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Famous Trick Donkeys is a puzzle invented by Sam Loyd in 1858, [1] first printed on a card supposed to promote P.T. Barnum 's circus. At that time, the puzzle was first called "P.T. Barnum's trick mules". [2] Millions of cards were sold, with an estimated income for Sam Loyd of $10,000 from 1871 [3] —more than $200,000 in 2023 dollars.
The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of 10 years, between 1946 and 1956, at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. Dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century ...
The Sandman. Dead Boy Detectives is an American supernatural horror detective comedy-drama television series developed by Steve Yockey based on the DC Comics characters of the same name by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner. [1] The series stars George Rexstrew, Jayden Revri, Kassius Nelson, Briana Cuoco, Ruth Connell, Yuyu Kitamura and Jenn Lyon, and ...
The Dead Mountaineer's Hotel ( Russian: Отель «У Погибшего Альпиниста») is a 1970 Soviet science fiction novel written by brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. In 2015, Melville House published an English translation by Josh Billings as part of their Neversink Library collection. The novel heavily incorporates ...
Forty-two (42) is the sixth pronic number [1] and the eighth abundant number, [2] with an abundance of 12, [3] equal to the average of its eight divisors as an arithmetic number. [4] [5] Its prime factorization makes it the second sphenic number, and also the second of the form . [6] 42 is the aliquot sum of 30, [7] the smallest sphenic number ...
The Last Frontier is a 1959 novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. It was released in the United States under the title The Secret Ways . This novel marks MacLean's first foray into the espionage thriller genre , and was inspired by the events surrounding the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 .
Brave Frontier 2 (ブレイブフロンティア2, Bureibu Furontia 2) is a mobile role-playing game developed by A-Lim and published by A-Lim for both iOS and Android and DMM Games for Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to the 2013 game Brave Frontier, originally released for the franchise's 5th anniversary, with Eiji Takahashi returning as ...
World War II deaths by theater. Soviet soldiers killed during the Toropets–Kholm Offensive, January 1942. Officially, roughly 8.6 million Soviet soldiers died in the course of the war, including millions of POWs. Einsatzgruppen murder Jewish civilians outside Ivanhorod, Ukraine, 1942. Over 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their ...