Extracting the 13th root of a number is a famous category for the mental calculation world records. The challenge consists of being given a large number (possibly over 100 digits) and asked to return the number that equals it when multiplied by itself 13 times. 13th root - Properties of the challenge. Extracting the 13th root has certain properties. One is that the 13th root of a number is much smaller: a 13th root will have approximately 1/13th the number of digits. Thus the 13th root of a 100-digi ...

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13th century - Events 13th century - Significant people 13th century - Inventions discoveries introductions 13th century - Decades and years

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Strangely, there is evidence to suggest that Friday the 13th is actually unlucky for some. Psychologists have found that some people are especially likely to have accidents or fall ill on Friday the 13th. This has been attributed to such people feeling a heightened state of anxiety on that day. The Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina estimates that in the United States alone, $800 or $900 million is lost in business each Friday the 13th because som ...

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13th century BC - Events. 1300 BC — Pangeng moved the capital of Shang Dynasty to Yin. 1295 BC - End of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Nineteenth Dynasty 1285 BC - Battle of Kadesh, Rameses II almost defeated by Hittites. 1269 BC - Ramses II and Hattusilis III, king of the Hittites, sign the earliest known peace treaty. 13th century BC - Significant persons. Rameses II, pharaoh of Egypt Moses (if historical ...

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The 13th Floor Elevators were a rock music group founded in Austin, Texas in late 1965. Personnel were singer/guitarist Roky Erickson, electric jug player Tommy Hall, bass guitarist Benny Thurman, guitarist Stacy Sutherland, and drummer John Ike Walton. Erickson and Hall were the band's primary songwriters, but most of the band members wrote or co-wrote some material. They found only limited success, but are commonly regarded as one of the first psychedelic bands, and have been cited as an influential protopunk group. The squeaking, fluttering sound of Hall's amplified ...

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13th Floor Elevators - Roky Erickson 13th Floor Elevators - Tommy Hall 13th Floor Elevators - Benny Thurman 13th Floor Elevators - John Ike Walton 13th Floor Elevators - Stacy Sutherland 13th Floor Elevators - Danny Thomas 13th Floor Elevators - Powell St. John
13th Floor Elevators - Breakup

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Alexis Lemaire (born 1980), said by the Sunday Telegraph and Times newspapers to be "the greatest human calculator in history" (8 April 2005) holds the last official world record for extracting the 13th root of a 100-digit number, 13.55 seconds, and the official world record for extracting the 13th root of a 200-digit number, 4 minutes and 27 seconds, a calculation known as the most difficult in history. Alexis Lemaire - The 13th root of a 100-digit number. On 10 May 2002, Alexis Lemaire broke the r ...

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A comitatus or less frequently comitat or inaccurately county (for the various names, their origin and use see here) is the name of an administrative unit in the Kingdom of Hungary from the 10th century to 1918. The area of the Kingdom of Hungary also included present-day neighbouring countries of Hungary, i.e.: Slovakia, Ukraine - in Carpathian Ruthenia, Romania - in Transylvania and Banat, Serbia - in Voivodina, Croatia - in ...

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Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - Royal counties late 10th century - late 13th century
Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - History Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - Functioning
Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - Noble counties late 13th century - 1848 except for 1785-1790
Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - History Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - Functioning
Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - State counties 1849 - 1860
Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - 1st provisional arrangement 1849 - 1850 Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - 2nd provisional arrangement so-called Geringer Provisional Arrangement; September 13 1850 - January 18 1853 Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - Definitive arrangement January 19 1853 - October 20 1860
Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - Transitory period 1860 - 1867 Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - Modernised counties 1867 - 1918
Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - History Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - Functioning
Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - Nomenclature
Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - Origin of the name Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - Comitatus vs. county Comitatus Kingdom of Hungary - Names in various languages

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A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. The word historically referred to restricted housing zones where Jews were required to live; however, it now commonly labels any poverty-stricken urban area. The original ghetto was in Venice and other commercial centers of northern Italy; the corresponding German term was Judengasse, and in Moroccan Arabic mellah. ...

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Ghetto - 13th–19th centuries Ghetto - Second World War
Ghetto - South African ghettos Ghetto - Ghettos in the United States Ghetto - Ghettos in post-WWII France Ghetto - Ghettos in the Czech Republic Ghetto - Cultural life and the ghetto

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Extracting the 13th root has certain properties. One is that the 13th root of a number is much smaller: a 13th root will have approximately 1/13th the number of digits. Thus the 13th root of a 100-digit number only has 8 digits and the 13th root of a 200-digit number will have 16 digits. Further, the last digit of the 13th root is always the same as the last digit of the power. For the 13th root of a 100-digit number there are 7992563 possibilities, in the range 41246264 - 49238826. This is considered a relatively easy calculation. Th ...

