and I think the handling of non-ascii letters in tag names depend on which site you're on
Though now I sort of wonder what that other book I met was. I'm almost sure it was published by Animus, and I know some story details, but I've only read part of it. I'd have to try to find it in a library.
It's a youth novel. The part of the story I remember is that the protagonist is a teenager who finds out she has very strong hypnotic powers, and she participates in some talent show where she hypnotizes every spectator and the judges to make them believe she's done an amazing performance of dancing and singing and some other stuff. But there's some conflict because there's one person among the spectators that she can't hypnotize or something like that.
@Mithrandir Nah, I should take reasonable effort first. If it's a book published by Animus, that means I can search for it easily, they've only published a few hundred, and most of them I can exclude immediately,
and I might be able to identify this one from the cover, because it also does this hypnosis graphics gimmick.
Of course it's possible that it wasn't published by Animus, in which case I won't be able to find it.
I've been studying a lot of Tennyson, and I recently read The Kraken. The first 12 lines seem relatively straightforward, describing straightforwardly the giant beast that sleeps at the bottom of the sea, but the final three lines are peculiar:
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
the...
@Randal'Thor OMG! Great question! Actually, Hemingway's time covering the Spanish civil war was met with controversy, like many things in his life. I have lots of quotes and references from that time in Hemingway's life! I will have to wait and put an answer together tonight when I get to work. The same question can be asked for A Farewell to Arms and many more of his books. The Old man and the sea is based on a real person, for instance.
@Randal'Thor Hahaha! Yeah, right. She threw that together in about 2 seconds. It would take me ages to try and analyze that poem. It's really too bad that my niece doesn't appreciate Poe more. Her full name is Lenore Annabelle. Yes. Her first and middle names pay homage to Poe ;)
Strictly speaking, "Sidious" means nothing in English. The word insidious is defined as intended to entrap or beguile.
This word in turn comes from a Latin word, sedere, meaning "to sit" (think sedentary). Insidere means "to sit in"...perhaps a reference to eavesdropping or surveillance. The suf...
@Riker Yeah. Which is lame and boring. I don't even know anyone with an awesome accent, besides Napoleon. I make him say certain words, just because they sound cool when he says them ;)
@Riker I was joking, but it did use a similar Look and Feel in the inclusion of a help center with a subpage of badges and the style of the badge as well as the look and the feel of his user representation.
The prophecy would have been meaningless if he had ignored it.
Ignoring The Cursed Child
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore says:
"If Voldemort had never heard of the prophecy, would it have been fulfilled? Would it have meant anything? Of course not! Do you think that ev...
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9+ # push 9 and increment, giving 10
dd # duplicate, twice. now you have [10,10,10]
pp # raise a 10 to the 10th power, then raise that to the 10th again. That ends up being 10^100.
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My friend told me that the duo contributed several phrases to our great language, but the only two I can think of are "short sharp shock" and "let the punishment fit the crime" , both from the Mikado. Are there any others that I am missing.
Dupin gets top marks for rigour - better than Sherlock Holmes, good enough even to satisfy a pure mathematician - but his stories are much less readable. But then, I'm used to mathematical papers and textbooks, so they were survivable for me.
Now about Sherlock Holmes in particular. In the "Six Napoleons", Holmes makes the press publish some article saying that the police believes the criminal is a madman who's smashing statues because of a psychological disorder where he hates Napoleon. "a dangerous homicidal lunatic with Napoleonic delusions" he says. And "The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it."
Watson thinks Holmes inserted a wrong clue in the evening paper, so as to give the fellow the idea that he could continue his scheme with impunity". But was that really the purpose? That could make sense if the criminal was only smashing statues, but this was a news article about a murder he's committed.
Since the police knows that he's a murderer, surely they'd be after him even if they think he's just a madman, not a jewel thief.
I wonder if the goal was rather to deceive some interested parties other than the murderer.
It probably works better with films and video games, that sometimes repeat the same title in a remake or sequel by the same publisher. Disney does that a lot.
@Randal'Thor scifi.stackexchange.com/q/11946/4918 "Why Couldn't a Time Turner Have been Used to Stop Voldemort?" is quite highly viewed too, and "Why was the time turner never used again?" has a decent amount of views.
@b_jonas I think it's more because non-SFF people went "ugh, we don't want this site to turn into SFF with loads of 'why didn't they do this obvious thing in Harry Potter' questions".
scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4610/4918 "Why did Harry Potter intentionally lose the Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest?" is probably Sci Fi's highest voted Harry Potter question
We know that wizards in Harry Potter universe are subject to regular physical harm (e.g. witness injuries from being hit by Bludgers or just colliding with things when playing Quidditch).
Therefore, it's almost a certainty that an average wizard would be vulnerable to, say, a bunch of bullets.
...
It may happen that someone asks a question about some work of science fiction. It may be about a character, plot, or even a story-ID question.
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I am not sure if you are interested in the position of the position and the position of the company and the company is a great company for a great price for the new year of the world of the year...
O_o
Let me just say that I have *never- typed that before.
In book two of the The Iliad (which you can read online), Homer does something that I find strange: he interrupts the story to list the name of every captain involved in the Trojan war:
And now, O Muses, dwellers in the mansions of Olympus, tell me- for you are goddesses and are in all places...
If I take the first suggestions that it gives me...
He is a great guy and I was horrified to the other side of the world and the world of the world and the world of the world and the world of the world and the world of the world and the world of the world and the world of the (this thing is repetitive)
heyo. when does the private beta end? has it ended? it says the period is 7 days, but I see older questions than that. the message that pops up when asking a question seems to imply we're still in private beta though.
I've been studying a lot of Tennyson, and I recently read The Kraken. The first 12 lines seem relatively straightforward, describing straightforwardly the giant beast that sleeps at the bottom of the sea, but the final three lines are peculiar:
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
the...
The prophecy would have been meaningless if he had ignored it.
Ignoring The Cursed Child
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore says:
"If Voldemort had never heard of the prophecy, would it have been fulfilled? Would it have meant anything? Of course not! Do you think that ev...
Fuzzy Octo Guacamole, 13 12 11 10 bytes
9+ddpp![g]
Explanation:
9+ddpp![g]
9+ # push 9 and increment, giving 10
dd # duplicate, twice. now you have [10,10,10]
pp # raise a 10 to the 10th power, then raise that to the 10th again. That ends up being 10^100.
...
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My friend told me that the duo contributed several phrases to our great language, but the only two I can think of are "short sharp shock" and "let the punishment fit the crime" , both from the Mikado. Are there any others that I am missing.
It may happen that someone asks a question about some work of science fiction. It may be about a character, plot, or even a story-ID question.
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In book two of the The Iliad (which you can read online), Homer does something that I find strange: he interrupts the story to list the name of every captain involved in the Trojan war:
And now, O Muses, dwellers in the mansions of Olympus, tell me- for you are goddesses and are in all places...
