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2. Visiting card - Wikipedia

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   Visiting card. A visiting card, also called a calling card, was a small, decorative card that was carried by individuals to present themselves to others. It was a common practice in the 18th and 19th century, particularly among the upper classes, to leave a visiting card when calling on someone (which means to visit their house or workplace).

3. Carte de visite - Wikipedia

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   The carte de visite ( French: [kaʁt də vizit], English: ' visiting card ', abbr. 'CdV', pl. cartes de visite) was a format of small photograph which was patented in Paris by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri in 1854, although first used by Louis Dodero . Each photograph was the size of a visiting card, and such photograph cards, in ...

4. Visitor pattern - Wikipedia

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   The Visitor [1] design pattern is one of the twenty-three well-known Gang of Four design patterns that describe how to solve recurring design problems to design flexible and reusable object-oriented software, that is, objects that are easier to implement, change, test, and reuse.

5. My Aunt Has Had A Bullet In Her Head For 50 Years. I ... - AOL

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   We flip on the lights in the closed hair salon and sit amongst the dome dryers. She launches right away into the story of that night — the gun, the bathtub. She’s been waiting weeks to tell me ...

6. Business card - Wikipedia

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   A Oscar Friedheim card cutting and scoring machine from 1889, capable of producing up to 100,000 visiting and business cards a day. Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual. [1] [2] They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid.

7. Salon (gathering) - Wikipedia

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   Salon (gathering) Réunion de dames, Abraham Bosse, 17th century. A salon is a gathering of people held by a host. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace 's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" (Latin: aut delectare aut prodesse ).