WhyNot
March 27, 2008, 3:10pm
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Ooh! Very good!
Candy Land (also Candyland) is a simple racing board game created by Eleanor Abbott and published by Milton Bradley in 1948. The game requires no reading and minimal counting skills, making it suitable for young children. No strategy is involved as players are never required to make choices; only following directions is required. About one million copies per year are sold.
The game was designed in 1948 by Eleanor Abbott, while she was recovering from polio in San Diego, California. The game wa...
A Markov chain or Markov process is a stochastic model describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on the state attained in the previous event. Informally, this may be thought of as, "What happens next depends only on the state of affairs now." A countably infinite sequence, in which the chain moves state at discrete time steps, gives a discrete-time Markov chain (DTMC). A continuous-time process is called a continuous-time Markov chain (C Markov c...
Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music.
Algorithms (or, at the very least, formal sets of rules) have been used to compose music for centuries; the procedures used to plot voice-leading in Western counterpoint, for example, can often be reduced to algorithmic determinacy. The term can be used to describe music-generating techniques that run without ongoing human intervention, for example through the introduction of chance procedures. However through live cod...
Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. Definitions of music vary depending on culture, though it is an aspect of all human societies and a cultural universal. While scholars agree that music is defined by a few specific elements, there is no consensus on their precise definitions. The creation of music is commonly divided into musical composition, musical improvisation In some music...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[a][b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admire...
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti[a] (Women are like that, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte who also wrote Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni.
Although it is commonly held that Così fan tutte was written and composed at the suggestion of the Emperor Joseph II, recent research does not support this ide...
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aktep
March 27, 2008, 3:23pm
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Maybe we should rule that years and countries can’t be used because it makes it too easy:
Candy Land (also Candyland) is a simple racing board game created by Eleanor Abbott and published by Milton Bradley in 1948. The game requires no reading and minimal counting skills, making it suitable for young children. No strategy is involved as players are never required to make choices; only following directions is required. About one million copies per year are sold.
The game was designed in 1948 by Eleanor Abbott, while she was recovering from polio in San Diego, California. The game wa...
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or simply America, is a country primarily located in North America and consisting of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, and nine Minor Outlying Islands.[j] It includes 326 Indian reservations. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area.[d] It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas...
in Europe (dark grey) The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of 4,233,255 km2 (1,634,469 sq mi) and an estimated total population of over 448 million. The EU has often been described as a sui generis political entity (without precedent or comparison) combining the characteristics of both a federation and a confederation.
Containing 5.8% of the world population in 2020,[c] the...
– in Europe (green & dark grey)– in the European Union (green) – [Legend] Austria (German: Österreich),[c] formally the Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich),[d] is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine federal states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous city and federal state. Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slov...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[a][b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admire...
Così fan tutte - Wikipedia (redirect)Bandō Mitsugorō VIII to Una Paisley
I decided to voluntarily follow the rule about not using years or countries for this one. Wow, that was really a LOT more challenging. Here’s my solution, which I’m pretty sure someone could beat:
Bandō Mitsugorō VIII (八代目 坂東 三津五郎, Hachidaime Bandō Mitsugorō)[b] (19 October 1906 – 16 January 1975) was one of Japan's most revered kabuki actors from the 1930s until his death. He was a renowned tachiyaku and katakiyaku, specializing in particular in the aragoto style. He was officially designated as a "Living National Treasure" by the Japanese government in 1973.
8th in the line of Bandō Mitsugorō, he was adopted by Bandō Mitsugorō VII; his son and grandson would go on to take the name as we...
The fugu (河豚; 鰒; フグ) in Japanese, bogeo (복어; -魚) or bok (복) in Korean, and hétún (河豚; 河魨) in Standard Modern Chinese[a] is a pufferfish, normally of the genus Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides, or a porcupinefish of the genus Diodon, or a dish prepared from these fish.
Fugu can be lethally poisonous to humans due to its tetrodotoxin, meaning it must be carefully prepared to remove toxic parts and to avoid contaminating the meat.
The restaurant preparation of fugu is strictly controlled by ...
Homelessness or houselessness – also known as a state of being unhoused or unsheltered – is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing. The general category includes disparate situations, including:
The legal status of homeless people varies from place to place. United States government homeless enumeration studies also include people who sleep in a public or private place, which is not designed for use as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings. Homelessness and ...
The Homeless World Cup is an annual association football tournament organized by the Homeless World Cup Foundation, a social organization which advocates the end of homelessness through the sport of association football. The organization puts together an annual football tournament where teams of homeless people from various countries compete.
The tournament was first held in 1999, and in 2008 it added a women's competition. From 2010 onwards, all tournaments have featured both men's and women'...
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer,[a] is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. ...
A team sport is a type of athletic activity where the fundamental nature of the game or sport necessitates the participation of multiple individuals working together as a team, and it is inherently impossible or highly impractical to execute the sport as a single-player endeavor. In team sports, the cooperative effort of team members is essential for the sport to function and achieve its objectives.The objective often involves teammates facilitating the movement of a ball or similar object in a...
The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup is the sport's oldest world championship, with the first tournament held in England in 1973. Matches are played as One Day Internationals (ODIs) over 50 overs per team, while there is also another championship for Twenty20 International cricket, the ICC Women's T20 World Cup.
The World Cup is currently organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). Until 2005, when the two organisations merged, it was administered by a separate body, the International ...
Una Lillian Paisley (18 November 1922 – 1977) was an Australian cricketer. She played twelve Test matches for the Australia national women's cricket team. She captained the Australia national women's cricket team in four Test matches against New Zealand and England.
A right-handed batter and off break bowler, she played 12 Test matches in all from 1948 to 1961, scoring 471 runs with a best of 108, one of her two centuries. She also took 19 wickets at a bowling average of 22.94 runs per wicket...
Phew.
Next up:
Jon Speelman to Noodling
Soul
March 27, 2008, 6:58pm
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Jon Speelman toNigel Short toThe Times toUnited States toSports in the United States toFishing toNoodling
I suppose being the OP I should offer up my opinion on the using years or countries – the point is to have fun! Think of it like playing a video game where you can change the difficulty from normal to hard mode. If you’d like a challenge, feel free to knock out those two categories. As you can see, I used the United States myself here, but YMMV
Next up:
Scottish Fisheries Museum to Christian X of Denmark
Fishing industry in Scotland >
Okay, here’s one that actually happened to me: I started out looking up “Puritans” , and wound up at “Siouxsie Sioux”!
brujaja:
Fishing industry in Scotland >
Okay, here’s one that actually happened to me: I started out looking up “Puritans” , and wound up at “Siouxsie Sioux”!
Puritan England London The Sex Pistols Siouxsie Sioux
hmmmmm…how’s about Moral Objectivism to Beverly Hills 90210
A day late and link short. That’ll teach me to pay attention.
I forgot to post my question. How to you get from Pico de Gallo to the Ryugyong Hotel ?
Pico de Gallo
Go from our favorite web site, Straight Dope , to a random article, Gamelab .
