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Which meeting, between two good, old friends never took place in Copenhagen?
 
In which class of documents relating to Thelema, is the document named liber tzaddi vel hamus hermeticus sub figure XC found?
 
Hello all.

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bobbyburns:

In what year did congress get air conditioning?

1928 -- The Chamber of the House of Representatives becomes air conditioned.
1929 -- The Senate becomes air conditioned.

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Idun:

Which meeting, between two good, old friends never took place in Copenhagen?

Well, I met a guy I've known since grade school in Amsterdam recently, does that count?

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Mile-O-Phile:

In which class of documents relating to Thelema, is the document named liber tzaddi vel hamus hermeticus sub figure XC found?

I don't really understand your question, but is this what you're looking for:

http://www.grandlodgeofthelema.org/gltlibrary/000062.php

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Come on, folks!

NEXT!

Cheers, Martin :cool:
 
Martin said:
Mile-O-Phile:

In which class of documents relating to Thelema, is the document named liber tzaddi vel hamus hermeticus sub figure XC found?

I don't really understand your question, but is this what you're looking for:

http://www.grandlodgeofthelema.org/gltlibrary/000062.php

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That's a good link. Thought I'd explain though. The Holy Books of Thelema are divided amongst different classes. These classes represent the importance of the books. The most important class is that which must remain in the original handwriting (from 1904) as it was written by Aiwass via Crowley. Others can be photocopied while others can be printed. The importance of specific books can change. Taking the book from my shelf, I see that liber tzaddi vel hamus hermeticus sub figure XC is Class A. :D
 
Bobby, its not Cocaine if thats what you're getting at, they havnt put it in the formula for about a century now ;)

Phil
 
Martin said:
Well, I met a guy I've known since grade school in Amsterdam recently, does that count?
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No, it doesn't. I mean a particular meeting, on which non-existence a play was written and there has been a programme on BBC recently. Meetings of common people don't count, sorry. :p

I'll give you a clue: the meeting was to take place in the 20th century and would have had something to do with an atomic bomb.
 
Idun said:
No, it doesn't. I mean a particular meeting, on which non-existence a play was written and there has been a programme on BBC recently. Meetings of common people don't count, sorry. :p

I'll give you a clue: the meeting was to take place in the 20th century and would have had something to do with an atomic bomb.
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Are you - by any chance - babling about the meeting between the two nuclear physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.

The meeting did take place in Copenhagen in September of 1941.

You can read all about it in the following link to Niels Bohr Archive: www.nbi.dk/NBA/release.html :cool:

Hobitten :)
 
Back to work.

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bobbyburns:

What's the secret ingredient in coca cola?

awww.dia.fi.upm.es__jmbuena_procimdig_coca_cola.jpg

The Coca-Cola story - at least the company's version of the story - is well-known, not least because Coke's public relations department promoted it so irrepressibly to so many people in so many ways for so long. The soft drink itself was invented by an Atlanta pharmacist (read patent-medicine mixologist) named John Styth Pemberton, whose earlier pharmaceutical concoctions included Globe Flour Cough Syrup, Extract of Stillingia (a "blood purifier"), Indian Queen Hair Dye, Sweet Southern Bouquet (a perfume), Triplex Liver Pills and, most relevant for our purposes, French Wine Cola. Drinks made from coca leaf - including French Wine Cola - enjoyed something of a vogue on the patent-medicine circuit in the aftermath of the Civil War. In 1886, Pemberton began selling and promoting a syrup made up of sugar, water, various flavorings (vanilla, lime juice, citrus and other oils) and a "secret" ingredient consisting of a combination of caffeine-laden kola extract (from cola nuts) and coca-leaf extract, which included trace amounts of cocaine (the last of which was removed from the formula at the end of the 19th century).

For more information, look here.

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Idun:

Which meeting, between two good, old friends never took place in Copenhagen?
I'll give you a clue: the meeting was to take place in the 20th century and would have had something to do with an atomic bomb.

The only thing that comes to mind after reading your clue is a play written by Samuel Beckett called "Waiting for Godot". Can't be right, though, because, as I recall, Copenhagen and an Atom Bomb had nothing to do with it.

Is it Hobitten's suggestion, about the meeting between the two nuclear physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg?

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NEXT!!

Cheers, Martin :cool:
 
Martin said:
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Idun:

Which meeting, between two good, old friends never took place in Copenhagen?
I'll give you a clue: the meeting was to take place in the 20th century and would have had something to do with an atomic bomb.

The only thing that comes to mind after reading your clue is a play written by Samuel Beckett called "waiting for godot". Can't be right, though, because, as I recall, Copenhagen and an Atom Bomb ad nothing to do with it.

Is it Hobitten's suggestion, about the meeting between the two nuclear physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg?

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NEXT!!

Cheers, Martin :cool:
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The play, I think, Idun is referring to is "Copenhagen" by Michael Frayn.

