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The Moon must have made an incredible impression on the first members of the human race. It was, and still is, the brightest object in the night sky with its constantly and regularly changing shape.

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Working out the 'day of the week' for any date is relatively straightforward. If we ignore leap years for the moment, any year will follow one of seven different date patterns.

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"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."

Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947)

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"Seek and ye shall find - but not what you were looking for."

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"We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake."

Diogenes (412-322 BC)

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"If you don't like it where you are, move. You are not a tree."

Jim Rohn (1930-2009)

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"It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope."

Pope John XXIII (1881-1963)

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The Necker Cube, discovered by the Swiss crystallographer L A Necker in 1832, illustrates the capacity of the human mind to build hypotheses about what it sees when there is insufficient data. In fact, because there is so little data, there are two possible hypotheses as to the orientation of the Necker Cube.

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