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13th root, 13th root - Properties of the challenge, 13th root - Records

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13th Floor Elevators - Roky Erickson. Roky Erickson was the band's singer, guitarist and a songwriter. He was the singer and writer of the classic 1960s anthem "You're Gonna Miss Me" used especially in counterculture films. He has since recorded a number of albums. 13th Floor Elevators - Tommy Hall. Tommy Hall was best known for his amplified "electric jug" — usually sounding somewhat like a cross between a minimoog and cuica drum — which remains one of the band's most famo ...

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13th Floor Elevators, 13th Floor Elevators - Name, 13th Floor Elevators - Albums, 13th Floor Elevators - Members, 13th Floor Elevators - Roky Erickson, 13th Floor Elevators - Tommy Hall, 13th Floor Elevators - Benny Thurman, 13th Floor Elevators - John Ike Walton, 13th Floor Elevators - Stacy Sutherland, 13th Floor Elevators - Danny Thomas, 13th Floor Elevators - Danny Galindo, 13th Floor Elevators - Powell St. John, 13th Floor Elevators - Breakup

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The band had their only charting US hit, "You're Gonna Miss Me", early in their career. In 1966 they released their first and most popular album, The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators, which marked the first appearance of the word "psychedelic" in an album title. It was followed by Easter Everywhere (1967), an integrated musical experience, if not a concept album. Bob Dylan credits the band with the best recording of his song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". The final album they recorded as a group was entit ...

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13th Floor Elevators, 13th Floor Elevators - Name, 13th Floor Elevators - Albums, 13th Floor Elevators - Members, 13th Floor Elevators - Roky Erickson, 13th Floor Elevators - Tommy Hall, 13th Floor Elevators - Benny Thurman, 13th Floor Elevators - John Ike Walton, 13th Floor Elevators - Stacy Sutherland, 13th Floor Elevators - Danny Thomas, 13th Floor Elevators - Danny Galindo, 13th Floor Elevators - Powell St. John, 13th Floor Elevators - Breakup

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13th Floor Elevators - Roky Erickson. Roky Erickson was the band's singer, guitarist and a songwriter. He was the singer and writer of the classic 1960's anthem "You're Gonna Miss Me" used especially in counterculture films. He has since recorded a number of albums. 13th Floor Elevators - Tommy Hall. Tommy Hall was best known for his amplified "electric jug" — usually sounding somewhat like a cross between a minimoog and cuica drum — which remains one of the band's most fam ...

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13th Floor Elevators, 13th Floor Elevators - Name, 13th Floor Elevators - Albums, 13th Floor Elevators - Members, 13th Floor Elevators - Roky Erickson, 13th Floor Elevators - Tommy Hall, 13th Floor Elevators - Benny Thurman, 13th Floor Elevators - John Ike Walton, 13th Floor Elevators - Stacy Sutherland, 13th Floor Elevators - Danny Thomas, 13th Floor Elevators - Powell St. John, 13th Floor Elevators - Breakup

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The band had their only charting US hit, "You're Gonna Miss Me", early in their career. In 1966 they released their first and most popular album, The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators, which marked the first appearance of the word "psychedelic" in an album title. It was followed by Easter Everywhere (1967), an integrated musical experience, if not a concept album. Bob Dylan credits the band with the best recording of his song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". The final album they recorded as a group was entit ...

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13th Floor Elevators, 13th Floor Elevators - Name, 13th Floor Elevators - Albums, 13th Floor Elevators - Members, 13th Floor Elevators - Roky Erickson, 13th Floor Elevators - Tommy Hall, 13th Floor Elevators - Benny Thurman, 13th Floor Elevators - John Ike Walton, 13th Floor Elevators - Stacy Sutherland, 13th Floor Elevators - Danny Thomas, 13th Floor Elevators - Powell St. John, 13th Floor Elevators - Breakup

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Government positions are listed in terms of seniority. Government of the 13th Dáil - Parliamentary Secretaries. ...

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The film begins with the only survivor of the first movie, Alice (played again by Adrienne King from Friday the 13th), being slain. Five years later, a group of teenagers come to Crystal Lake to set up a new camp, only to get murdered one by one by a masked killer. One of the teenagers, Ginny (Amy Steel), in running away from the killer, finds a cabin in the woods whith a shroud built around the decapitated head of Pamela Voorhees, surrounded by mutilated corpses. Thus the killer is identified as Jason Voorhees, who never drowned in t ...

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Six of the eleven films have been novelised: Friday the 13th, Part 2, Part 3 (twice by two different authors), Jason Lives, Jason X, and Freddy vs. Jason. It is worth noting that while Jason X was released before Freddy vs. Jason, it was not novelised until 2005, accompanied by a set of books from Black Flame that served as sequels to Jason X. They are The Experiment, Planet of the Beast, and Death Moon. They were released around the same time with three othe ...

