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Vienna's thirteenth district is called “Hietzing” and is located in the westernmost part of the city. The Schönbrunn Palace of the Habsburgs is located here.
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“If he (Caesar) had anything confidential to say, he wrote it in cipher, that is, by so changing the order of the letters of the alphabet, that not a word could be made out. If anyone wishes to decipher these, and get at their meaning, he must substitute the fourth letter of the alphabet, namely D, for A, and so with the others.”
— Suetonius (69AD-?), “The Twelve Roman Emperors” (Loeb Classical Library translation)
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There are many equivalent expressions of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Common examples are:
“Heat can never pass from a colder to a warmer body without some other change, connected therewith, occurring at the same time.” (Clausius);
“It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency, to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.” (Kelvin);
“It is impossible to construct an engine which will work in a complete cycle, and produce no effect except the raising of a weight and cooling of a heat reservoir.” (Planck);
“When an isolated system performs a process after the removal of a series of internal constraints, it will reach a unique state of equilibrium: this state of equilibrium is independent of the order in which the constraints are removed.” (Hatsopoulos-Keenan);
and many more.
Maybe Einstein's dictionary attack was too powerful — but Tesla ends up sleeping through to the afternoon of the next day.
When she rubs the dark circles around her eyes, and eventually climbs downstairs, she sees the culprit and Welt sitting face-to-face in the foyer, taking turns playing around with some small pebbles that they've picked up for somewhere.
The room has its floor heating switched on, so it is more comfortable now than before when there was a cold draft.
Also, permeating through the languid atmosphere is the unique fragrance of fried food.
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The above four are different variants of Mancala (called “African chess” in Chinese). Omweso is popular in Uganda, Owale is popular in Ghana, Bao is popular in Kenya, and Kalah is a variant adopted by Americans.
In general, this is a two-player turn-based board game, featuring the peculiar mechanic of constantly moving pieces into holes on a board in a seeding process — in doing so, one can win pieces according to certain rules and eventually become victorious.
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Hampstead Heath (or simply, “the Heath”) is a large and ancient London park spanning a clay belt (including sand dunes, the highest point in London's geography, 134 meters above sea level), from Hampstead to Highgate Cemetery. It is one of London's famous natural attractions.
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Elizabeth Jackson was the first deceased to be buried in Highgate Cemetery.
In the mid-early nineteenth century, due to a soaring urban population brought about by the Industrial Revolution, there was a “grave shortage” in London. Graves that had only been recently used several months ago were being reused to bury more dead. Highgate Cemetery was one of the new cemeteries planned by the British government at the time, to solve this challenging problem affecting the populace's dignity and welfare.
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Pandu was the ancestor of the Pandavas in the Hindu epic “Mahabharata”, and the nominal father of the “five sons of Pandu”, who included Arjuna among others.
When he was young, Pandu hunted in the countryside, and shot arrows at a mating antelope — but the antelope happened to be the incarnation of a sage, and Pandu was cursed by him to not be able to approach others with the intention of lovemaking, or else he would die tragically. When he grew up, as a king, he married Kunti, who had learned immortality. Kunti gave birth to sons (including Karna, the son of the Sun god, who was born before her marriage. This eldest son was adopted and brought up by a charioteer), thus giving Pandu heirs. (Translator's note: This is not entirely accurate as far as the most common version of the Mahabharata is concerned — Pandu had already married before he shot the sage and became cursed; Pandu thus exiled himself and his family from his own kingdom because of this curse [hence Tesla's nickname for the cat]; Kunti never learned of immortality; and precisely because of Pandu's curse, all her sons were sired by different fathers, who were all Hindu Gods.)
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Westminster Abbey, located in the Westminster district of central London, has been the site of the crowning and burial of British monarchs (since the foundation of England).
The non-royal members buried there are mostly British greats, including Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens and so on.
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These two great men were buried at Highgate Cemetery.
P.S. For our work, we should also add Douglas Adams (1952-2001AD), author of “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”. We thank him for giving us “42”, “the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything”.
From simple crude tombs that are so small as to be barely perceptible; to grandiose, luxurious palatial mausoleums that look like they come straight from Angkor Wat — all of these have decayed into prehistoric ruins under the weathering and erosion of lichen moss and acid rain. A stone-carved piano, its keys long since blurred together; a statue with broken arms, covered from head to toe with clambering vines; a granite lion with a mane covered completely by bird guano … Although admittedly it all seems rather eerie and creepy, it can also be seen as yet another Natural History Museum — a dazzling display of the world's living and non-living.
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The Invalidenfriedhof is one of the oldest cemeteries in Berlin and was used as a military cemetery in Prussia.
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This is a mantra used by Cthulhu's cult in Lovecraft's famous short novel “Call of Cthulhu”. It means, “In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”.