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One is carrying a bindle. A bindle is the bag, sack, or carrying device stereotypically used by the American sub-culture of hobos. [ 1 ] The bindle is colloquially known as the blanket stick, particularly within the Northeastern hobo community. A hobo who carried a bindle was known as a bindlestiff. According to James Blish in his novel A Life ...
1862. Deaths. 20,000+. The 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic was a smallpox outbreak that started in Victoria on Vancouver Island and spread among the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and into the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau, killing a large portion of natives from the Puget Sound region to Southeast Alaska.
Two-soliton solution to the KdV equation. In mathematics, the Korteweg–De Vries (KdV) equation is a partial differential equation (PDE) which serves as a mathematical model of waves on shallow water surfaces. It is particularly notable as the prototypical example of an integrable PDE and exhibits many of the expected behaviors for an ...
Matchstick puzzle. Matchstick puzzles are rearrangement puzzles in which a number of matchsticks are arranged into shapes or numbers, and the problem to solve is usually formulated as moving a fixed number of matchsticks to achieve some specific other arrangement. The puzzles may ask the solver to alter some mathematical equation, [1] often ...
FixMeStick. FixMeStick Technologies Inc founded in 2011, is a Canadian company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. The company sells a computer virus-removal device, FixMeStick; and StartMeStick, a device that temporarily replaces a computer's operating system. On January 15, 2014, the founders of the company (Corey Velan and Marty Alguire ...
The singlestick itself is a slender, round wooden rod, traditionally of ash, with a basket hilt.Singlesticks are typically around 34 inches (86 cm) in length, and 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter, [failed verification] and thicker at one end than the other, used as a weapon of attack and defence, the thicker end being thrust through a cup-shaped hilt of basket-work to protect the hand. [2]
The move to keep a can of Arizona Iced Tea at 99 cents echoes Costco’s four decade effort to keep its hot dog combo at $1.50 despite rising costs—and, earlier, Coca-Cola’s half-century quest ...
In mathematics, Euler's identity[ note 1] (also known as Euler's equation) is the equality where. is pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Euler's identity is named after the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler. It is a special case of Euler's formula when evaluated for .