"its dark and anti-religious nature. Isaac Asimov apparently had in mind this story when he wrote ""... That Thou Art Mindful of Him"", since Asimov's title is from the same Bible verse, and two of Asimov's robots debate the same subject. What Is Man? (Twain essay) ""What Is Man?"" is a short story by American writer Mark Twain, published in 1906. It is a dialogue between a Young Man and an Old Man regarding the nature of man. The title refers to Psalm 8:4, which begins ""what is man, that you are mindful of him..."". It involves ideas of determinism"
"Owain Owain () is a name of Welsh origin. variously written in Old Welsh as Ougein, Eugein, Euguen, Iguein, Ou(u)ein, Eug(u)ein, Yuein, and in Middle Welsh as Ewein, Owein, and Ywein. Other variants of the name Owain include Ewein, Iguein, Owein, Ouein, Ywen, Ywein, Ywain, Yuein, and Yvain. Owain has also been Latinized as ""Oenus"". Osborn Bergin proposed that the name is cognate with Old Irish ""Ugaine"", ""Augaine"", and suggested that the Irish name could be a British loan. Linguist Kenneth H. Jackson proposed that the name is a derivation of the Latin ""Eugenius"", (which was more recently accepted by"
"(i.e. in numbers would be the future date 7754). Zayin is also one of the seven letters which receive a special crown (called a ""tagin"") when written in a Sefer Torah (Torah scroll), besides ʻayin, gimel, teth, nun, shin, and tzadi. For the Biblical and Modern Hebrew meaning of 'zayin' as a noun, see above. It is one of several Hebrew letters that have an additional meaning as a noun. The others are: bet [, the 2nd letter], whose name is a grammatical form of the word for 'house' (); vav [, the 6th letter], whose name means 'hook' ();"
"is used as the suffix for all numbers from 11 to 19 (analogous to ""-teen""). The Old English form has closer cognates in Old Frisian, Saxon, and Norse, whose ancestor has been reconstructed as *""ainlifun"". This has formerly been considered derived from Proto-Germanic *""tehun"" (""ten""); it is now sometimes connected with *""leikʷ-"" or *""leip-"" (""left; remaining""), with the implicit meaning that ""one is left"" after having already counted to ten. While, as mentioned above, 11 has its own name in Germanic languages such as English, German, and Swedish. It is the first compound number in many other languages, e.g., Italian"
"has given me a good many privileges; valuable privileges; privileges which are not granted to younger persons. Little by little I hope to get together courage enough to wear white clothes all through the winter, in New York. It will be a great satisfaction to me to show off in this way; and perhaps the largest of all the satisfactions will be the knowledge that every scoffer, of my sex, will secretly envy me and wish he dared to follow my lead. Mark Twain Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an"
"T T (named ""tee"" ) is the 20th letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in English-language texts. ""Taw"" was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets. The sound value of Semitic ""Taw"", Greek alphabet Tαυ (""Tau""), Old Italic and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing in each of these; and it has also kept its original basic shape in most of these alphabets. In English, usually denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive ( and X-SAMPA: ), as in"
"Gavin Gavin is a male given name. A variation on the medieval name Gawain, meaning ""god send"". Sir Gawain was a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, and St. Gavinus was a Christian martyr. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an epic poem connected with King Arthur's Round Table. Gavin also shares an origin with the Italian name Gavino, which dates back to ancient Latin. Saint Gavinus (San Gavino, Porto Torres, Sardinia) was an early Christian martyr, an ex–Roman centurion, decapitated in 300 AD and whose head was thrown in the Mediterranean sea before being reunited with his body."
"Gavin Gavin is a male given name. A variation on the medieval name Gawain, meaning ""god send"". Sir Gawain was a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, and St. Gavinus was a Christian martyr. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an epic poem connected with King Arthur's Round Table. Gavin also shares an origin with the Italian name Gavino, which dates back to ancient Latin. Saint Gavinus (San Gavino, Porto Torres, Sardinia) was an early Christian martyr, an ex–Roman centurion, decapitated in 300 AD and whose head was thrown in the Mediterranean sea before being reunited with his body."
