Content tagged proportion
Blog Entries
Interesting: someone has been caught and convicted of a crime through a relative’s DNA. So having some proportion of the population’s DNA … gulfstream/1418
Web site for London’s (fairly hard-core) campaign to get people to not give money to beggars. “Don’t give to people begging on the street; … gulfstream/1521
Measuring poverty: in the US, the poverty line for the last 40 years has been set at three times a (very minimal) food budget. This approach has many … gulfstream/2045
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Quotes Collected
[Harold] Bloom is famous for his memory and his reading speed. He has memorized a large proportion of canonical poetry written in English; once, when … quotes/256
In the street in Mark land do observe (it being St. Davids' day) the picture of a man dressed like a Welchman, hanging by the neck upon one of the poles … pepys/262
