One Dollar - George Washington - Great Seal of the United States Two Dollars - Thomas Jefferson - Trumbull's Declaration of Independence Five Dollars - Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln Memorial Ten Dollars - Alexander Hamilton - U.S. Treasury Twenty Dollars - Andrew Jackson - White House Fifty Dollars - Ulysses S. Grant - United States … Continue reading United States Dollar – Banknotes
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What is 20/20?
The first 20 refers to the 20 feet you are away from the chart. Even if the chart isn't 20 feet from you, it is scaled to look as if it is 20 feet away through the use of projectors and mirrors. The second 20 refers to the "normal sight". The 20 means that you … Continue reading What is 20/20?
Wu Xing – Five Elements
Mutual Generation: Water > Wood > Fire > Earth > Metal > Water water nourishes wood wood feeds fire fire creates earth (ash) earth bears metal metal collects water Mutual Overcoming Water > Fire > Metal > Wood > Earth > Water wood parts earth earth dams water water extinguishes fire fire melts metal metal … Continue reading Wu Xing – Five Elements
Sashimi Tiers
sake (salmon) - overrated maguro (bluefin tuna) - overrated hamachi (yellowtail) - overrated uni (urchin) - underrated ahi (yellowfin tuna) - overrated hotate (scallops) ebi (prawns) ika (squid) - underrated tako (octopus) saba (Japanese mackerel) - underrated aji (horse mackerel) - underrated tai (red snapper) sanma (pacific saury) suzuki (Japanese sea bass) … Continue reading Sashimi Tiers
Drinks
Tea - all tea usually comes from the leaves of camellia sinensis. The difference is in the oxidation process. green tea - unfermented and are steamed to stop the oxidation process white tea yellow tea oolong tea - right in the middle level of fermentation black tea - full fermentation fermented tea Coffee espresso - … Continue reading Drinks
Tic Tac Toe
The object of Tic Tac Toe is to get three in a row. You play on a three by three game board. The first player is known as X and the second is O. Players alternate placing Xs and Os on the game board until either opponent has three in a row or all nine squares are filled. Go … Continue reading Tic Tac Toe
Plastic Pollution
Plastic takes 500 to 1,000 years to break down. Plastic ended up in the ocean and harms the marine animal and seabirds. microplastics can be all over in the sea and be picked up by small fish before eaten by mankind. Though plastic still has few advantages. It is about finding the perfect balance. 90% … Continue reading Plastic Pollution
Manga Translation: Typesetting and Cleaning
How to typeset Manga in photoshop? Open the image Create a layer Press M to select the conversation, use shift if needed Select Paint to paint it all white Translate and type in Wild Words Font How to clean a manga page? Level: 53~240 Erase untranslated words Burn bubbles Change mode to RPG color Filter … Continue reading Manga Translation: Typesetting and Cleaning
Time Zone and Daytime Saving
GMT, Greenwich Mean Time, used to be adopted by England and it is now substituted by UTC beginning 1967. GMT is only used as time zones now. UTC, Coordinated Universal Time, is the time we used across the world starting from 1967. It is not the time zone. It has more than 12 "time zones". … Continue reading Time Zone and Daytime Saving
How Earth Moves
Verticle Lines on Earth are longitudes; Horizontal lines are latitude. The Earth rotates counter-clockwise with a tilted degree of 23.5. The tilting causes 4 seasons. In the northern hemisphere, it is winter when the Earth is closest to the Sun. What is a Day? Sidereal Day - the time it takes the … Continue reading How Earth Moves