Checkmate in Amber (18 page)
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Authors: Matilde Asensi
The Chess Group is still hard at work, but now it’s more for the sheer fun of it. A lot has happened since the Weimar showdown. We nominated a new Roi less than a year later, a fantastic person who’s doing a really good job. And it wasn’t long after that …
But, hey, that’s another story.
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Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832), French archeologist and founder of modern Egyptology. In 1821, he began to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone, the key to the development of our understanding of Ancient Egypt.
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IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a worldwide internet protocol for real-time one-to-one or group communication in text-based discussion forums, known as channels.
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Regional Leader of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich.
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‘Would you like something to drink?’
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‘A Pils, please.’
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Expressway, freeway, in German
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A kiss, in Portuguese.
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Blood Street, in German.