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Happy Easter! WrestleMania 41 is this weekend. Among its promised highlights are the return of CM Punk and the final time that John Cena will be participating in the event. The weekend opened with the World Heavyweight Championship, which was won by what man (shown)? Born Joshua Fatu, he is part of the Anoaʻi family of Samoan professional wrestlers that also includes Roman Reigns and Yokozuna among its members.
In the attached photo, what is the name of the object circled in red?
The German physicist Ernst Chladni is generally credited with defining the particular characteristics of what in his 1794 booklet “On the Origin of the Iron Masses Found by Pallas and Others Similar to it, and on Some Associated Natural Phenomena”? Up to that point, those “masses” were thought to have been volcanic in origin. While his idea as initially proposed was widely mocked, subsequent investigation by Jean-Baptiste Biot (of Biot-Savart Law fame) concerning events near L’Aigle, Normandy in 1803 confirmed Chladni’s theories as true.
What is the Italian term for the technique of altering a stringed musical instrument to produce sounds that differ from standard tuning? This alteration can be done for any number of reasons, including to allow the instrument to play an unusual chord, or even to make a passage easier to play. Notable examples include the cello in Bach's Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor being tuned a whole step down, from A to G; the viola in Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante tuned a semitone higher to produce a brighter sound; and the E-string of the violin in Saint-Saen’s Danse Macabre tuned to E♭ to produce a more dissonant sound.
In the standard genetic code, there are 20 proteinogenic amino acids - that is, amino acids coded for by our genome that when produced are then combined to make proteins. Surveys of human, eukaryotic, bacterial, and archaean proteins indicate that which amino acid is the one most-often coded in total, as well as in each of those groups individually? Shown in the image below, six different codons express this essential amino acid, with these codons representing about 9 to 10% of the total expressed genetic code. The name of this amino acid reflects a particular property of it, though that property is not unique to this amino acid.
Shown here is what dancer and choreographer, discussing (and demonstrating) the creative process as part of a 2015 TED talk? Many of his works are intimately tied to his biography, such as 1990's Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land, which was informed by his childhood growing up as the son of migrant farm workers. His best-known work is almost certainly the iconoclastic 1994 piece Still/Here, which used not only dance but other forms of media to express what it meant to live with a terminal illness - a very personal issue for this person, as he knew at the time that he was HIV-positive.
To play it, you must work cooperatively with another player, either locally or online. What 2025 video game tells the story of Zoe and Mio, two writers who become trapped in a simulation device where their stories come to life? Because the plot involves an antagonist who hopes to steal their ideas for his own gain, the game is seen as a not-so-veiled critique of how larger technology companies control the creative process. The game’s release has been met with widespread critical acclaim - much like the case of its predecessor game from Hazelight Studios, the award-winning It Takes Two.
This is a self-portrait of what painter?
A recent book by journalist Olivier Beaumont reports that staff members at the Élysée Palace always know when President Macron is about to enter a room because he wears “industrial levels” of what cologne (shown, redacted) by Dior? Its evocative name actually was not directly inspired by a certain adjective. Instead, according to the story, Christian Dior was mulling on what name to give the fragrance when his butler announced that a friend of his, an Australian fashion publicist who was very influential during the 1950s and 60s, had arrived.
Who founded the Emirate of Cordoba in AD 756? An Umayyad, he escaped the overthrow of that dynasty by the Abbasids when he fled Damascus in 750 (as reflected in his epithet, al-Dakhil, which means “the immigrant”). Ruling until 788, his best-known legacy today is probably the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba. He shares the name that he is best known by with the (unrelated) Muslim commander of the forces defeated at the 732 Battle of Tours.
