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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ver the heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the be... ...hat laymen and the media know about them. Yet, the truth is different. The English physicist Stephen William Hawking proved that in the vic... ...on over the next 30 years. Bras were one size fits all until 1928. An interesting coincidence: one of the forerunners of the bra was patented by a... ... successful caesarean section in the previous 50 years. The book was translated to English. An Edom, Virginia doctor, Jessee Bennet, recorded in ... ...ma and Persistent Vegetative State The term "vegetative state" (cortical death) was coined in 1972 by the Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and th... ...Postal Office, not realizing the importance of e-mail, did not object to the newly coined moniker e-mail. http://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-his... ... On May 1, 1840, Great Britain was the first county to issue a postage stamp - the Penny Black, a one penny, adhesive, paper quadrangle. The govern... ...om. The stamp was good for use from May 6. Thus the first letter bearing the Black Penny is dated May 6 - and not May 1. On May 8, 1840 another sta... ..., 1840 another stamp - a two pence blue Victoria - was disseminated. Both the Black Penny and the Blue Victoria enjoyed print runs of millions and s...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...tion and an acuteness in the delineation of character.” FORD MADOX FORD, English novelist, about Bartlett: “...a writer of very considerable merit.... ... layers, moving between floors. What shall I give him for luck—a charm? A coin? Why not my mother’s drachma? She was lucky: there was no war in her ... .....in the metal...yes, it was her drachma. I wanted to run, throw down the coin, send Charaxos away, turn aside the castaway. I wanted to crumble on ... ...e men entered. Together, we sat down and I asked: “Where did you get the coin?” “At Cos...” “You are from Cos?” “Yes, I came from Cos.” “He came... ...the courtesy of the translator, Dr. Ray Rummers, Chairman, Department of English, Baylor University. LEONARDO DA VINCI... ...ours in his cabin where I gave up to his booked walls: volumes in French, English, Italian, Greek, manuscripts in Latin and Hebrew, his literary wor... ..., Will or William...thank God for copyists, those drones, our skull- down, penny-quill calligraphists. Too bad someone is not dotting this. Stratfo... ... tries, once more, to over- charge her. How well she managed our house, penny-wise always. How well she attended the children. She found time to ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... and Nothingness became a mixed swirl with curved lines. This photo is not a coincidence. These two images help to explain the Basic Dynamics of t... ...ke huge, giant atoms, with a few huge powerful Black Holes. This description coincides almost exactly one part of what the culmination of the 2nd h... ...truth is universal, you will find that it agrees-with, and connects-to, and coincides with every other universal truth without contradiction. I h... ...nce. The Universal symbols of Birth and Infinity are semantically correct in English, and in Mathematics, and in Gender. When you use logic organi... ...gration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a tectonic plate arriving in the exact same hi... ...ved in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coincidence… ... ... children in Ethiopia are beneath your notice, and not one of them is worth a penny of the money you are worth?… Because they are not as perfect a... ...egree. The root dynamic and effect is the same whether it is a profit of one penny or 1 billion dollars. It is still an accumulation. And nobody l... ...all delightedly enjoy as a windfall… not bothering to admit that every earned penny came from the sweat of a poorly paid employee, a swindled buyer,...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... Latin kidnapped the word "plagion" from ancient Greek and it ended up in English as "plagiarism". It literally means "to kidnap" - most commonly, t... ...ectory" and the late "Go" directory) work this way. The flip side of the coin of content consumption is investment in content creation, marketing, ... ...positioning are already fierce - a good sign. The Internet used to be an English, affluent middle-class, white collar, male phenomenon. It has long... ...business - are narrowing. Already there are more women than men users and English is the language of less than half of all web sites. The wireless Ne... ...ce we've never had any money whatsoever. However, if we DID get just a penny for every one of the trillion plus eBooks we have given away, based ... ...h) and a Briton (Alan M. Turing) published independently (as is often the coincidence in science) the basics of a new branch in Mathematics (and log... ...y anthropocentric – others are anthropo-transcendental. These two lingual coins need elaboration to be fully comprehended. A culture which cherishe...

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