"Devin (name) Devin is an English-language given name, it is a unisex name. It is of many origins. From the surname ""Devin"", which is an anglicization of the Irish patronymic ""Ó Damháin"". The Irish patronymic is in reference to the given name 'damán allaid' meaning ""fawn"". It is also of Celtic origin with the meaning of poet. And from a nickname based on Old French ""devin"" ""divine"" ( Latin ""dīvīnus""). As a masculine given name, ""Devin"" became somewhat popular in the United States during the 1980s to 2000s, peaking at rank 59 in 1997. During this time, ""Devin"" also began"
"Ælfwine Ælfwine (also ""Aelfwine"", ""Elfwine"") is an Old English personal name. It is composed of the elements ""ælf"" ""elf"" and ""wine"" ""friend"", continuing a hypothetical Common Germanic given name ""*albi-winiz"" which is also continued in Old High German and Lombardic as Albewin, Alpwin, Albuin, Alboin. Old Norse forms of the name are Alfvin and Ǫlfun. The modern names Alwin, Alvin may be a reduction of this name, or alternatively of ""Adalwin"", the Old High German cognate of the Anglo-Saxon Æthelwine. The name of the elves is clearly of Common Germanic age. As an element in given names, it is not"
"Taw Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Tāw , Hebrew Tav , Aramaic Taw , Syriac Taw ܬ, and Arabic ت Tāʼ (22nd in abjadi order, 3rd in modern order). In Arabic, it is also gives rise to the derived letter ث Ṯāʼ. Its original sound value is . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek ""tau"" (Τ), Latin T, and Cyrillic Т. Taw is believed to be derived from the Egyptian hieroglyph meaning ""mark"" Z9 The letter is named """". It is written in several ways depending on"
"Mark Twain Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876) and its sequel, the ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1885), the latter often called ""The Great American Novel"". Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for ""Tom Sawyer"" and ""Huckleberry Finn"". He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on"
"sea; it is not related to the word sound in the sense of noise or tones, but to sound, a geographical term. Traditional terms for soundings are a source for common expressions in the English language, notably ""deep six"" (a sounding of 6 fathoms): see John Ehrlichman. On the Mississippi River in the 1850s, the leadsmen also used old-fashioned words for some of the numbers; for example instead of ""two"" they would say ""twain"". Thus when the depth was two fathoms, they would call ""by the mark twain!"". The American writer Mark Twain, a former river pilot, likely took his"
"Tau Tau (uppercase Τ, lowercase τ; ) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300. The name in English is pronounced or , but in modern Greek it is . This is because the pronunciation of the combination of Greek letters αυ has changed from ancient to modern times from one of to either or , depending on what follows (see Greek orthography). Tau was derived from the Phoenician letter taw (𐤕). Letters that arose from tau include Roman T and Cyrillic Te (Т, т). The letter occupies"
"they may well have their origins in ""Cumbric"". The table below shows the variation of the numbers throughout Cumbria, as well as the relevant cognate in Welsh, Cornish and Breton, which are the three geographically closest British languages to Cumbric, for comparison. NB: when these numerals were used for counting sheep, reputedly, the shepherd would count to fifteen or twenty and then move a small stone from one of his pockets to the other before beginning again, thus keeping score. Numbers eleven, twelve etc. would have been 'yandick, taendick', while sixteen and seventeen would have been 'yan-bumfit, tyan-bumfit' etc. Although"
"people who used a quinary numeral system, and changed from a decimal system to a quinary one. There are two sets of numerals from 11 to 20, the second way was the archaic form. The word 'tupu' means 'sum', 'teanua' in 'tahi a teanua' means 'human body', 'nea' in 'tahi enea' means 'man'. Nowadays, the West Uvea or Faga Uvea people use French or Iaai numeral systems more frequently. The speakers designate their language by the name Fagauvea, which is also the name used in French. The name ""West Uvean"" sometimes used in English is meant to distinguish the language"
"Anwen Anwen is a Welsh feminine name. Notable bearers of the name are: It is not a very common first name, though neither is it rare. However, Anwen is popularly confused with ""Arwen"", a name created by the author and linguist J. R. R. Tolkien for use in his novel ""The Lord of the Rings"", and modelled on the etymology and sound patterns of Welsh. The origins of Anwen are somewhat unclear, though the -""wen"" ending is known to represent the mutated form of the adjective ""gwen"" (note: the ""G"" in ""gwen"" is dropped in a mutation of the word"
