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[Mirra]

Agathyrsi (Greek: Ἀγάθυρσοι) were a people of Scythian,[1] Thracian,[2][3] or mixed Thraco-Scythic origin, who in the time of Herodotus occupied the plain of the Maris (Mures), in the mountainous part of ancient Dacia now known as Transylvania, Romania. According to most authorities, Agathyrsi were of Thracian stock, although their ruling class seems to have been of Scythian origin [4]

 

[jeff98902]

Cryptanalysis:

Cryptanalysis (from the Greek kryptós, "hidden", and analýein, "to loosen" or "to untie") is the art and science of analyzing information systems in order to study the hidden aspects of the systems.[1] Cryptanalysis is used to breach cryptographic security systems and gain access to the contents of encrypted messages, even if the cryptographic key is unknown.
In addition to mathematical analysis of cryptographic algorithms, cryptanalysis also includes the study of side-channel attacks that do not target weaknesses in the cryptographic algorithms themselves, but instead exploit weaknesses in their implementation.
Even though the goal has been the same, the methods and techniques of cryptanalysis have changed drastically through the history of cryptography, adapting to increasing cryptographic complexity, ranging from the pen-and-paper methods of the past, through machines like Bombes and Colossus computers at Bletchley Park in World War II, to the mathematically advanced computerized schemes of the present. Methods for breaking modern cryptosystems often involve solving carefully constructed problems in pure mathematics, the best-known being integer factorization.


A also have a suspicion that Aella is a cryptanalyst when she is not camming... :mrgreen:

 

[LilyMarie]

Luna, Cluj

Luna (Hungarian: Aranyoslóna; German: Lone) is a commune in Cluj County, Romania.


Pretty name for a village.

 

[Jupiter551]

Girobio

Girobio, also known as Baby Giro, is an Italian road bicycle racing amateur stage race created in 1970. Girobio is the most important race on Italy's amateur calendar and it is considered the amateur version of the Giro d'Italia. The list of winners includes renowned riders like Francesco Moser, Marco Pantani, Gilberto Simoni, Leonardo Piepoli and Danilo Di Luca.

 

[LilyMarie]

Summer Crossing

Summer Crossing is Truman Capote's first novel, written during the 1940s. Capote eventually cast it aside and it was thought to be lost for over 50 years, but was eventually published in 2005.

 

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Jimmy and the Boys
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jimmy and the Boys
Origin Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres Shock rock, new wave
Years active 1976–1982
Labels Astor, Avenue, Festival, EMI
Associated acts Arms & Legs, Pardon Me Boys
Past members Tom Falkinham
Joylene Thornbird Hairmouth
Scott Johnston
Ignatius Jones
Jason Morphett
Andrew de Teliga
Barry Litten

Jimmy and the Boys were an Australian shock rock, new wave band, active from 1976 to 1982. They pioneered the use of shock theatrics in Australia with an act that revolved around vocalist and contortionist Ignatius Jones (born Jaun Ignacio Trapaga) and kitsch transvestite keyboard player Joylene Thornbird Hairmouth (born William O'Riordan). The group recorded two studio albums, Not Like Everybody Else (November 1979) and Teddy Boys' Picnic (July 1981). In May 1981 they scored their only top 10 single with "They Won't Let My Girlfriend Talk to Me" – it was written by Split Enz front man Tim Finn. In 1982 soon after issuing their live album, In Hell with Your Mother, they disbanded.

Australian rock music journalist, Jenny Hunter-Brown, described Jimmy and the Boys as a "high voltage package of filth, glorious filth". According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, their performances "mixed S&M trappings, sex shop props, mock rape and other depravities with sub-Zappaesque humour, hard rock, jazz, reggae and disco" and at the end of the 1970s they were "one of the most popular live acts on the Australian scene".

 

[LilyMarie]

Jerry De La Cruz (born 1948) is an American fine artist born and raised in Denver, Colorado. He was the first living Mexican American artist to have his work acquired for the Permanent Collection of the Denver Art Museum (1986).[1] He was also commissioned to create a commemorative digital photo mosaic for the grand opening of the new Libeskind wing of the same museum (2006). Included in The Denver Post's curator survey results as one of the 36 most influential regional artists of the 20th century,[2] the artist currently works out of his studio in the Santa Fe District in Denver, Colorado and out of his studio in the Wynwood District in Miami, Florida.


I love that name, it sounds badass.

 

[LadyLuna]

Lorraine Carbonell Ladish is a Spanish-American author.

The Article

Well that was really short, but kinda fun.

 

[AllisonWilder]

The Shanghai Bull, the Bund Financial Bull or the Bund Bull are monikers associated with a derivative of Arturo Di Modica's Charging Bull installed in late April 2010 and unveiled on The Bund in Shanghai on May 15, 2010. The 5,000-pound (2,300 kg) work of art is said to have the same height, length and weight as the New York City Charging Bull. The bull is reddish as a tribute to the country that commissioned the work. It leans to right instead of the left like Charging Bull and has a more menacing tail.[1] The Bull's popularity has been a problem for local authorities.

Linkage, if anyone wants it.

