The Geek agenda for October and November includes Mole Day - October 23rd, anniversary the accurate assemblage of admeasurement accepted as the 'mole' (Avogadro's Number), Geek Halloween October 31st, and Philosopher Days adulatory the birthdays and anniversary the anniversaries of several acclaimed philosophers including Nietzshce, Spinoza, Hegel, Kierkegaard and Liebniz.
-- MathematiciansPictures.com and PhilosophersPictures.com are admiring to present highlights of the Geek agenda for October and November 2008:
Geek Holidays - Geek Halloween
there's a birthmark of them. The Geek agenda for October and November includes Mole Day - October 23rd, Geek Halloween October 31st, and Philosopher Days adulatory the birthdays and anniversaries of several acclaimed philosophers. On November 11 Veterans Day is empiric by all. Mole Day - October 23
Mole Day is October 23rd, adulatory the mole, one of the aboriginal absolutely ample numbers to be acclimated consistently in accurate calculations - the mole, contrarily accepted as Avogadro's Number in account of 19th aeon scientist Amedeo Avogadro, whose antecedent led to it its calculation.
How big is a Mole? Big. Around 602 billion abundance -that's 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Because that abundance - a birthmark - accounting in accurate characters looks like this: 6.02 x 10^23, Mole Day is acclaimed from 6:02 am to 6:02 message on the 10th month, 23rd day - October 23rd.
Mole Day tshirts, Mole Day posters, and Mole Day mugs are accessible at MathematiciansPictures.com, area you can aswell see cyber Avogadro reciting the capital words from his 1811 antecedent that after led to the adding of the mole.
The birthmark is acclimated by chemists, physicists and added scientists in the development of aggregate from domiciliary cleaners and toothpaste to the silicon that admiral computers. As a assemblage of altitude in allure it is acclimated like we say 'a dozen' to enumerate doughnuts. But if you were counting molecules, even if you could calculation them at 10 actor per second, it would still crop 2 billion years to calculation a birthmark of molecules. So it comes in accessible to be able to say "there's a birthmark of them."
Geeks accept adapted annoyed and trad old Halloween with "Geek Halloween".
Bespoke apparel Geek Halloween tshirts featuring Pumpkin PI, VamPIres, the PI Blob, FrankenPI, Night of the Living PI, and Witches of ShakesPIre are accessible from MathematiciansPictures.com. Matching Geek Halloween posters and Geek Halloween mugs are aswell available.
Philosopher Days - October and November
Philosopher Days acclaimed in October and November: October 15th -Friedrich Nietzsche birthday, October 18th -Henry Bergson birthday, November 24th - Baruch Spinoza birthday; actual in October and November: November 11th -Soren Kierkegaard death, November 14 -death of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Philosophers pictures, acclaimed philosopher posters, and acclaimed philosopher Tshirts are accessible from PhilosophersPictures.com, featuring pictures posters and tshirts of acclaimed philosophers from the Greeks to avant-garde times, including Empedocles, Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hypatia, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Bergson, and Wittgenstein. Leibniz posters and tshirts are accessible from MathematiciansPictures.com.
Not Just For Geeks - Veterans Day, November 11
November 11th is Veterans Day, an American anniversary aboriginal proclaimed by Woodrow Wilson as Armistice Day on Nov 11, 1919, It ceremoniousness aggressive veterans from all wars, and is aswell empiric in added locations of the apple as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day.
Veterans Day posters and murals are accessible from FoundersOfAmerica.com, including the Gettysburg Panorama (featuring President Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address pictured superimposed over the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg), canonizing posters and pictures of the Vietnam Memorial wall, Arlington cemetery, and the Tomb of the Unknown Solider, and the Flanders Fields panorama featuring the composition by by Lieutentant Colonel John McCrae, and added Memorial Day posters, pictures, and prints.
As a agent for MathematiciansPictures.com summarizes the Geek holidays for October and November: "The Geek agenda for October and November includes Mole Day - October 23rd, Geek Halloween October 31st, and Philosopher Days adulatory the birthdays and anniversaries of several acclaimed philosophers. On November 11 Veterans Day is empiric by all."
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