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1052: Every Major's Terrible

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Bringing this in line with conventions.

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1052: Every Major's Terrible

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1123: The Universal Label

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‎Explanation: - Add link to Irregular Webcomic #3280

1002: Game AIs

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Adding Checkers

1133: Up Goer Five

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 ==Explanation==
-'Undeclared' is sometimes called "General Studies".
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 Here's a YouTube video of "I Am the Very Model of A Modern Major's General" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSGWoXDFM64] for those who need to get the tune.
 Here's is Tom Lehrer's Elements.[http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html]
 And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3zAbQ0aMK8 here] is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from Mary Poppins.
 In panel 4, {{w|Methyl acetate}} is the solvent used to remove stamps from their envelope.
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 People have done renditions of this song. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seGpYa8UO0E]
 {{Comic discussion}}
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 ==Explanation==
-All matter in the universe was created through {{w|nuclear fusion}} of hydrogen atoms over billions of years. In many countries, food products must have their ingredients displayed somewhere on their packaging. Because all matter was originally created through stellar nuclear fusion from hydrogen over time, the ingredients of any item (food or otherwise) can technically be described fully as only being made from hydrogen and time.
+All matter in the universe was created through {{w|nuclear fusion}} of hydrogen atoms over billions of years. A well written, detailed explanation of this process is available [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/3280.html here]. In many countries, food products must have their ingredients displayed somewhere on their packaging. Because all matter was originally created through stellar nuclear fusion from hydrogen over time, the ingredients of any item (food or otherwise) can technically be described fully as only being made from hydrogen and time.
 The title text is a pun on the words {{w|thyme}} (a herb) and time, as the two words are homophones. Also, the H is the chemical symbol for hydrogen. Of course, the word "thyme" can also be made by adding the letter "h" to the letters "tyme".

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	:Black plays first, and players alternate in placing a stone of their color on an empty intersection. The winner is the first player to get an unbroken row of five stones horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.		:Black plays first, and players alternate in placing a stone of their color on an empty intersection. The winner is the first player to get an unbroken row of five stones horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
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		+	* '''Checkers''' (via {{w\|Draughts\|wikipedia}}) (American English) or Draughts (British English) is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces.

	* '''Scrabble''' - (via {{w\|Scrabble\|wikipedia}}) a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a gameboard marked with a 15-by-15 grid.		* '''Scrabble''' - (via {{w\|Scrabble\|wikipedia}}) a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a gameboard marked with a 15-by-15 grid.

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 It was first used as the launch vehicle for the {{w|Apollo 4}} mission, and it was used as the launch vehicle for most of the subsequent {{w|Apollo mission}}s (the exceptions being Apollo 7, Skylab 2-4, and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project missions, which were launched using the smaller {{w|Saturn IB}} launch vehicle). One of the last missions of this design was the unmanned launch of {{w|Skylab}}, the U.S.'s first space station; for this payloader configuration, the Saturn V launch vehicle was officially designated the {{w|Saturn INT-21}}.
-The Service Module (SM) Oxygen tanks, have a note that "This part had a ''VERY'' big problem once". This is a reference to the {{w|Apollo 13}} mission. 55 hours after launch, mission control requested the oxygen tanks contents be stirred to get an accurate reading of its contents. There was {{w|Apollo 13#Oxygen tank incident|a large bang}}, and power fluctuated throughout the craft. NASA had to scramble to ensure the safe return of the astronauts, needless to say, the moon landing for that mission was canceled.
+The Service Module (SM) Oxygen tanks, have a note that "This part had a ''VERY'' big problem once". This is a reference to the {{w|Apollo 13}} mission. 55 hours after launch, mission control requested the oxygen tanks contents be stirred to get an accurate reading of its contents. There was {{w|Apollo 13#Oxygen tank incident|a large bang}}, and power fluctuated throughout the craft. NASA had to scramble to ensure the safe return of the astronauts. Needless to say, the moon landing for that mission was canceled.
 The {{w|Hindenburg disaster}} is referenced in the text "The kind of air that once burned a big sky bag and people died and someone said "oh, the [humans]!". The term "big sky bag" is used as the closest approximation of {{w|zeppelin}} which is a big bag filled with a lighter-than-air gas which makes the whole contraption float. The {{w|LZ 129 Hindenburg|Hindenburg}} on the day of the disaster was filled with {{w|hydrogen}}, despite being initially designed for use with {{w|helium}}. Helium is much less prone to catching fire, but was unavailable due to a US export ban on the element. The risks seemed acceptable at the time because the Germans had a history of flying hydrogen-based passenger airships. The original quote is "Oh, the humanity!" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F54rqDh2mWA] (skip to 0:47 for the quote).