Photo: Lyndon O. Barton
For background, the historical significance of this paper lies in the fact that besides being rooted in antiquity (around 250 B.C.), it was, until now, one of the three unsolvable problems of Geometry -the other two being the doubling of a cube and the squaring of a circle. Now that Lyndon has solved the trisection problem, it is no longer one of the unsolvable problems of Geometry.
Guyana-born Lyndon O. Barton, author of Mechanism Analysis–Simplified Graphical and Analytical Techniques 1st and 2nd Editions (a textbook written for mechanical engineers and students of mechanical engineering) has recently published a research paper entitled, “A Procedure for Trisecting an Acute Angle.” The procedure sets forth the construction of an angle that is exactly one-third of any acute angle (less than 90-degrees) in a finite number of steps, using only an unmarked straightedge and a compass.
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April 2, 2022- The Trinidad Connection
A robust debate has been triggered by Guyana’s Local Content Act (the Act) between Guyanese and Trinidad and Tobago business organisations, businesspeople and involving some Guyanese public officials. The debate has had little input from ordinary Guyanese citizens. For example, there has been few, if any, letters in the press from Guyanese expressing outrage against Trinidadians for any reason.
However, while the debate is limited to Trinidad’s business practices, trade policies and importance to Guyana as a Caricom member, there is a strong undercurrent in Guyana of resentment against what is believed to be Trinidad’s historically unflattering view of Guyanese due, it has always been believed, to Trinidad’s sense of its own superiority by virtue of its oil wealth as against Guyana’s relative poverty.
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Photo: Lyndon O. Barton
USA: COLORISM: The Brown Paper Bag Test… To Exclude Dark-Skinned Black People – By Genevieve Carlton
https://allthatsinteresting.com/brown-paper-bag-test
Members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority meet with singer Marian Anderson in 1953. The sorority reportedly used the brown paper bag test to admit members.– Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images
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