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The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing by Peter Deutsch

• The network is reliable
• Latency is zero
• Bandwidth is infinite
• The network is secure
• Topology doesn't change
• There is one administrator
• Transport cost is zero
• The network is homogenous

Roman Numerals

Daytona 500 Winners

Elizabeth Taylor's Husbands

• Nicky Hilton 1950-1
• Michael Wilding 1952-7
• Michael Todd 1957-8
• Eddie Fisher 1959-64
• Richard Burton 1964-74,1975-6
• John Warner 1976-82
• Larry Fortensky 1991-6

Poker Hand Ranking

1. Five of a Kind - A five of a kind, only possible when using wild cards, is the highest possible hand. If more than one hand has five of a kind, the higher cards wins, five Aces will beat five kings, which beats five queens, and continues on by the ranking of the cards.
2. Royal Flush- An Ace high straight-flush is called a Royal Flush and is the highest natural hand.
3. Straight Flush - A straight flush is the best natural hand. A straight flush is a straight (5 cards in order, such as 7-8-9-10-J) that are all of the same suit. As in a regular straight, you can have an ace either high (A-K-Q-J-T) or low (A-2-3-4-5). You can not use the Ace in a wraparound and example would be K-A-2-3-4, which is not a straight. An Ace high straight-flush is called a Royal Flush and is the highest natural hand.
4. Four of a Kind - Four cards of the same rank like four Aces or Four Kings. If there are two or more hands that qualify, the hand with the higher-rank four of a kind wins. Very rarely, I mean really rarely, if you are playing a game with alot of wild cards, you may have two four of a kinds with the same rank. In this case you use the High Card rule (number 10 on this list).
5. Full House - A full house is a three of a kind and a pair, such as K-K-K-2-2. When there are two full houses the tie is broken by the three of a kind. An example would be J-J-J-5-5 would beat 9-9-9-A-A. If for some reason the three of a kind cannot determine the victor then you go to the pair to decide (this would only happen in a game with wild cards). An example of this would be K-K-K-A-A would beat K-K-K-J-J.
6. Flush - A flush is a hand where all of the cards are the same suit, such as A-J-9-7-5, all of Diamonds. When flushes ties, follow the rules for High Card.
7. Straight - Five cards in rank order, but not of the same suit (it can be any combination of the four suits). An example of a straight is 2-3-4-5-6. The Ace can either be high or low card, either A-2-3-4-5 or 10-J-Q-K-A. Wraparounds are not allowed (an example being K-A-2-3-4). When two straights tie, the highest straight wins, K-Q-J-10-9 would beat 5-4-3-2-A. If two straights have the same value, AKQJT vs AKQJT, the pot is split.
8. Three of a Kind - Three cards of any rank with the remaining cards not being a pair (that would be a full house if it were). Once again the highest ranking three of a kind would win. K-K-K-2-4 would beat Q-Q-Q-2-3. If both are the same rank (only in a wild card game), then the High Card rule come into effect with the remaining two.
9. Two Pair - Two distinct pairs of card and a 5th card. The highest ranking pair wins ties. If both hands have the same high pair, the second pair wins. If both hands have the same pairs, the high card wins.
10. Pair - One pair with three distinct cards. Highest ranking pair wins. High card breaks ties.
11. High Card - When a hand has none of the above qualications of any of the ones listed above, nobody hads even a pair or better, then it comes down to who is holding the highest ranking card. If there is a tie for the high card then the next high card determines the pot, if that card is a tie than it continues down till the third, fourth, and fifth card. The High card is also used to break ties when the high hands both have the same type of hand (pair, flush, straight, etc).

Highest Mountain Peaks

• Everest, Nepal/China - 29,035
• K2, Pakistan, China - 28,238
• Kangchenjunga, Nepal/China - 28,208
• Lhotse, Nepal/China - 27,923
• Makalu I, Nepal/China - 27,824
• Lhotse Shar (II), Nepal/China - 27,504
• Dhaulagiri I, Nepal - 26,810
• Manaslu I,(Kutang I)Nepal - 26,760
• Cho Oyu, Nepal - 26,750
• Nanga Parbat, Pakistan - 26,660

books of the bible (old and new)

gulliver's travels

• Lilliput
• Brobdingnag
• Laputa
• Balnibarbi
• Luggnagg
• Glubbdubdrib
• Japan
• Land of the Houyhnhnms

iceberg size classification (meters)

standard guitar tuning

• E
• A
• D
• G
• B
• E

nobel prize categories

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Literature
• Peace
• Economics
• Physiology and Medicine

