The earliest known episode of "Scooby-Doo", entitled "The Fiendish Drapery Phantom" was shown in drawing rooms all across North America in 1885.
Even then, the cleverly disguised villain "Would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids."
Of course, back in those bygone days of innocence, writers could get away with unbelievable plot lines.
Daze of Our Lives
November 16th, 2009 at 8:41 pm (Afternoon Tea)
This page, showing a recipe for Blancmange (Blank maunger), is from Fourme of Curye, compiled by master cooks to king Richard II of England, part of the Medieval Collection at the library of John Rylands University, Manchester.
Original BBC story located here.
February 28th, 2008 at 11:26 pm (Afternoon Tea)
The Blancmange function, also called the Takagi fractal curve (Peitgen and Saupe 1988), is a pathological continuous function which is nowhere differentiable. The iterations towards the continuous function are batrachions resembling the Hofstadter-Conway $10,000 sequence. The first six iterations are illustrated below. The dth iteration contains N+1 points, where N=2d, and can be obtained by setting b(0)=b(N)=0, letting
b(m+2(n-1))=2n+1/2[b(m)+b(m+2n)],
and looping over n=d to 1 by steps of -1 and m=0 to N-1 by steps of 2n.
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