Aviva Directory
Aviva Directory
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| Easter Eggs |
| Easter would not be complete without brightly colored Easter eggs, but have you ever wondered where this tradition began? Who thought of painting the shells of eggs such bright, even ornate colors? When did children begin dyeing eggs as part of their Easter holiday traditions? |
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| Fun Facts About California |
| The west coast state of California is known for a lot more than just earthquakes and here are some facts you probably didn’t know. 1. The proud city of Fresno, California claims to be the ‘Raisin Capitol of the World’. 2. Seventeen million gallons of wine come from California every year. |
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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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| The Founding of Rhode Island |
| England, in the 1600s, was not a place of religious freedom. In fact, it was not unusual for those who held beliefs deemed contrary to the official church to be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, and often all three. Many of those who came to the American colonies did so in order to escape persecution |
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