Insidious Mordecai
Mordecai is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He was the son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin. The name Mordecia is of uncertain origin but is considered identical to the name Marduka or Marduku attested as the name of officials in the Persian court in [...]
The Bitwork Tower
The Bitwork Tower is the Lucas Tower. Originally known as the Tower of Hanoi, also called as the Tower of Brahma. The term Lucas Tower was used in the Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a 2011 film. The term Bitwork tower is just fictional and invented by the crazy guys behind Bitworking.com. The [...]
The Regular Quadrilateral
A square is a regular quadrilateral. Yes, it is. That’s what I’ve learned in high school and in college. And I have verified it in Wikipedia. It is a quadrilateral and it is regular! A quadrilateral is a polygon with four sides and four vertices or corners. Why is it regular? Because it has four [...]
Tetra Vortex
Tetra Vortex is a Warlock skill in Ragnarok Online, a famous MMORPG developed by a South Korean videogame corporation. Before you can use this skill, you are required to summon the 4 classical elements known as the fire, water, air, and earth. The range of this skill is 9 cells. The maximum level of this [...]
I’m Falling to Pieces
Breakeven, also known as Falling to Pieces, is a popular song by an Irish band called “The Script”. The song Breakeven is from their album that is also called The Script. The said album was first released in Ireland last November 11, 2008. Released in the U.K. 3 days after, and released world wide on [...]
The Mysterious Parallax
Parallax is an apparent difference or displacement in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight. The word was first used in the 16th century, around 1570. A parallax is measured by the angle of inclination between two lines. The term is derived from the Greek word parallaxis, which means [...]
The Picture Element
A pixel is a single point in a raster image. It is the smallest unit of picture that can be represented or controlled, the smallest addressable screen element in a digital display. Keith E. McFarland is the brainchild of the world “pixel”. The word was first published in the year 1965 by Frederic C. Billingsley.
London in 1851
1851 is the year, and London is the place, where the first modern chess tournament was held. Adolf Anderssen from Germany won the first chess tournament. Chess is two-player board game played on a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. It originated in northwest India during the Gupta empire. The earliest [...]
Alfred Mosher Butts
Who the hell is Alfred Mosher Butts? We can’t deny the fact that his name is not familiar to 95% of the world’s population. But what he invented is known by everyone young and old. He invented the world famous word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual [...]