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Friday 28 November 2014

#78.
In the wake of the prosecution and subsequent suicide of X, lawmakers have proposed to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Representative Zoe Lofgren has drafted a bill that would help "prevent what happened to X from happening to other Internet users". Y would exclude terms of service violations from the 1984 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and from the wire fraud statute. ID X and Y.
#77.
X, originally built in 1949, was a machine that analyzed economic data using hydraulics. Basically, X pumped water through pipes and tanks in an effort to simulate an economy and make predictions about its future. X is seven-foot-tall Rube Goldberg contraption. ID X.
#76.
In 1995, X, founder of Y, had some extra cash and wanted to invest in the IPO of a gaming company. The opening price was set at $15 per share, and X called his broker to place the order. Later, his broker informed him that he purchased the stock for $24 a share, explaining that $15 was the "ideal" price, not the price the "regular people" could get. "The takeaway was that the theory of efficient markets is really great—in theory. In practice, regular people are locked out," X told Inc. magazine in 2013. X decided that the Internet could be the equalizer, bringing the power of financial markets to the public: "Of course, regular people aren’t selling stocks in their households; they’re selling stuff," he said in the interview. "I thought, ‘There’s a real opportunity to create a marketplace that could bring the power of efficient markets to regular people.’" He launched Y that Labor Day. ID X and Y.

Sunday 16 November 2014

#75.

ID 
#74.
X was an American film critic, journalist, and screenwriter. X was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013.  In 1975, X was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In 2005, X became the first film critic to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ID X.

#73.
1. Liberal(Kansas)- Onley(Buckinghamshire), 1950
2. Tashkent- Seattle(Washington), 1973
3.  Rochester, Minnesota- Knebworth, UK, 1967
4. Gyongyos(Hungary)- Shusha(Azerbaijan), 2013

This is an exhaustive list of what?

Connect.

Tuesday 11 November 2014

#71.
X  is a 1st-century honorific arch, located on the Via Sacra, Rome. It was constructed in c. 82 AD by the Roman Emperor Domitian to commemorate his brother's victories including the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD. X has provided the general model for many of the triumphal arches- Arc de Triomphe  in Paris, The India Gate, The Fusiliers Arch in Dublin. ID X.

Monday 10 November 2014

#70.
X  is a car that was produced by former East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, Saxony. It was the most common vehicle in East Germany, and was also exported to countries both inside and outside the Eastern Bloc. X was the result of a planning process that had originally intended to design a three-wheeled motorcycle. In German, a X is an astronomical term to denote a moon or other natural satellite of a celestial body. In its Slavic origin, X has the same meaning as the Russian word sputnik, namely 'companion'. ID X.
#69.
The X was the first major book printed in the West using movable type. X marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of the printed book in the West. Widely praised for its high aesthetic and artistic qualities, the book has an iconic status. Written in Latin, the X is an edition of the Vulgate, printed by Johannes Gutenberg, in Mainz, Germany, in the 1450s. ID X.

Saturday 8 November 2014

#68.
"Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendering of a French slogan from the early 19th century, ''l'art pour l'art'', and expresses a philosophy that the intrinsic value of art, and the only "true" art, is divorced from any didactic, moral or utilitarian function. "Art for art's sake" was a bohemian creed in the nineteenth century, a slogan raised in defiance of those who — from John Ruskin to the much later Communist advocates of socialist realism — thought that the value of art was to serve some moral or didactic purpose. This term is used commercially and the latin version of this phrase is used by X as motto. ID X.

Friday 7 November 2014

#67.
X are famous for their light weight, vibrant colors and age-old production techniques. The art of making X shows the strong influence of Islamic style and pointed nose of the human figures is reminiscent of the 17th century Rajasthani style. The artisans who make X are known as ‘Aryakshatriyas’. It is said that these craftsmen migrated from Rajasthan to Kondapalli around the 16th century bringing with them the art of crafting toys. This 400-year old tradition has passed on from generation to generation with every member taking part in the toy-making activity in ‘Toy Colony’ of Kondapalli. Traditionally X were used during Sankriti and Navrathri, when women assemble toys known as Bommala Koluvu. ID X.

Thursday 6 November 2014

#66.



















