The Scarlet Letter

An 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne; it is considered to be his magnum opus, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity:


The Scarlet Letter

The full story can be found at (free):

http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/scarletletter/1/

Read about Nathaniel Hawthorne at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne

Lake Victoria

Africa’s largest lake by area, it is the largest tropical lake in the world, and the world's second largest freshwater lake by surface area:


Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria is divided among three countries: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

Stringybark

Australian eucalypti with fibrous inner bark:


Stringybark

Stringybark

Protium

Hydrogen has three naturally occurring isotopes, denoted by 1H, 2H, and 3H; where the most common hydrogen isotope with an abundance of more than 99.98% is:

Protium (or Hydrogen-1)

Naturally Occurring Isotopes of Hydrogen:

1) Protium or Hydrogen-1 (denoted by 1H)
   The nucleus of this isotope consists of only a single proton.

2) Deuterium (or Hydrogen-2)
   It contains one proton and one neutron in its nucleus.

3) Tritium (or Hydrogen-3)
   It contains one proton and two neutrons in its nucleus.

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Isotope

Variants of atoms of a particular chemical element, which have differing numbers of neutrons:


Isotope

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Hydrogen

The most abundant chemical element, constituting roughly 75% of the Universe's chemical elemental mass:


Hydrogen

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Borax

An important boron compound, a mineral, and a salt of boric acid which occurs naturally in evaporite deposits produced by the repeated evaporation of seasonal lakes; it has a wide variety of uses such as a component of many detergents, cosmetics, and enamel glazes, a fire retardant, and an anti-fungal compound for fiberglass:


Borax (also known as Sodium Borate, Sodium Tetraborate, or Disodium Tetraborate)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borax

http://www.webmineral.com/data/Borax.shtml

http://www.mindat.org/min-722.html

Savant Syndrome

A rare condition in which people with developmental disorders have one or more areas of brilliance that are in contrast with the individual's overall limitations:

Savant Syndrome (also referred to as Savantism)

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New England

A region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut and being bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada (the Canadian Maritimes and Quebec) and the State of New York:


New England

[map source: http://wikitravel.org/en/New_England_(United_States_of_America]

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The Maritimes

A region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island:


The Maritimes (also called as the Maritime Provinces, or the Canadian Maritimes)

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Hispania

The Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula:


Hispania

Rem:
The peninsula located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day states Portugal, Spain, Andorra, the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar and a very small area of France: Iberian Peninsula (or Iberia)

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Ben Pridmore

The 2009 World Memory Champion (a title he also won in 2004 and 2008) holding the official world record for memorizing the order of a randomly shuffled 52-card deck:


Ben Pridmore

This product can be found on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Improve-Your-Memory-Level/dp/B0036FTMSW

and for free at: 

http://iymbas.blogspot.com/

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Golden Poison Frog

A poison dart frog endemic to the Pacific coast of Colombia with skin drenched in alkaloid poison:


Golden Poison Frog (or Golden Dart Frog)

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Erlang

A general-purpose concurrent, functional programming language and runtime system designed by Ericsson to support distributed, fault-tolerant, soft-real-time, non-stop applications:


Erlang

Erlang was originally a proprietary language within Ericsson, but was released as open source in 1998.

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Rhetoric

The art and study of the use of language with persuasive effect:


Rhetoric

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Personification

An ontological metaphor; such as Father Time and Mother Nature, in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person:


Personification

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Alliteration

The repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases:


Alliteration

Examples:

1) dressy daffodils

2) Dewdrops Dancing Down Daisies by Paul Mc Cann

Don't delay dawns disarming display.
Dusk demands daylight.
Dewdrops dwell delicately
drawing dazzling delight.
Dewdrops dilute daisies domain.
Distinguished debutantes. Diamonds defray delivered
daylights distilled daisy dance.

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Figurative Art

Art that describes artwork, particularly paintings and sculptures, which are clearly derived from real object sources:


Figurative Art

Figurative art refers to any art that represents an image from the real world. Though the term figurative art commonly refers to art which represents the human figure, or even an animal figure, the term can also be used in the more general sense of distinguishing representational art from abstract art.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (Pablo Picasso completed Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907)

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Windows 8

The next major release of Microsoft Windows that may be released in 2012:


Windows 8

Windows 8

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Ophthalmoscopy

A test, as part of a routine physical examination, that allows a health professional to see inside the fundus of the eye and other eye structures:


Ophthalmoscopy

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