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NEWS ABOUT: alphabet

alphabet stories: 3 news summaries

(Newser) - A British dog is healthy after emergency surgery to remove an alphabet’s worth of fridge magnets from his belly, the BBC reports. Jack had just returned home from being neutered, and his owner put him in the kitchen to rest. “The next morning I noticed the whole alphabet... More »

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surgery • England • alphabet • Labrador Retriever • pet owners • gastrointestinal • yellow lab • kitchen magnets

(Newser) - From an A-shaped street crossing to a building in the form of a Z, an Australian man has spelled out the alphabet using Google Earth. Rhett Dashwood spent 6 months painstakingly scanning satellite images of his native state, Victoria, and found buildings or geographical landmarks in the shape of all... More »

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Google Earth • alphabet • Google Apps

Translating 'Dot Com' into Cyrillic

Domain names in non-Roman alphabet
to be tested by Net managers

Oct 11, 07 11:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - On Monday the Internet's global reach will extend further when it tests non-Roman character domain names. For years, non-English speakers have petitioned the US and companies controlling the Internet for domain names in their native language, the BBC reports. But ICANN, the nonprofit corporation which allocates domains, has been afraid... More »

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Internet • Hindi • ICANN • roman • alphabet • cyrillic • Urdu

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