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The Fál (Irish: [fˠaːlˠ]) or Lia Fáil (Irish: [ˌl̠ʲiə ˈfˠaːlʲ]; "Stone of Fál") is a stone at the Inauguration Mound (Irish: an Forrad) on the Hill of Tara in County Meath, Ireland, which served as the coronation stone for the King of Tara and hence High King of Ireland. It is also known as the Stone of Destiny or Speaking Stone. [1]
A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
The People v. O. J. Simpsonactor also shed some light on his mother and her career, remarking that “you don't want to f---” with her. “She is one of the most brilliant and can be quite ...
Say – EG (e.g., short for the Latin exempli gratia) Seaman – AB (able seaman) Second – S or MO (moment) Secret service – SS; Secretary – PA (personal assistant) Section – OR (Other Ranks – a 'section' of the British Armed Forces) See – LO; Senior Service – RN (Royal Navy) Sergeant Major - SM; Setter – I, ME, ONE (meaning the ...
The American cartoonist Alison Bechdel incorporated her friend's "test" into a strip in Dykes to Watch Out For. The Bechdel test (/ ˈbɛkdəl / BEK-dəl), [1] also known as the Bechdel-Wallace test, is a measure of the representation of women in film and other fiction. The test asks whether a work features at least two female characters who ...
Fermat–Catalan conjecture. In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than 2. The cases n = 1 and n = 2 have been known since antiquity to have infinitely many ...
Bargain Hunters (1987) The Baron and the Bee (1953–1954) Battle Dome (1999–2001) Battle of the Ages (1952) Battle of the Ages (2019; unrelated to above) Battle of the Network Stars (1976–1985, 1988, 2003, 2017) Battle of the Sexes (1938–1943) Battlestars (1981–1982) and its revival, The New Battlestars (1983) Beach Clash (1994–1995)