X was a French scribe and manuscript-seller. After his death, X developed a reputation as an alchemist believed to have discovered Y and to have thereby achieved immortality. These legendary accounts first appeared in the 17th century. According to texts ascribed to X almost 200 years after his death, he had learned alchemical secrets from a Jewish converso on the road to Santiago de Compostela.
X appears briefly in a fictional work and also had a wife Z who share his immortality.
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The phrase X appeared in print in its modern meaning in 1770 when, at the death of George Whitefield, John Wesley wrote a memorial sermon which acknowledged but downplayed the two men's doctrinal differences:
There are many doctrines of a less essential nature ... In these we may think and let think; we may X. But, meantime, let us hold fast the essentials...
In game theory, Aumann's agreement theorem is a theorem which demonstrates that rational agents with common knowledge of each other's beliefs cannot X. It was first formulated in the 1976 paper titled "X" by Robert Aumann, after whom the theorem is named.
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The Pieta or The Pity by Michelangelo depicts Virgin Mary holding Jesus after his crucifixion. Unlike other similar artwork of the same period, This was sculpted in marble and was acclaimed for its details in draping to the fact that both Jesus and Mary show acceptance instead of Sorrow. Now for the question- What makes this piece so special???
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He signed it as people thought it was by his competitor but he regretted his action his whole life - saying he ruined the piece for his vanity- and vowed to never sign any of his sculptures ever again.
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The 1898 poster says ‘Here’s to your health’ ‘Michelin drinks up your obstacles’ - implying it will keep us road safe
Despite his inestimable contributions to the field of Mathematics, astronomy and engineering, he is more associated with an anecdote and his subsequent discovery of a method for determining volume.
Now, ain't that sad!
His dedication to mathematics was so much that even when he was about to be killed he supposedly uttered “Do not disturb my circles", a reference to the circles in the mathematical drawing that he was studying.
Had you given him a place to stand, he would have moved the Earth.
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Habitually single, Locusts can sometimes explode in population and transform into a swarm of disaster changing from dull green to striking yellow and black. Eating up large areas of standing crop fields. Eventually with a supply-demand disequilibrium, they could turn cannibalistic feeding on each other.
Probably insects have a liking for grids with appendages, In the 1940's ENIAC built for the US Army had warm and bright vacuum tubes that were peppered by moths in large numbers and disrupted the relays thus impelling the Engineers to maintain an 'Error log'? What do we do then? Just Hit it! And most of us call it???
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The terms "bug" and "debugging" are popularly attributed to Admiral Grace Hopper in the 1940s. While she was working on a Mark II computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system.
**N-acetyl-para-aminophenol, also known as acetaminophen, is very commonly used medication, used by doctors from as early as 1900s.
Incidentally, this is extremely lethal to snakes. Doses of 80 mg are inserted into dead mice that are scattered by helicopter for snake control. How do we better know Acetaminophen?**
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Born on June 27, 1880, this woman was an author and political activist who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. She was very good friends with Mark Twain and wrote 12 books herself, including one when she was 11. She was a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and was an outspoken advocate for women’s rights and a strong supporter of birth control. Who was this woman who was the first person with deafblindness to earn a college degree?
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On June 27, 1960, this compound was artificially synthesised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was a specific form of a vital compound that plays a major role in sustaining life on Earth. The compound absorbs energy from blue to red wavelengths but does not absorb the green portions of the spectrum. What is this compound whose job is that of a primary electron donor?
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On June 27, 1972, this now legendary computer company was founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Sunnyvale, California. This company was responsible for the formation and eventual worldwide popularity of the modern video-game industry including video arcades. The company is named after a Japanese term that refers to a group of stones in danger of being taken by an opponent in a game. What company is this whose first game was Pong
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On June 6, 1822, Canadian Alexis St. Martin was accidentally shot in the stomach with a musket. This left a hole through his side permanently, with a fistula aperture directly into the stomach. U.S. Army surgeon William Beaumont used this unique opportunity to study a poorly understood process. He would tie a food item to a string, lower it into the hole and take it out at timed intervals to study it. What process do we know better thanks to this freak accident?
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In 1882, a boy named Charles was born in Lugo, Italy.His family was not wealthy and was going through a rough phase.But little Charles always liked money.At that time, Italians were migrating to the USA in search of economic opportunities and Charles jumped on a ship too. On reaching the US, he looked for odd jobs in the city of Boston. After repeatedly doing many jobs and failing in them and also going to prison for some he started a new business.
He promised clients a 50% profit within 45 days or 100% profit within 90 days, by buying discounted postal reply coupons in other countries and redeeming them at face value in the U.S. as a form of arbitrage.In reality, he was paying earlier investors using the investments of later investors. While this type of fraudulent investment scheme was not originally invented by him, it became so identified with him that it now is referred to as a "X scheme." His scheme ran for over a year before it collapsed, costing his "investors" $20 million (inflation adjusted to $250 million as of 2020).
