Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Intelligence Or Imagination . . .


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Numerology is defined as any study of the purported divine, mystical or other special relationship between a count or measurement and observed or perceived events.

Mathematics has no generally accepted definition. Different schools of thought, particularly in philosophy, have put forth radically different definitions. All are controversial.

So, it seems to me that the recognized discipline of Mathematics can be perhaps better thought of as being Advanced Numerology.

More regarding this later . . . after I've  cogitated about (analyzed) it some more.

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A Useful Distinction

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 WORD FOR TODAY
Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook defined cisgender as a label for "individuals who have a match between the gender they were assigned at birth, their bodies, and their personal identity", complementing "transgender".
 
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BORN ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Born July 10,1856
Died Jan. 7, 1943

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. He was an important contributor to the use of commercial electricity, and is best known for developing the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. His many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were based on the theories of electromagnetic technology discovered by Michael Faraday. Tesla's patents and theoretical work also formed the basis of wireless communication and the radio.


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Born July 10, 1926
Died July 02, 1993

Frederick Hubbard "Fred" Gwynne was an American actor. Gwynne was best known for his roles in the 1960s sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You? and The Munsters, as well as his later roles in Pet Sematary and My Cousin Vinny. He was recognized for his distinctive baritone voice.


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Born July 10, 1920
Died June 11, 2003

David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s.


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 Born July 10, 1945

Ronald E. "Ron" Glass is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as the witty Detective Ron Harris in the television sitcom Barney Miller (1975-1982), and as the spiritual Shepherd Derrial Book in the short-lived 2002 science fiction series Firefly and its sequel film Serenity.

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
--Albert Einstein

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