Greek Philosophy
He plucked a chicken and threw it over the wall of the Academy, saying, “This is Plato’s man.”
DIOGENES of Sinope
“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
FLANNERY O’CONNOR
It’s Avogadro’s Number.
6.02 x 1023
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EASTERN
Leonardo kept this painting with him and never sold it.
The MONA LISA
He taught that God is an ”unmoved mover” and the only cause that is not caused by something else.
ARISTOTLE
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny, nonny.”
SHAKESPEARE (Much Ado About Nothing)
The names of all but one of this series of elements end in -on. They have very low chemical reactivity.
NOBLE GASES
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The WAITING ROOM
It was painted in the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole and shows a view of cypress trees and an imaginary village.
STARRY NIGHT
Zeno, the founder of this philosophy, told his slave that he was not just fated to steal, but also fated to be beaten.
STOICISM
“You have no right to make people undress in the freezing cold!” and “Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip” are lines from this author’s account of a Siberian gulag.
Alexander SOLZHENITSYN
This weak phenomenon only affects molecules at very short distances, and does not result from a chemical bond.
VAN DER WAAL’S FORCE
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UNSTABLE
The Deesis Mosaic and the mosaic of Justinian presenting the Hagia Sophia to Jesus are found in this building.
The HAGIA SOPHIA
DAILY DOUBLE
This philosophy held that hedonism, or pursuit of pleasure, is the human good.
“Midway upon the journey of our life. I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.”
DANTE’s Inferno
It says that “The absolute pressure exerted by a given mass of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to the volume it occupies if the temperature and amount of gas remain unchanged within a closed system.”
BOYLE’s LAW
After playing some Baroque music, Mr. Colvin usually announces a beautiful one of these.
It is the most commonly used painting on the cover of Classical Christian textbooks.
Raphael’s THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS
Achilles can never catch up to a tortoise in a paradox invented by this pupil of Parmenides.
ZENO of Elea
His Sonnet 19 beginning “When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide…” is about his blindness.
John MILTON
For water, it is 611 paschals of pressure and 273 Kelvin, at which water vapor, ice, and liquid water coexist.
The TRIPLE POINT
Adobe had orcs, but when Zoom has technical problems, it is due to this foe that is beyond any of you.
Hans Holbein the Younger painted this king without a sword, crown, or scepter, but it’s still the most royal-looking portrait of any king ever.
HENRY VIII