#Pi history

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9 Cool Facts About Pi for ARIEL'S 9th Birthday! 🎉✍️

By Mr. Fluffernutter, the smartest bunny in the universe! 🐰✨ Oh my whiskers! It’s a very special day—Ariel is turning 9 years old today! I still remember last year’s birthday when she had a math-themed party, complete with a Pi-shaped cake and a game where everyone tried to recite as many digits of Pi as they could. Spoiler alert: I won! 🎉 This year, we’re celebrating by learning even more about…

[gattaxa]

"So just how many cases have you gotten so far, Kate Bishop?" "I'll have you know that since the inaugural opening of Hawkeye Investigations, I've taken on 5 new, definitely real, definitely paid their deposits, clients." "And how many were of cheating wives and husbands?" "...Four... BUT! One of them was about a missing guinea pig. Yeah, that one was kinda weird."

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[ltwilliammowett]

Cooking like a Sailor - Mince Pies

Christmas is fast approaching and at this time of year, there is a little treat that should not be missing anywhere, especially in England, not even on board ships. There, too, sailors can look forward to a mince pie.

Mince pies go back to a medieval pastry called a chewette. Chewettes were either baked or fried and filled with pieces of liver or meat mixed with boiled eggs and ginger. As a variation, chewettes were filled with dried fruit and other sweet ingredients. In the 16th century, they developed into a Christmas speciality. In the 17th century, liver and meat were increasingly replaced by kidney fat, and since the 19th century, the sweet form has largely established itself as the typical mince pie in Great Britain and North America. Mince pies with meat have not been common since the 19th century.

But now to the recipe from the late 18th century (Lobscouse& Spotted Dog, by Anne Chotzinoff Grossman, Lisa Grossman)

You need 1 pound of short pastry and 1/2 pound of puff paste. Preheat the oven to 450° / 230°C and prepare the pastry. Roll out the short pastry to a thickness of approx. 0.3 cm on a lightly floured work surface and cut it out so that it fits into a muffin tin with one edge (this is easiest), then roll out the puff paste to the same thickness and also cut it out so that it can serve as a lid, i.e. slightly larger so that you can still seal the whole thing well.

Fill everything with the filling and bake for 10 minutes, then turn the oven down to 350°/175°C and bake for a further 20 minutes.

Now the filling

3 pounds shin of beef 1 pound suet, finely grated 1 3/4 cups dried currants 3/4 cup raisins 3/4 sultanas 1/2 cup candied orange peel, coarsely chopped 3 cups tart apples, peeled cored and coarsely chopped Juice and coarsely chopped zest of 1 lemon Juice and coarsely chopped zest of 1 Seville orange 2 tablespoons grated ginger 2 cups of sugar 1 teaspoon mace 1 teaspoon ground cloves 2 teaspoons ground nutmeg 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon of salt 1/2 cup cider 1/2 cup brandy 1/2 cup red wine

Cook the meat until it separates from the bone and chop finely. Now mix everything with the remaining ingredients. You can fill your pies now or keep the mixture in the fridge and use it later for an even more delicate flavour. As a tip for a meat-free version, you can also use dried cherries or other dried fruit.

Now you can serve your little treasures, give them as gifts or put them out for a kind soul on Christmas night. Bon appétit!

[nectarinepie68]

YOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY PEIPER DAY🎂🎂🎂🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊🍰🎁

Alles Gute Zum Geburtstag Joachim Peiper 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🍰🍰🍰🍰

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Warriors Orochi Playstation 2 2007

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Me staring at my maths homework for an hour and getting 10 questions done versus me writing 6 pages for my English homework in 15 minutes

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Scrooge McDuck as Julius Caesar and the March Ides and Donald Duck as an ancient Greek mathematician (Pythagoras and Archimedes) and Pi Day - Fearsome Four (Bushroot, Liquidator, Quackerjack and Megavolt) from Darkwing Duck and March and April holidays - Duck comics, Darkwing Duck and Duckverse - My style

Even though I'm late and don't arrive on time, I still decided to draw something related to the international days that are celebrated during March and early April. So I drew a few drawings related to that. The first drawing I drew shows Donald and Scrooge dressed from the classical period (the time of ancient Greece and ancient Rome) related to March 14th and 15th, or according to the ancient Romans, the days of the Ides of March. Ides, or in Latin Idus, means the middle of the month, and on that March 15th in 44 BC, before the birth of Christ, a terrible event occurred in the then Roman Republic when corrupt senators led by Brutus and Cassius killed the Roman dictator and leader Gaius Julius Caesar, which put the Roman state in danger and a new civil war. In the end, the senators who killed Caesar were punished and after more than 15 years, the civil war ended with the victory of Caesar's grandson-nephew Octavian Augustus, who declared himself emperor, and Rome became the capital of the Roman Empire. Scrooge McDuck is here as Gaius Julius Caesar and it's part of my Duckverse in History, luckily he wasn't killed, but he got a lot of knives in his salad like Caesar's salad. By the way, Caesar's salad was only created in 1924, named after the Italian chef Caesar Cardini who worked at Caesar's restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico, so it has nothing to do with Gaius Julius Caesar, but that's how a meme related to it was created. You can imagine Scrooge's reaction to that. "Beware of the Ides of March!" By the way, if you are more interested in Scrooge as Caesar, look here:

