About how Europeans discovered us and we stopped being a blank space on a map.

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But the "h" isn't in a square, so I'd tap the blank space between these squares.

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Typing words with letters that aren't in squares requires using the blank space in the middle of these squares.

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It also has a blank space where people can specify a state in which they wouldn't want to be kept alive.

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There is a blank space to fill in the precise details.

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As a gateway to 3 billion Web pages, Google is a strangely unadorned site: 37 words, four tabs and a blank space where you type in a query of up to ten words.

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"This fills out a big blank space, " Wolfe said.

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It's certainly a unique approach to browsing from your couch -- and no less awkward then sluggishly dragging a virtual mouse across your TV -- but the view centric navigation can break the illusion of a well designed website, showing blank space on a page's borders if the user isn't looking at it dead-center.

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On its back, a blank scroll supplied a space wherein the recipient's name could be engraved.

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The heroes of Mr Morton's book are the astronomers who yearn to solve Mars's scientific puzzles, the science-fiction writers who project their politics on to Mars's blank canvas, and the space-flight enthusiasts who dream of Martian colonies.

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