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Swarm behaviour was first simulated on a computer in 1986 with the simulation program boids.

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IBM’s motto is “Think”. Apple later made their motto “Think different”.

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An elderly woman was saved by her 12-pound Yorkshire Terrier, who fought off an 80- pound Akita, and survived with only 9 stitches.

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Although these two meanings of the word can sometimes be told apart, they are intricately related, and hence are discussed together in this article.

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An eighteenth-century German named Matthew Birchinger, known as "the little man of Nuremberg," played four musical instruments including the bagpipes, was an expert calligrapher, and was the most famous stage magician of his day. He performed tricks with the cup and balls that have never been explained. Yet Birchinger had no hands, legs, or thighs, and was less than 29 inches tall.

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Situated 70 kilometres (43 miles) south of Budapest along the Danube, the city is best known for its steelworks, the largest in the country.

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The area was settled by the Dutch in the 17th century as Pavonia and later established as Bergen, the first permanent settlement, local civil government and oldest municipality in what became the state of New Jersey.

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The terms Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, First Nations of Australia, First Peoples of Australia, and First Australians are also common.

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Up to the end of the 17th century, most of the world's coffee was imported from Yemen.

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, the character first appeared in Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 (uncirculated).

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If the fluid is in a state of differential rotation about a fixed origin, this Lorentz force can be surprisingly disruptive, even if the magnetic field is very weak.

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An American urologist bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000.

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Icelanders consume more Coca-Cola per Capita than any other nation.

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The word acheropite comes from the Greek ἀχειροποίητος, meaning "not created by human hands", and the term was first applied to the Turin Shroud and the Veil of Veronica.

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God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.

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They have had the largest influence on the science and culture of hallucinogens, and include mescaline, LSD, psilocybin, and DMT.

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Ali's unusual gastric abilities led to rumors that the Rockefeller Institute had offered a large sum of money to obtain his stomach post-mortem.

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Perky-eared dogs hear sounds better than floppy-eared dogs.

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Scholars differ about the beliefs and teachings of Jesus as well as the accuracy of the biblical accounts, with only two events supported by nearly universal scholarly consensus: his baptism and his crucifixion.

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There are more than 800 species of bird and more than 100,000 known species of insect.

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It consists partly of folk traditions developed in Cornwall and partly of traditions developed by Britons elsewhere before the end of the first millennium, often shared with those of the Breton and Welsh peoples.

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It was one of the first global empires and one of the world's major economic, political and military powers in the 15th and 16th centuries, with territories that became part of numerous countries.

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Amulets to protect against it have been found dating to around 5,000 years ago.

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The koinophilia hypothesis proposes that a sexually reproducing animal would therefore be expected to avoid individuals with rare or unusual features, and to prefer to mate with individuals displaying a predominance of common or average features.

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Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day

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As an adult, it can grow up to 20 centimetres (8 in) long (top of the mantle to the tip of the arms) and on average weighs 26 grams (0.

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It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

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The syndrome was first described in 1961 by New Zealander John C.

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The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

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The class contains two, only distantly related, extant subclasses: Coleoidea, which includes octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish; and Nautiloidea, represented by Nautilus and Allonautilus.

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Romans held most of their Caledonian territory only a little over 40 years; they probably only held land in present-day Scotland for about 80 years.

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"Half-turn" ambigrams undergo a point reflection (180-degree rotational symmetry) and can be read upside down (for example, the word "swims"), while mirror ambigrams have axial symmetry and can be read through a reflective surface like a mirror.

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This may not be available if the student were given only access to typical classroom education.

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Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest in the world.

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Although Capp was from Connecticut, he spent 43 years writing about the fictional Southern town of Dogpatch, reaching an estimated 60 million readers in more than 900 American newspapers and 100 more papers in 28 countries internationally.

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Using dimensionality reduction techniques, psychologists showed that most (though not all) of the variance in human personality can be explained using only these five factors.

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Anselm, who formulated the first ontological argument; Thomas Aquinas, who presented his own version of the cosmological argument (the first way); René Descartes, who said that the existence of a benevolent God is logically necessary for the evidence of the senses to be meaningful.

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Theory of mind was first conceptualized by researchers evaluating the presence of theory of mind in animals.

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They can be difficult to cleanly classify, however, as many are common across multiple such forms and can intersect under various categories, such as figurative (non-literal) devices.

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In the first case, the "regression" effect is statistically likely to occur, but in the second case, it may occur less strongly or not at all.

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Historically, disabilities have only been recognized based on a narrow set of criteria—however, disabilities are not binary and can present uniquely depending on the individual.

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Primary colors are colorants or colored lights that can be mixed in varying amounts to produce a gamut of colors.

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Telepathy (from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle) 'distant' and πάθος/-πάθεια (páthos/-pátheia) 'feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience') is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.

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They argued that passion and intuition were crucial to understanding the world, and that beauty is more than merely an affair of form, but rather something that evokes a strong emotional response.

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The concept of race is foundational to racism, the belief that humans can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another.

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However, they rarely meddle in human affairs, preferring instead to live among their own in a societal arrangement similar to that of the Arabian tribes.

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There is no consensus on what exactly needs to be studied, or whether consciousness can be considered a scientific concept.

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Schopenhauer was among the first philosophers in the Western tradition to share and affirm significant tenets of Indian philosophy, such as asceticism, denial of the self, and the notion of the world-as-appearance.

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By the second decade of the 21st century, the consensus supported the position that there was only a single author, who wrote either in the late 4th century or the early 5th century, who was interested in blending contemporary issues (political, religious and social) into the lives of the 3rd century emperors.