Donald Duck is here as an ancient Greek mathematician like Pythagoras who gave the Pythagorean theorem regarding a triangle and how it is calculated. "The sum of the areas of the two squares on the legs (a and b) equals the area of ​​the square on the hypotenuse (c)." You can see the given formula in the drawing. By the way, Pythagoras is one of the greatest mathematicians of all time and lived in the 6th century BC and came from the Greek island of Samos. He was an excellent geometer and was a lover of music, and he also founded a secret order related to that. More precisely, I was inspired by the cartoon "Donald in Mathmagic Land" from 1959 in which Donald goes to the land of mathematics and then goes back in time to Ancient Greece and meets Pythagoras and becomes a member of his society. March 14th is the International Day of Mathematics because of the infinite number Pi, which is a Greek letter in their alphabet and is often used in mathematics and physics. "It is defined as the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle or as the ratio of the area of ​​a circle to the square over its radius." The number is actually 3.14159…It is also called Archimedes' constant by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes from the third century BC who lived in Syracuse, now Sicily. The number Pi was introduced there by William Jones and popularized by Leonard Euler in the 18th century. On that March 14th, 1879, physicist Albert Einstein was born, so that day is also celebrated as Einstein's Day. That's why I drew Donald wearing ancient Greek clothes with the letter Pi on his T-shirt, and wearing a green laurel wreath.

The other two drawings are related to Darkwing Duck, or rather the villainous team of the Fearsome Four consisting of Bushroot, Liquidator, Megavolt and Quackerjack, certainly a great team and I drew them also related to international days. Dr. Reginald Bushroot wears a Leprechaun hat and a four-leaf clover, which also marks St. Patrick's Day, which is celebrated on March 17. Bud Flud (Flood), or Liquidator, presents his product of bottled plastic water, which marks International Water Day, which is celebrated on March 22. Water is certainly important to us, and plants and water definitely go together. And finally, Quackerjack and Megavolt together while Quackerjack holds a toy tooth that winds up, and they mark International April Fool's Day, which is celebrated on April 1. I haven't drawn them in a long time, and they deserve it so I drew them, and they are also one of my favorite characters.

I hope you like these drawings and that you like these characters, especially from Darkwing Duck and that you like these ideas, and feel free to like and reblog this, just please don't copy this without mentioning me and without my permission. Thank you! And I apologize for the long post. Also happy holidays celebrating this that I tagged.

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Lighthouse in L'Alfàs del Pi (Alacant, Valencian Country).

This lighthouse was built in 1863 very near to the remains of Torre Bombarda, a watchtower from the 16th century used to watch out for North African pirates, who often attacked the Valencian coast to sack the towns and capture and enslave the population or ask for ransom.

Photo from costablancaorg.

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Tartlets of Almond Paste (1872) for Pi(e) Day!

[hephaestuscrew]

Thinking about the protective way Clara tells Fleet not to go into DeVries' dangerous-looking training set-up, and about how when Septimus mentions Fleet's friend Fleet's immediate assumption is that he must mean Clara, and about "This is Miss Clara Entwhistle, my partner - in business, my business partner." / "I'm also his friend, but he doesn't like to say it.", and about how Fleet rarely smiles but he smiles to himself at Clara having a good idea (and Clara notices the change in his expression), and about how Clara is trying to work out Fleet's birthday through a process of elimination, and about how Fleet tries twice to shut down the conversation with Frances Byrne that's making Clara uncomfortable, and about how panicked and angry he sounds after realising she's been poisoned...

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[trisshawkeye]

For entirely unrelated fic research reasons, I stumbled upon this great academic book chapter on gift giving and associated letter writing in early medieval China including letters from Cao Cao and Lady Bian to the parents of Yang Xiu, letters from Cao Pi dissing the fruit of the Shu and Wu regions, and letters from the later Liang Dynasty on the qualities of oranges (making reference to previous Three Kingdoms writings while doing so). There's also a fun little story right at the end about the possible ways of interpreting a gift of cloves from Cao Cao to Zhuge Liang.

With much appreciation to the author for having the chapter publicly available on her academic website!

[canmom]

if you're wondering by the way, they teach you about as much in most British schools about the British Mandate for Palestine as they do about the Partition of India or really anything that this country did in its hundreds of years of ruling an empire.

absolutely nothing.

[is-newtonswife]

Happy pi day with William jones and gauss