"T.J. Morgan). Julius Pokorny favored a purely Celtic origin, from Brittonic ""*Ouo-genios""/""*Owi-genjos"", ""Born of Sheep"", ""Sheep kin"" Linguists Holger Pedersen and Henry Lewis (who earlier linked the name to Gaulish *Esugenos), determined that both Jackson's and Pokorny's etymologies were phonologically impossible. Owain is one of the few Welsh names to be consistently popular over the last 100 years in England and Wales, particularly with the spelling Owen (and pronunciation //). Patronymics include ""Bowen"" (from ""[a]b Owain"") and ""Owens"". People with the name Owain include: Owain Owain () is a name of Welsh origin. variously written in Old Welsh as Ougein,"
"these abbreviations, with A standing for ""one occurrence"", B ""two occurrences"", and so on, one could then write C+ D/ for the number 304. This system is used when writing Chinese numerals and other East Asian numerals based on Chinese. The number system of the English language is of this type (""three hundred [and] four""), as are those of other spoken languages, regardless of what written systems they have adopted. However, many languages use mixtures of bases, and other features, for instance 79 in French is ""soixante dix-neuf"" () and in Welsh is ""pedwar ar bymtheg a thrigain"" () or"
"century, when it began to be used alongside the classical form Marcus. In the Celtic legend of Tristan and Isolde this was the name of a king of Cornwall. It was also borne by the American author Mark Twain (1835–1910), real name Samuel Clemens, the author of 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn'. He actually took his pen name from a call used by riverboat workers on the Mississippi River to indicate a depth of two fathoms. This is also the usual English spelling of the name of the 1st-century BC Roman triumvir Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Mark (name) Mark is"
"Wynn Wynn () (also spelled wen, ƿynn, or ƿen) is a letter of the Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound . While the earliest Old English texts represent this phoneme with the digraph , scribes soon borrowed the rune ""wynn"" for this purpose. It remained a standard letter throughout the Anglo-Saxon era, eventually falling out of use (perhaps under the influence of French orthography) during the Middle English period, circa 1300. It was replaced with once again, from which the modern <w> developed. The denotation of the rune is ""joy, bliss"" known from the Anglo-Saxon"
"of Paolo Alboino della Scala (1343–1375), after Alboino I (d. 1311). It survived only in the English surname Alwin (variants Alwen, Alwyn, Allwyn, Elvin, Elwin, Elwyn), and there only by conflation with similar-sounding Anglo-Saxon names. Alvin was introduced as a given name in the United States, derived from the surname, in the 19th century. Early bearers of this ""revived"" given name were Alvin Adams (b. 1804) Alvin Saunders (b. 1817) and Alvin Peterson Hovey (b. 1821). Since the 2000s, ""Alvin"" (and to a lesser extent ""Alwin"") has increasinly been used as a given name in Sweden. The Swedish Statistics office"
"like the Protestant Bible or in poetic usage, numbers such as 114 may be ""written"" as [100] [10] [4] (百十四). Outside of Taiwan, digits are sometimes grouped by myriads instead of thousands. Hence it is more convenient to think of numbers here as in groups of four, thus 1,234,567,890 is regrouped here as 12,3456,7890. Larger than a myriad, each number is therefore four zeroes longer than the one before it, thus 10000 × wàn (萬) = yì (億). If one of the numbers is between 10 and 19, the leading ""one"" is omitted as per the above point. Hence (numbers"
"primes. The following table lists all such primes with from up to 4: A Wilson number is a natural number ""n"" such that ""W""(""n"") ≡ 0 (mod ""n""), where formula_6, the constant ""e"" = 1 if and only if ""n"" have a primitive root, otherwise, ""e"" = -1 For every natural number ""n"", ""W""(""n"") is divisible by ""n"", and the quotients (called generalized Wilson quotients) are listed in . The Wilson numbers are If a Wilson number ""n"" is prime, then ""n"" is a Wilson prime. There are 13 Wilson numbers up to 5. Wilson prime A Wilson prime, named"
"to see some use as a feminine given name. Feminine usage peaked in 1991, at rank 238, or at a ratio of 28% of masculine usage. Devin (name) Devin is an English-language given name, it is a unisex name. It is of many origins. From the surname ""Devin"", which is an anglicization of the Irish patronymic ""Ó Damháin"". The Irish patronymic is in reference to the given name 'damán allaid' meaning ""fawn"". It is also of Celtic origin with the meaning of poet. And from a nickname based on Old French ""devin"" ""divine"" ( Latin ""dīvīnus""). As a masculine given"
