Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Mar 06, 2015)

Beauty, Power and Age



I come and I go, more than once in a day.

Yet I've always been here; for eons my stay.

A bearer of life, I bring fear and great dread;

A destroyer of old, millions by me are fed.

Artists and poets my presence inspires,

My moods, they are varied, my journey ne'er tires.

Once I was greater, but my time comes again.

Can you yet name me, my riddling friend?





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Brain Teaser 3/5/2015

1. An explorer undertakes to cross a desert with the help of porters. The length of the trail corresponds to 6 days walk. But the explorer, like each porter, can carry only 4 days food. How many porters does the explorer need? In fact, can he cross at all?



2. A worker is to perform work for you for seven straight days. In return for his work, you will pay him 1/7th of a bar of gold per day. The worker requires a daily payment of 1/7th of the bar of gold. What and where are the fewest number of cuts to the bar of gold that will allow you to pay him 1/7th each day?

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Today in History for 5th March 2015

Historical Events

1908 - 1st ascent of Mt Erebus, Antarctica

1943 - RAF bombs Essen Germany

1949 - Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30

1960 - Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army

1960 - Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champions in Vancouver won by Carol E Heiss (USA)

2014 - A survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports that about 1/3 of women in the European Union have experienced physical or sexual violence since the age of 15

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Famous Birthdays

1836 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)

1916 - Horace Ian Parrott, composer

1922 - Ebrahim Maka, Indian cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests 1952)

1930 - Del Crandall, American baseball player

1931 - Anthony Headges, composer

1952 - Alan Clark, keyboardist (Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing)

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Famous Deaths

1605 - Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Pope (1592-1605), dies at 69

1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)

1903 - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)

1977 - Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer safety marshall at the 1977 South African Grand Prix

1991 - Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109

1999 - Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)

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