In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Jazirian is the couatl deity of Community, Peace, Learning, and Parenthood.

Jazirian is described as being one of the oldest gods, an equal in power to the highest greater deities.

Jazirian’s realm, known as Uroboros, the Gates of Wisdom, can be found on the plane of Mount Celestia.

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A groatland, also known as a fourpenceland, fourpennyland or “Còta bàn” was a Scottish land measurement. It was so called, because the annual rent paid on it was a Scottish “groat” (coin).

There were some regional variation in the equivalencies, but in Islay and many other places, they were as follows:

½ groatland – Dà sgillinn […]

Dillenidae is a botanical name at the rank of subclass.
Circumscription of the subclass will vary with the taxonomic system being used; the only requirement being that it includes the family Dilleniaceae. A well-known system that uses this name is the Cronquist system, and in the original 1981, version of the system the circumscription was:

subclass […]

This article is about paisa, the coin used in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. For other uses, see Paisa (disambiguation).

A paisa (pl. paise) is a monetary unit currently equivalent to of a rupee or Bangladeshi taka and is used in several countries, including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Variant spellings include poisha (especially in […]

‘Fortune Teller with Soldiers’ is a painting by Valentin de Boulogne

Background
“Fortune Teller with Soldiers” is considered one of Valentin de Boulogne’s greatest pieces of work, one that used the psychology, interplay among characters, and involves the viewer in the painting.

Explanation

Introduction
The first thing anyone can say about the painting is that it can be read either […]

The Coin walk is a type of coin trick in which a coin is flipped over the fingers to create the illusion of a coin walking across the back of the hand. It is one of the most famous coin manipulation tricks. It is also known as the coin roll, knuckle roll, and the steeplechase.

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A coin of account is a unit of money that does not exist as an actual coin (that is, a metal disk) but is used in figuring prices or other amounts of money. For example, the mill (or sometimes, mil) is a coin of account in the United States. It is equal to […]

50 cents may refer to 50 subunits of currencies where the subunit is called a cent. Note that some of these currencies may not be dollars; see cent (currency) for complete listing. Normally 1 main unit is divided into 100 cents, making ½ main unit equal to 50 cents. But most of the time, coins […]

For the band named after this novel, see Dead Fingers Talk (band).

Dead Fingers Talk, first published in 1963, was the fifth novel published by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs. The book was originally published by Olympia Press.

The book combines sections from Burroughs’ earlier novels, Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, […]

In baseball statistics, strikeout-to-walk ratio (K/BB) is a measure of a pitcher’s ability to control pitches; calculated as: strikeouts divided by bases on balls. A pitcher that possesses a great K/BB ratio is usually a dominant power pitcher, such as Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Curt Schilling, or Ben Sheets. However, in 2005, Minnesota Twins starting […]

Walk of Fame may refer to:

Hollywood Walk of Fame, a sidewalk in Hollywood, California embedded with stars featuring the names of celebrities

Canada’s Walk of Fame, a series of stars on sidewalks in Toronto, Ontario

British Walk of Fame, an attraction on Piccadilly Circus in London

“Walk of Fame” (pricing game)

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The Coinage Act of 1864, a United States federal law, changed the composition of the one-cent coin and authorized the minting of the two-cent coin. The Director of the United States Mint was directed to develop the designs for these coins for final approval of the Secretary of the Treasury.

As a result of this law, […]

Nickle may refer to:

Nickle programming language, a numeric oriented programming language

Nickle, another name for the European woodpecker

Nickle is an alternative, rarely-used spelling for:

nickel, the chemical element

Nickel (Canadian coin), a five-cent coin

Nickel (United States coin), a five-cent coin

Also see

Nickel (disambiguation)

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The American 5-cent Coin Design Continuity Act of 2003 (Public law 108-15, 31 United States Code 5101) allowed coinage of the commemmorative Westward Journey Nickel Series and mandated that Monticello be depicted on the 2006 nickel, as it had been previously.

The act also established the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee.

External links

Text of the act, from loc.gov

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A growbag is a large plastic bag filled with peat or a similar growth medium. It was initially produced in the 1970s. The system was originally invented for home use but has since spread into market gardening and farming.

The bag contains enough nutrient for one year’s growing and requires only planting and watering. Growbags come […]

Gibuld (Gibuldus / Gebavultus) was king of the Alamanni around 470. He is the last known king before the defeat of the Alamanni at the battle of Tolbiac in 496.

According to Eugippus, Gibuld used to harry Passau, until he was asked by Saint Severinus of Noricum to free his Roman hostages. Gibuld was so impressed […]

A rare-earth mineral is a mineral whose principal element is a rare earth element. Yttrium is found in almost all rare earth minerals. Rare earth minerals are usually found in association with alkaline to per-alkaline igneous complexes, in pegmatites associated with alkaline magmas and in or associated with carbonatite intrusives. Perovskite mineral phases are common […]

Merry Rainbow is a popular coin-throwing game in penny arcades and video arcades in Hong Kong. Usually a token coin is thrown instead of an actual piece of currency, and the thrower can win a prize if he/she is able to make the coin fall onto the designated areas of rainbow-shaped color plates.

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A picayune was a Spanish coin, worth half a real. Its name derives from the French picaillon, which is itself from the Provençal picaioun, meaning “small coin”. Besides being used in Spanish territories, it was also a common coin in the south of the United States, and the name has sometimes been used for the […]

In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, the approximation error in some data is the discrepancy between an exact value and some approximation to it. An approximation error can occur because

the measurement of the data is not precise (due to the instruments), or

approximations are used instead of the real data (e.g., 3.14 instead of π).

The […]

Cup-a-Soup is an instant soup product made by Lipton/Unilever.

The soup is made by pouring the soup sachet into a mug or cup, and then pouring 3/4 cup (6 fluid ounces) of hot water into the mug and stirring the mixture.

Recently, there has been a new release of a jar featuring approximately 12 servings.

Some flavors include […]

Die Datenschleuder. Das wissenschaftliche Fachblatt für Datenreisende (German: Daten data; Schleuder slingshot), correspondingly The scientific trade journal for data voyagers, is a German hacker magazine that is released four times a year by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC).

Topics include primarily political and technical aspects of the digital world (freedom of information, data privacy (data protection), […]

al-Maghazi, a term which, from the time of the work on the subject ascribed to al-Wakidi (d. 207/823), if not earlier, has signified in particular the expeditions and raids organised by Muhammad in the Medinan period. The Encyclopaedia of Islam

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Crooked Fingers (2000) is the first proper, full-length album recorded by the indie rock band Crooked Fingers. It was released on January 18, 2000 on WARM Records. It was recorded by Eric Bachmann in Seattle, WA at Ft. Lawton and Denise Maupin’s.

Track listing

“Crowned in Chrome”

“New Drink for the Old Drunk”

“Pigeon Kicker”

“Man Who Died of Nothing […]

In optics one can describe polarization using the Jones calculus, invented by R. C. Jones in 1941. Polarized light is represented by a Jones vector, and linear optical elements are represented by Jones matrices. When light crosses an optical element the resulting polarization of the emerging light is found by taking the product of the […]