Alice

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   A female given name from the Germanic languages popular in England since the Middle Ages.

   "My name is Alice, but—" "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."

   She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice', but she used to deny that she was really an Alice. I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.

   Party leader Alice Weidel has already hailed the coalition’s collapse as a “liberation” for Germany.

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   The person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.

   Alice sends the message, "I am Alice," to Bob. Bob chooses a nonce, N and sends it to Alice. Alice encrypts the nonce using Alice and Bob's symmetric secret key, K#95;#123;A-B#125;, and sends the encrypted nonce, K#95;#123;A-B#125;(N) back to Bob.

   Alice opens her lantern, Bob opens his the instant he sees Alice's, and Alice notes the time T that passes between the moment she opens hers and the moment she sees the light returning to her from Bob's.

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   argotThe city of Alice Springs, Australia.

   At that point in my second visit to the Alice, I'd been there only a day.[…] they're doing Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.

   In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice.

   "Don't waste yer time in The Alice, get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."

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   A locality in the Clarence Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

5. 5

   A city in North Dakota.

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   A city, the county seat of Jim Wells County, Texas.