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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Beautiful Chess

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"Beautiful chess is a chess variant originated by amateur players from Czech Republic in 2013. It is similar to Chess960 and Transc...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Squoval

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Squoval is a portmanteau of the terms and shapes "square" and "oval." The word can refer to the not quite oval , ...
Saturday, December 08, 2012

Water Retention on Mathematical Surfaces

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This article concerns the mathematical problem of finding the maximum retention of water on various surfaces. Imagine a surface of cells o...
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Monday, August 15, 2011

Ashkenazi Intelligence

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The intelligence of Ashkenazi Jews has been the subject of study and speculation within the fields of psychometry and evolutionary biolo...
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Saturday, October 02, 2010

Soft Salad

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Soft salad ( sofuto sarada ) is a salty, dry Japanese rice cracker snack food trademarked by Kameda Seika . The name derives from the fac...
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Jana Cova

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Jana Cova (born April 13, 1980), is a Czech pornographic actress and nude model of Polish descent. Born in Prague , Cova grew up in t...
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Monday, April 12, 2010

Spider Cord

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The Spider Chord is a guitar technique popularized during the 80s thrash metal scene. Although its origins are unknown, it is widely rega...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

UFOs and the Bible

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The advent of the phenomenon of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in the middle of the 20th Century has led to a wide range of religious sp...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Instant Rice

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Instant rice, also known as minute rice, is rice that has been precooked and dehydrated so that it cooks more rapidly. Regular rice requir...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Blaxy Girls

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Blaxy Girls are a Romanian teenagers pop rock girl-band. The group's first single, "If You Feel My Love" became quickly very ...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Polypropylene stacking chair

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The polypropylene stacking chair is a chair manufactured in an injection moulding process using polypropylene. It was designed by Robin Day ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Pip's Three-Handed Chess

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Pip's Three-Handed Chess is a chess variant for three players played using a standard square chess board. It is played as a series of ...
Thursday, June 11, 2009

Bacon, Egg and Cheese Sandwich

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A bacon egg and cheese sandwich is a Breakfast sandwich made with bacon , eggs (typically fried or scrambled ), cheese and some type of ...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

Slow Sex Movement

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Slow Sex Movement (as a social movement ) has emerged in early 2009 and borrows from a long tradition spanning many centuries, several cult...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Megan Elizabeth

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Megan Elizabeth is an American model . She was Cyber Girl of the Week for Playboy in the fourth week of January 2006, when she was quoted...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Zuckerman number

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A Zuckerman number is an integer that is divisible by the product of its digits in a given number base . All integers between 1 and the bas...
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Saturday, February 21, 2009

4-D (The X-Files)

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"4-D" was the fourth episode of the ninth season of The X-Files science-fiction television series created by Chris Carter . At ...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Americanophobia

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Anti-Americanism, often anti-American sentiment, is a controversial term used to describe opposition or hostility to the people, culture or ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Maja Einstein

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Maja Einstein is the younger sister of great scientist Albert Einstein . Maja was the only friend of Albert during his childhood. When littl...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

Sideways Bike

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The sideways bike is an invention by Michael Killian, a software engineer from Dublin . He was inspired by the way that snowboarding is pre...
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Friday, October 03, 2008

Sudokube

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The Sudoko Cube is a variation on a Rubik's Cube in which the faces have numbers one to nine on the sides instead of colours. The aim i...
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Friday, September 12, 2008

Extraterrestrial Exposure Law

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The Extra-Terrestrial Exposure Law (14 C.F.R. §1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations) was the popular name for a United States administrat...
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