Jewish Holidays Part 1
A festival celebrating liberation from oppression, freedom of worship, and finding light in the darkest of times
What is Hanukkah?
A Jewish celebration of love
What is Tu B'Av?
States that there are infinitely many prime numbers
What is Euclid's Theorem?
- The reason President Nixon resigned as president
- Burglars broke into the Democratic headquarters
- Reporters linked the situation to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President
What is The Watergate Scandal?
- Also referred to as the "second plague pandemic"
- Spread in mid-14th century
- Likely plagued Europe by the Mongol Forces
What is The Black Death?
A festival of freedom that marks the Hebrew exodus from Egypt long ago.
What is Passover?
The Jewish Day of Atonement - the most solemn day of the Jewish year. A day devoted to self-examination, and the chance to begin the New Year with a clean slate.
What is Yom Kippur?
Claims that every positive integer greater than 1 can be expressed as a product of its prime factors
What is The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic?
- Republican Party split over conservation issues
- Richard Ballinger was appointed as Secretary of the Interior
- Led to Roosevelt running for president with the Progressive Party
What is The Pinchot - Ballinger Affair?
- Named after Antonine dynasty
- Spread across Roman Empire (AD 165-180)
- Physician Galen wrote an account of the outbreakWhat is The Antonine Plague?
The day of rest and weekly observance of God's completion of creation.
What is Shabbat?
The Jewish New Year - a holiday observed with festive meals and a day spent in prayer or quiet meditation.
What is Rosh Hashanah?
Claims that every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers
What is Goldbach's Conjecture?
- President Grant was tarnished by this scandal
- John McDonald led the whiskey distillers
- Tried to bribe U.S. Treasury officials to evade taxes
What is The Whiskey Ring?
- Caused by variola virus
- Came to America by the Spanish conquistadors
- Led to the first vaccine, created by Edward Jenner
What is Smallpox?
A day celebrating the saving of the Jews from a diabolical plot of destruction, as recounted in the Book of Esther
What is Purim?
The day Jews all over the world mourn the loss of six million Jewish lives lost during the Holocaust
What is Yom HaShoah?
Unproven, but states that there are infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by 2
What is The Twin Prime Conjecture?
- Made John Quincy Adams the president in 1824
- Andrew Jackson won more votes than Adams, yet the White House was given to Adams
- Jackson claimed that Clay helped boost Adam's reputation
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
- Infection relating to the intestines
- Killed President Polk
- Epidemiologist John Snow revealed the city's pumps to be the cause of the outbreak
What is Cholera?
The celebration of the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people, also known as the Festival of First Fruits
What is Shavuot?
The holiday that marks the 33rd day of the 49-day "Omer" period between Passover and Shavuot
What is Lag B'Omer?
Talks about the approximate behavior of the prime counting function π(n)
- States the number of primes less than or equal to n
- Roiled George W. Bush's presidency amid his invasion of Iraq
- Valerie Plame was a covert CIA officer and married to a diplomat named Joseph Wilson
- Wilson investigated a report of Saddam Hussein trying to purchase uranium
What is The Plame Affair?
- Fever carried by lice
- Conclusively identified during the Reconquista
- Involved in military conflicts (Thirty Years' War & Napoleon's invasion of Russia)
What is Typhus.