This is the only cover in the history of a famous magazine that did not include the publication's famous logo. ID the magazine.
#65.
_____________machine is a contraption, invention, device or apparatus that is deliberately over-engineered or overdone to perform a very simple task in a very complicated fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The expression is named after American cartoonist and inventor ____________. In 1931, the Merriam–Webster dictionary adopted the word "_____________" as an adjective defined as accomplishing something simple through complicated means. Fill the gaps(all are same).
#64.
X was a Dominican American fashion designer born in Santo Domingo and was trained by Cristóbal Balenciaga and Antonio del Castillo. X famously dressed Jackie Kennedy in the 1960s, and went on to design for other First Ladies and for A-list stars and celebrities the world over. From 1993 to 2002, X designed the haute couture collection for the house of Balmain, becoming the first Dominican to design for a French couture house. In 1967 and 1968, X won the Coty Award (the U.S. fashion industry "Oscars") and in 1973 was inducted into the Coty Hall of Fame. ID X.

#63.
The origin of this word is 150 years old, and traces its roots back to 19th century Boston. It all began in the office of Charles Gordon Greene at the Boston Morning Post. The year was 1839, and among writerly folk, abbreviations were all the rage (think LOLZ, OMG or NBD today). It first appeared as an abbreviation printed in a satirical article about grammar. There are suggestions that the word might come from Europe, a Civil War nickname for biscuits. Still others falsely thought that president Martin Van Buren had invented the term in his presidential campaign, which used the slogan "Vote for X" in reference to both his hometown and his nickname, Old Kinderhook. ID X(the word).



#62.
The word X is an anglicized version of the Scandinavian Blatand,  the epithet of the tenth-century king Y who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom. The logo of X is a bind rune merging the Younger Futhark runes, Hagall and Bjarkan, Y's initials. ID X and Y.

#61.
X born in 1914 was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. X garnered a degree of fame and notoriety after starring in the Czech director Gustav Machatý's 1993 film Ecstasy. X was also notable as co-inventor, with composer George Antheil, of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping which served as a basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology, such as Bluetooth and CDMA. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, X has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6247 Hollywood Blvd. ID X.

Wednesday 5 November 2014

#60.
X  is a religion in which the existence of extraterrestrial entities operating unidentified flying objects are an element of belief. Typically, adherents of X believe the ETs to be interested in the welfare of humanity which either already is, or eventually will become, part of a preexisting ET civilization.  Scientology is the largest X in the world. ID X.
#59.
X  is legally recognized as a tax-exempt religion in the United States, Italy, South Africa, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain. X is created by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, beginning in 1952 as a successor to his earlier self-help system, Dianetics. ARC and KRC triangles are two important concepts in X. ID X.
#58.


what is the significance of the pic?
#57.



what is the significance of the picture?

Tuesday 4 November 2014

#56.
X was the queen of rembetika, the Greek blues, a genre that sprang up in the Aegean’s port towns in the 1920s. X was born Sarah Skinazi in Constantinople, probably in the 1890s. X recorded about 500 songs in the following decade, becoming one of several Greek artists and the first woman to be flown to the US to record for Columbia. She sang in Greek, Turkish, Armenian, Arabic, Yiddish, Ladino and Italian. Misirlou, one of her songs, would appear on the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. ID X.
#55.
X is an American theoretical physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, X was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009. In June 2009 X resigned his Feynman Professorship (he is now the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus) to pursue a career of writing and movie making. His first film project will team him with Christopher Nolan. ID X.

#54.


This is a very famous photograph taken on VJ day, 14th August 1945. ID the photographer and the name of the camera used.

Monday 3 November 2014

#53.
 X  was a series of impromptu exchanges between then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959. X  took place in a number of locations at the exhibition but primarily in the kitchen of a suburban model house. X was the first high-level meeting between Soviet and U.S. leaders since the Geneva Summit in 1955. ID X.
#52.
Sergei Khrushchev explains "In Stalin's time, the theoretical idea of communism declared that all people have to be equal and the women have to be free from the slavery work in the kitchen. There mustn't be a kitchen in the apartment. You will go and eat in the X". But the idea of X did not pan out. After the revolution, the civil war began and they did not build any X. During the visit of the Kruschevs to US in 1959, Sergei Kruschev was smitten with the concept of self-service dining, unknown in the soviet union. He admired it so much that he went home and instructed Soviet factories to build X which mimicked what he'd seen in San Jose. ID X.

