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He mentions that before he left England for China in 1936, a friend told him of a Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." The phrase is again described as a "Chinese curse" in an article published in Child Study: A Journal of Parent Education in 1943. Frederic René Coudert Jr. also recounts having heard the phrase at the time:
Google Maps Pokémon Challenge. Google joined forces with The Pokémon Company, Game Freak, and Nintendo to develop a new Google Maps app for the iOS and Android, which allowed users to capture Pokémon while exploring the real world using Google Maps. The concept of the app would later be refined and released as Pokémon Go in 2016.
This is a unit of fame or hype, derived from the dictum attributed to Andy Warhol that "everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes". It represents fifteen minutes of fame. Some multiples are: 1 kilowarhol – famous for 15,000 minutes, or 10.42 days. A sort of metric "nine-day wonder".
But Wilson tells Sunday TODAY's Willie Geist that it took her 10 years to really get noticed in the music industry. After graduating from high school in 2011, then 19-year-old Wilson headed ...
For example, Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol is focusing on using automation and AI to address employees’ pain points in prep work, such as frying chips and preparing avocados. Take, for instance, the ...
An island which was shown on Google Maps satellite view until 2012 despite not existing. That Wānaka Tree: A tree named after a hashtag on Instagram. Taumata: With a full name consisting of 85 characters, this hill may be the longest place name in the world. Te Urewera: A forested area in New Zealand that is also a legal person (see below ...
Interesting Times is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. It is the seventeenth book in the Discworld series and is set in the Aurient (a fictional analogue of the Orient). The title refers to the English expression, "may you live in interesting times", which is typically presented as a translation from a traditional Chinese curse.
As of 2007, Google Maps is equipped with a miniature view with a draggable rectangle that denotes the area shown in the main viewport, and "Info windows" for previewing details about locations on maps. Original Google Maps icon. On November 28, 2007, Google Maps for Mobile 2.0 was released.