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| Luck and Horseshoe Trivia |
| Horseshoes have long been associated with luck. Use these helpful hints to keep your home safe and promote good luck. * Hang a horseshoe over your door to bring good luck. * A horseshoe hung over a door or on the porch will bring you good luck. |
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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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| Four-foot Hairdo |
| Fashion in eighteenth century England demanded that a wig augment a woman’s natural hair. A wig could be three to four feet tall, and a single wig was sometimes worn continuously on outdoor occasions for months at a time. |
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| Legacies of Plague |
| The Black Death in the Middle ages has left behind a few legacies. Quarantine is derived from the Italian word “quaranti”, meaning “forty”. This came about after Venice decided to fight against the contamination of plague by requiring trading ships to wait a period of forty days. |
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