Sunday 2 November 2014

#51.
X is a legendary alchemical substance said to be capable of turning base metals such as lead into gold or silver. It was also sometimes believed to be an elixir of life, useful for rejuvenation and possibly for achieving immortality. Efforts to discover X were known as the Magnum Opus ("Great Work"). The equivalent of X in Buddhism and Hinduism is the Cintamani. ID X.
#50.
This galaxy is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. The discovery of this galaxy dates back to 1773 by Charles Messier. However, it was in 1845 that  Anglo-Irish astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse  through the telescope Leviathan managed to glimpse and draw the spellbinding spiral structures the first known "nebula" to be known to have one. These "spiral nebulae" were not recognized as galaxies until Edwin Hubble was able to observe Cepheid variables in some of these spiral nebulae, which provided evidence that these objects were indeed separate galaxies. What is the name of the galaxy?
#49.
X was a letter written by Y to Tarak Nath Das in 14 December 1908. The letter was written in response to two letters sent by Das, seeking support from Y, for India's independence from British colonial rule. The letter was published in the Indian newspaper Free Hindustan. The letter caused  young Mohandas Gandhi to write to Y to ask for advice and for permission to reprint the letter X in Gandhi's own South African newspaper, Indian Opinion, in 1909. Mohandas Gandhi was stationed in South Africa at the time and just beginning his lifelong activist career. He then translated X himself, from the original English copy sent to India, into his native Gujarati.
ID X and Y.
#48.
X  are intricate paintings which portray Lord Krishna. They exist in the holy town of Nathdwara in the Rajasthan state of India. Lord Krishna is shown in different moods, body postures, and attire more commonly found on a cloth or paper. It is a very ancient form of art passed on from generation to generation and it has a very devotional theme towards Lord Krishna. The purpose of X, other than its artistic appeal, is to narrate tales of Krishna to the illiterate. X is a sub-style of Nathdwara paintings. ID X.
#47.
The movie X was inspired by Italian neo-realistic cinema, when its director Y watched Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948). The movie got the name from a famous poem by Rabindranath Tagore. It was the first film to win the Filmfare Best Movie Award and the first Indian film to win the International Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
ID X and Y.
#46.
The X  is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections. The prize, created in 1978 by Gilles Jacob, is awarded during the Festival's Closing Ceremony by an independent jury. The rules define first film as "the first feature film for theatrical screening (whatever the format; fiction, documentary or animation) of 60 minutes or more in length, by a director who has not made another film of 60 minutes or more in length and released theatrically." The indian recipients are Salaam Bombay(1988) by Mira Nair and Marana Simhasanam(1999) by Murali Nair.
ID X. 

Saturday 1 November 2014

#45.
X is an American film and television entertainment company founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, with the intention of controlling their own interests rather than depending upon the powerful commercial studios. The current X formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
ID X.
#44.
X written by established classical composers are often given the form-name berceuse, which is French for X. The most famous X is the one by Johannes Brahms ("Wiegenlied", 1868).  X is usually in triple metre or 6/8 time, giving it a "characteristic swinging or rocking motion,". There are many theories behind the origin of the term X but one popular belief is that X comes from the words “Lilith abi” which means “Lilith, go away.”.
ID X.

#43.
Long before Toscanini or Furtwängler, Bernstein or Dudamel, there was Pherekydes of Patrae, known in ancient Greece as the ‘Giver of Rhythm’. The first reported use of a baton in a performance dates back to 709 BC, during which the leader, "Pherekydes of Patrae, giver of rhythm" had,"...stationed himself in the centre and had placed himself on a high seat, waving a golden staff, and the players on the flute and cythara were...placed in a circle around him...now when Pherekydes with his golden staff gave the signal, all the art-experienced men began in one and the same time...". Which art is being referred here?
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#41.
X were formed in 1485 by the new king Henry VII, the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty. X,popularly known as the Beefeaters, are ceremonial guardians of the Tower of London. In principle they are responsible for looking after any prisoners in the Tower and safeguarding the British crown jewels. The Tudor rose, a heraldic badge of the dynasty, is part of the badge of X to this day.
ID X.
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