Gimme X.
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Kuntal Joisher, a mountaineer based out of Mumbai, had climbed some of the toughest-to-climb mountains in the world by 2014.In 2014, he decided to climb the world’s tallest mountain - Mt Everest.
In 2014, while Kuntal was at the Everest Base Camp in Nepal, right before he set off for this journey, a massive avalanche struck. 16 Sherpas died.The plan was canceled.Kuntal returned next year.This time, an earthquake struck the region. Again, there were avalanches.Kuntal barely managed to escape.
In 2016, again, Kuntal went to the base camp to attempt the climb. He braved the nightmarish winds and sub-zero temperature, ate snacks that he carried with him, and hoped for the best.He spent 4 days climbing, and finally reached the top where he spent 20 minutes admiring the view.
By the time he returned, he was famous.He wasn’t just famous in Mumbai, he was famous in the world.Newspapers all over the world had made mentions about him.Scores of people climb Everest every year - many of them are Indian.
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- In 2011, after years of petitions Nike released the Nike Mag, the shoes feature an electroluminescent out sole, space age materials, and a rechargeable internal battery good for 3,000 hours. They are the first rechargeable pair of footwear by them.
- In 2016, Nike released a new and improved version, each pair having advanced Adaptive Fit technology, also known as “power laces,” which can sense the wearer’s motion and loosen or tighten accordingly. Production was limited to just 89 units and proceeds from the sale going to the X foundation of Parkinson's Research, The subsequent auction raised a whopping US$6.75 million.
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This now very famous greeting/gesture first appeared in the season 2 episode opener “Amok Time” of X show, the initial idea was the character kneeling before a matriarch , who places her hands on his shoulders, like royalty dubbing a knight, but the actor felt this would be an invasion of privacy as the race he plays on the show are touch telepaths.
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Hence the actor drew from his Jewish heritage and based the greeting on the blessing gesture used by the kohanim koe hah NEEM ) during the worship service. The kohanim are the genealogical descendants of the Jewish priests who served in the Jerusalem Temple
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The blessing depicts the Hebrew letter “shin” shin”(SH), which in this case stands for the word Shaddai, meaning “Almighty (God)".
It is now widely recognized more for the show than for its Jewish Origin . What is this greeting? Give X
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**Hexco is a company in the USA founded in 1967. Over the years, their focus has shifted to academics.
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The above chart is for one of their most popular services.
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What are these services intended for, featuring a high proportion of Asians as teachers as well as clients?
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Taurine is a key ingredient in X and other similar products. The ingredient is added because there is evidence it helps muscle function, may aid athletic performance and endurance, helps reduce anxiety, and appears to aid blood sugar regulation and cardiac health.
Taurine is an organic molecule named for the Latin Taurus because it was originally extracted from the Taurus’ semen/bile.
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Made from semen? Nahhh
In 1961, Lorenz was using a simple digital computer, a Royal McBee LGP-30, to simulate weather patterns by modeling 12 variables, representing things like temperature and wind speed. He wanted to see a sequence of data again, and to save time he started the simulation in the middle of its course. He did this by entering a printout of the data that corresponded to conditions in the middle of the original simulation. To his surprise, the weather that the machine began to predict was completely different from the previous calculation. The culprit: a rounded decimal number on the computer printout. The computer worked with 6-digit precision, but the printout rounded variables off to a 3-digit number, so a value like 0.506127 printed as 0.506. This difference is tiny, and the consensus at the time would have been that it should have no practical effect. However, Lorenz discovered _that small changes in initial conditions produced large changes in long-term outcome._
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X means a wild and noisy disorder / confusion / uproar. It is also referenced as the capital of Hell in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, where X literally meaning the abode of demons.
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Dr. May studied physics and mathematics at Imperial College London, graduating with a BSc (Hons) degree and ARCS in physics with Upper Second-Class Honours. From 1970 to 1974, he studied for a PhD degree at Imperial College, studying reflected light from interplanetary dust and the velocity of dust in the plane of the Solar System. When his other artistic ventures started having success in 1974, he abandoned his doctoral studies.
Despite his success in other fields he never lost his love for physics and finally completed his unfinished PhD in August 2007.
May appeared on the 700th episode of The Sky at Night hosted by Sir Patrick Moore, along with Chris Lintott, Jon Culshaw, Professor Brian Cox, and the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees who on departing the panel, told May, who was joining it, "I don't know a scientist who looks as much like Isaac Newton as you do."
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Thermo regulation is cited as among the most popular theories behind the cause of this. The ____ and ____ cause a convection current of sorts due to their disparate properties helping in regulation of body heat for the creature.
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This long standing theory has been called into question after an experiment performed recently. The experiment concludes that the trait in question acts as an optical illusion to flies, causing confusion and hence making them stay away from the creature.
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