enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Bad Times - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Times

    Bad Times is a computer virus hoax sent out by e-mail. This "virus" does not actually exist, and the "warning" is meant to parody the alarmist message that spread the hoax of the Goodtimes virus hoax. The "Badtimes" email followed the principles of "Goodtimes", by warning of the horrible consequences that the alleged virus could inflict.

  3. Decipherment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment

    Decipherment overlaps with another technical field known as cryptanalysis, a field that aims to decipher writings used in secret communication, known as ciphertext. A famous case of this was in the cryptanalysis of the Enigma during the World War II. Many other ciphers from past wars have only recently been cracked. [11]

  4. Albatross (metaphor) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross_(metaphor)

    Jeff Williams' song "Bad Luck Charm" contains the line "I'm a cursed black cat, I'm an albatross, I'm a mirror broken, Sad to say, I'm your bad luck charm". Josh Ritter refers to a lingering albatross in his song "Monster Ballad". The characters are lost in the desert after having been lost at sea.

  5. Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_ancient...

    The savants eagerly sought other fragments of the stela as well as other texts in Greek and Egyptian. No further pieces of the stone were ever found, and the only other bilingual texts the savants discovered were largely illegible and useless for decipherment. [52] [55] The savants did make some progress with the stone itself.

  6. Proto-Sinaitic script - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic_script

    Then the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions were studied by Alan Gardiner who identified the word bĘżlt "Lady" occurring several times in inscriptions, and also attempted to decipher other words. In the 1950s and 1960s, William Albright published interpretations of Proto-Sinaitic as the key to show the derivation of the Canaanite alphabet from hieratic .

  7. Good Times (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Times_(disambiguation)

    5 Other uses. 6 See also. Toggle the table of contents. Good Times (disambiguation) ... Good Times Bad Times (disambiguation) Good Times, Wonderful Times, a 1965 film

  8. Stock market timing: What it is and why it’s so hard to do

    www.aol.com/finance/trying-time-stock-market...

    Timing the market: Here’s why it’s a bad investment strategy Timing the market is difficult. Actually, that is probably an understatement as very few people can time the market consistently.

  9. Tycho Brahe days - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe_days

    "Denmark owns not even his dust; but the Danes mention his name in their bad times, as if a denunciation proceeded out of it: These are 'Tycho Brahe's days!' they say." [ 5 ] Although no mention of the days now called Tycho Brahe days is actually found in any work of Tycho Brahe, [ 6 ] They are still frequently referenced in almanacs and recur ...