Aviva Directory
Aviva Directory
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| Golden Sunsets and Black Storms: The Story of Laurence Olivier |
| “Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms,” Laurence Olivier once said. This great actor’s life with its brilliant successes, passionate love affairs, and dark disappointments certainly lived up to his statement. |
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| Strange Names and Fearsome Diseases of Colonial Times |
| Yellow Fever was known as the “American Plague”. Syphilis was considered having “Bad Blood”. “Brain Fever” was what we know today as Meningitis. “Rose Cold” is simply Hay Fever or nasal congestion from allergies. Rheumatism was known as “Screws”. |
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| Fibonacci Prime Decompositions |
| Two famous unsolved problems in number theory are 1) Goldbach’s Conjecture, which claims that every even integer > 2 is expressible as the sum of two primes; and 2) de Polignac’s conjecture, which claims that every even integer can be expressed as the difference of two consecutive primes. |
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| Easter Bunny Trivia |
| Have you ever wondered where the Easter Bunny came from? Whose idea was it to have a pink, fuzzy rabbit hide eggs around the yard for children to find anyway? Ask any elementary student and you will quickly learn that rabbits are mammals, and mammals do not lay eggs! |
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