What are these? Or rather, more importantly, how did we get these?

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Here’s a clue:

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Veery borderline geeky. What special achievement connects:

1. Colby Nolan
2. George/Chris Jackson
3. Henrietta/Ben Goldacre
4. Kitty O’Malley
5. Sassafrass Herbert
6. Sonny/John Licciardello

This is, sadly, not an exhaustive list at all. There are many more.

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(1) was the first and, believe it or not, the paper it was published in was rejected! The technique did take hold though and grew to become very popular. (2) was the first of a body part.

What technique?

The technique goes by multiple names – we’ll be liberal with the points.

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A relatively recent rumour about the 4 things below was “created” by a very popular book. What’s the rumour?

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(1) is to (2) as (3) is to what?

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Stumbled across this bit of computer history recently. 3 examples of what technology?

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Plaintext question. Obviously, rampant googling might occur, but then again we trust you to not do it, so please don’t :P

“Formal” syntax of what?

       Accept-Additions = "Accept-Additions" ":"
                          #( addition-range [ accept-params ] )

        addition-type   = ( "*"
                          | milk-type
                          | syrup-type
                          | sweetener-type
                          | spice-type
                          | alcohol-type
                          ) *( ";" parameter )
        milk-type       = ( "Cream" | "Half-and-half" | "Whole-milk"
                          | "Part-Skim" | "Skim" | "Non-Dairy" )
        syrup-type      = ( "Vanilla" | "Almond" | "Raspberry"
                          | "Chocolate" )
        alcohol-type    = ( "Whisky" | "Rum" | "Kahlua" | "Aquavit" )

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Sitter sitter everywhere… Who holding up what?

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What is this representing? My apologies in advance for the tacky collage :P

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What’s going on here?

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Cracked by Raghuvansh , Bharath , Sumanth Patlolla , Prasad , rickde , KK , Gurupad , Manish Achuth , rohanquizzer , shrik , soda buddi , Vishwas B Sharma , Jayaprakash B R , jowens , Dibyo , badideabear , Kaustubh Mhatre , Rogi , Ananth , debjani and Shwetha Maiya

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