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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Ecuador | On November 6, 2000, police detained Elias Elint Lopez Pita at a police checkpoint in Ambato as he was traveling in a bus to Esmeraldas Province. (references) |
Ecuador | After he was rescued by nearby persons, he was admitted to the hospital in Guaranda, where he said that police from Ambato had inflicted his injuries in retaliation for his testimony. (references) | |
Ecuador | After Shinin Lazo was released on November 14, 2000, he reportedly was abducted by unidentified gunmen and taken to the outskirts of Ambato, where he was shot and thrown over a cliff. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-m-o-t" | |
-1 letter: aboma. | |
-2 letters: ambo, atma, atom, boat, bota, moat, tomb. | |
-3 letters: aba, abo, ama, baa, bam, bat, boa, bot, mat, moa, mob, mot, oat, tab, tam, tao, tom. | |
-4 letters: aa, ab, am, at, ba, bo, ma, mo, om, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-m-o-t" | |
+1 letter: boatman. | |
+2 letters: blastoma, boatsman, catacomb, marabout, tamboura. | |
+3 letters: abominate, blastomas, catacombs, combatant, entamoeba, fibromata, marabouts, steamboat, tambouras. | |
+4 letters: abominated, abominates, abominator, ambulation, ambulatory, ameloblast, blastomata, catabolism, colobomata, combatants, entamoebae, entamoebas, fathomable, flamboyant, matchboard, steamboats. | |
+5 letters: abandonment, abnormality, abominating, abomination, abominators, adumbration, ambulations, ameloblasts, amobarbital, amortizable, automatable, balletomane, biomaterial, catabolisms, embarkation, flamboyants, masturbator, matchboards, megaloblast, melanoblast, meprobamate, mortarboard, saltimbocca, thingamabob. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4D 42 41 54 4F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- -... .- - --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001101 01000010 01000001 01010100 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A M B A T O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004D 0042 0041 0054 004F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)354736355449 |
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