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The term comes from an obsolete Middle English philosophical word that Alpher said he found in Webster's dictionary. [5] The word means something along the lines of "primordial substance from which all matter is formed" (that in ancient mythology of many different cultures was called the cosmic egg [6]) and ultimately derives from the hūlē (Ancient Greek: ὕλη), probably through an ...
Matt Gaffney is a professional crossword puzzle constructor and author [1] who lives in Staunton, Virginia.His puzzles have appeared in Billboard magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Beast, [2] Dell Champion Crossword Puzzles, GAMES magazine, the Los Angeles Times, [3] New York magazine, the New York Times, [3] Newsday, The Onion, Slate magazine, [4] the Wall Street Journal, [3] the ...
A crossword creator might choose to clue the answer SEN (as in the abbreviation for "senator") as "Washington bigwig: Abbr." or "Member of Cong.", with the abbreviation in the clue indicating that the answer is to be similarly abbreviated. [7] The use of "Var." indicates the answer is a variant spelling (e.g., EMEER instead of EMIR), while the ...
Isaac Newton suggests the existence of an aether in the Third Book of Opticks (1st ed. 1704; 2nd ed. 1718): "Doth not this aethereal medium in passing out of water, glass, crystal, and other compact and dense bodies in empty spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the rays of light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve lines? ...
[7] The largest puzzle (40,320 pieces) is made by a German game company Ravensburger. [8] The smallest puzzle ever made was created at LaserZentrum Hannover. It is only five square millimeters, the size of a sand grain. The puzzles that were first documented are riddles. In Europe, Greek mythology produced riddles like the riddle of the Sphinx ...
Larmor also created the first solar system model of the atom in 1897. [20] He also postulated the proton, calling it a "positive electron". He said the destruction of this type of atom making up matter "is an occurrence of infinitely small probability". In 1919, Larmor proposed sunspots are self-regenerative dynamo action on the Sun's surface.
Frank Longo is an American puzzle creator and author of more than 90 books, [1] which have sold more than 2 million copies. [2]Longo is known for creating unusual crosswords, such as one on a 50x50 grid, [3] [4] the Jumbo Puzzles compilation of 29x29 puzzles [5] and is the creator and author of The New York Times Spelling Bee anagram puzzle.
[6] [7] [8] Butts decided to create a game that utilized both chance and skill by combining elements of anagrams and crossword puzzles , a popular pastime of the 1920s. Players draw seven lettered tiles from a pool and then attempt to form words from their letters.