- 1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
- 1393 – King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball.
- 1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
- 1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
- 1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
- 1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
- 1701 – The Chinese storm Dartsedo.
- 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
- 1754 – Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
- 1760 – Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
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1. Click on the little picture or icon in the upper right and click "Sign out”. | |
2. Then on the next screen click "Sign in with a different account”. | |
3. Click “Remove” | |
4. Click the X next to the account you want to sign out of. | |
5. Click “Done” | |
6. Congratulations now you are signed out. |
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- Diana Bliss, Australian director and producer (b. 1954)
- Joseph Curran, American basketball player and coach (b. 1922)
- Don Fullmer, American boxer (b. 1939)
- Keriman Halis Ece, Turkish pianist and model, Miss Universe 1932 (b. 1913)
- Roman Juszkiewicz, Polish astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1952)
- Don Starkell, Canadian adventurer and author (b. 1932)
- Eddy Choong, Malaysian badminton player (b. 1930)
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
require 'csv' | |
def flip; rand(2) == 1; end | |
headers = ['year', '# male pres', '# female pres'] | |
rows = [] | |
250.times do |j| | |
years = 2016 | |
men, women = 44, 0 |
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A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English | |
class one day. "In English," he said, "A double | |
negative forms a positive. In some languages, | |
though, such as Russian, a double negative is still | |
a negative. However, there is no language wherein a | |
double positive can form a negative. "A voice from | |
the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right. " |
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A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative. "A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right." |
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#encoding: UTF-8 | |
def does this work(input) | |
puts input | |
end | |
does this work 'at all?' | |
# >> at all? |
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➜ java -version | wc | |
java version "1.6.0_35" | |
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_35-b10-428-11M3811) | |
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.10-b01-428, mixed mode) | |
0 0 0 | |
➜ echo "what" | wc | |
1 1 5 |
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