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  2. BBC News (international TV channel) - Wikipedia

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    The current style of countdown features reporters and technical staff in many different locations working to bring news stories to air. The new countdown keeps the same music, but with Chameleon-style branding and a clock relocated to the middle from the bottom right corner, [37] similar in style to that of BBC Alba. The countdown can range ...

  3. List of M Countdown Chart winners (2023) - Wikipedia

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    The M Countdown Chart is a record chart on the South Korean Mnet television music program M Countdown. Every week, the show awards the best-performing single on the chart in the country during its live broadcast. In 2023, 25 singles ranked number one on the chart and 17 music acts received first-place trophies.

  4. Morse code - Wikipedia

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    The Morse code, as specified in the current international standard, International Morse Code Recommendation, ITU-R M.1677-1, [1] was derived from a much-improved proposal by Friedrich Gerke in 1848 that became known as the "Hamburg alphabet", its only real defect being the use of an excessively long code ( and later the equal duration code ...

  5. Ten-code - Wikipedia

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    California Penal Code sections were in use by the Los Angeles Police Department as early as the 1940s, and these Hundred Code numbers are still used today instead of the corresponding ten-code. Generally these are given as two sets of numbers [ citation needed ] —"One Eighty-Seven" or "Fifty-One Fifty"—with a few exceptions such as "459 ...

  6. Countdown (game show) - Wikipedia

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    The programme was presented by Richard Whiteley for 23 years until his death in June 2005. It was then presented by Des Lynam from October 2005 until December 2006, Des O'Connor from January 2007 until December 2008, Jeff Stelling from January 2009 until December 2011 and Nick Hewer from January 2012 until June 2021, with Colin Murray standing in for Nick Hewer during part of the COVID-19 ...

  7. List of IOC country codes - Wikipedia

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    current code taken from French Islande, Icelandic Ísland or Spanish Islandia: ISR Israel: ISV Virgin Islands: current code taken from French Îles Vierges (des États-Unis) ITA Italy: IVB British Virgin Islands: BVI [1] current code taken from French Îles Vierges britanniques: JAM Jamaica: JOR Jordan: JPN Japan

  8. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [5] [6] [7] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [8] the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3 ...

  9. ISO 3166-1 - Wikipedia

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    ISO 3166-1 (Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes) is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.