Math can be downright interesting! For example, most mathematical equations were written in words before the 16th century! Could you imagine what that must have looked like?!
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One of the first things that comes to mind when we think about the festive season is the Christmas tree. It doesn’t have to be a pine, though: in India, people decorate mango or banana trees. In New Zealand, the pohutukawa tree, with its crimson flowers, has replaced the European fir.
A New York company that produced fortune cookies pumps out 4.5 million of them a day. Until 1995, Vice President Donald Lau wrote the fortunes, but when he got writers block, he hired a fortune writer to replace him.
The word ‘hologram’ comes from two Greek words. ‘Holo’ which means whole and ‘gamma’ which means message. Hungarian engineer and physicist, Dennis Gabor, came up with the idea of holograms in 1947 and was later awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971 for the invention.
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One of the first things that comes to mind when we think about the festive season is the Christmas tree. It doesn’t have to be a pine, though: in India, people decorate mango or banana trees. In New Zealand, the pohutukawa tree, with its crimson flowers, has replaced the European fir.
A New York company that produced fortune cookies pumps out 4.5 million of them a day. Until 1995, Vice President Donald Lau wrote the fortunes, but when he got writers block, he hired a fortune writer to replace him.
The word ‘hologram’ comes from two Greek words. ‘Holo’ which means whole and ‘gamma’ which means message. Hungarian engineer and physicist, Dennis Gabor, came up with the idea of holograms in 1947 and was later awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971 for the invention.
These guys were popular with peckish dinosaurs. In fact, their over sized seeds are said to be of their sheer magnitude so they can survive the dinosaur digestive process. Their seed was taken far and wide by these ancient beasts, allowing them to flourish across vast expanses.
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