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Schickard's machine was the first of several designs of direct entry calculating machines in the 17th century (including the designs of Blaise Pascal, Tito Burattini, Samuel Morland and René Grillet).

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Similar definitions can be used in library science and other areas of scholarship, although different fields have somewhat different definitions.

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Daguerreotype was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used from the 1830s to 1850s.

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It was the first official world's fair to be held in the United States and coincided with the centennial anniversary of the Declaration of Independence's adoption in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.

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9% of the population, the 7th-largest share among all regions.

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Animal psychology considers the question of whether animals other than humans can reason.

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As with many expletives, the term can be used as an interjection, or as many other parts of speech, and can carry a wide variety of meanings.

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His major work, the Gutenberg Bible, was the first printed version of the Bible and has been acclaimed for its high aesthetic and technical quality.

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Most lipstick contains fish scales!

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The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.

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The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis..

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The bridge consists of six main spans, each 78 feet (24 m) in length, crossing the river and Kelly Drive; five small arches, each 9 feet (2.

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Walt Disney holds the world record for the most Academy Awards won by one person, he has won twenty statuettes, and twelve other plaques and certificates

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The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

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The west face, the highest of the Matterhorn's four faces, was completely climbed only in 1962.

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Located at the base of a bird's trachea, it produces sounds without the vocal folds of mammals.

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“Lassie” was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.

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Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.

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Antlions are poorly represented in the fossil record.

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Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women

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Three of the 12 dogs on the Titanic survived.

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The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.

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The House of Karađorđević had been deposed in Serbia 30 years earlier by the rival House of Obrenović, and Alexander spent his early life in exile with his father in Montenegro and later Switzerland.

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You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

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The oldest dog on record was a Australian Cattle Dog named Bluey, who lived to be 29 years and 5 months old.

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The Akita is one of the most challenging dogs to own. Some insurance companies have even characterized it as the #1 "bad dog" and may even raise an Akita owner’s homeowner insurance costs.

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dä́ì-] ) is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in the Tōhoku region.

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For example, influenza B can infect only humans and harbor seals.

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Red blood cells (RBCs), referred to as erythrocytes (from Ancient Greek erythros 'red' and kytos 'hollow vessel', with -cyte translated as 'cell' in modern usage) in academia and medical publishing, also known as red cells, erythroid cells, and rarely haematids, are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate's principal means of delivering oxygen (O2) to the body tissues—via blood flow through the circulatory system.

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More than a thousand species have been identified, within almost 200 genera.

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The name comes from Tiki, the Māori name for the first human, often represented in the form of hei-tiki, a pendant and important taonga.

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Lead is malleable and soft, meaning it can be shaped into different shapes and lead has a relatively low melting point.

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A member of the family Cryptobranchidae, the hellbender is the only extant member of the genus Cryptobranchus.

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It is much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if they are given in conjunction with hand signals or gestures.

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During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.

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07 million inhabitants as of 2019 across a total area of nearly 35,752 km2 (13,804 sq mi), it is the third-largest German state by both area (behind Bavaria and Lower Saxony) and population (behind North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria).

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It was first described by Alexander Wilson in 1812.

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In the United States, it is only available legally from pharmacies by prescription from a licensed health care provider.

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In very rare cases, fraternal or (semi-) identical twins can have the same mother and different fathers.

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The design of the building, featuring a load-bearing steel diagrid exoskeleton, was highly unusual at the time and helped pioneer the use of diagrids and framed tube construction.

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Today, there are more than 7,000 offshore platforms operating at a water depth up to and exceeding 2000 m.

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Clicking the landmark number in the first column will take you to the ASME page on the site where you will also find the downloadable brochure from the dedication.

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Most buildings, however, have higher modes of response, which are uniquely activated during earthquakes.

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The cable-stayed bridge is optimal for spans longer than cantilever bridges and shorter than suspension bridges.

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Niemiecka trasa prowadząca w pobliże Wielkiego Lodowca Zugspitze (Zugspitzplatt) oferuje widoki na najwyższy szczyt Niemiec i jest dostępna ze stacji kolejki górskiej.

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Przełęcz Karkonoska, położona na granicy polsko-czeskiej, jest osiągalna szlakiem z Podgórzyna i stanowi ważny punkt widokowy na Karkonosze.

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Połonina Caryńska w Bieszczadach jest dostępna szlakiem rozpoczynającym się w miejscowości Ustrzyki Górne, a jej grzbiet oferuje rozległe panoramy na bieszczadzkie połoniny i ukraińskie Karpaty.

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Dolina Pięciu Stawów Polskich w Tatrach jest dostępna czerwonym szlakiem z Palenicy Białczańskiej i oferuje malownicze widoki na pięć polodowcowych stawów, w tym Wielki Staw Polski.

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Dolina Vintgar w Parku Narodowym Triglav, dostępna szlakiem pieszym od jeziora Bled, zachwyca drewnianymi kładkami poprowadzonymi nad krystalicznie czystą rzeką Radovna i malowniczymi wodospadami.

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Zamek Ogrodzieniec, jeden z najbardziej imponujących punktów na Jurze Krakowsko-Częstochowskiej, jest osiągalny Czerwonym Szlakiem Orlich Gniazd, oferującym w pobliżu charakterystyczne formacje skalne.

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Z Przełęczy Karkonoszy, na którą można dotrzeć szlakiem niebieskim ze Szklarskiej Poręby, rozciągają się malownicze widoki na Kotlinę Jeleniogórską oraz panoramę Karkonoszy.

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