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Gemstone weight :
CARAT
The carat is a unit of mass equal to 200 mg (0.2 grams). It is used in sizing gemstones.
Video game pioneer :
ATARI
Atari was founded in 1972, and was one of the pioneers in the video game industry. One of the company’s early employees was Steve Jobs, who was hired to work on the game design for the arcade game “Breakout”. Jobs was tasked with reducing the number of chips needed for the game and he recruited his friend, Steve Wozniak, to help with the project. Wozniak designed a circuit board that used only 46 chips, a significant improvement over the original design that had over 100 chips.
Today, we use the verb “” to mean “to vex, irritate”. This is a figurative usage of the same verb that arose mid-1400s, when it meant “to make sore by chafing”. Back then, it was a sore on the skin caused by rubbing or chafing.
to gall
One Step at a Time” is a 2008 song released by singer
Jordin Sparks. Sparks won the sixth season of “American Idol”, and returned to the show at the end of season seven, performing “One Step at a Time”.
is a very delicious dish from Indian cuisine comprising potatoes and peas in a spicy, creamy, tomato-based sauce. The dish’s name translates as “potatoes and peas”.
Aloo mutter (also “all matar”)
” is a name used in general for first-year law students, especially those attending Harvard.
One L
is Luke Skywalker’s twin sister in the original “Star Wars” trilogy and was played by
Princess Leia
Carrie Fisher. Carrie Fisher has stated that she hated the famous “cinnamon bun hairstyle” that she had to wear in the films, as she felt it made her face look too round. She also had to sit for two hours every day just to get her hair styled. Two hours to get your hair done? It takes me just two seconds …
Texas AandM athlete
Aggie
Vermont ski resort
Okemo
is an island in Italy’s Bay of Naples, located in the Campania region
Capri
19 ignoble prize for physics awarded for investigation into shape of this animals feces which is unique
Wombat
cube poo
16 chemistry ignoble prize awarded to this car company for solving problem of excessive automobile pollution by auto matically electromechanicaly producing fewer emissions during testing
Volkswagen
Got in trouble - just setup so fewer emissions during testing
11 ignoble prize for mathematics awarded to Dorothy Martin Pat Robertson Elizabeth Clair prophet and Harold camping among others for teaching world to be careful when
Making mathematical assumptions and calculations - they all did this to earn
Predicted end of world incorrectly using biblical prophecies
10 ignoble prize for management awarded to team of researchers who proved mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if promoting people at Random which is a corollary to this principle
Peter principle - promote people from
Within they will be promoted into position they cannot accomplish
Good programmer get promoted to manager do a little less programming aka promoted out of core competency and detriment to organization
Ambrose beers suh -Devils dictionary
A country lying in south sea whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarted due to an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether continent or island
Australia
Ambrose beers suh -Devils dictionary
One who abstains from
Strong drink sometimes totally sometimes tolerable totally
Tee tote uh ler
