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  2. Toynbee tiles - Wikipedia

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    The Toynbee tiles, also called Toynbee plaques, are messages of unknown origin found embedded in asphalt of streets in about two dozen major cities in the United States and four South American cities. [1] [2] Since the 1980s, several hundred tiles have been discovered.

  3. Truchet tiles - Wikipedia

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    The tile has four possible orientations. Some examples of surface filling made tiling such a pattern. With a scheme: With random placement: Quarter-circles. A second common form of the Truchet tiles, due to Smith (1987), decorates each tile with two quarter-circles connecting the midpoints of adjacent sides. Each such tile has two possible ...

  4. List of aperiodic sets of tiles - Wikipedia

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    Dual to Ammann A2. Tilings MLD from the tilings by the Shield tiles. Tilings MLD from the tilings by the Socolar tiles. Tiling is MLD to Penrose P1, P2, P3, and Robinson triangles. Tiling is MLD to Penrose P1, P2, P3, and "Starfish, ivy leaf, hex". Date is for publication of matching rules.

  5. This high school graduation video is making everyone cry

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    Jenn Wilson, a communications coordinator at Louisville High School in Ohio, came up with the idea. The video enlisted current kindergarteners (the class of 2036) as well as the class of 2024.

  6. Reactive armour - Wikipedia

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    A T-72 tank layered with reactive armour bricks. Reactive armour is a type of vehicle armour used in protecting vehicles, especially modern tanks, against shaped charges and hardened kinetic energy penetrators. The most common type is explosive reactive armour (ERA), but variants include self-limiting explosive reactive armour (SLERA), non ...

  7. In battleground Nevada county, a top elections official ... - AOL

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    May 24, 2024 at 6:00 AM. In the Washoe County elections office, everyone is new to the job. Cari-Ann Burgess – the top elections official in the county – is the third registrar of voters there ...

  8. Castillo throws 7 shutout innings and then Mariners bullpen ...

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    Luis Castillo threw seven shutout innings to continue Seattle’s run of starting pitching dominance and the Mariners' bullpen held on for a 3-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday night.

  9. Mathematical tile - Wikipedia

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    Mathematical tile. Mathematical tiles nailed to wooden planks, overlapped and mortared to give the appearance of a brick surface. Mathematical tiles are tiles which were used extensively as a building material in the southeastern counties of England—especially East Sussex and Kent —in the 18th and early 19th centuries. [1]