 

[LiLredhairedgrl]

Edmonton tornado
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edmonton tornado of 1987
Date July 31, 1987
Time 3:25 p.m. MDT (2125 UTC)
Rating F4 tornado
Damages $332.27 Million
($581 million in 2013 dollars[1])
Casualties 27
Area affected Edmonton, Strathcona County, Sherwood Park

The Edmonton tornado of 1987, an event also known as Black Friday to Edmontonians, was a powerful and devastating tornado that ripped through the eastern part of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and parts of neighbouring Strathcona County on the afternoon of Friday, July 31, 1987.

The tornado remained on the ground for an hour, cutting a swath of destruction 40 kilometres (25 mi) long and up to a kilometre (0.6 miles, or 3000 feet) wide in places, and peaking at F4[2] on the Fujita scale. The tornado killed 27 people, injured more than 300 people, destroyed more than 300 homes, and caused more than $332.27 million CAD ($581 million in 2013 dollars[1]) in property damage at four major disaster sites. The loss of life, injuries and destruction of property made it the worst natural disaster in Alberta's recent history and one of the worst in Canada's history.

Weather forecasts issued during the morning and early afternoon of July 31, 1987 for Edmonton revealed a recognition by Environment Canada of a high potential for unusually severe thunderstorms that afternoon. Environment Canada responded swiftly upon receipt of the first report of a tornado touchdown from a resident of Leduc County which is immediately adjacent to Edmonton's southern boundary. At least four other tornadoes were reported that day in central Alberta between Millet and Vegreville.[3]

:shock:

 

[Ann_Sulu]

Solar wind
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Solar wind (disambiguation).


The heliospheric current sheet results from the influence of the Sun's rotating magnetic field on the plasma in the solar wind.
The solar wind is a stream of charged particles (a plasma) released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun. It mostly consists of electrons and protons with energies usually between 1.5 and 10 keV. The stream of particles varies in density, temperature, and speed over time and over longitude. These particles can escape the Sun's gravity because of their high kinetic energy and the high temperature of the corona.
The solar wind is supersonic relative to the speed of sound within it, and this creates the heliosphere, an enormous bubble-like shockwave in the interstellar medium that surrounds the Solar System. Other related phenomena include geomagnetic storms that can knock out power grids on Earth, the aurora (northern and southern lights), and the plasma tails of comets that always point away from the Sun.

 

[Nordling]

Names for the number 0 in English

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are several names for the number 0 in English, and concomitant names for the decades where the tens column contains the number 0. Several names for the number 0 include "zero", "cipher", "naught", "nought", "love", "duck", "nil", "zilch", "zip", (the letter) "o" (often spelled "oh"), "aught", and "ought". There are various subtleties of usage amongst them all.

 

[Ann_Sulu]

Sternbergia candida
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sternbergia candida

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Amaryllidoideae
Genus: Sternbergia
Species: S. candida

Binomial name

Sternbergia candida
B.Mathew & T.Baytop
Sternbergia candida is a bulbous flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae, which is used as an ornamental. It has white flowers which appear in spring.

 

[LilyMarie]

A sugar spoon is a piece of cutlery used for serving granulated sugar. This type of spoon resembles a teaspoon except that the bowl is deeper and often molded in the shape of a sea shell, giving it the name sugar shell. Sugar spoons are sometimes called "sugar shovels" because of their rectangular shape and deep bowl. Sterling silver sugar spoons are used with formal silver coffee or tea sets.[1]

 

[SD_36]

Christopher Soghoian is a Washington, DC based privacy researcher and activist. He first gained notoriety in 2006 as the creator of a website that generated fake airline boarding passes. Since that incident, he has continued to engage in high-profile activism related to privacy and computer security. He is currently the principal technologist and a senior policy analyst with the speech, privacy and technology project at the American Civil Liberties Union.

Between 2009 and 2010, he worked for the US Federal Trade Commission as the first ever in-house technical advisor to the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection. While at the FTC, he assisted with investigations of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Netflix.

 

[LadyLuna]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantoporia_hordonia

The Common Lascar (Pantoporia hordonia) is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in tropical and subtropical Asia.

(weird, it's showing me that it's not an approved host, guess I'll do this the other way)

 

[JerryBoBerry]

I'm on my tablet. So instead of copy/paste, i shall cheat.

 

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Sophie B. Wright
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Sophie B. Wright, 1909
Sophie Bell Wright (1866 – 6 April 1912) was a New Orleans, Louisiana, educator.

Wright was born to a formerly well-to-do family that had become impoverished as a result of the American Civil War. Wright's father, Malcolm H. Wright, was born in Dumfries in southwest Scotland. As a small child, Wright survived a fall with spinal and pelvic injuries that resulted in lifelong physical disabilities. In her teens, she began teaching. She started several free schools and the city's "Home for Incurables," a care facility for disabled and gravely ill patients.

Wright was also active in the Prison reform movement, projects to build public playgrounds, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She was president of the New Orleans Woman's Club, and published a collection of advice essays, Heart to Heart Talks (1908).

She was buried in Metairie Cemetery. New Orleans has a school and a street named after her as well as a statue of her on Magazine Street.

