Aviva Directory
Aviva Directory
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| Gwyllions – Mountain Fairies |
| Gwyllions are mountain fairies that inhabit the Welsh mountains. Typically, they are quite ugly and repugnant in appearance and might resemble an old ugly woman. These hideous female spirits sit on the wayside of a mountain road or trail waiting for unsuspecting travelers to pass. |
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| History & Genealogy |
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| Year Without a Summer |
| Mount Tambora, a volcano in Sumbawa, Indonesia, erupted several times in the 1800s, but the eruption on April 10, 1815 was so gigantic, it was heard so loudly that many people more than 1,600 miles away initially believed it to be cannon fire and many thought war had broken out. |
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| Little Known Ways to Brand on the Cheap: 99 Tips for Poor Web Startups |
| “If you build it, they will come.” That might have worked for Kevin Costner in the Field of Dreams, but if you’ve built a good site and are expecting people to just show up, you’ll be waiting a very long time. |
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| The Feynman Point & Other Curiosities |
| The decimal expansion of p begins 3.14159265358 … and the number is defined as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. If you fast forward to about the 760th digit in the decimal expansion of p, you will see the string “…34 999999 83…” |
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