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Pillars of Creation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pillars of Creation no longer exist. In 2007, astronomers announced that they were destroyed about 6,000 years ago by the shock wave from a supernova. Because of the limited speed of light, the shock wave's approach to the pillars can currently be seen from Earth, but their actual destruction will not be visible for another millennium.
space  wikipedia 
february 2012 by james
Leading question - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"[L]eading question is a question that suggests the answer or contains the information the examiner is looking for."
language  law  wikipedia  from delicious
march 2011 by james
2010 Flash Crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"[T]he equity market began to fall rapidly, dropping more than 600 points in 5 minutes for an almost 1000 point loss on the day by 2:47 pm. Twenty minutes later, by 3:07 pm, the market had regained most of the 600 point drop. [...] [P]rices stopped falling when, At 2:45:28 p.m., trading on the E-Mini was paused for five seconds[...]"
wikipedia  finance  economics  algorithms  from delicious
february 2011 by james
YAGO2
"YAGO2 is a huge semantic knowledge base, derived from Wikipedia, WordNet and GeoNames. "
nlp  data  wikipedia  wordnet  geonames  from delicious
february 2011 by james
Virtual water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Virtual water (also known as embedded water, embodied water, or hidden water) refers, in the context of trade, to the water used in the production of a good or service."
water  food  environment  wikipedia  from delicious
april 2010 by james
The Great Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Great Game is a British term for what the British saw as a strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia."
history  wikipedia  afghanistan  russia  empire 
july 2008 by james
Planned obsolescence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"the process of a product becoming obsolete and/or non-functional after a certain period or amount of use in a way that is planned or designed by the manufacturer."
obsolescence  business  wikipedia  economics  design 
july 2008 by james
LocoRoco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I must play this if I ever come across a PSP
wikipedia  puzzle  games  sony  psp 
may 2008 by james
Oku no Hosomichi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
'meaning "Narrow road to/of the interior", translated alternately as The Narrow Road to the Deep North and The Narrow Road to the Interior) is a major work by the Japanese poet, Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694)'
travel  wikipedia  poetry  japan  japanese 
march 2008 by james

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