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Love Story 1970 - A Timeless Tale of Love and Loss

Love Story is a 1970 American romantic drama film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw. It tells the story of Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy Harvard University student, and Jenny Cavilleri, a working-class Radcliffe College student, who fall deeply in love despite their contrasting backgrounds.Oliver, heir to a prominent family fortune, is expected to follow in his father’s footsteps and attend law school. He plays hockey for the university team and leads a privile...

Welsh Fairytale - Owen Goes a-Wooing

Welsh Fairy Book: Owen Goes a-Wooing The Llyn Cynnwch referred to in this story is Cynnwch (Cynwch) Lake which is located in what is now Snowdonia National Park in Wales. The Faery Folklorist blog reports several different versions of the story, and includes pictures of the lake. Explore: For other encounters with the "otherworld" of the fairies, see Why Deunant has the Front Door in the Back and Einion and the Fair Family. [notes by LKG] This story is part of the Welsh Fairy Tales unit....

A Man Called Otto review – Tom Hanks goes grumpy in remake of quirky Swedish yarn

Seven years ago, a frankly peculiar, quirky dramedy-heartwarmer from Sweden appeared: A Man Called Ove, based on the bestselling novel by Fredrik Backman. It was about a grumpy old widower who snaps at everyone on his street – officiously enforcing the Neighbourhood-Watch-type rules about parking and recycling – and keeps on trying to take his own life. These attempts are continually thwarted when he spots some local outside his house breaking some bylaw and Ove can’t resist rushing out to re...

Bringing minimalism and modernism to games brands

Bringing minimalism and modernism to games brandsGraphic designer Cory Schmitz is a distinctive voice in the games industry, turning his love of corporate logos into work for indie studios, major titles and tech companies. He discusses the ever-more sophisticated brand worlds of games and their makers By Emma Tucker 15/08/2022 Cory Schmitz is a big fan of corporate logos. On the bookcase behind him in his studio there’s various heavy tomes dedicated to the subject – ...

OTEC (thing) by eav - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 OTEC (thing) See all of OTEC, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by eav Thu Jun 14 2001 at 17:26:06 Ocean Thermal Energy Converters (OTEC), use the temperature difference between cold deep ocean water and the warm surface water to produce energy. This temperature difference is used to drive a turbine and produce electricity. Prototype OTEC systems have been in development since 1979. The first such system developed by the...

Ophthalmite (definition) by Webster 1913 - Everything2.com

Ophthalmite (definition) See all of Ophthalmite, no other writeups in this node. Oph*thal"mite (?), n. [Gr. the eye.] Zool. An eyestalk; the organ which bears the compound eyes of decapod Crustacea. © Webster 1913. link viewEpicenter You have 1 C! and 50 votes left today. server time Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 8:51:03 your time Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 4:51:03Current User PollChatterbox(r) 2020-09-13@20:41 (9.7 y) Cool Man Eddie says Hey, Chord just cool...

Oscar satellite (thing) by arfarf - Everything2.com

Oscar satellite (thing) See all of Oscar satellite, no other writeups in this node. One a long series of generally low-earth orbit satellites constructed and operated by amateur radio operators. Most were accessible to any radio ham for experiments and communications, with relatively low-cost equipment. To date well over 30 Oscars have been orbited, including AMSAT-OSCAR 10, operating since its launch in 1983.

Ectropy (idea) by ianah0 - Everything2.com

Ectropy (idea) See all of Ectropy, no other writeups in this node. by ianah0 (4.2 y) CC Rep: 2 ( +8 / -6 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Fri Jan 09 2004 at 10:09:54 While discussing the coaction cardioid,in 1969, Willard Van Orman Quine coined the word ectropy. He reasoned that since entropy is Greek for turning in, the opposite term, turning out, in Greek would be ectropy. Ectropy also refers to the general increase in organization, or making order from chaos. It also lead to the coining ...

