**Quasi-**cyclic low-density parity-check codes based on protographs are of great interest to code designers because analysis and implementation are facilitated by the protograph structure and the use of circulant permutation matrices for protograph lifting.
“Photograph” was a #1 hit single for Ringo Starr in 1973.
“War” was a #1 hit single for Edwin Starr in 1969
The B side of Rock Around The Clock, a #1 hit for Bill Haley and The Comets, was Thirteen Women and Only One Man in Town, a novelty tune about surviving an H-bomb attack.
The word in play from the previous trivia was “protograph” with an R.
The First Photograph, or more specifically, the earliest known surviving photograph made in a camera, was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827. The image depicts the view from an upstairs window at Niépce’s estate, Le Gras, in the Burgundy region of France.
A researcher who studied Niépce’s notes and recreated his processes found that the exposure must have continued for several days.
The photo, called View from the Window at Le Gras is normally on display in the main lobby of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in Austin, Texas.
Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Tuesday or Mardi Gras) is the last day of ordinary liturgical time before the commencement of Lent on the following day, Ash Wednesday. It can fall between 3 February and 9 March inclusive.
In the Anglican Communion, Shrove Tuesday is commemorated with pancakes.
In New Orleans, by bare breasts and beads.
The phrase to tell one’s beads is an older English form, meaning to recite the Rosary.
In the intro to Bull Durham, Susan Sarandon as Annie Savoy says “I believe in the Church of Baseball. I’ve tried all the major religions, and most of the minor ones. I’ve worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I heard that, I gave Jesus a chance! But it just didn’t work out between us. The Lord laid too much guilt on me.”
The NY Times published this USA map of favorite MLB teams by region. From this, a few areas where there are little to no no MLB team interests. There are a few, but not many.
Bulgaria’s shopska salad has been voted Europe’s **favorite **food, slightly ahead of Lithuania’s Saltibarsciai cold red beet soup.
Bulgaria’s capital is Sofia, named for its Hagia Sophia church, celebrating the Holy Wisdom.
Tsar Simeon of Bulgaria, in exile, is one of the three last living heads of state from World War II (the others are King Michael of Romania and the Dalai Lama), and the only living person who has borne the title “Tsar”,
First cousins Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and King George V of the United Kingdom were so similar in appearance that they were frequently mistaken for each other at royal gatherings.
George V is one of the more than 20 members of the British Royal Family and aristocracy who have appeared on paper currency issued by the Government of Canada.
Only 4 Canadians have been featured prominently on Canadian paper currency.
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The brother of a famous Hollywood actor has appeared on a Canadian postage stamp. Governor General Vincent Massey was the brother of Raymond Massey, who played Abraham Lincoln in “How the West was Won”.
The brother of a famous Hollywood actor has served as Deputy Prime Minister of Canada: Eric Neilsen, the brother of Leslie Neilsen.
Erik Thorvaldsson (‘Erik the Red’) is celebrated in the sagas as the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland. His epithet ‘the Red’ is thought to refer to the colour of his hair/beard.