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flm: Rise of the Guardians (2012) aka “Die Hüter des Lichts”
Rise of the Guardians (2012) Characters: (an evil spirit known as) Pitch – I am not able to find a description of this character Jack Frost North, Santa Claus Tooth Fairy Easter Bunny Sandman We quite liked the film. We didn’t really know beforehand, that Jack Frost and Pitch are characters, that U.S. children are…
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Baruch’s cat Rysza – my only company for this afternoon
Rysza (sp?) is a word in Polish, and it means “red-grey” IIRC. Baruch is my son#1; he is now off for the afternoon with João Gabriel (his brother resp. my son#1) and Cristina (J.G.’s mother) to meet “Brother Simion” and family in Berlin-Steglitz – friends of my Brazilian “sub-family”. (I would rather point you to www.brothersimion.com.br, but…
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The Prohibtion in the U.S.: the government poisoned alcohol then
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition. – Slate Magazine Of course I never heard of that before, and of course I am rather surprised.
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how to remove DRM from Kindle documents
the Python scripts around for this purpose seem to be defunct these days http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/43486/kindle-drm-removal
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“Homeland”, a U.S. TV series on war, terrorist, al-Qaeda, heroes, …
Homeland (TV series) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Overview and Reception are quite informative and worth reading, I found.
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Apache PDFBox Command Line Tools
http://pdfbox.apache.org/commandline $ java -jar pdfbox-app-x.y.z.jar TextToPDF [OPTIONS] <outputfile> <textfile> $ java -jar pdfbox-app-x.y.z.jar Overlay <overlay.pdf> <document.pdf> <result.pdf>
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wikibooks on the grammar of the English language
Subject:English language – Wikibooks, open books for an open world Looks like the major entry in that list is this one: English in Use
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English grammar: commas and relative clauses
“English in Use”: Commas / Clarity “English in Use”: Punctuation / Comma Rule: Relative that follows its antecedent: When a relative (clause) immediately follows its antecedent, and is taken in a restrictive sense (“restrictive clause“), the comma should not be introduced before it. The relative clause gets completed with a comma though. Of course it…