Clouds

astrological signs

events of the decathlon

• first day
• 100 meters
• long jump
• shot put
• high jump
• 400 meters
• second day
• 110-meter hurdles
• discus throw
• pole vault
• javelin throw
• 1500 meters

golf strokes

egyptian dieties

living things have

• movement
• respiration
• sensitivity
• growth
• reproduction
• excretion
• nutrition

orchestra schematic

vowels in order

abstemious
abstentious
arsenious
caesious
facetious
fracedinous

games mag hall of fame

• Acquire
• Axis & Allies
• Blockhead
• Bridgette
• Civilization
• Clue
• Diplomacy
• Dungeons and Dragons
• Magic: The Gathering
• Mille Bornes
• Monopoly
• Othello
• Pente
• Risk
• Scrabble
• Sorry!
• Stratego
• Taboo
• Tribond
• Trivial Pursuit
• Twister
• Twixt
• Yahtzee

assassinated presidents

• Abraham Lincoln
• James Garfield
• William McKinley
• John F. Kennedy

• Andrew Jackson (1835)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933) (as President-elect)
• Harry S Truman (1950)
• Gerald Ford (1975)
• Ronald Reagan (1981)

quick celsius convertor

• 30 is hot
• 20 is nice
• 10 is cold
• 0 is ice

si prefixes

• Kilo
• Mega
• Giga
• Tera
• Peta
• Exa
• Zetta
• Yotta

rainbow colors

• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• Green
• Blue
• Indigo
• Violet

solar system planets

• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Mars
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune
• Pluto

newton's 3 laws of motion

1. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
2. The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.
3. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

seven wonders of the ancient world

• The Great Pyramid of Giza
• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
• The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
• The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
• The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
• The Colossus of Rhodes
• The Lighthouse of Alexandria

10 longest USA rivers

• Missouri - 2,540 miles
• Mississippi - 2,340 miles
• Yukon - 1,980 miles
• Rio Grande - 1,900 miles
• St. Lawrence - 1,900 miles
• Arkansas - 1,460 miles
• Colorado - 1,450 miles
• Atchafalaya - 1,420 miles
• Ohio - 1,310 miles
• Red - 1,290 miles

canadian provinces and territories

• Alberta
• British Columbia
• Manitoba
• Newfoundland
• New Brunswick
• Northwest Territories
Nova Scotia
• Ontario
• Prince Edward Island
• Quebec
• Saskatchewan
• Yukon

state birds

• Alabama -Yellowhammer
• Alaska - Willow Ptarmigan
• Arizona - Cactus Wren
• Arkansas - Mockingbird
• California - California Valley Quail
• Colorado - Lark Bunting
• Connecticut - Robin
• Delaware - Blue Hen Chicken
• Florida - Mockingbird
• Georgia - Brown Thrasher
• Hawaii - Nene
• Idaho - Mountain Bluebird
• Illinois - Cardinal
• Indiana - Cardinal
• Iowa - Eastern Goldfinch
• Kansas - Western Meadowlark
• Kentucky - Cardinal
• Louisiana - Eastern Brown Pelican
• Maine - Chickadee
• Maryland -Baltimore Oriole
• Massachusetts - Chickadee
• Michigan - Robin
• Minnesota - Common Loon
• Mississippi - Mockingbird
• Missouri - Bluebird
• Montana - Western Meadowlark
• Nebraska - Western Meadowlark
• Nevada - Mountain Bluebird
• New Hampshire - Purple Finch
• New Jersey - Eastern Goldfinch
• New Mexico - Roadrunner
• New York - Bluebird
• North Carolina - Cardinal
• North Dakota - Western Meadowlark
• Ohio - Cardinal
• Oklahoma - Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
• Oregon - Western Meadowlark
• Pennsylvania - Ruffed Grouse
• Rhode Island - Rhode Island Red
• South Carolina - Great Carolina Wren
• South Dakota - Ring-necked Pheasant
• Tennessee - Mockingbird
• Texas - Mockingbird
• Utah - California Seagull
• Vermont - Hermit Thrush
• Virginia - Cardinal
• Washington -Willow Goldfinch
• West Virginia - Cardinal
• Wisconsin - Robin
• Wyoming - Western Meadowlark

Salted Peanuts

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
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