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Lessons New Year Resolutions 2010

Some Final September Lessons (20th – 30th September)

Due to the realignment of posting due to possible quiz issues, here is a mega posting of lessons learnt at the end of September…

Monday

Al Capone was called Alphonse

Tuesday

There are 2618 toilets in the new Wembley.

Wednesday

A hydrogen atom doubled in size 120 times would cover the visible universe. An A4 sheet of paper only requires to be doubled 90 times. Charlie Chaplin once came 3rd in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.

Thursday

The deathcap is the most common cause of fungus poisoning and destroys the liver and kidneys.

Friday

The root of the deadly nightshade is the most toxic, yet rabbits can eat deadly nightshade without any problems.

Saturday

Three members of the Capulet household are named in Romeo and Juliet but are not characters in the play.

Sunday

Ed is younger than David Milliband, I never really took an interest in the Labour leadership…

Monday

I learnt that if a network has vertices IABCDO order 1,3,3,3,3,1 such that the adjacency matrix is (010000)(101100)(010110)(011010)(001011)(000000), and the start is at I. If left and right are chosen at random the probability of exiting at O rather than I is 3/5

Tuesday

Around the world in 80 days won an Oscar.

Wednesday

I learnt that page 11 on the AQA formula books is where you will find the binomial distribution formula if you have not learnt it!

Thursday

I learnt what a picoscope looks like. Tomorrow I may try to find out what one does, or measures!

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Kebabs

A bit of Shakespeare

Shakespeare
He would not eat a doner, but he loves marmite.

I think if Shakespeare would have been around now he may have written something like this…

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
Let us have kebab with lettuce and tomato for our tea,
But not the elephant leg type, that is not for me.

Elsewhere in another sonnet he waxes lyrical about marmite…

But wherefore do not you a marmitier way
Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?

In this quote I think Shakespeare is suggestin marmite consumption can keep you looking young.