Everything you have to konw to be a perfect

GentlemanPresent by Sir Matthieu MOREAU and helped by Sir Ben SCHOTT

Introduction

Goal : give some informations that may introduce you as a perfect gentleman in meeting, dinner…

List of subject, question…

List

How convert Celsius to Fahrenheit

Golf Scoring Elizabeth TALOR & her

husbands Arobas Decathlon tracks United State Note Some lefthanded

personnalities US president oath ABRACADABRA

The colors of the empire state building

Victorian mourning The Hofstadter’s law Santa Claus & Coca Cola The Vatica telephony system The fifteen decisives battle of

the World Rond Table Knights The english longest word Poker frequency & probability The six wives of Henry VIII

Celsius and Fahrenheit

Celsius to Fahrenheit : multiply by 1.8 and add 32

Fahrenheit to Celsius : Substract 32 and divide by 1.8

exemples : 16°C = 61°F 28°C = 82°F

Golf Scoring

Term on a scoreboard

Specific Term

- 4 Condore

- 3 Albatross

- 2 Eagle

- 1 Birdie

0 Par

+ 1 Bogey

+ 2 Double bogey

+ 3 Triple Bogey

The « PAR » : the number of strokes a skilled golfer should require to complete play to the hole

Elizabeth TAYLOR & her husbands

Elizabeth TAYLOR is famous english actress (seventh greatest female stars of all time accring to the American Film Institute)

Her 8 husbands : Conrad "Nicky" Hilton (May 6, 1950 - January 29, 1951) (divorced) Michael Wilding (February 21, 1952 - January 26, 1957) (divorced) Michael Todd (February 2, 1957 - March 22, 1958) (widowed) Eddie Fisher (May 12, 1959 - March 6, 1964) (divorced) Richard Burton (March 15, 1964 - June 26, 1974) (divorced) Richard Burton (again) (October 10, 1975 - July 29, 1976) (divorced) John Warner (December 4, 1976 - November 7, 1982) (divorced) Larry Fortensky (October 6, 1991 - October 31, 1996) (divorced)

Arobas

Invented in th XVIIe century by the spanish salesmen (weight unit = 12,78kg)

Used in the XIXe century : abreviation of « at the rate of » in accounting and commercial invoices

In 1972 Ray Tomilson (inventor of email) chose this symbol because it did not appear in any name

Decathlon Tracks

10 tracks in 2 days

Day One Day Two100m 110m hurdles

Long jump Discus throwing

Shot put Pole vault

High jump Javelin throwing

400m 1500m

United State NotePresident ValueGeorges Washington ( 1789 - 1797) $ 1

Thomas Jefferson (1801 - 1809) $ 2

Abraham Lincoln (1861 - 1865) $ 5

Alexander Hamilton (1st Secretary of the Treasury)

$ 10

Andrew Jackson (1829 - 1837) $ 20

Ulysse S. Grant (1869 - 1877) $ 50

Benjamin Franklin (1st ambassador in France)

$ 100

William McKinley (1897 - 1901) $ 500

Grover Cleveland (1885 - 1889) $ 1 000

James Madison (1809 - 1817) $ 5 000

Salmon P. Chase (Secretary of the treasure under Lincoln)

$ 10 000

Woodrow Wilson (1913 - 1921) $ 50 000

Some lefthanded personnality

Lewis Caroll Cesar Leonardo Vinci H.G. Wells

J.S. Bach Jack The Ripper

Nelson Bill Clinton

Albert Einstein Nietzsche Prince Charles Bismarck

Bill Gates Fidel Castro Goethe Marylin Monroe

Cole Porter Pelé Paul McCartney

Jimi Hendrix

Greta Garbo Napoléon Bob Dylan Paul Klee

Charlie Chaplin

Phil Colins M.C. Escher Elizabeth II

US President oath

Before assuming office, the president-elect is constitutionally required to take the presidential oath:

« I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States so help me God. »

Although it is not required, Presidents traditionally used a Bible to take oath of office Exceptions : Chester A. Arthur in 1881 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1901

did not use a Bible, while Lyndon B. Johnson in 1963 used a Roman Catholic missal, because there were no Bibles aboard Air Force One

