What does the “bee” in “spelling bee” mean exactly?

http://hotword.dictionary.com/spelling-bee/

Cesare Borgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Prince, Machiavelli uses Borgia as an example to elucidate the dangers of acquiring a principality by virtue of another. Although Cesare Borgia's father gave him the power to set up, Cesare ruled the Romagna with skill and tact for the most part. However, when his father died, and a rival to the Borgia family entered the Papal seat, Cesare was overthrown in a matter of months.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Borgia

The Prince - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince

RE: Science fiction series.

The series I mentioned before is the “Galactic Center” series by Gregory Benford.   I recently read the second book when I found out that the first book didn’t get the best reviews, although I plan to read that too.   I actually started the series in the 1990’s when I picked up the third book in a bookstore, so I have read the series mostly out of order.  The actual order that I read the books was…

 

#3

#4

#2

#5

#6.

 

I thought that the second book was a masterpiece and #5 was really good too.   I seem to remember books 3 and 4 being a little slow in places but still intriguing.

 

I am now finishing Hyperion, which is different, very long, very interesting and much more highly acclaimed.

 

 

The text literally translates "Only Jeep grows to the punishment". Or at least that is what I think that it says.

The picture doesn't look real to me...

They know how to put cute babies in advertising.

Fwd: Sharpening the axe?

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln

A Wrinkle in Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In an interview with Newsweek, when L'Engle was asked if the film "met her expectations" she said, "Yes, I expected it to be bad, and it is."^[22] The film was subsequently released on DVD. The special features included a "very rare" interview with Madeleine L'Engle, discussing the novel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wrinkle_in_Time

Yellow ribbon

The song is told from the point of view of a prisoner who has completed his three-year sentence but is uncertain if he will be welcomed home.

He writes his love, asking her to tie a yellow ribbon around the "ole oak tree" in front of the house (which the bus, bringing him home from prison, will pass by) if she wants him to return to her life; if he does not see such a ribbon, he will remain on the bus (taking that to mean he is unwelcome). He asks the bus driver to check, fearful of not seeing anything,.

To his amazement, the entire bus cheers the response – there are 100 yellow ribbons around the tree, a sign he is very much welcome.

[edit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_ribbon#.22Tie_a_Yellow_Ribbon_Round_the_Ole_Oak_Tree.22

Sent from my iPad

8 Irresistible Baby Animals (Photos)

http://www.weather.com/news/science/nature/adorable-baby-animal-photos-20130228

Across the Sea of Suns. Furious Gulf.

These two books in the Gregory Benford Galactic Center series, especially Furious Gulf, feel to me like masterpieces in fiction.  Benford writes “hard” science fiction that is heavy in physics and science, some of which is a little fantastic and hard to believe, but it makes for great stories.  His idea that the galaxy would be dominated by mechanical life forms intolerant of biological life has a convincing feel to it.   These books are a wild ride that stretch the imagination as to what is possible.  I especially enjoyed listening to them on Audible, because the performance of the readers gives the stories extra flavor.

 

Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; Italian: Nicolò Copernico; Polish: About this sound Mikołaj Kopernik (help·info); 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe.[1]

 

The publication of Copernicus' epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, is considered a major event in the history of science. It began the Copernican Revolution and contributed importantly to the rise of the ensuing Scientific Revolution. Copernicus' heliocentric theory placed the Sun at the center of the solar system and described that system's mechanics in mathematical rather than Aristotelian terms.

 

One of the great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, jurist with a doctorate in law, physician, quadrilingual polyglot, classics scholar, translator, artist,[2] Catholic priest, governor, diplomat and economist.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus

10 Coldest Temperatures in U.S. History

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-winter/top-10-coldest-us-states-20121002?pageno=2

Re: Yes, they actually can!

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:13 AM, al grotz wrote:

The other day when I sent the 2 girls with a guitar I said they couldn't "get any more beautiful than this."
Actually they can :-).
My friend, Geoffrey, lives here in Asia and still doesn't know who "Girl's Generation" is.
And after watching Beyonce's ugly performance in the Super Bowl,
I thought it was time to update you guys on the girls I sent you about quite a while back.
It's not that these girls have gotten any more beautiful,
they are still pretty much the same girls as before,
but they have gotten more beautiful in the  production of their performances.
The following youtube link now has over 68 million views. I've never seen a you tube with that many views before.
Click here to see why:
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pA_Tou-DPI
 
Enjoy!
 
Al
 
SILENT NATURE
www.silentnature.com
 
 
 

Is this multilingual?   At first I couldn't understand the language and assumed that it was Asian.  If so, why mix two languages?   

I thought that the beginning was going to resemble science fiction, i.e. Superman's fortress of solitude.  

The rest is highly repetitious.  As pretty as the girls are, the song is a bore.  I am glad that these performers are doing well.

--
Best wishes,

John Coffey

http://www.entertainmentjourney.com

Stabyourself.net - Ortho Robot

http://stabyourself.net/orthorobot/

Not Pacman. Trippy.

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/bJWJt_lgd4g

SF book that I loved

Actually I listened to it on Audible…

 

Across the Sea of Suns

by Gregory Benford.

 

Gregory Benford

Benford's law of controversy[11][12] is an adage from the 1980 novel Timescape,[13] stating:

 

    Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.[11][12]

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford

Misconceptions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCzXZfNIu3A&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYzfKiIWN4g&feature=relmfu

I was saying this 30 years ago .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5UT04p5f7U&feature=relmfu

Climate in the United States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Climatemapusa2.PNG

I looked online for the source of the Ohio River. Two rivers merge in Pittsburgh to form the Ohio.

10 People You'll Only See in New York City

http://mashable.com/2012/10/08/people-new-york/#92025Naked-Cowboy

NYC Sounds: LIVE Saw Lady: Canon Eos 7D, 1080/24p on Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/8249248/

Utah weather

We have very quickly gone from weather in the 90’s, to the 80’s, and now the 70’s.

 

 

Fwd: Chunking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_%28psychology%29

 

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/meyer769/section16&17/2011/10/grouping-and-chunking.html

Advisory

ASICS - STOP AT NEVER

http://www.stopatnever.com/#!/intro

Acetone and Styrofoam

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Jx8NRkWTo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The hot weather is over.

DC Comics Confirms Green Lantern Comic Book Character Is Gay - UsMagazine.com

I think that I would have been more subtle about it by dropping subtle
hints over a long period of time so that people get used to the idea.
(And the speculation would have been good publicity. ) Instead it
feels like they are trying to force an agenda. It seems completely
unnecessary and I don't like the lack of continuity with the decades
of character history.

Not that what happens in a comic book is that important, but I like
the movie version of Green Lantern that is clearly heterosexual.

I don't think that the comic book pages are the place to promote
unresolved controversial social agendas.

http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/dc-comics-confirms-green-lantern-comic-book-character-is-gay-201216?stop_mobi=yes