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LATIN LANGUAGE TELLS US WHY ANYONE CAN BE A MINISTER BUT NOT A MASTER. Let's use etymology, and Latin language, to explain why anyone can be a minister but not a master. The term master derives from "magister" and this, in turn, from the adjective "magis" which means more or more than. The magister could be defined as the one that stands out or is above the rest for his knowledge and skills. For example: Magister Equitum (cavalry chief in ancient Rome) or Magister Militum (military chief). The t…

A CHALLENGE ... does anyone accept it?. It could be called something like "the race of 100". The idea is as follows: the one that starts says any number from 1 to 10. The other player adds to the number his opponent said a number from 1 to 10 and says the result. They continue to play this way, in turns. The first one that exactly sums the amount of 100 wins. We do not play anything, just the honnete. Let's begin: I say 1.

MATHEMATICAL MURDERS. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (previous Spanish Prime Minister): "... At the time of funding all communities will be above average" (all above average?, is it posible???). Lula da Silva (Brazil Prime Minister, die), in an interview with journalists: "What do you think about 60% of Brazilians do not agree to be present for a third term?. That's because they have not asked me, in that case it would be 61%". Tourists in a natural science museum: "How old are those dinosaur bone…

reto_2.jpg Traslation: Come a challenge: Solve and be a genius The answer is not 6.

WORDS WITHOUT DIRECT TRANSLATION Toska (Russian): In its deepest and most painful sense, it is a feeling of great spiritual anguish, often without a specific cause. Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan, indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina): It's the meaning-filled look that two people who want to start something, but who are reluctant to take the first step to begin share. Jayus (Indonesian): A joke so badly told and with so little grace that one can do nothing but laugh. Iktsuarpok (Inuit): G…

More about attention and memory ... Read carefully and three times the following text: Three men and their respective women and a widower left by car at noon for a picnic. After traveling three miles, they saw two men and a boy in another car that had broken down. "That's bad luck," one of the hikers said. At 1 o'clock they arrived at the camp, where they saw only an old crippled guard with his son. Immediately they began to eat their snack of sandwiches, fruits and cake. Question below ... More…

MOKUSATSU (Japanese word): moku "silence" and satsu "killing", literal meaning: killing by silence. A translation mistake that could change the history of the 20th Century ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokusatsu

JAPANESE TAIKO [youtube]youtube.com/watch?v=C7HL5wYqAbU[/youtube]

BORDERS. Iva Zanicchi: La riva bianca, la riva nera. [youtube]youtube.com/watch?v=69Edsil0Y_k[/youtube] My captain must stop. Yes I'm tired, I can not anymore. Alert, cover yourself, to the embankment. Alert I'm over you too. I said soldier of where are you are. From the neighboring country to the south. And along the river passes the border. The white shore, the black shore. And on the bridge I see a flag. But it is not the same that is in my heart. I do not think of mine. By my uniform you can…

IRONIC HUMOR OF WINSTON CHURCHILL. George Bernard Shaw (Nobel Prize in Literature 1925): "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one." Winston Churchill: "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."

WHO IS THE MURDERER? [youtube]youtube.com/watch?v=j8bcu4_r_v4[/youtube*

Which of these figures has no singularity, does not present any single feature?: cual_de_estas_figuras_no_tiene_ninguna_singulari.jpg

Often it is hurt more with the word or the writing than with the sword, it crosses the body but the word crosses the soul.

More awesome dancing ... [youtube]youtube.com/watch?v=5zSWxq8oil8[/youtube]

Russian folk dance ´Beriozca´ [youtube]youtube.com/watch?v=N4Yog594Po0[/youtube]

THE ENIGMAS OF THE CAMP. Something is hidden in this image ... un_enigma_para_listos_puedes_resolver_el_misteri.jpg QUESTIONS: 1. How many tourists are in the camp? 2. When did they arrive today or a few days ago? 3. How did they arrive? 4. Is there a village nearby? 5. Where does the wind blow from the north or the south? 6. What time is it? 7. Where is Alex? 8. Who was on duty yesterday? 9. What is the date?. Someone dares to answer any of the questions?

"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. This clearly empowers him for the political career" by G. Bernard Shaw.

THE FABLE OF THE ROWERS. The chronicles show that in 2005 there was a rowing competition between two teams, one made up of workers from one Spanish official ministry and another from colleagues in a Japanese ministry. The start and the Japanese rowers began to stand out from the first moment. It arrived at the goal and the Spanish equipment did it with an hour of delay on the Japanese. On his return home, the Board of Directors met to discuss the causes of this embarrassing action, and came to t…

More about optical effects: STEREOGRAMS (for time they became fashionable, which has already happened). A stereogram is a graphic representation of three-dimensional objects on a flat medium, through their projections, using stereoscopy, so that they appear to have volume. It is an optical illusion based on the way human eyes capture images from two different points of view. These different perspectives are interpreted by the brain as a three-dimensional image. Stereograms have been drawn for ye…

Antarctic heroes. [youtube]youtube.com/watch?v=niPd_SEiFRA[/youtube] January 18, 1912. Captain Scott, accompanied by Evans,Wilson, Bowers and Oates, reach the south pole. But fails in the feat of being first. On the point of zero latitude the Norwegian flag of the explorer Amundsen. Exhausted and failed to return. February 16. South pole five Englishmen in the blue desert. Evans goes last in line and hanging from her backpack. Death is ready to prove that once deadIt is not bad in that place. Th…