MATH TRIVIA When is a billion not a billion? Did you know that the American system for naming large numbers is not the same as the British system? What we call a billion‚ they call a thousand million. And what they call a billion‚ we call a trillion! And it continues from there. After a million‚ we do not agree on any of the names for large numbers. The chart below summarizes the differences. Number Power of 10 American Name British Name 1‚000 103 thousand thousand 1‚000‚000 106
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structure (Raj Kumar 2003). Hindu Architecture addresses two kinds of buildings‚ religious structures including temples and shrines and non-religious structures including civic buildings and residential homes (Raj Kumar‚ 2003). It is believed that astrology plays an important part in Hinduism theology and also Hinduism architecture and follows three principles. The first is the idea that the world is the body of God. A sacred structure such as a temple is designed to be not just the home of God‚ but
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Moving to a different country is never easy and author Jhumpa Lahiri captures this struggle in the astounding book‚ The Namesake. Her words perfectly emulate the struggles each main character— Ashoke‚ Ashima and Gogol face. This book is written in a third person omniscient view which enables readers to look into the intimate thoughts of each character‚ and how they individually handle their ability to balance the Bengali and American culture. Each character’s journey to conform is unique‚ making
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Old English. Circa 500A.D. Beowulf: First version=Codex Cotton Vitelliusfire‚ so passed down orally Lacunae=holes from moths First word of poem is Hwaet=O.E. for a greeting: hey‚ listen up! Whale’s way=the sea Comitatus=latin=duty of follower to hand everything won to the king who then distributes the wealth based on merit Grendel=large‚ condemned by God; descendant of Cain‚ “one against all‚” wont pay Wergild=price paid to family of the enemy you killed in battle; a matter of honor. Witan=council
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How the Beatles Compare and Contrast Politics and Religion Britain was a Christian country (Church of England) before the 1960s.After the Second World War‚ church membership grew and there was also an economic boom and in the process fuelled consumerism. The Beatles “were beneficiaries of new attitudes toward money and leisure. The emphasis moved from thrift‚ duty‚ and service to consumerism” (Turner 2006:13). The Beatles were one of the most influential pop groups of the 1960s and had considerable
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Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham‚ born 965ce – 1039ce an Arab /Persian scientist and polymath‚ also significant contributions to the principals of optics‚ as well as to physics‚ anatomy‚ astronomy‚ engineering‚ mathematics‚ medicine‚ ophthalmology‚ philosophy‚ psychology‚ visual perception‚ and to science in general with his early application of the scientific method. After being ordered by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah‚ the sixth ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate‚ to carry out this operation‚ he quickly perceived the
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Critical Review of Fichtenau’s The Carolingian Empire: The Age of Charlemagne This is an analytical book review of Heinrich Fichtenau’s The Carolingian Empire: The Age of Charlemagne. It will cover the Fichtenau’s writing techniques and sources he used in developing this fascinating book. Thesis: To better understand the significance of Charles the Great‚ one must first comprehend the unfortunate features challenging Charles during the Carolingian period. This was a quality intention for
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TERM PAPER HUL 240 POETRY BY SHRI A.K. RAMANUJAN SUBMITTED BY: ABHISHEK CHHABRA 2005ME20557 A.K Ramanujan A.K. RAMANUJAN was born in Mysore in 1929 and educated at the local Maharaja ’s College. He began his career as a lecturer in English in Quilon and later worked in Belgaum and Baroda before migrating to Chicago in 1962. He was a Fulbright scholar at Indiana University and later moved on to Chicago University
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Indian politics: Why Savarkar was avoided by Indian governments (INC)? SAVARKAR was the first Indian political leader to call for Swadeshi‚ and the first Indian leader who publicly performed a bonfire of foreign clothes (1906). (MANY YEARS BEFORE GANDHIJI) He was the first Indian student who was rusticated from a hostel of an institution aided by British Govt (reason was the bonfire). He was the first Indian leader of India to daringly proclaim absolute political independence of India as her
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Enlightenment Thought The Eighteenth-century gave way to the intellectual heirs of their past called the Newtonian science. Coined as such because of Sir Isaac Newton’s “natural laws of the physical universe” (Fiero‚ p.134)‚ “Enlightenment philosophers emphasized acquiring knowledge through reason‚ challenging unquestioned assumptions” (Norton‚ Sheriff‚ Katzman‚ Blight‚ Chudacoff & Logevall‚ p. 92). Also known as the Age of Reason‚ the movement occurred roughly between 1687 when Newton’s major
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