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0.999... is a recurring decimal which is exactly equal to 1. In other words, the symbols 0.999… and 1 represent the same real number. Mathematicians have formulated a number of proofs of this identity, which vary with their level of rigor, preferred development of the real numbers, background assumptions, historical context and target audience. The ( Read more... )

Es el día número 290 de los 365 que hay en 1 año del calendario Gregoriano.

En este día...

539 AC - El rey Cirio el Grande de Persia entro en la ciudad de Babilonia, liberando a los judíos de casi 70 años de exilio  y e hizo la primera declaración de Derechos Humanos en la historia.

1604 - El astrónomo alemán Johannes Kepler observo que una ( Read more... )

Mae and I are going on a road trip all the way up to Chiriqui on nov. the 3rd & we're trying to convince another friend, Cathy, to come with us! she says doesn't want to:( but I'm sure deep inside she does ( Read more... )

There's a girl in school who talks to pigeons. She's in 9th grade. I don’t really know what her name is; I don’t think anybody except from the girls in her class does ( Read more... )

She was born in Munich. On Christmas Eve 1853, Elisabeth, aged 16, accompanied her mother and her older sister, Helene, on a trip to Upper Austria , where they hoped Helene would attract the attention of their cousin, 23-year-old Franz Joseph, then Emperor of Austria. Instead, he chose Sisi, and the couple were married in Vienna on the 24th of ( Read more... )

Scanning electron micrograph of a capped column snowflake, with rime frost, a white ice that forms when the water droplets in fog freeze to the outer surfaces of objects, on both ends. When the riming process continues so that the shape of the original snow crystal is no longer identifiable, the resulting crystal is referred to as graupel.


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A Narf is a sea nymph, a creature from The Blue World, a mythic water world, who alongs the lines of a mermaid, but without the fishy parts. She is a pale, ethereal thing named Story, by the way I think she looks totally like Mia Farrow on Clorox.

Story and her vicious adversary is a "scrunt," which when it finally becomes visible is a cross ( Read more... )

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Is a piece of modern sculpture by Antony Gormley.

Currently erected on Crosby Beach, Liverpool, England, it will be moved to New York, United States in November 2006. The sculpture consists of 100 cast iron figures which face out to sea, spread over a 2 mile stretch of the beach.

Each figure is 189 cm tall and weighs around 650 kg (over 1400 lb).


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