to a more top-down view in combat. The game is structured similar to The Legend of Zelda, with progress limited to certain areas of the game world until the player has collected a new weapon or ability for the fox to use. The game's purpose and method of playing are somewhat oblique; what dialog is presented to the player is generally of an undecipherable language though selected characters or words will be legible in the player's language that may hint towards puzzle solutions, and some of the items that the player will find are pages that make up the game's manual.
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Grube is principally remembered for his pioneering studies of three little-known languages, two spoken in the Amur region of the Russian Far East, and one extinct language spoken by the Jurchen people of Manchuria. At the behest of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Grube worked on the linguistic materials brought back from the Amur region by Carl Maximowicz and Leopold von Schrenck during the 1850s. Based on these materials, in 1892 Grube published a vocabulary of the Gilyak language (a language isolate, also known as Nivkh), and in 1900 he published a vocabulary of the Gold language (a Tungusic language, also known as Nanai). By the nineteenth century, the Jurchen language that had been spoken by the ancestors of the Manchu people during the Jin dynasty (1115–1234) was almost completely unknown, and the few surviving inscriptions in the Jurchen script were undecipherable.
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A group of New Age trekkers in Tibet are trapped in a cave by a snowstorm and stumble across a mutilated, mummified corpse, covered with cryptic tattoos in both English and undecipherable symbols; the party interprets the former to mean that the body was that of a RAF pilot who had crashed on the other side of the Himalayas in the 1940s. How the pilot had made it across the mountains is a mystery, but a diagram among the tattoos suggests that the cave the party is trapped may be part of a larger network, one that might have an outlet elsewhere. As the blizzard shows no signs of letting up, the party pushes deeper into the network, discovering the remains of a slaughtered ancient army, displayed almost trophy-like, and a trail of gold coins. Becoming separated, the members are relentlessly killed by an unseen enemy, until only the mountain guides, Ike and Kora, remain.
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