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  2. Yiddish words used in English - Wikipedia

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    האַק): Bother, pester (as in the character Major Hochstetter from Hogan's Heroes; a hockstetter being someone who constantly bothers you); a contraction of the idiom Hakn a tshaynik (literally "to knock a teakettle"; Yiddish: האַקן אַ טשײַניק), from the old time pre-whistle teakettles whose tops clank against the rim as the ...

  3. Parable of the Friend at Night - Wikipedia

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    The scene described in this parable suggests a single-roomed peasant house, where the whole family sleeps together on a mat on the floor, [1] [2] and a man travelling by night to avoid the heat of the day. [2] The reason for the friend's request is hospitality, a sacred duty throughout the Mediterranean world in antiquity. [3]

  4. Order of magnitude - Wikipedia

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    [contradictory] For example, the number 4 000 000 has a logarithm (in base 10) of 6.602; its order of magnitude is 6. When truncating, a number of this order of magnitude is between 10 6 and 10 7. In a similar example, with the phrase "seven-figure income", the order of magnitude is the number of figures minus one, so it is very easily ...

  5. Trachtenberg system - Wikipedia

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    Subtract the right-most digit from 10. Subtract the remaining digits from 9. Add half of the neighbor, plus 5 if the digit is odd. For the leading 0, subtract 1 from half of the neighbor. Example: 346 × 4 = 1384 Working from right to left: (106) + Half of 0 (0) = 4. Write 4. (9 − 4) + Half of 6 (3) = 8. Write 8.

  6. List of Dennis the Menace (1959 TV series) episodes

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    Dennis and Tommy come by and pester Merrivale about leaving his nursery windows open so the bees can get in. George tells Henry and Alice about his flowers and how Merrivale knows Mark Stacy (Addison Richards), a wealthy friend who might invest in their business. Stacy is due to arrive at George's house very soon.

  7. Brain study shows Conrad Dobler, once regarded as NFL's ... - AOL

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    He retired from the NFL after a 10-year career that included stints with the St. Louis Cardinals, the New Orleans Saints and the Buffalo Bills. Conrad Dobler, football, 1950-2023

  8. Miksa Falk - Wikipedia

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    Miksa Falk (or sometimes Maximilian Falk, 7 October 1828 – 10 September 1908) was a Hungarian politician, journalist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the editor-in-chief of the German-language newspaper Pester Lloyd.

  9. This Family Drives 350 Miles For What Could Be A Common ...

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    The temperature drops from 6 degrees to 3 to 1. A road sign reads “Pass With Care.” Cell phone bars vanish one by one, until there are none. Fischer and his mother view these monthly trips as a chance to make up for lost time. Anderson gave birth to him 15 years after her first-born son and a decade after her daughter.