Give funda - What's the pic about?
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
38. A Quarter of the power of Krakatoa
X is the nickname for the AN602 hydrogen bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb was initially designed to have a yield of 100 megatons of TNT, but which was reduced to 50 megatons to avoid a nuclear fallout. Only one bomb was ever built and tested successfully on October 30, 1961, generating a 64km high mushroom cloud and causing complete destruction within a 55km radius. The heat generated could have caused third-degree burns at a distance of 100km, and shockwaves were experienced at distances of 700km. The red circle in the photograph shoes the region of complete destruction, and the yellow circle the area of the fireball, with Paris for an example.
X was also known as Y, a phrase popularized by Z's speech, addressing Richard Nixon in 1959 who was attending an exhibition in Moscow.
Give X, Y and Z.
Z with JFK.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
37.
X was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry. His best known works include Ripostes, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, and his unfinished 120-section epic The Cantos, published over five decades from 1917 to 1969. Of him Ernest Hemingway wrote:
"He defends [his friends] when they are attacked, he gets them into magazines and out of jail. He loans them money. ... He writes articles about them. He introduces them to wealthy women. He gets publishers to take their books. He sits up all night with them when they claim to be dying ... he advances them hospital expenses and dissuades them from suicide."
X is the person second from left. X? Also brownie points for identifying the other 3 greats.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
35.
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