Washington, D.C. is home to a lot of impressive architecture. Did you know that one of the gargoyles of the National Cathedral is Darth Vader?
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theater is commonly known as the Tony Award, and is presented at an annual ceremony in Midtown Manhattan. The award was established in 1974 and is named after an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing.
In its original form, the popular board game Scrabble was simply a bunch of tiles — there was no board in sight! It was also first called “Lexico,” but was later changed to the far more catchy name we now know.
There are some unusual sound design tricks at play in Minecraft. For instance, Enderman’s speech is created by recording innocuous phrases in English like “what’s up” and then playing them backward or lowering the pitch.
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theater is commonly known as the Tony Award, and is presented at an annual ceremony in Midtown Manhattan. The award was established in 1974 and is named after an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing.
In its original form, the popular board game Scrabble was simply a bunch of tiles — there was no board in sight! It was also first called “Lexico,” but was later changed to the far more catchy name we now know.
There are some unusual sound design tricks at play in Minecraft. For instance, Enderman’s speech is created by recording innocuous phrases in English like “what’s up” and then playing them backward or lowering the pitch.
What we can see and grasp about the universe makes up a mere 5% of what it’s made of. Twenty-seven percent of the universe consists of so-called dark matter, and nobody knows what that actually is. Even more astonishing, dark energy accounts for 68% of the universe, and we’re equally clueless about the nature of this mysterious force.
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