Question for Aug 20, 2010

In 1941, Roosevelt's State of the Union address addressed the topic of X. He said, "In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential X. ... (description of the X follows) ... That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb."

Normal Rockwell, an American artist of that time, produced a series of oil paintings depicting each of the four X (shown in the montage below). Though created in response to world war II, the paintings have developed an iconic identity and are now part of America's cultural and social fabric.

What is X? Bonus points for identifying each of the four X.

QOTD - 19 Aug 2010 - Hari

Put funda.

Qn. for Aug. 18th.

Sorry for the late post. What is the below pic about?

Can you identify what (some of) the abbreviations stand for?

Question for August 17, 2010

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, X took up a job polishing and shining boots, and was enraged when a ditchdigger paid him with an 1875 US dime, which was useless as currency in 19th century Glasgow. However, the coin inspired him to take a position as cabin boy on a Clyde cattle ship to the United States to make his fortune. X is now the richest of his ilk in the world, rivalled only by  Y, John D. Rockerduck and, less prominent, the maharaja of Howdoyoustan. His net worth is often disputed and estimates have ranged from one multiplujillion, nine obsquatumatillion, six hundred twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents to a mere $28.8 billion and some geometric calculations based on his safe size have led to an estimate of $27 trillion. Identify X. Bonus points for guessing Y.

Question for Aug 16 - PS

Connect the following:

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Question for Aug 13

The visual shows USS Columbia being attacked by the X on January 6, 1945. The X were used in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, to destroy as many Allied naval vessels as possible. The word X (translated as "divine wind")  originated as the name of major typhoons in 1274 and 1281, which saved Japan from the Mongolian invasions.

Identify X.

Progression (Aug 12th 2010)

What's this graph about? What's the X & Y axis? The leftmost (dark) line is the one in the news, what's it about?