Yahtzee and Yam’s

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Yahtzee (also spelled Yatzee, Yatzy) or Yam‘s, is a traditional society game of reasoned chance. The goal is to get combinations with five dice to win maximum points. It belongs to the public domain. Rules The rules vary widely and … Read More

Cenotaphs

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(Kuala Lumpur cenotaph, National Monument, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KL_Cenotaph.jpg) Cenotaph – from the Greek κενοτάφιον: kenos (empty) and taphos (tomb) – is a monument that contains no body, erected to the memory of a person or group of persons, whose … Read More

Funeral rites in Scotland

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(Memorial Cairn of MacArthur family, pipers of MacDonalds, Lords of the Isles, Isle of Skye. In the background are the ruins of Duntulm, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duntulm_%26_Cairn_Macarthur.JPG?uselang=fr) During the vigil, the death bodies have traditionally open face and his shroud was once generally … Read More

Scientific reasoning

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Pure formal type According to Immanuel Kant, formal logic is “science that sets out in detail and proves strictly, only the formal rules of all thought.” Mathematics and formal logic compose this type of reasoning. This class also relies on … Read More

Metempsychosis

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Metempsychosis (Ancient Greek μετεμψύχωσις / metempsúkhôsis, soul transmigration, from μετά and ψυχή/psukhḗ) is the transition, the transfer of a soul in another body, that it will animate. The metempsychosism is the belief that one soul can animate successively more human … Read More

Book digitization

Sustainability: a critical challenge of digitizing This issue raises many concerns for media degaussing. Poor reliability of storage and the rapid evolution of formats (proprietary formats appearance) present real physical files conservation issues. The latter includes two logic: the back-up … Read More

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