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Friday the 13th film series, Friday the 13th film series - Series overview, Friday the 13th film series - The films, Friday the 13th film series - Friday the 13th 1980, Friday the 13th film series - Part 2 1981, Friday the 13th film series - Part 3 1982, Friday the 13th film series - The Final Chapter 1984, Friday the 13th film series - A New Beginning 1985, Friday the 13th film series - Jason Lives 1986, Friday the 13th film series - The New Blood 1988, Friday the 13th film series - Jason Takes Manhattan 1989, Friday the 13th film series - New Line Cinema purchases the franchise, Friday the 13th film series - Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday 1993, Friday the 13th film series - The road to Freddy vs. Jason, Friday the 13th film series - Jason X 2001, Friday the 13th film series - Freddy vs. Jason 2003, Friday the 13th film series - Further films?, Friday the 13th film series - DVDs, Friday the 13th film series - Books, Friday the 13th film series - External link

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You start the game by picking which camp counselor you want to control. Each of the counselors are stationed in different cabins across the map, and have certain strengths and weaknesses, especially in terms of their speed and how high they can jump. No matter which character you choose, they all start out with an unlimited supply of rocks that they can throw at enemies (i.e. zombies, wolves, and bats), which sometimes leave behind vitamin jars to restore lost health, or more powerful weapons, such ...

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Friday the 13th video game, Friday the 13th video game - Storyline, Friday the 13th video game - Ending, Friday the 13th video game - External link

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Paramount released the first eight films of the series on DVD, two at a time between 1999 and 2002. While this prospect pleased fans, many were upset that the films were the standard cut, R-rated versions. In addition, the only supplement contained on the discs were a single trailer, but even the last two films were not supplied with this. To further upset fans, the last half of the films were given new art covers, which many feel are inferior to the originals (some of the images in the set were also mixed; for example an image of Roy posing ...

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Friday the 13th film series, Friday the 13th film series - Series overview, Friday the 13th film series - The films, Friday the 13th film series - Friday the 13th 1980, Friday the 13th film series - Part 2 1981, Friday the 13th film series - Part 3 1982, Friday the 13th film series - The Final Chapter 1984, Friday the 13th film series - A New Beginning 1985, Friday the 13th film series - Jason Lives 1986, Friday the 13th film series - The New Blood 1988, Friday the 13th film series - Jason Takes Manhattan 1989, Friday the 13th film series - New Line Cinema purchases the franchise, Friday the 13th film series - Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday 1993, Friday the 13th film series - The road to Freddy vs. Jason, Friday the 13th film series - Jason X 2001, Friday the 13th film series - Freddy vs. Jason 2003, Friday the 13th film series - Further films?, Friday the 13th film series - DVDs, Friday the 13th film series - Books, Friday the 13th film series - External link

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Friday the 13th film series - Friday the 13th 1980. In the first film, a group of teenagers return to a summer camp, Camp Crystal Lake, to prepare it for reopening. Many years earlier, a young boy named Jason Voorhees had drowned at the camp. Shortly thereafter, the two counselors responsible were murdered. One by one, the new teenage counselors are brutally murdered by Jason's mother, Pamela Voorhees.

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Friday the 13th film series, Friday the 13th film series - Series overview, Friday the 13th film series - The films, Friday the 13th film series - Friday the 13th 1980, Friday the 13th film series - Part 2 1981, Friday the 13th film series - Part 3 1982, Friday the 13th film series - The Final Chapter 1984, Friday the 13th film series - A New Beginning 1985, Friday the 13th film series - Jason Lives 1986, Friday the 13th film series - The New Blood 1988, Friday the 13th film series - Jason Takes Manhattan 1989, Friday the 13th film series - New Line Cinema purchases the franchise, Friday the 13th film series - Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday 1993, Friday the 13th film series - The road to Freddy vs. Jason, Friday the 13th film series - Jason X 2001, Friday the 13th film series - Freddy vs. Jason 2003, Friday the 13th film series - Further films?, Friday the 13th film series - DVDs, Friday the 13th film series - Books, Friday the 13th film series - External link

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13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar 1st Croatian - Formation and Training. In the fall of 1942, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler and SS-General Gottlob Berger approached Hitler with the proposal to raise a Bosnian Moslem SS division. Himmler thought that Moslem men would make perfect SS soldiers, as Islam "promises them Heaven if they fight and are killed in action." According to Chris Bishop, "Himmler convinced himself that Balkan Muslims were neither Slavs nor Turks, but were really Aryans who had ...

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