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Long-Term Capital Management L.P. (LTCM) was a highly-leveraged hedge fund. In 1998, it received a .6 billion bailout from a group of 14 banks, in a deal brokered and put together by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.LTCM was founded in 1994 by John Meriwether, the former vice-chairman and head of bond trading at Salomon Brothers. Members of LTCMs board of directors included Myron Scholes and Robert C. Merton, who three years later in 1997 shared the Nobel Prize in Economics for having developed the Black–Scholes model of financial dynamics.LTCM was initially successful, with annualized returns (after fees) of around 21% in its first year, 43% in its second year and 41% in its third year. However, in 1998 it lost .6 billion in less than four months due to a combination of high leverage and exposure to the 1997 Asian financial crisis and 1998 Russian financial crisis. The master hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Portfolio L.P., collapsed soon thereafter, leading to an agreement on September 23, 1998, among 14 financial institutions for a .65 billion recapitalization under the supervision of the Federal Reserve. The fund was liquidated and dissolved in early 2000.LTCM can also be described as using an absolute return strategy in combination with high leverage.

Dysomia is not a recognised term in the English language or in medical terminology. It might have been a misspelling or confusion for similar words such as dysnomia or dysosmia. Dysnomia is a form of aphasia that involves difficulty in recalling names or words. Dysosmia, on the other hand, refers to disorders of the sense of smell. Please, confirm the context of usage.

The utmost flow of the tide.

Charles Francis Hall was an American Arctic explorer. Little is known of Halls early life. He was born in the state of Vermont, but while he was still a child his family moved to Rochester, New Hampshire, where, as a boy, he was apprenticed to a blacksmith. In the 1840s he married and drifted westward, arriving in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1849. There he went into business making seals and engraving plates, and later began to publish a two small newspapers, The Cincinnati Occasional and The Daily Press.

Buttermilk pancake is a type of pancake that is made using buttermilk in the batter. This ingredient gives the pancake a moist, tender texture and a mildly tangy flavor. Other typical ingredients include flour, eggs, sugar, baking powder, and some fat like oil or butter. Traditionally, buttermilk pancakes are cooked on a griddle or a skillet until they are light and fluffy. They can be served with toppings like syrup, fruit, or whipped cream.

The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Very broadly, it dates to between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago (the beginning of the Holocene), according to some theories coinciding with the appearance of behavioral modernity in early modern humans, until the advent of the Neolithic Revolution and agriculture.
Anatomically modern humans (i.e. Homo sapiens) are believed to have emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago. It has been argued by some that their ways of life changed relatively little from that of archaic humans of the Middle Paleolithic, until about 50,000 years ago, when there was a marked increase in the diversity of artefacts found associated with modern human remains.
This period coincides with the most common date assigned to expansion of modern humans from Africa throughout Asia and Eurasia, which contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals.
The Upper Paleolithic has the earliest known evidence of organized settlements, in the form of campsites, some with storage pits. Artistic work blossomed, with cave painting, petroglyphs, carvings and engravings on bone or ivory. The first evidence of human fishing is also found, from artefacts in places such as Blombos cave in South Africa. More complex social groupings emerged, supported by more varied and reliable food sources and specialized tool types. This probably contributed to increasing group identification or ethnicity.The peopling of Australia most likely took place before c. 60 ka. Europe was peopled after c. 45 ka.
Anatomically modern humans are known to have expanded northward into Siberia as far as the 58th parallel by about 45 ka (Ust-Ishim man).
The Upper Paleolithic is divided by the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), from about 25 to 15 ka. The peopling of the Americas occurred during this time, with East and Central Asia populations reaching the Bering land bridge after about 35 ka, and expanding into the Americas by about 15 ka.
In Western Eurasia, the Paleolithic eases into the so-called Epipaleolithic or Mesolithic from the end of the LGM, beginning 15 ka. The Holocene glacial retreat begins 11.7 ka (10th millennium BC), falling well into the Old World Epipaleolithic, and marking the beginning of the earliest forms of farming in the Fertile Crescent.

The apparent wobble or variation in the visible side of the Moon that permanently faces the Earth, allowing observers on Earth to see, over a period of time, slightly more than half of the lunar surface.

A large crocodile Crocodilus palustris of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.

A dominant gene is a type of gene that masks the effect of a recessive gene. It is the version of a gene that will always appear when present in an organisms genotype, regardless if its paired with a recessive gene in a heterozygous pair. Its trait will be physically exhibited, determining the particular characteristic or disorder in an organism.