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A puzzling passage from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1957 novel Pnin: Pnin’s birthday … fell on February 3, by the Julian calendar into which he had been born in St.
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A surprising number of flowers are named for people: begonia: after Michel Bégon, a former governor of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) camellia: after Jesuit botanist Georg Joseph Kamel dahlia: after Anders Dahl, a student of Carl Linnaeus forsythia: after Sco…
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In 1848, English poet Arthur Hugh Clough named a new work The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, apparently thinking this was an innocent Gaelic place name.
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An elegant alphametic by Jonathan Joseph, from the October 1991 issue of Games magazine: VENUS MARS SATURN + URANUS -------- NEPTUNE If each letter consistently represents a particular digit, what equation does this expression encipher?
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“Plaindromes” are ordinary sentences that sound as if they ought to be palindromes: Money-man I, an Adam, not even a doom.
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Flemish engraver Aegidius Sadeler II based these prints on designs by Pieter Stevens II.
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Image: ArXiv There are four states in which matter can exist: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.
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Anglican priest Samuel Peters opposed American independence and was forced to flee the colonies as the revolution approached.
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From William Wordsworth, “Goody Blake and Harry Gill”: Of waistcoats Harry has no lack, Good duffle grey, and flannel fine; He has a blanket on his back, And coats enough to smother nine.