The word zero came via French zéro from Venetian zero‚ which (together with cypher) came via Italian zefiro from Arabic صفر‚ ṣafira = "it was empty"‚ ṣifr = "zero"‚ "nothing". This was a translation of the Sanskrit word shoonya (śūnya)‚ meaning "empty". The first known English use was in 1598.[4][5][6][7] ------------------------------------------------- History Mesopotamia By the middle of the 2nd millennium BC‚ the Babylonian mathematics had a sophisticated sexagesimal positional numeral system
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springs of the Muses on Mount Helicon. Many cultures‚ religions‚ and pieces of literature contain similar magical horses. The Buraq‚ according to Islamic tradition‚ is a creature from the heavens that carried Muhammad from earth to heaven and back. Chollima is the Korean name for a mythical horse that is said to be too swift to be mounted. In Norse mythology‚ Sleipnir is Odin’s magical eight-legged steed‚ and said to be the greatest of all horses. In all of these examples‚ the horses are good
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It is suggested that the Boli is the most sacred objects of the Bamana. “The word Boli has at least two meanings for the Bamana. In the general sense‚ a Boli is any magical object used for ritual purposes…In its limited sense a Boli is any object where the most important magical ingredients are hidden in the center of a thick back coating” (Brett-Smith). The Boli held so much power in the Bamana society that it was secretly guarded away from village members. “Komo‚ a secret
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They had a number of rituals for the festivals associated with seasons. Their rituals were divided into five parts; rituals performed at seasonal feasts‚ transmigration rituals such as initiation rites‚ divinatory rituals‚ curative processes‚ and magical rituals. Firstly‚ rituals performed at seasonal feasts occurred with the Irish’s feasts and were celebrated throughout the year. These feasts included: Samhain (1st of November)‚ Imbolc (1st of February)‚ Beltane (1st of May) and Lughnasadh (1st of
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"If you want to get paid more‚ ask for it‚ and if you have to be more aggressive‚ be more aggressive and do not ask forgiveness." So outright Jennifer Lawrence is shown in an interview for the premiere of his film‚ "Joy". The US‚ like Joy Mangano‚ his character in the film‚ holds its own struggle: to achieve equal pay between the actors and actresses of Hollywood universe. For the young‚ this is an individual battle that depends on each woman‚ says Lawrence‚ who at 25 has already won an Oscar for
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“Love Poem” he uses metaphors to talk about love and you have to pay close attention to what he is saying. The theme of these two poems is love and the opposing views of the author’s views of love. Helen Farries creates the image of love being magical. Love can make people feel good; make you feel bubbly and all warm inside‚ “like the sun‚ it can warm your hearts” (601). She goes on to create an image that love is a gift‚ one that you can give and receive‚ “ It’s a gift you can give every day
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Rip Van Winkle The “Rip Van Winkle” was written by Washington Irving. This story is set in the past in a very exciting time‚ and also in this story there are many strange and remarkable characters‚ “Rip Van Winkle” features incredible‚ magical‚ and mysterious events‚ and convey a positive message about a nation and its people. “Rip Van Winkle” is set in a time a little bit before and after the revolutionary war in a pleasant village at the foot of New York’s Catskill Mountains. The story
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which translate to a medicine cabinet being strange to the outsider. The charms and magical potions in the shrine box being the medicine needed cure the ills and maladies of an individual. Medicine had a purpose of curing those maladies for many with similar ills. But the outsider views pulling out these magical packets is not something done in their culture or rather not seen as necessary. These charms and magical potions are given to the people by the medicine men‚ or rather doctors‚ psychiatrists
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Night’s Dream‚ William Shakespeare reveals with a motif of the magic of a special violet flower the effects of love make people irrational‚ and can happen to anyone. Love has effects that make one irrational. The play shows several times with the magical effects of two different flowers how irrational love can make people. The characters under the effects of the magic flower‚ Demetrius‚ Queen Titania‚ and Lysander ‚ fall in and out of love throughout the events of the story and show great irrationality
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book. The book is during Christmas‚ and Clara got a nutcracker‚ and it was magical Christmas. In brief‚ there are many different adaptations of the story The Nutcracker. Despite the various version of the story the plot stay the same. The plot has the same amount of characters and setting stays the same. The setting of the story is a at Clara’s house the protagonist on Christmas eve. Clara and her brother receive magical toys from their godfather an antagonist who is a toymaker Clara gets a nutcracker
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