"Merseyside, (198th, 1,727), Cheshire, (213th, 1,739), West Yorkshire, (245th, 1,751), Surrey, (281st, 1,815) and Essex (404th, 1,715). Haines (surname) Haines is a Welsh surname of Anglo-Saxon origin. Haines is a patronymic form of the medieval male given name ""Hain"", itself derived from the Old German ""Hagano"", originally a byname meaning ""hawthorn"". This name had existed in England before the Conquest of 1066, but was later popularized by the Normans. Additionally, Haine may be derived from the Old Norse ""Haghni"" or ""Hagne"". As a surname Haines is the 410th most common surname in Great Britain with 23,109 bearers. It is most"
"According to Christopher Tolkien: ""the Eldar used two systems of numerals one of sixes (or twelves), and one of fives. (or tens)."" That is a duodecimal counting (base 12), and a decimal system. J.R.R. Tolkien coined a word for the 'decimal system of counting' ""maquanotië"". The known numbers for 1–20 are presented below ; those from early Quenya (""Early Qenya Grammar"") are in bold. Other attested number words include ""esta"" and ""inga"" for 'first'. Tolkien was dissatisfied with ""esta"", the definition is marked with a query in the ""Etymologies"", and ""inga"" means not just 'first' but also 'high', it appears"
"Alnwick Thews. The Guild of One-Name Studies considers the Thew study to be a medium-size study (398 occurrences in the UK in 1881) which it applies to studies of between 300 and 3,000 occurrences. Thew (surname) Thew is an English medieval surname. There are a number of differing etymological theories for the surname Thew. One theory is that it arose as a status name derived from the Norse word ""thewar"" meaning a bondsman. A bondsman was a young man, often the son of a knight, who was responsible for the horse, weapons and armour of a lord or chief. Their"
"for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election if eligible to vote. The following day, she issued an apology in a series of tweets saying she was caught off guard by a question asked to her and did not put enough context into her answer, and denied that it was an endorsement of the president. In addition to her various awards for her singles and albums, Twain has received a number of personal honours: Shania Twain Shania Twain, OC (; born Eilleen Regina Edwards; August 28, 1965) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She has sold over 100 million records,"
"presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, but he invested in ventures that lost most of it—notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter that failed because of its complexity and imprecision. He filed for bankruptcy in the wake of these financial setbacks, but he eventually overcame his financial troubles with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers. He chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, even after he had no legal responsibility to do so. Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted"
"kaf [, the 11th], whose name means 'palm [of the hand]' or 'tablespoon' (); ʻayin [, the 16th], whose name means 'eye' (); pe [, the 17th], whose name means 'mouth' (); qof [, the 19th], whose name means 'monkey' or ""eye of needle"" (); tav [, the 22nd], whose name means 'mark' (), and several other Hebrew letters, whose names are ancient Hebrew forms of nouns still used, with a slight change of form or pronunciation, as nouns in modern Hebrew. Zain is a consonant with the sound which is a voiced alveolar fricative. Zayin Zayin (also spelled zain"
"Ian Ian or Iain is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin, ultimately derived from Hebrew Yohanan and corresponding to English John. The spelling Ian is an Anglicization of the Scottish Gaelic forename ""Iain"". It is a very popular name in much of the English-speaking world and especially in Scotland, where it originated. The name has now fallen out of the top 100 male baby names in the UK, having peaked in popularity as one of the top 10 names throughout the 1960s, while remaining roughly constant in popularity in the US. Back in 1900, Ian was the 180th most popular"
"Western art or literature are, more likely than not, intentional references to ""the Beast"" symbolism. Such popular references are therefore too numerous to list. It is common to see the symbolic role of the ""integer"" 666 transferred to the ""digit sequence"" 6-6-6. Some people take the Satanic associations of 666 so seriously that they actively avoid things related to 666 or the digits 6-6-6. This is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. The number is cited as 616 in some early biblical manuscripts, the earliest known instance being in Papyrus 115. 666 (number) 666 (six hundred [and] sixty-six) is the natural number following"