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Celebrate Your Name Week (CYNW) is a holiday established in 1997 by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill. Hill prescribed the first full week in March as a week for everyone worldwide to embrace and celebrate his or her name.
The time was determined by observing particular stars as they crossed the meridian. [24] The Jantar Mantar in Jaipur built in 1727 by Jai Singh II includes the Vrihat Samrat Yantra, 88 feet (27 m) tall sundial. [25] It can tell local time to an accuracy of about two seconds. [26]
An example of a code nail would be the Chicago and North Western Railway "FNB" nail meaning First National Bank, which would be hammered into the ends of some C&NW ties. Another example is the Milwaukee Road "R08" nail, where the "R" is an unknown treatment or type of wood, and the numbers indicate the year it was installed.
At the end of the 19th century, Henri Bergson declared the metaphor of the timeline to be deceiving in Time and Free Will. [12] The question of big history and deep time engendered estranging forms of the timeline, like in Olaf Stapledon 's 1930 work Last and First Men where timelines are drawn on scales from the historical to the cosmological.
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A chauka is a tiny bird native to Manus Island [2] [3] and is also the name of the high-security prison within the camp. The chauka is a symbol of the island and allows locals to tell the time from the chauka's regular singing. [2] In a sinister twist, it is pronounced the same as the English word "choker." [1]
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