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A bookplate of Malcolm Ferguson (1920–2011), example of a modern book curse. A book curse was a widely employed method of discouraging the theft of manuscripts during the medieval period in Europe. The use of book curses dates back much further, to pre-Christian times, when the wrath of gods was invoked to protect books and scrolls.
The August curse is a perceived phenomenon in Russia where the worst disasters and adverse events seem to have occurred in that country during August. The idea of the curse dates back to the 1991 "August Coup". Many possible explanations have been presented for this observation, ranging from fact-based to supernatural.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a 2024 action comedy film directed, co-written and co-produced by Guy Ritchie, and starring Henry Cavill, Eiza González, Alan Ritchson, Henry Golding and Alex Pettyfer.
[5] [6] Inventors began to branch out at the start of the 19th century, creating the de Rivaz engine, one of the first internal combustion engines, [7] and an early electric motor. [8] Samuel Brown later tested the first industrially applied internal combustion engine in 1826. Only two of these were made. [9]
The hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 approaching the South Tower (left) as the North Tower (right) burns next to it.. The September 11 attacks of 2001, in addition to being a unique act of terrorism, constituted a media event on a scale not seen since the advent of civilian global satellite links.
Voters in New York City went to the polls Sept. 10 to choose the Democratic and Republican nominees for mayor, comptroller and other local races. Bill de Blasio leads in the final round of polls for the Democratic mayoral primary, but he needs 40 percent to avoid a runoff.
(A follower ID is like a username, except shorter.) From the follower IDs, we downloaded each public Twitter profile. We began on Oct. 10 and finished on Oct. 18. (We assume the vast majority of Twitter followers didn’t edit their bios during our download.) We tokenized each user’s bio, turning each string of text into a sequence of tokens ...
The Vought F4U Corsair is an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War.Designed and initially manufactured by Chance Vought, the Corsair was soon in great demand; additional production contracts were given to Goodyear, whose Corsairs were designated FG, and Brewster, designated F3A.