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The latest Messages 3
2023-05-01 07:51:24
On the walls of Cologne City Hall, hidden under a larger statue of Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden, is a carving showing a man giving oral sex to himself. It dates around 1410 and no one really knows why it’s there.
Ancient Babylonians did math in base 60 instead of base 10. That's why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle.https://www.thoughtco.com/why-we-still-use-babylonian-mathematics-116679. https://www.math.tamu.edu/~don.allen/history/babylon/babylon.html
A man hears something, rumored, Quickly he chats it on, addicted to news, So that what he knows unconfirmed.., Draws an ever-widening circle. In the end it comes back to him, too. - Now the man beams with happiness: Forgetting that he did it himself, Gladly he sees his rumor confirmed.
Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron, is considered by some to be the first computer programmer. She wrote notes on Charles Babbage's "Analytical Engine" that included an algorithm for calculating a sequence of numbers. Lovelace envisioned the machine creating art and music.
"What are portraits for? To give an idea of this or that person. But what kind of representation is it, when in a portrait everything from the first to the last thread is a lie and a fiction? What good is such a portrait! Let there be no portrait at all."