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In this aerial photo, structures are damaged and destroyed October 15, 2005 in Balakot, Pakistan. It is estimated that 90% of the city of Balakot was leveled by the earthquake. The death toll in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005 is believed to be 38,000 with at least 1,300 more dead in Indian Kashmir. SEE CONTENT NOTES.

6 of the World’s Deadliest Natural Disasters

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Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents

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From Sport to Spectacle: The History of the Super Bowl

Parsons Weems' Fable, oil on canvas by Grant Wood, 1939; in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Catalog entry: The historian Mason Locke Weems, commonly known by his clerical title, Parson Weems, pulls back a curtain to point at 6-year-old George Washington. Bearing an adult head and holding an axe, George gazes blankly up at his father, Augustine, who questions his son while holding a partially cut cherry tree. All of this takes place in front of a 20th-century brick building, which Wood modeled after his own home in Iowa. The scene illustrates the fable of Washington and the cherry tree, which Weems invented in 1806 for the first president's biography. Wood playfully suggests the artifice of the tale here, presenting the story in the manner of a costumed stage play rather than a real event. Amid the action, two Black figures pick cherries in the background, a reference to Washington' slaveholding past and a reminder of of what often gets left out in historical mythmaking.

Did George Washington Really Say, “I Can’t Tell a Lie”?

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6 Classical Dances of India

Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

6 Important Mughal Emperors

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Mersenne prime Fermat prime twin prime numbers prime number theorem Riemann zeta function Fermat’s theorem Dirichlet’s theorem Wilson’s theorem sieve of Eratosthenes number theory amicable numbers perfect number Fibonacci sequence Riemann hypothesis golden ratio twin prime conjecture Fermat’s last theorem real number transfinite number Chinese remainder theorem

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Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France

Pierre de Fermat

French mathematician

Paul Erdős

Paul Erdős

Hungarian mathematician

Marin Mersenne

French mathematician

Godfrey Hardy, 1941.

G.H. Hardy

English mathematician

Michael Oser Rabin

Israeli American mathematician

Enrico Bombieri

Italian mathematician

Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev.

Pafnuty Chebyshev

Russian mathematician

Terence Tao

Australian mathematician

Atle Selberg

American mathematician

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Numbers and Mathematics