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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.