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Look up: QWERTY

  1. QWERTY
    QWERTY refers to a standard English-language typewriter keyboard layout (sometimes called the Sholes keyboard after its inventor), as opposed to Dvorak or foreign-language layouts or APL keyboard. It is sometimes said that it was designed to slow down the typist, but this is wrong; it was designed to allow faster typing - under a constraint now long obsolete. In early typewriters, fast typing using nearby type-bars jammed the mechanism. So Sholes fiddled the layout to separate the letters of man...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. QWERTY
    QWERTY is an abbreviation for first six keys from left on top alphabetic row of standard keyboard
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. Qwerty
    The standard design of keyboard where the first row of letters begins Q,W,E,R,T,Y. This style was designed around 75-100 years ago to combat the problem of the letter pins on typewriters getting stuck.
    Found on http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/q.html

  4. QWERTY
    (hardware) /kwer'tee/ (From the top left row of letter keys of most keyboards) Pertaining to a standard English-language typewriter keyboard (sometimes called the Sholes keyboard after its inventor), as opposed to Dvorak or foreign-language layouts (e.g. 'keyboard AZERTY' in french-speaking countries) or a space-cadet keyboard or APL keyboard. The ...
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  5. QWERTY
    `QWERTY` is the most common modern-day keyboard layout on English-language computer and typewriter keyboards. It takes its name from the first six letters seen in the keyboard's top first row of letters. The QWERTY design was patented by Christopher Sholes in 1874 and sold to Remington in the same year, when it first appeared in typewriters. The asteroid 6600 Qwerty was named in its honour.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY

  6. QWERTY
    QWERTY refers to the first 6 letters on the top row of a standard keyboard. In mobile phone specification a QWERTY keyboard indicates the handset comes with a full keyboard on the handset, as opposed to the standard 12 key alphanumeric keypad
    Found on http://www.mobiles.co.uk/mobile-phone-te


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8 November 2009

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Just before 11.00am on 8th November 1987 a Provisional IRA bomb exploded without warning as people gathered at the war memorial in Enniskillen for the annual Remembrance Day service. Eleven people were killed and 63 injured, nine of them seriously, when the three-story gable wall of St Michael's Reading Rooms crashed down burying people in several feet of rubble. The Provisional IRA admitted responsibility the following day. read more

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