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In an article I tried to understand (the german understanding) of:
(...) we’re outside the part of \mathbb{C} where the standard Dirichlet series actually converges. But lo’ we can ask what’s the Ramanujan summation (...)
Here the injection lo' got my interest. I found, for instanc...
How should this expression be used, and what is its origin?
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I was watching a program and the muslim being interviewed kept pronouncing Yahweh as "YAHOO". So I began to research this term, but can't find anything beyond Gulliver's Travels.
Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams left the group in 1995 to launch his solo career. On 15 July 2010, it was announced he had rejoined Take That and that the group intended to release a new album in November 2010.
Williams has sold more than 57 million albums worldwide. He is the best-selling British s...
Pfft. You guys are wimps.
It takes a MAN to close this question.
The Mille-feuille (, "thousand-leaf"), vanilla slice, cream slice, custard slice, also known as the Napoleon, is a pastry originating in France. The name is also written as "millefeuille" and "mille feuille".
Traditionally, a Mille-feuille is made up of three layers of puff pastry (pâte feuilletée), alternating with two layers of pastry cream (crème pâtissière), but sometimes whipped cream, or jam. The top is usually glazed with icing or fondant in alternating white (icing) and brown (chocolate) strips, and combed. Alternatively the top pastry layer may be dusted with confectioner's s...
A pancake is a thin, flat, round cake prepared from a batter, or dough in some cases, and cooked on a hot griddle or frying pan. Most pancakes are quick breads; some use a yeast-raised or fermented batter. Most pancakes are cooked one side on a griddle and flipped partway through to cook the other side. Depending on the region, pancakes may be served at any time, with a variety of toppings or fillings including jam, chocolate chips, fruit, syrup or meat.
Archaeological evidence suggests that varieties of pancakes are probably the earliest and most widespread types of cereal food eate...
A blin, blintze, or blintz (plural: blini, blintzes, or blinchiki; ; cf. ; Lithuanian: blynai; ; ; Yiddish: בלינצע blintze, Kashubian language: plińce) is a thin pancake. It is somewhat similar to a crêpe with the main difference being that yeast may be used in blini, but not in crêpes.
Etymology, origins, culture
The English word blintz comes from the Yiddish בלינצע ("blintze), which in turn comes from blin. "Blin" comes from Old Slavic mlin, which means "a mill" (compare the Ukrainian word for blin млинець, mlynets’).
Blini had a somewhat ritual significance for early Slavic people...
Bisquick is a pre-mixed baking product sold by General Mills under their Betty Crocker brand, consisting of flour, shortening, salt, and baking powder (a leavening agent). According to General Mills, Bisquick was born when one of their sales executives met a train dining car chef in 1930 who mixed lard and the dry ingredients for biscuits ahead of time. The recipe was adapted, using hydrogenated oil, thus eliminating the need for refrigeration (Sesame oil was originally used as a preservative, identified on the box as "Ingredient S" over the years), and officially introduced on grocers' sh...
Pillsbury is a brand name used by Minneapolis-based General Mills and Orrville, Ohio-based The J. M. Smucker Company. Historically, Pillsbury was a rival company to General Mills, also based in Minneapolis, and was one of the world's largest producers of grain and other foodstuffs until it was bought-out by General Mills in 2001. Antitrust law required General Mills to sell off some of the products. General Mills kept the rights to refrigerated and frozen Pillsbury products, while dry baking products and frosting are now sold by Smucker under license.
Leo Burnett who created Pillsbury's ...
Bliný ([], endbetont, , eigentlich Plural, Singular ist blin, ), (west)europäisiert auch Blini (dann erstbetont), sind eine aus Osteuropa stammende Teigspeise, die Eierkuchen ähnelt. Sie werden in Form dünner Fladen zubereitet, warm und teilweise eingerollt mit unterschiedlichsten Füllungen und Aufstrichen (Quark, Konfitüre, Hackfleisch, Kaviar) gegessen. Der typischste Aufstrich ist in Russland jedoch Butter. Weitere häufige Beilagen sind saure Sahne, gesalzener geräucherter Fisch (Hering, Sprotten, Sardinen, Lachs) oder Kaviar. Zum Tee werden sie mit saurer Sahne, Konfitüre, Honig, Kä...
The Alaska Purchase was the acquisition of the Alaska territory by the United States from Russia in 1867 by a treaty ratified by the Senate. The purchase, made at the initiative of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward, gained of new United States territory. Originally organized as the Department of Alaska, the area was successively the District of Alaska and the Alaska Territory before becoming the modern state of Alaska upon being admitted to the Union as a state in 1959.
Background
Russia was in a difficult financial position and feared losing Russian America without com...
American Greetings Corporation, Inc. is the world's largest publicly-traded greeting card company. It is based in Brooklyn, Ohio and sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, party products (such as wrapping papers and decorations), and electronic expressive content (e.g., ringtones and images for cellphones). In addition to the American Greetings brand, the company owns the Carlton Cards, Tender Thoughts and Gibson brands of greeting cards.
American Greetings is also famous for their toy design and licensing division, Those Characters From Cleveland (now American Greetings...
A blog post of mine made it on the Hacker News front page. My blog post was mainly intended for a very, very small audience, but ended up getting around 20,000 views in one day. The most talked about topic was I accidentally used:
"it's self" instead of "itself"
It was an honest mistake, and it...18
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Q: Are any of the t-glottolization, th-fronting, h-dropping, etc. in English a phonological complex?
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