In Sarah and the Seed, a comic by Ryan Andrews, an old woman gives birth to a rather large seed. Although she can’t contain her excitement, her husband sees it as a dreadful omen.
How Common Is Your Birthday, A Chart of Birth Date Frequencies
Which brings up the question of why are people not commonly born on US holidays.
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Seems faultless: if you have a pizza with radius “z” and thickness “a”, its volume is Pi(z*z)a.
By the way, this might be completed with this tweet by Neil deGrasse Tyson:
If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you’d see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson)
Days of the Week
The name planet comes from the Greek term πλανήτης, planētēs, meaning “wanderer”, as ancient astronomers noted how certain lights moved across the sky with the other stars. They called these objects asteres planetai, or wandering stars. Together they form the seven classical planets, as well as the names of the seven days of the week - Sun-day, Moon-day, Saturn-day, and in Latin, ‘Martis’ (Mars, Tuesday), ‘Mercurii’ (Wednesday), ‘Iovis’ (Jupiter, Thursday) and ‘Veneris’ (Venus, Friday).
The modern English days of the week were inherited from gods of the old Germanic Norse culture—Thursday = Thor (Jupiter), Friday = Frige (Venus). It can be correlated that the Norse gods were attributed to each Roman planets and its god, probably due to Roman influence rather than coincidentally by the naming of the planets.
My publisher sent me an advance copy of Volume 4 this morning! Here is a shot of all my books together.
Materia is a fair bit thicker than the other volumes!
It should be in this month’s Diamond Previews, so be sure to ask your local comic shop to stock it, and I’ll be sure to get some stock of my own as soon as I can!
Monotony
Christians usually marry only one person for life. This is called monotony.
For those of you who don’t understand archaeology, I have made a diagram.
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I love how potato in French is pomme de terre, which pretty much means “earth apple.”
like what stupid frenchman saw this:
and said “zis petite légume looks like a, how you say, APPLE! hmmm… but it grows in ze earth… HON HON HON! MAIS OUI! C’EST UNE…
From Wikipedia: The word “pineapple” in English was first recorded in 1398, when it was originally used to describe the reproductive organs of conifer trees (now termed pine cones). The term “pine cone” for the reproductive organ of conifer trees was first recorded in 1694. When European explorers discovered this tropical fruit in the Americas, they called them “pineapples” (first so referenced in 1664 due to resemblance to what is now known as the pine cone).
Picture: AUSTIN THOMAS / CATERS NEWS (via Pictures of the day: 9 May 2013 - Telegraph)
He’s got owl shit to do too.
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