In Japan, Valentine’s Day was introduced by chocolate manufacturers in the late 1950s. It becomes a commercial festival where women (only they) offer chocolates to men on February 14 of each year. Despite the lack of interest in starting this … Read More
These days one can bet on almost anything: from whether it will snow on Christmas day, to which volcano will erupt next, to outcomes in worldwide presidential elections. While these may seem rather random and whilst you may be wondering … Read More
He is Nguyễn Hà Đông, a Vietnam-based developer from Hanoi. He created Flappy Bird in the span of two to three days, realeasing it on May 24, 2013, and removing it from both Apple’s App Store and Google Play on … Read More
Adobe Flash Player allows quick installation. The use of vectorial graphics (such as PostScript, SVG and PDF) – especially when they are combined with ActionScript code for animation – allows Flash files to be small files that use less bandwidth … Read More
1877 177,646 people living in Bucharest. In terms of religion: Predominantly Christian, of which 132,987 (75%) Orthodox, 16,991 (10%) Roman Catholics, 5,854 (3%) Protestant, 206 Christian Armenians and 796 Lipovan (Orthodox Old Rite). Among other religions, Jews were most numerous … Read More
Broadly speaking there are currently two models of national regulatory framework applied in the field of gambling in EU: one based on licensed operators providing services within a strictly regulated framework and the other on a strictly controlled monopoly (state … Read More
The day of Valentine’s Day, February 14, is regarded in many countries as the festival of love. Couples benefit of it to exchange sweet words and gifts as evidence of love and red roses are the symbol of passion. Originally … Read More
The use of social network theory in the social sciences began with studies on the urbanization of Manchester School (centering around Max Gluckman), done mainly in Zambia during the 1960s. The field of sociometry, trying to quantify the social relations, … Read More
What are the main future cybercrime threats on the horizon? And how has the European Cybercrime Center (EC3) contributed to protect European citizens and businesses since its launch in January 2013? These questions are at the core of an EC3 … Read More
In science, a physical constant is a physical quantity whose numerical value is fixed. It can be constrasted to a mathematical constant which is a fixed number that does not directly involve a physical measurement. There are many such constants … Read More
Harvard Lottery Ticket 1811 American lottery The numbers game operated out of “Policy shops”, exactly where bettors decide on numbers, have been inside the U.S. before 1860. In 1875, a report of a pick committee with the New York State … Read More
The taxonomy of this list adheres to James Clements’ Birds of the World: A Checklist, and reflects all changes to that work until July, 2005. Taxonomic changes are on-going. As more research is gathered from studies of distribution, behavior, and … Read More
