The name "Wendy"?

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According to this wiki page, there wasn't a particular book called "Peter Pan"
I like that answer

Here's the straight dope column about it.

that is correct Mak, Wendy wasn't a name heard of until then.

your go..........

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"Make the most of every day like it could be your last and enjoy each others company as this will make good memories for when we pass". chrissy

Thanks, chrissy. Guess it helped to have known a gal named "Wendy" when I was young. She was proud of having a rather unique (at the time) name and would tell everyone why it was special. Took me a while to recall that.

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This mountain range in New York is actually a dissected plateau. Its highest point is 4180 feet.

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The Catskill Mountains, between Albany and Ulster counties, are not true geological mountains. The range is actually a dissected plateau, an uplifted region that has been eroded into sharp relief. They are an eastward continuation, and the highest representation, of the Allegheny Plateau. The Catskills contain more than 30 peaks above 3,500 feet. The highest mountain, Slide Mountain in Ulster County, has an altitude of 4,180 feet (1,274 m).

Sorry googled it........

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You (and Goog) got it.

Over to you, Sean...

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Where did the name "google" come from ?

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It originated as a misspelling of the word "googol", which, as a googolplex, is a large number, 10E10E100 IIRC. The term "googol" was the coinage of a mathematician's very young relative.

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Our beloved Google got it's name from Googol, which is a math term.

A googol is the large number 10 power of 100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined in 1938 by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner announced the concept in his book Mathematics and the Imagination. The Internet search engine, Google, was named as a play on the number googol.

A googol is "approximately" equal to the factorial of 70, and its only prime factors are 2 and 5. In binary it would take up 333 bits.

The googol is of no particular significance in mathematics, nor does it have any practical uses. Kasner created it to illustrate the difference between an unimaginably large number and infinity, and in this role it is sometimes used in mathematics teaching.

A googol can be written in conventional notation, as follows:

1 googol = 10100 = 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000
It is equal to ten duotrigintillion and a hundredth of a tretrigintillion.

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This composition lasts for exactly 273 seconds, no more, no less.

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John Cage's most famous musical composition is called 4'33". Lasts for 273 seconds.

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You got it!



Over to you.

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Where,what and how tall is the tallest tree ?

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Well it would be a redwood, & probably in California, but I can't be more specific than that without googling.

California is good, now be more specific

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So sayeth wikipedia:

However, the tallest tree ever was an Australian Mountain Ash measuring over 130 metres tall from the vicinity of Watts River in Victoria. Unfortunately, it was cut down a long time ago.

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_regnans

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Number 1 was the answer I was looking for.

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Which Greek city states fought at the battle of thermopylae?

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