Examples taken from https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics

A First Level Header

A Second Level Header

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. This is just a regular paragraph.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.

Header 3

This is a blockquote.

This is the second paragraph in the blockquote.

This is an H2 in a blockquote

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Some of these words are emphasized. Some of these words are emphasized also.

Use two asterisks for strong emphasis. Or, if you prefer, use two underscores instead.

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• Candy.
• Gum.
• Booze.

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1. Red
2. Green
3. Blue

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• A list item.

  With multiple paragraphs.

• Another item in the list.

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This is an example link.

This is an example link.

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I get 10 times more traffic from Google than from Yahoo or MSN.

I start my morning with a cup of coffee and The New York Times.

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I strongly recommend against using any <blink> tags.

I wish SmartyPants used named entities like — instead of decimal-encoded entites like —.

If you want your page to validate under XHTML 1.0 Strict, you've got to put paragraph tags in your blockquotes:

<blockquote>
    <p>For example.</p>
</blockquote>

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