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Old 10-16-2004, 08:14 AM   #19 (permalink)
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The sacred beverage of the Aryans is known as Soma in India and Haoma in Persia. Current theory is that it is made from the Harmel Shrub, the main psychoactive ingredient of which is harmeline. Here's where it gets weird: On the other side of the planet, in the uplands of Uruguay and Paraguay, the Guarani (they're the ones in <i>The Mission</i> - excellent film, but I digress), have a different favorite pychoactive beverage. It's a drink made from the <i>yag&eacute;</i> vine. It's active ingredient is also Harmeline. They call the drink <i>jauma</i>. That is pronounced: haoma. (From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1568360754/qid=1097941706/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-0966060-9954269?v=glance&s=books"><i>Essential Subsatnces</i> by Richard Rudgley</a>.)

Most male mammals have a bone in their penis called the baculum or <i>os penis</i>. Humans do not. This is the genesis (pardon the pun) of the myth that woman was created from man's rib bone.

Beer has been brewed for at least 7000 years, but only in the last 300 has it been flavored with hops on any kind of a regular basis.

Venus rotates 5.3 times for eact turn about the sun, and it does so backwards, so that, assuming one could see the Sun from Venus, it would rise in the west and set in the east 5 or 6 times a year.

Menoman just explained Phi, the third most important mathematical constant (and the neatest to the non matematician), and everyone knows the most important, Pi, which is equal to 3 in Alabama , and the ratio of a circle's circmfrence to its diameter everywhere else, 3.14159....

In between is <i>e</i>, which is a number such that the integral from 1 to <i>e</i> of the function 1/x equals 1. It is also the infinite summation of the series 1/x!. 2.718281828459.... It is the base of the natural logarithm, and has broad applications in statistics and engineering.

Just after Phi is <i>i</i> which is called the imaginary number and defined as the square root of -1.

OK, here's the neat thing: <font size="+3"><i>e</i><sup><i>i</i>&pi;</sup>=-1</font>
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