Author Archives: Nicolae Sfetcu

(Lantern of the Dead at Cellefrouin in the Charente department, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cellefrouin_lanterne3.JPG) A lantern of the dead is a masonry building, variable in shape, often slender, round-shaped, usually hollow and topped by an openwork pavilion (three openings), in which at dusk … Read More

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work. ~ Walter Benjamin, … Read More

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

(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

Casino Gaming There are no casinos in the Republic of Cyprus, though there are 22 casinos operating in Northern Cyprus (the Turkish section.) On 14/7/2004 the Ministerial Council of the Republic of Cyprus approved the conduct of two surveys, by … Read More

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(A modern Ouija board plus planchette) Consistent with David Prado, with the rise of spiritualism, a component will feed his system of thought and practice. These are the “sciences”. At the time, the scientific world was strongly “fascinated” by “table-turnings”, … Read More

Taxes Pursuant to the Gambling Tax Act, gambling taxes are imposed on the amounts received as stakes in games of skill, totalisators or betting as provided for in the Gambling Act, gambling tables and gambling machines used for organising games … Read More

(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

Definition Bad beat is an expression taken from the vocabulary of poker that means a common situation where a player is in possession of a strong poker hand, facing a player with a lower value hand, and the latter wins … Read More

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 (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