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February 5, 2010 by --------
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January 12, 2010 by pdoyle
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January 7, 2010 by pdoyle
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still life photograph//
December 1, 2009 by petedeeva
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November 12, 2009 by vessels
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October 24, 2009 by vessels
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Great Circle
October 21, 2009 by lisalarsonwalkerAmongst other remarkable geometric concordances, many of the Wonders of the World are on the same Great Circ[ular] Latitude.
graphic by Michæl.Paukner
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October 19, 2009 by ando
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Planck is a European Space Agency (Esa) endeavour.
September 17, 2009 by bkuzma
The European telescope sent far from Earth to study the oldest light in the Universe has returned its first images.
“The light holds details about the age, contents and evolution of the cosmos.”
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studio von birken for ‘the best rapper alive’
August 25, 2009 by petedeeva
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August 12, 2009 by petedeeva
7. The longest common english word that does not repeat a letter is uncopyrightables. But Borgmann supplies some longer coined words, such as vodkathumbscrewingly, with 20 letters, which means to apply thumbscrews while under the influence of vodka.
The longest such word ever created, he says, is the 23-letter monster pubvexingfjordschmaltzy, which means “as if in the manner of the extreme sentimentalism generated in some individuals by the sight of a majestic fjord, which sentimentalism is annoying to the clientele of an English inn.”
(answer #7 to ‘last month’s short word and number problems’, from the december 1965 issue of scientific american)
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July 24, 2009 by pdoyle
