In The Year Aught Eight
The year 2008: Past, present and future.
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia: Interrobang
I’m hoping that in 2008 I’ll be able to improve my grammar, spelling and writing style. It is with this in mind, that I make the first Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia a link to the Interrobang.
Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Robot Dance
Just a quick Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia. Today we find out about the Robot Dance. Bonus: James Brown teaches you to dance.
Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Christmas Worldwide
The Christmas edition of Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia consists of a fun and educational page about Christmas celebrations and traditions in countries around the world. The article focuses on non-western countries and has lots of cool insights.
Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Negative Calorie Foods
Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia for this week is a link to a list of foods that have negative calories. Although no foods actually contain negative calories, this list contains foods that require more energy to break down than is released from the chemical digestion of that foodstuff, resulting in a net loss of energy (calories) experienced by the body.
Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Contagious Shooting
This Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia brings us the sad results of mass reflexive response. Mass reflexive response, also known as “contagious shooting“, is gunfire that spreads among officers who believe that they, or their colleagues, are facing a perceived threat.
Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: List Of Foods Named After People
This Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia is a list of foods named after people. I was surprised at how many there were. I was also surprised at how many of them I’ve tried.
Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Architecture In New York City
Since today I’m in the Big Apple, this Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia is a wealth of knowledge about the buildings and architecture of New York City.
Libration
Today on Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia is the concept ofLibration. In astronomy libration (from the Latin verb libro -are “to balance, to sway”, cf. libra “scales”) refers to the various orbital conditions which make it possible to see more than 50% of the moon’s surface over time, even though the front of the Moon is tidally locked to always face towards the earth. As the orbital processes are repetitive, libration is manifested as a slow rocking back and forth (or up and down) of the face of the orbital body as viewed from the parent body, much like the rocking of a pair of scales about the point of balance.
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Free Bird
Free Bird and everthing you never wanted to know about it is the Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia link for this week.