 

[LilyMarie]

Stefanie Wittler is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee who was named Miss Tennessee 2009.

That city name. :lol:

 

[JerryBoBerry]

Rastede Castle

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rastede Castle (German: Schloss Rastede) is a castle at Rastede near Oldenburg, Germany. It was a residence of the rulers of Oldenburg.
Coordinates: 53°14′33″N 8°12′07″E

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastede_Castle

 

[SarcasticWave]

Inertial space
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In physics, the expression inertial space refers to the background reference that is provided by the phenomenon of inertia.
Inertia is opposition to change of velocity, that is: change of velocity with respect to the background, the background that all physical objects are embedded in. Accelerometers measure how hard an object is accelerating with respect to inertial space. More precisely, accelerometers measure the magnitude of the change of velocity with respect to inertial space.
The inertial guidance systems that are used in navigation and in guidance of missiles work by detecting acceleration and rotation with respect to inertial space.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_space

 

[JerryBoBerry]

Mill Green Museum
Mill Green Museum is a working 18th century watermill in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.[1] It is managed by Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council and admission is £2.50 for adults and free for children under 16.
Its heart is a working watermill, with 18th and 19th century wooden machinery restored to full working order. It is in regular use to grind organic wheat for a local bakery and for retail sale. Visitors can explore the mill, see it working and chat to the miller on duty. Flour is sold in various sizes.
The mill also houses the local museum in the old miller's house. Three galleries show changing displays of art and local history.
Mill Green runs craft and baking workshops, children's activities and a school visit service


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Green_Museum

 

[LilyMarie]

Þorvaldur Makan Sigbjörnsson (born 26 November 1974) is an Icelandic former international footballer.
He played club football for KA Akureyri, Leiftur, Östers IF, KA Akureyri again, Fram Reykjavik and Valur.
In November 1997 Þorvaldur underwent a trial at English club Stoke City.[1]
Þorvaldur won a single cap for the senior Iceland team, in a 6–1 friendly defeat to Brazil in Brasília on 8 March 2002.
Þorvaldur's wife Katrín is the captain of the Iceland women's national football team. They were married in August 2009, just before Katrín played at UEFA Women's Euro 2009.


dat name

 

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Love Without Mercy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2013)
Love Without Mercy

Studio album by Lee Roy Parnell
Released April 28, 1992
Genre Country
Length 36:56
Label Arista
Producer Barry Beckett
Scott Hendricks
Lee Roy Parnell chronology
Lee Roy Parnell
(1990) Love Without Mercy
(1992) On the Road
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]
Entertainment Weekly B[2]
Love Without Mercy is the second album released by country music singer Lee Roy Parnell. It was released in 1992 on Arista Records. The album includes the singles "The Rock", "What Kind of Fool Do You Think I Am", "Tender Moment" and "Love Without Mercy". The latter three all reached Top Ten on the Billboard country charts.

 

[AnOkayGuy]

Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt is an EP by Veruca Salt released in 1996. It followed the band's hit album American Thighs (1994). The EP contains four songs, two by Nina Gordon and two by Louise Post.

The album art shows the band dressed in toilet paper. In the liner notes, bass guitarist Steve Lack is credited as Stephen J. Lachaviox.

The EP is now out of print.

 

[LilianaXO]

Lovat's Climbing Mouse (Dendromus lovati) is a species of rodent in the Nesomyidae family. It is found only in Ethiopia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

 

[LilyMarie]

Lovat's Climbing Mouse (Dendromus lovati) is a species of rodent in the Nesomyidae family. It is found only in Ethiopia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Aw, it's cute!


Carl V. Corley (born December 15, 1921[1]) is an author and illustrator. Beginning in the 1950s, he drew physique art for male beefcake magazines and for sale as posters. In the 1960s and 1970s, he wrote twenty-two novels of gay male pulp fiction. From the 1970s into the early 1990s, Corley continued to write stories for gay pornography magazines. Corley also has written and illustrated non-erotic projects, including Louisiana history and religious books. Gay historian John Howard, who rediscovered Corley's gay pulp novels in the 1990s, argues that Corley's work "complicates queer cultural studies by unsettling its urbanist roots." Corley's texts are not typical stories of gay young men from rural areas finding their ways to sexual liberation in cities, but instead describe "many complex nodes of circulation, not just aggregation" (Howard 215).

 

[JerryBoBerry]

Elizabeth Pepper

Elizabeth Pepper DaCosta was the editor and publisher of The Witches’ Almanac, established in 1971. The company, founded in Newport, Rhode Island, produces an annual publication in almanac format as well as a variety of related books. In addition to her literary work, Pepper was an accomplished graphic designer.

 

[playfuldesire25]

Yury Dubinin (born 10 September 1976 in Beloretsk) is a male freestyle wrestler from Belarus. He participated in men's freestyle 60 kg at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[1] Dubinin lost to South Korea's Jung Ji-Hyun and did not advance past the first round.

Aw, poor Yuri Dubinin. At least he made it to the Olympics.

 

[ShilohGables]

161P/Hartley–IRAS is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 21 years. It fits the classical definition of a Halley-type comet with (20 years < period < 200 years).