Twinkle, twinkle little star.
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Thanks to Marquette Manor, Vicki Huehner, Mike & Lyn Lewis, Paul Cariglino
Rick & Teri Christ, Amanda Wesley and Melissa
the answer is

PALINDROMES







Fish!


the 'gh' is pronounced as the 'gh' in enough
the 'o' is pronounced as the 'o' in women
the 'ti' is pronounced as the 'ti' in station


Received with thanks from Dr. Tim Harrison
A dozen, a gross and a score
Plus three times the square root of four,
Divided by seven,
Plus five times eleven,
Is nine squared and not a bit more.
It does make a difference.
A submerged body displaces its volume;
a floating body displaces its weight.
Since a penny is denser than water,
dropping it into the canoe
will raise the water level higher. 
    








The Norwegian drinks water and the Japanese owns the zebra.



    









Equations that changed the world

1. The rudimentary formula that brought an end to inexact tallying of possessions or exchange.

2. Sir Isaac Newton's formula for gravitation.

3. Einstein's formula for conversion of matter to energy.

4. John Napier's logarithm formula, which provided a multiplication and division method simply by adding or substracting the logarithms of numbers.

5. Pythagoras' formula for the relationship of the two sides and hypotenuse of a right triangle.

6. Ludwig Bolzmann's equation for the behavior of gases.

7. Konstantin Tsiolkovskii's equation giving the changing speed of a rocket as it burns the weight of its fuel.

8. Louis de Broglie's equation for light as a form of energy.

9. James Clerk Maxwell's formula equating electricity and magnetism.

10. Archimedes' formula for the lever.




    




 1.     26  =  Letters of the Alphabet
 2.      7  =  Wonders of the Ancient World
 3.   1001  =  Arabian Nights
 4.     12  =  Signs of the Zodiac
 5.     52  =  Cards in a Deck
 6.      9  =  Planets in the Solar System
 7.     88  =  Piano Keys
 8.     13  =  Stars on the American Flag
 9.     32  =  Degrees at Which Water Freezes
10.     18  =  Holes on a Golf Course
11.     90  =  Degrees in a Right Angle
12.    200  =  Dollars for Passing Go in Monopoly
13.      8  =  Sides on a Stop Sign
14.      3  =  Blind Mice (See How They Run)
15.      4  =  Quarts in a Gallon
16.     24  =  Hours in a Day
17.      1  =  Wheel on a Unicycle
18.      5  =  Digits in a Zip Code (Thanks to Eric M. Lazarus)
19.     57  =  Heinz Varieties
20.     11  =  Players on a Football Team
21.   1000  =  Words that a Picture is Worth
22.     29  =  Days in February in a Leap Year
23.     64  =  Squares on a Chess Board
24.     40  =  Days and Nights of the Great Flood
25.      7  =  Deadly Sins
26.     13  =  Lunar Month in a Year
27.      9 = Stitches saved (if one is in time)
28.      8  =  Pints in a Gallon
29.      2  =  Testaments in the Bible
30.      4  =  Sides on a Pyramid
    

















The next letter in the sequence O T T F F S S  is E
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The letters are the initial letters of One, Two, Three ... but you know the rest!



    










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