New Testament People
She is the mother of Jesus Christ.
The Virgin Mary
is a novel by Bram Stoker that established many of the modern tropes regarding vampires.
Dracula
was the first time a president was impeached.
impeachment of Andrew Johnson
These are conic sections that resemble ovals. Their eccentricity is less than 1, and some definitions treat a circle as a special case of this shape. On this curve, the sum of the distances to two foci is constant. Their major axis and minor axis are the line segments within this shape that lie on their axes of symmetry, with the former being longer than the latter. The orbits of planets trace out this shape, per Kepler’s first law.
Ellipses
This adventure film, loosely based on the Arabian Nights was directed by Raoul Walsh, starred Douglas Fairbanks as a thief named Ahmed. After sneaking into the caliph’s palace, Ahmed falls in love with the princess; he subsequently disguises himself to compete with three other princes for her hand in marriage. Although he is exposed as a common thief, he eventually manages to win over the caliph by summoning a magical army to defeat the forces of the treacherous Mongol prince.
Thief of Baghdad
This man prepares the way for the coming of Jesus. He was called the “Elijah who is to come” by Jesus, a reference to a great Old Testament prophet. As an adult, he was a “voice crying in the wilderness”—an eccentric who lived in the desert, ate locusts and honey, and predicted the coming of a man greater than himself.
John the Baptist
is a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift. In the essay, Swift proposes alleviating the “burden” created by the children of the poor by using the children as food.
A Modest Proposal
The scandal tarnished the presidency of Ulysses Grant. The “ring” was coordinated by General John McDonald, a federal revenue collector, and backed by Grant’s private secretary Orville Babcock. In 1875 the reform-minded Treasury Secretary Benjamin Bristow exposed the conspiracy and helped secure the convictions of over 100 people.
The Whiskey Ring
These are conic sections with eccentricity greater than 1. On this conic, the difference of the distances to two foci is constant. This curve has two branches, each of which tends towards a pair of asymptotes.
Hyperbola
This person was a saxophonist who was an influential figure in hard bop and modal jazz. He played saxophone on many other musicians’ landmark albums; for example, he was the tenor sax player on Miles Davis’s album Kind of Blue. His own major albums included Giant Steps, whose title track features chords that move down by major thirds and a sax solo that led to his playing to be described as “sheets of sound.”
John Coltrane
This is the Roman official who presides over Jesus’s trial In the gospels, after the high priests arrest Jesus, they take Jesus before this man, who is reluctant to do anything, especially after his wife reports she had a dream warning him not to get involved. After crowds demand Jesus' death this man symbolically washes his hands and orders Jesus crucified.
Pontius Pilot
This is the only novel by Oscar Wilde. The title character is a handsome youth who has his portrait painted by his friend, the artist Basil Hallward. As time passes and the title characters life grows more and more perverse—he causes the suicide of the actress Sibyl Vane and murders Basil—his portrait becomes older and more disfigured and ugly, while Dorian himself remains eternally young and beautiful. At the end of the novel, Dorian stabs the portrait of himself; instantly, he dies and withers to a disfigured, decrepit corpse, while the picture returns to its original state.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
This led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Linda Tripp revealed the affair to Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor investigating Clinton’s controversial Whitewater land deal. Clinton had denied the affair publicly and to a grand jury, leading Starr to accuse him of perjury. The House of Representatives, led by Republican Newt Gingrich, impeached Clinton in 1998, but the Senate did not come close to removing him from office.
Monica Lewinsky Scandal
whose name comes from a French term for “snail,” was described by Étienne Pascal, the father of Blaise Pascal. It is defined similarly to the cardioid, except that the point can now lie anywhere within the outer circle. Depending on their parameters, this curve can have a cardioid-like “dimple” or an inner loop formed by the curve intersecting itself.
lima¸ons
Which conference established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank?
Bretton Woods
Is the disciple who betrays Jesus to the authorities, when he identifies Jesus at the garden of Gethsemane by kissing him on the cheek, leading to Jesus’s arrest. His fate after betraying Christ is unclear—according to the gospels, he threw the silver away and hanged himself out of guilt according to the Book of Acts, he used the money to buy a field, where he died when his guts burst open.
Judas Iscariot
is a play by George Bernard Shaw, titled for a mythical Greek sculptor who fell in love with a statue that came to life. Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics; he makes a bet with his acquaintance Colonel Pickering that he could make other people mistake a flower girl—Eliza Doolittle—for a duchess simply by teaching her how to speak with proper diction and grammar. Shaw’s play was the basis for the musical My Fair Lady.
Pygmalion
Secretary of War John Eaton’s wife Peggy was unpopular with the wives of Jackson’s other cabinet members, who thought she was immoral and too assertive for a woman. Led by Floride Calhoun, the wife of Vice President John C. Calhoun, they snubbed her socially and caused an obvious rift in the Jackson administration. The only cabinet member to support the Eatons was Secretary of State Martin Van Buren, who was a widower.
The Petticoat Affair
This is a bell-shaped curve given by the graph of y = 1 / (1 + x2). When rescaled, it becomes the probability density function for the Cauchy or Lorentzian distribution, which is well-defined but nevertheless has no well-defined mean. It was popularized by the mathematician Maria Agnesi, the first woman to receive a position as a math professor (though she apparently did not take it up).
The Witch of Agnesi
Protestants and Jews assign lower authority to this text because it was written between 300 and 100 BC, but Catholics and Orthodox Christians consider the books that make it up to be “deuterocanonical,” meaning that they are just as important and divinely-inspired as other parts of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. This text's title means “something outside an accepted canon,” and, in particular, in ancient Greek it meant “hidden things.” Denominations differ as to which books make up the this text, but Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus), and Baruch are almost always included.
The Apocrypha
Is a disciple of Christ and the attributed author of the fourth gospel. He is the brother of James, another disciple; some interpretations claim the two were blood relatives of Jesus. The Gospel of this man is the only non-synoptic gospel: it does not present a full account of the life of Jesus, but only focuses on specific aspects of his ministry, including miracles. He was reportedly the only disciple who was not martyred—he supposedly died of natural causes during the reign of Trajan.
John
is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, which Beckett described as a “tragicomedy” in a subtitle. This play is set on a roadside by a single tree. Two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for the arrival of a man, who never actually appears—though in both acts, a boy does appear bearing a message from Godot that he will not come today, but will come tomorrow. While waiting, the two characters meet Pozzo and his slave, Lucky, who are passing by; Pozzo and Lucky also appear in the second act, but Pozzo has become blind and claims never to have met Vladimir and Estragon before.
Waiting for Godot
This supposedly resolved the election of 1824 by making John Quincy Adams president, after the Democratic–Republican Party fractured before the election. Most historians believe that Clay backed Adams because they shared similar views, but Jackson used the issue to unseat Adams in 1832 and win reelection against Clay in 1836. The controversy foreshadowed later battles between Jackson’s Democratic Party and Clay’s Whig Party.
The corrupt bargan
This is a class of curves with a figure-8 shape. The infinity symbol is this type of curve . There are several types of this curve, including the Booth, which is a special case of the hippopede. Its name comes from the Greek for “ribbon.”
lemniscate
Philosophical text behind Daoism, a religion-philosophy founded by the semi-legendary Lao Tzu in the sixth century BC, though scholars now believe it was written about 200 years later, during the Warring States period of the late Zhou dynasty. This text instructs adherents in restraint and passiveness, allowing the natural order of the universe to take precedent.
Tao Te Ching