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hfo

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    Comment #36466285

    > Zotero was key to finish my long delayed thesis, reducing the toil of managing a lot of references on a topic that I disliked more and more by the minute. Exactly the same for me…

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    Comment #36378225

    It worked, I checked out what that browser is.

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    Comment #36336615

    Physician here with ER experience (and IT too). I think it's quite realistic, except the relatives being in the ER room, giving orders to nurses. But that might be different in oth…

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    Comment #36329202

    Thanks, I was about to ask, good thing I searched first!

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    Comment #36230960

    I don't get it, can someone explain what is going on here?

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    Comment #35216641

    Mine was the Atari 800XL. Atari Basic hadn't PEEK and POKE as the C64 (though something similar which I can't remember right now), but some more possibilities to switch graphic mod…

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    Comment #33363853

    For anyone interested in the great pyramid, here is a book recommendation (free), IMHO it surpasses even the gold standard "Maragioglio and Rinaldi" (M&R). Unfortunately on that ho…

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    Comment #33363734

    > but it's pretty clear it served /some/ purpose. One would think the sarcophagus in the center would give away what that purpose could have been...

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    Comment #33363645

    EDIT: I was wrong, it's all there. Amazing! Also missing: The horizontal passage, the queens chamber, the descending passage, the lower chamber and the passage to the relieving cha…

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    Comment #33363342

    They have. It's a few levels higher. The robbers tunnel is easier to reach from the ground, so it became the main entrance for visitors for centuries now.

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    Comment #33363286

    The floor of the entrance is exactly at the right height, a little to the right of a crucial element to get access to the upper chambers: The crossing between the ascending and des…

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    Comment #33363134

    > For what historians claim to be a monument, there's not a single hieroglyphic that I saw. It's the pyramid of Khufu, 2nd king of the 4th dynasty. None of the pyramids of the 4th …