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There is a strong tradition of "world ages" in Maya literature, but the record has been distorted, leaving several possibilities open to interpretation. [21] According to the Popol Vuh , a compilation of the creation accounts of the Kʼicheʼ Maya of the Colonial-era highlands, the current world is the fourth. [ 22 ]
Mr. T did a video campaign for Hitachi Data Systems that was created and posted on consumer video sites including YouTube and Yahoo! Video. According to Steven Zivanic, senior director and corporate communications of HDS, "this campaign has not only helped the firm in its own area, but it has given the data storage firm a broader audience."
In January 2014, John Furrier of Forbes predicted that the film would flop, stating, "hands down, Godzilla will be the biggest box office bomb of 2014. Godzilla as a character is box office poison", citing past Godzilla flops to bolster his prediction. [218] Legendary estimated that the film would need to gross $380 million worldwide to break ...
For example, the novelist and critic Anthony Burgess once proposed that the word "book" ought to stand for "box of organized knowledge". [83] A classic real-world example of this is the name of the predecessor to the Apple Macintosh, the Apple Lisa , which was said to refer to "Local Integrated Software Architecture", but was actually named ...
In 2013 (a "La Niña" year), a record low 5.59 in (142 mm) of rainfall was recorded at downtown San Francisco, where records have been kept since 1849. [144] Snowfall in the city is very rare, with only 10 measurable accumulations recorded since 1852, most recently in 1976 when up to 5 inches (13 cm) fell on Twin Peaks.
The Post-World War II hyperinflation of Hungary held the record for the most extreme monthly inflation rate ever – 41.9 quadrillion percent (4.19 × 10 16 %; 41,900,000,000,000,000%) for July 1946, amounting to prices doubling every 15.3 hours.
Industry-wide research and investment reached a record $65.3 billion in 2009. [87] While the cost of research in the U.S. was about $34.2 billion between 1995 and 2010, revenues rose faster (revenues rose by $200.4 billion in that time). [86]