Hobitten
 
Thank you for the link, Hobbiten. Indeed, I meant Bohr's and Heisenberg's meeting, and a play "Copenhagen" by Michael Fraydn. Have you read or maybe seen it? I saw it few years ago and I regard it as one of the best and thought-provoking plays I've ever seen. I'm quite surprised to hear that Heisenberg and Bohr met in 1941, as you state - but maybe they weren't able to discuss Heisenberg's collaboration with the Nazis and moral responsibility of builders of an atomic bomb, which was to be the subject of the meeting I thought never took place. I heard that even on his death bed Heisenberg regretted not having had an opportunity to talk with his friend.
 
Idun said:
Thank you for the link, Hobbiten. Indeed, I meant Bohr's and Heisenberg's meeting, and a play "Copenhagen" by Michael Fraydn. Have you read or maybe seen it? I saw it few years ago and I regard it as one of the best and thought-provoking plays I've ever seen. I'm quite surprised to hear that Heisenberg and Bohr met in 1941, as you state - but maybe they weren't able to discuss Heisenberg's collaboration with the Nazis and moral responsibility of builders of an atomic bomb, which was to be the subject of the meeting I thought never took place. I heard that even on his death bed Heisenberg regretted not having had an opportunity to talk with his friend.
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I must admit, I haven't seen it. I'd love to, though.

I don't know that much about it, except there is a lot of myths concerning what was actually discussed at that meeting. Heisenberg went to Copenhagen to participate in a scientific conference arranged by the Germans. Bohr and his associates refused to participate, because they - quite rightly - regarded it to be a part of the nazi propaganda. Heisenberg was an old student of Bohr, during the 1920's, and had a private conference with his old teacher. Apparantly Heisenberg talked to Bohr about the possibility of making an atomic bomb - to end the war. Bohr was appalled at that idea. But what really took place at that meeting, nobody really knows.

Hobitten
 
hobitten said:
I must admit, I haven't seen it. I'd love to, though.
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It's really worth seeing. It doesn't picture characters in an obvious, black and white way - Bohr was a good guy, because he helped the Alliance, and Heisenberg was the evil one, due to his collaboration with the Nazis. The matter was comblicated by the fact Heisenberg never managed to build an atomic bomb, which, luckily for him, saved him from taking up some responsibility for killing thousands of people - a fate that after Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bohr must have faced with.

As the play is mostly centred on characters' personal thoughts and emotions, and there are only three people on the stage: Bohr, Bohr's wife and Heisenberg, you need good actors to truly appreciate it. I hope you'll have such a chance, Hobitten. :)
 
Idun said:
It's really worth seeing. It doesn't picture characters in an obvious, black and white way - Bohr was a good guy, because he helped the Alliance, and Heisenberg was the evil one, due to his collaboration with the Nazis. The matter was comblicated by the fact Heisenberg never managed to build an atomic bomb, which, luckily for him, saved him from taking up some responsibility for killing thousands of people - a fate that after Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bohr must have faced with.

As the play is mostly centred on characters' personal thoughts and emotions, and there are only three people on the stage: Bohr, Bohr's wife and Heisenberg, you need good actors to truly appreciate it. I hope you'll have such a chance, Hobitten. :)
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Thanks, Idun. I hope I will get the opportunity, one day.

I think Bohr did feel responsible - partly anyway - for the nuclear bomb. Because his mother was of jewish descent, he was forced to flee to Sweden in Oct. 1943, and from there he went to England and later US to work on the nuclear bomb. But during 1944 he became deeply concerned about the control of these horrific weapons, and he tried to persuade both Churchill and Roosevelt to establish an international cooporation as far as the nuclear bomb was concerned. Unfortunately they did not listen to him. As late as 1950, when he was 70 years old, he wrote a public letter to the United Nations arguing for a peaceful atomic policy.

I think he was not only concerned about the thousands of people dying in a nuclear blast, but also the geo-political stability after the war.

- Oh, Martin! Of Course you knew all that. We were just filling in for you, while you were doing - whatever it was you were doing out there.... ;)

Hobitten :D
 
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M&O said:
Where does the phrase comes in handy come from?
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Oh, dear, I was so looking forward to finding out the answer to this burning question-- but alas, there is no answer for me. Today's question: What's a gal gotta do to get a question answered around here?
 
Apologies to the lovely lady in the back.

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M&O:

Where does the phrase comes in handy come from?

Definition of handy:
Ready to the hand; near; also, suited to the use of the hand; convenient; valuable for reference or use; as, my tools are handy; a handy volume.​
I can only assume that the saying in question, comes in handy is derived from the definition of the word handy, as given above.

What's a gal gotta do to get a question answered around here?

Just be your usual pretty self. (God, I even make myself sick.)


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Litany:

Why do old men like hankies?

Because they're quite lovable, when you think about it.

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hobitten:

Oh, Martin! Of Course you knew all that. We were just filling in for you, while you were doing - whatever it was you were doing out there....

Thank you, you are too kind.

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Cheers, Martin :cool:
 
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