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8/24/24 Journey to the West (西遊記; Xīyóu Jì) is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. The novel is a legendary account of the pilgrimage of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang, who journeyed to India in the 7th century AD to seek out and collect Buddhist scriptures (sūtras). The novel retains the broad outline of Xuanzang's own account, Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, but embellishes it with fictional fantasy elements from folk tales and the author's invention. The Buddha tasks the monk, whom the novel calls "Tang Sanzang" or "Tripitaka", with the journey to India and provides him with three protectors who agree to help him as an atonement for their sins: Sun Wukong (the "Monkey King"), Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing. Riding a mythical White Dragon Horse, the monk and his three protectors journey toward India and enlightenment by the power and virtue of cooperation.

7/30/24 karman line - a boundary 62 miles (100 kilometers) above mean sea level that borders Earth's atmosphere and the beginning of space

7/29/24 geronimo - a shout given by paratroopers as they jump into battle· an exclamation expressing exhilaration, especially when jumping from a great height.

6/11/24 cerebrate - think deeply about something; ponder

5/21/24 the dullahan is a type of legendary creature in irish folklore. he is depicted as a headless rider on a black horse, or as a coachman, who carries his own head. as it not widely attested in native sources, including no references to it on the extensive website of the irish folklore commission dúchas.ie, there is doubt as to whether the Dullahan was originally a part of the Irish oral tradition.

5/16/24 a pangram or holoalphabetic sentence is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and typing.

5/14/24 in chess, en passant (french: "in passing") describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that has just made an initial two-square advance. The capturing pawn moves to the square that the enemy pawn passed over, as if the enemy pawn had advanced only one square. The rule ensures that a pawn cannot use its two-square move to safely skip past an enemy pawn.

4/23/24 zygotic: of, relating to, or existing as a zygote.
zygote: a diploid cell resulting from the fusion of two haploid gametes; a fertilized ovum.

4/21/24 the fibonacci sequence is a sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. Numbers that are part of the Fibonacci sequence are known as Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted Fn. The sequence commonly starts from 0 and 1, although some authors start the sequence from 1 and 1 or sometimes (as did Fibonacci) from 1 and 2. Starting from 0 and 1, the sequence begins: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ...

4/11/24 agnosia is a rare disorder whereby a patient is unable to recognize and identify objects, persons, or sounds using one or more of their senses despite otherwise normally functioning senses.

4/8/24 a total solar eclipse occured today. a total solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the sun and earth, completely blocking the face of the sun. people located in the center of the Moon's shadow when it hits earth will experience a total eclipse. the next total solar eclipse to occur in the contiguous U.S. won't be until Aug. 23, 2044, and will only shadow three states in its path, Montana and North and South Dakota, according to NASA.

4/7/24 the moment arm or lever arm is the perpendicular distance between the line of action of the force and the center of moments. apply this to my raiding to avoid wrist pain.

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