The Colors of the Empire State Building

In 1964, floodlights were added to illuminate the top of the building at night, in colors chosen to match seasonal and other events :

Red : valentine day, fireman memorial day Blue : plice memorial day Black, yellow, red : german unification Red, black, green : Martin Luther King memorial day Red, white, green : colombus day Red, white, blue : president day, army force day,

independance day Royal purple, gold : Elizabeth II No lights : AIDS day

Victorian Mourning

At the death of her husband, in 1861, queen Victoria made rules about the time of a perfect mourning:

Husband : 2-3 years Wife : 3 month Parent/Child : 1 year Brother/sister : 6 month Grand parent : 6 month Aunt/Uncle : 3 month

Hofstadter's law

Hofstadter's Law is a self-referencing time-related adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter and named by himself.

« It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. »

Santa Claus & Coca-Cola

Created by Clement Clark Moore in 1823 in the poem : The Night Before Christmas

The first artist to define Santa Claus was Thomas Nast to illustrate the poem

Haddon H. Sundblom (ilustrator for Coca Cola) define the red color in its advertising

Vatican telephony system

In 1886 the first automatic telephone system was install in the Vatican by Giovanni Battista Marzi (10 phones)

In 1932 the first wireless telephone line was build to link directly the Vatican and the Pope’s summer house.

To obtain the standard : dial the 00 39 06 69 82

The fifteen decisive battles of the World

In 1851 Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy define the the fifteen decisive battles of the World:

- 490 : Marathon (Greeks defeat Perses) - 413 : Syracuse (Athena first defeat) - 331 : Arbles (Alexander the great defeat Darius III) - 207 : Metaure (Roman’s Army defeat Hasburdal Army) 9 : Teutoburg forest (Arminus defeat roman’s army) 415 : Chalon (Aetius defeat Attila) 732 : Poitier (Charles Martel) 1006 : Hasting (William of Normandy conquier the UK) 1429 : Orlean (Jeanne D’Arc defeat the british) 1588 : Invicible Armada (the british defeat the spanish naval ships 1704 : Blenheim (Malborough defeat Tallard) 1709 : Poltava (Russian army defeat the wweden army) 1777 : Saragota (amarican independantist defeat the british) 1792 : Valmy (the french army defeat prussian and austrian army) 1815 : Waterloo (Wellington defeat Napoleon)

Rond table knights

According John Dryden, the rond table knights were 10 :

Lancelot Tristan Lamorat Tor Gallaad Gauvain Palamede Keu Marc Mordret

ABRACADABRA

The first case => in the poem Praecepta de Medicina in 2nd century

When it was write as a triangle and wear as a necklace => healing power

ABRA = Ab, Ben & Ruach Acadosh => the father, the son and the holly spirit

The english longest word

The name of a tobacco mosaïc virus Nickame : "Coat Protein, Tobacco mosaic virus, Dahlemense Strain" The chemical name contains 1185 lettersacetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminylphenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanylaspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinylthreonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanylglutaminylthreonylglutaminylglutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonylglutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyltryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalylarginylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosylarginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolylleucylisoleucylthreonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonylarginylasparaginylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamylasparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanylglutamylthreonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartylalanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucylasparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycylthreonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonylphenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophylthreonylserylalanylprolylalanylserine

The letter combination yl appears in the word 166 times.

Poker frequency & probability

Frequency Hand Probabilities1 098 240 One Pair 42.3%

123 552 Two Pair 4.75%

54,912 Three of a kind 2.11%

10 200 Straight 0.392%

5 108 Flush 0.197%

3 744 Full house 0.00144%

624 Four of a kind 0.0240%

36 Straight flush 0.00139%

4 Royal flush 0.000154%

The six wives of Henri VIII

Catherine of Aragon 1509 - 1533 annulmentAnne Boleyn 1533 - 1536 decapitedJane Seymour 1536 - 1537 died during

childbirthAnne of Cleves 1540 - 1540 annulmentKatherine Howard 1540 - 1542 decapitedCatherine Parr 1543 widow