Os as Oz

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Os (definition) See all of Os, there are 2 more in this node. See also: Operating system , Osmium (definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:38:27 Os (?), n.; pl. Ossa (#). [L.] A bone.   © Webster 1913. Os, n.; pl. Ora (#). [L.] A mouth; an opening; an entrance.   © Webster 1913. Os (?), n.; pl. Osar (#). [Sw. os ridge, chain of hills, pl. osar.] Geol. One of the ridges of sand or gravel found in Sweden, etc., suppos...

Rhythm 0 - Wikipedia

Open main menu Home Random Nearby Log in Settings About Wikipedia Disclaimers Search Rhythm 0 Language Watch Edit Rhythm 0 (1974) was a six-hour work of performance...

SimpC - Big O Notation in mathematics

History and Terminology > Notation > Calculus and Analysis > Series > Asymptotic Series > MathWorld Contributors > Stover > Interactive Entries > Interactive Demonstrations > Big-O NotationThe symbol , pronounced "big-O of ," is one of the Landau symbolsand is used to symbolically express the asymptotic behavior of a given function. In particular, if is an integer variable which tends to infinity and is a continuous variable tending to some limit, if and are positive functions, and if an...

Little-O Notation -- from Wolfram MathWorld

Little-O Notation -- from Wolfram MathWorldSourceURL: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Little-ONotation.htmlAlgebraApplied MathematicsCalculus and AnalysisDiscrete MathematicsFoundations of MathematicsGeometryHistory and TerminologyNumber TheoryProbability and StatisticsRecreational MathematicsTopologyAlphabetical IndexInteractive EntriesRandom EntryNew in MathWorldMathWorld ClassroomAbout MathWorldContribute to MathWorldSend a Message to the TeamMathWorld BookWolfram Web Resources »13,695 entri...

The Os of Estonian names - Onomastics Outside the Box

Get me outta here! Onomastics Outside the Box Names beyond the Top 100, from many nations and eras Menu Skip to content HomeAbout The Os of Estonian names April 17, 2020 by Carrie-Anne Female: Õie means "flower." In Estonian, Õ is its own separate letter, not just an O with a tilde. Oktjabrina is borrowed from the Russian name Oktyabrina, which was most popular in the early...

Eating Olives at the End of the World

Eating Olives at the End of the WorldAuthor: "The New York Review of Books" Ain't this the pits?‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌...

Suetonius - Life of Otho

mail: Bill Thayer Latine Français Italiano Help Up Home previous: Galba This webpage reproduces one of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by C. Suetonius Tranquillus published in the Loeb Classical Library, 1914 The text is in the public domain. This page...

Cat

From Le Internette somweherez: -- Cat Cats, like dogs, are for the most part domesticated and found wherever humans are. There is a wild tabby-like cat in Scotland, but otherwise, the only other feral cats are mostly those that have reverted from domestication. Anyone who has spent any time around cats knows that they can be very solitary animals. The evoke the spirit of independence, cleverness, and of course, curiosity. Cats have been both feared and loved throughout history by many di...

Otis (given name) - Wikipedia

Home Random Nearby Log in Settings About Wikipedia Disclaimers Open main menu Search Otis (given name) Read in another language Watch this page Edit Otis is a...

Otto - Wikipedia

Home Random Nearby Log in SettingsAbout WikipediaDisclaimers Open main menuSearchOtto Read in another language Watch this page EditThis article is about the given name. For other uses, see Otto (disambiguation).Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants Audo, Odo, Udo) of Germanic names beginning in aud-, an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".[2]Otto von Bismarck is one of the famous bearers of this namePronunciati...

CITIZEN = NIETZSCHE - minus an H

This is a stunning insight. Does KANE maybe mean "Enoch"? Or if we move the H - Enokh? "Nake"(d)? Kean? Acne? Alaska and Nebraska? California and Nebraska? California And the NorthEast? NorthEast Atlantic City No electricity vs alternating current North Eastern Alternating Current K E (?) Alternative News KANE as KANT ? "Her Son; Wellesley" (Side bar for ZTORY) Better yet: N I E T Z S C H E A N Minus the Eye and CHARLES FOSTER KANE As: ? CHARANI STROKER FEEL ARIAN CHARLIE FOSTER KAN...