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Baron Strange is a title that has been created several times in the Peerage of England. Two creations, one in 1295 and another in 1326, had only one holder each, upon the death of whom they became extinct. Two of the creations, that of 1299 and that of 1628, are extant. All four baronies of Strange have been created by writ, which means that they can pass through both male and female lines.
Following the passing of the Peerage Act 1963, Elizabeth Frances Philipps, 14th Baroness Strange of the 1299 creation, became the first woman to take her seat in the House of Lords by virtue of an hereditary peerage.

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    THE STRANGE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER and uncertainty principle

    "THE STRANGE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER " and uncertainty principle In Feynman's QED: THE STRANGE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER it is used one elementary QM formula W=h\nu. But it is not described principle of uncertainty, which is the second most important formula. Do you have any idea, how to...
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    (Maybe this is the wrong forum; Whatever, it's an unexplained phenomenon to me.) They're always messing with the plumbing in my dorm. After the last time, the water started behaving strangely when they turned it back on. When I run the water into a glass, it comes out clear. It then...
  4. E

    Strange Motor Wiring: 6 Motors, 200HP, 380V 50Hz

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  5. K

    Racquetball's strange bouncing patterns

    I play racquetball quite a bit as a hobby and competitively. One thing that I have noticed, and has baffled me for some time, is that on the sidewalls of a racquetball court, the ball's angle of incidence does not equal it's angle of reflection. It instead tends to (after repeated bounces)...
  6. naima

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    Could anyone derive an assertion found in "light and matter, a strange theory"? Feynman writes in his book that the propagator of the Klein Gordon photon is proportional to 1/(r2 - t2) Have you ever read the proof?
  7. K

    Solve Strange Integral of (sinx)^2/x^2 from -inf to inf

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  8. Andre

    Mystery of Strange Orchid Flower I Found at My Window Sill

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  9. R

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    Fortran Strange results using dgesv (lapack) via fortran 90

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  11. S

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  13. L

    Solving Strange Derivative: Find (df/dt)(0)

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  15. P

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  16. S

    Something strange about new york city subways

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    Linear Differential Equation in Strange Form

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  18. L

    Is the Change of Variables in this Integral Well Defined?

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  19. L

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  20. Mueiz

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  21. J

    Proving integrability of a strange function

    Homework Statement Hi guys. I'm really struggling with this problem. Any help is welcomed. Suppose I have a function f(y) = \intg(x)/(x^2) on the set [(y/2)^(1/2), \infty]. g(x) is known to be integrable over all of R. I want to show that f is integrable over [0,\infty], and that the...
  22. M

    Strange Gearbox: Old Factory Maintenance Engineer Needs Help

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  23. S

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  26. nukeman

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  27. M

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  29. C

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  33. J

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  34. C

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  37. M

    Are There Other Strange Division Patterns Besides Cancelling 6's?

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  39. BobG

    News Bizarre Iowa Supreme Court Campaign Ad | #1 in Strange Political Ads

    This ad hoping to unseat a judge from the Iowa Supreme Court has to be the early #1 in bizarre campaing ads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj2gOLUw5yk
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    Hi guys, I just wrote a simple code for delta function and print it out. Here it is. program main implicit none integer i real*8 del real*8,parameter:: ep=1D-2 real*8,parameter:: pi=3.1415926 do i=-10,10,1 write(*,*)...
  42. R

    Mystery Solved - Strange Phenomenon on PCB

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  43. F

    Strange wikipedia entry about the sun's core

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  44. M

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  45. J

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  46. S

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  47. BobG

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  48. C

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  49. J

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  50. Z

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