02-28-2014, 04:50 PM | #12886 |
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I remember Logo. Used to play with that in school.
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02-28-2014, 05:26 PM | #12887 | |
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Postscript is absolutely a programming language. It's a stack-based language that happens to include lots of operators related to print, but it has loops and conditionals and functions and variables and even structured objects like dictionaries. HTML is just markup. PDF files use a cut-down essentially mark-up only subset of PostScript. Ghostscript is just a (non-Adobe) Postscript interpreter. LaTeX is borderline. I don't know it well enough to know whether it (and the underlying TeX) has the complexity needed to be a general purpose language. |
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02-28-2014, 05:39 PM | #12888 |
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MILITARY HISTORY
Given that it is 100 years since WWI, and there are lots of TV programmes celebrating the fact, here are a few military related questions:
1. D-Day in 1944 heralded the greatest sea-bourn invasion in history. What was the code name for the operation? 2. The Panzer MK V in WWII was better known as? 3. The greatest British naval victory in 1805 was off of which cape in Spain? 4. During the English Civil War the Parliamentarians held London. In which city did the Royalists establish their rival capital? 5. Which ancient, fierce warrior nation, upon attacking ancient Israel, ‘…. came down like a wolf on the fold’? 6. At which naval battle in WWII did the Americans decisively defeat the Japanese Carrier Task Force? 7. In 1944 what was the name of the operation to take key bridges over major rivers in Holland by airborne and land force assaults? 8. After which battle did the British Life Guards first obtain their breast-plates? 9. The bombardment of which fort was the act which started the American Civil War? 10. Which WWI battle occurred on a peninsular south of Istanbul in Turkey? |
03-01-2014, 06:39 AM | #12890 |
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1. Overlord.
3. Trafalgar. 4. Oxford. 5. The Assyrians. 9. Sumpter? 10. Gallipoli. |
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03-01-2014, 06:46 AM | #12891 |
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03-01-2014, 07:11 AM | #12892 |
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Spain has a cape called Trafalgar? Sounds like a translation to me.
2. Der Tiger 6. Midway Last edited by Kumabjorn; 03-01-2014 at 07:15 AM. |
03-01-2014, 07:56 AM | #12893 |
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#7 Market Basket?
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03-01-2014, 08:21 AM | #12894 |
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I think that, if Stitchawl is on the right lines, it was actually Market Garden for number seven.
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03-01-2014, 07:09 PM | #12895 |
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Just 2 and 8 to go, and as I'm off to bed, the answers are: 2. The Panzer MK V in WWII was better known as? Panther tank 8. After which battle did the British Life Guards first obtain their breast-plates? Waterloo - from Napoleon's defeated Cuirassier's breast-plates I declare Bookpossum the winner. |
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03-01-2014, 11:21 PM | #12897 |
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That will teach me for leaping in with answers. I'll work on a quiz and get back to you all.
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Okay, here are some inventors for you, some easier than others. A couple of them produced at least two well known inventions, so a point for each invention. Another point if you can give their country of birth.
1. Harry Coover, 1917-2011. 2. Humphry Davy, 1778-1829. 3. William Addis, dates unknown. Invention about 1780. 4. Raymond Kurzweil, 1948-present. 5. Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955. 6. Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir, 1822-1900. 7. Montgolfier brothers, 1740-1810. 8. Adophe Sax, 1814-1894. 9. Faust Vrancic, 1551-1617. 10. Edwin Beard Budding, 1795-1846. Last edited by Bookpossum; 03-02-2014 at 06:49 PM. |
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2. Humphry Davy, 1778-1829. - the Davy Lamp, born in England
5. Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955. - penicillin, born in Scotland 7. Montgolfier brothers, 1740-1810. - the hot air balloon?, born in France |
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#8 I'll hate it if my guess is correct, but... the saxophone?
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