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1. X?

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and X. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”

Atlas Shrugged

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Invented by Shiva, this musical instrument is said to have been invented by him during some sort of tantric fore-playing/lovemaking with his wife. The instrument’s two prominent resonating chambers are said to have been inspired by Parvati’s breasts. It also happens to be one of the most difficult instruments to master, and the Dagar Gharana has been most prominently associated with it for decades now.

Rudra Veena (start attending SPICMACAY concerts!)

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In 1948 Bernard Silver came up with a new solution to an inventory management problem packaged food industries and general stores were facing. Their first working system used ultraviolet ink, but the ink faded too easily and was rather expensive.Convinced that the system was workable with further development, Silver’s friend set himself to work on it. His next inspiration came from Morse code, and he formed his first X from sand on the beach. "I just extended the dots and dashes downwards…“

Bar-code.

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This Greek philosopher is known in India popularly by a different name, often used to refer to an eclectic person, or a maverick. The name changed because the traveling Arabs who came to India with knowledge of the philosopher could not pronounce a particular sound.

A Guddu Dhanoa film starring Akshay Kumar also has the same name.

Plato, known in India as Aflatoon.

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These little pyramids around Switzerland were used during wars to prevent tanks from entering the border, and that too, quite successfully. Thousands of these are lined on Swiss borders even today, and are known by a very innovative name. What?(picture on the next slide)

The Toblerone Line

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Although Karel Čapek's robots in R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (1921) – the play that introduced the word robot to the world – were organic artificial humans, the word "robot" has come to primarily refer to mechanical humans, animals, and other beings. The term X (from the Greek word for human-like) can mean either one of these, while a Y would be a creature that is a combination of organic and mechanical parts.

X-AndroidY-Cyborg

7. Connect1. Veritas2. Lux et Veritas3. Leges sine moribus vanae4. Dei sub numine viget5. Vox clamantis in deserto6. I would found an institution where any person can find

instruction in any study.7. In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen8. In Deo Speramus

Ivy League University mottos

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In mid-18th century, Francis Maseres, an English mathematician, wrote that X "darken the very whole doctrines of the equations and make dark of the things which are in their nature excessively obvious and simple". He came to the conclusion that X were nonsensical.In the 18th century it was common practice to ignore any X results, on the assumption that they were meaningless.

Negative numbers.

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If I am standing in country A’s territory, which lies in country B’s territory, which again lies in A’s territory, and that lies in B’s territory, where the hell am I standing?

Chitmahals, or Indo-Bangladeshi enclave systems. The one in question is a 3-tier enclave called Dahala Khagrabari #51.

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La Nouvelle Vague, French New-wave movement.

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X, started in 2006, is in stark contrast to its earlier version in that it is much simpler. It has already been criticized for being difficult to recognize by the visually impaired, as opposed to its predecessor. It features an equal-armed cross with the beams divided into 2 and dots in between the beams. According to the authority making it, this design represents "four heads sharing a common body" under a new "unity in diversity" theme. However, some Hindu nationalists have charged that the symbol is a Christian cross resembling the symbol on the deniers issued by Louis the Pious.

11.• The X principle describes an endeavor in which a deficiency in

any one of a number of factors dooms it to failure. Consequently, a successful endeavor (subject to this principle) is one where every possible deficiency has been avoided.

• The name of the principle derives from Y’s book X.

• In statistics, the X principle is used to describe significance tests: there are any number of ways in which a dataset may violate the null hypothesis and only one in which all the assumptions are satisfied.

Anna Karenina Principle.Happy families are all alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

12. Id X.• X was born in Murom, Vladimir region in 1923.• In 1941, X was drafted into the Red Army. He fought on the southern

and south-western areas in the 1st and 4th Ukrainian Fronts. He fought for the liberation of Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia. During the war, X was awarded the Order of Patriotic War II degree (1945), Red Star (1944), and the medals "For Courage" (1943), "For Military Merit" (1944), "For Victory over Germany" (1946).

• In 1945 X was demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army for health reasons and returned to Moscow. In February 1946, he entered the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute at the Faculty of Physics and subsequently worked on Nuclear and Atomic physics in Moscow.

• X created something we all know and respect.

I.E. Irodov

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Madhubala.

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This mythological couple and its etymological derivatives are frequently referred to in many contexts, one often jokingly, but the other mostly in serious light. The female’s name comes from the Greek word for soul, or breath of life. The man’s name is from the Latin word for desire.ID the wife’s name. (Picture on the next slide)

Cupid and Psyche.

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Which epic fantasy series by James Oliver Rigney Jr. borrows its name from the Hindi concept of Kaal Chakra, and has characters apparently influenced by the Tridev- Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh?

Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan.