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Ryuk (Japanese: リューク, Hepburn: Ryūku) is a fictional character in the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.He is a Shinigami that drops a Death Note, a notebook that allows the user to kill anyone simply by knowing their name and face, into the human world to find relief from the boredom of his own realm.
Ryuk may refer to: Ryuk , a character in the Death Note media franchise; Ryuk (ransomware) Ryuk (village) or Rük, a village in the Quba Rayon of Azerbaijan;
We don’t often actually use the expression ‘apples and oranges’ as such – but we do use expressions such as: ‘that’s like comparing apples with oranges’ (to stress that one should compare like with like). To say that two things are ‘like chalk and cheese’ or ‘as different as chalk and cheese’, on the other hand, is to say ...
As such, photographers would use the phrase say "cheese" to encourage subjects to state the word while the photographer snapped the photo. US astronauts Pete Conrad and Gordon Cooper after their safe return to Earth from the Gemini 5 mission in 1965. Pilot Conrad is jokingly instructing his commander Cooper to say cheese to the photographers.
In the 13th-century Þiðrekssaga, [4] chapter 128, Egill, brother of Völund, is commanded by King Nidung to shoot an apple off his three-year-old son's head:. Now the king wished to try whether Egill shot so well as was said or not, so he let Egill's son, a boy of three years old, be taken, and made them put an apple on his head, and bade Egill shoot so that the shaft struck neither above ...
"Apples and Bananas" or "Oopples and Boo-noo-noos" [1] is a traditional [2] North American children's song that plays with the vowels of words. The first verse usually begins unaltered: I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas.
Apples and oranges are both similar-sized seeded fruits that grow on trees, but that does not make the two interchangeable. A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency. [1]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 December 2024. Allegorical item from Greek mythology J. M. W. Turner, The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides (c. 1806) The manzana de la discordia (the turret on the left belongs to the Casa Lleó Morera; the building with the stepped triangular peak is ...