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On July 2, an alien mothership entered Earth's orbit and deployed several dozen saucer-shaped "destroyer" spacecraft, each 15 miles (24 km) wide.

On July 3, the Black Knights, a squadron of Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornets, participated in an assault on a destroyer near the city of Los Angeles.

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In the words of Abraham Lincoln:

Pardon my french

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Everyone must attend the meeting at 5 o'clock today.

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  5. A corollary to the above item.

  6. Yet another point to consider.

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  • A corollary that does not need to be ordered.
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Here's an idea: why don't we take SuperiorProject and turn it into **Reasonable**Project.

Check out this neat program I wrote:

x = 0
x = 2 + 2
what is x

Visit GitHub!

Github Flavored Markdown

wow_great_stuff do_this_and_do_that_and_another_thing.

http://example.com

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Here's an example:

function test() {
  console.log("notice the blank line before this function?");
}
require 'redcarpet'
markdown = Redcarpet.new("Hello World!")
puts markdown.to_html
First Header Second Header
Content Cell Content Cell
Content Cell Content Cell
First Header Second Header
Content Cell Content Cell
Content Cell Content Cell
Name Description
Help Display the help window.
Close Closes a window
Name Description
Help Display the help window.
Close Closes a window
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col 3 is some wordy text $1600
col 2 is centered $12
zebra stripes are neat $1

Roses are red Violets are blue

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  • list syntax is required (any unordered or ordered list supported)

  • this is a complete item

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  • a bigger project

    • first subtask #1234
    • follow up subtask #4321
    • final subtask cc @mention
  • a separate task

  • SHA: a5c3785ed8d6a35868bc169f07e40e889087fd2e
  • User@SHA: jlord@a5c3785ed8d6a35868bc169f07e40e889087fd2e
  • User/Repository@SHA: jlord/sheetsee.js@a5c3785ed8d6a35868bc169f07e40e889087fd2e
  • #Num: #26
  • GH-Num: GH-26
  • User#Num: jlord#26
  • User/Repository#Num: jlord/sheetsee.js#26
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