Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry was a Soviet institution that had the goal of preserving rare seeds of edible plants in an attempt to protect biodiversity. Many of the crops widely used around the world today are the result of cross-breeding with the crops maintained by the Vavilov Institute. During the siege of Leningrad in 1942, most of the researchers of the institute succumbed to hunger, refusing to eat the seeds and their produce that they were tasked to protect

In model A, loans are offered against the evaluation of your financial history (e.g. UPI payments, spending patterns, net outflow and inflow, etc). In model B, loans are sanctioned against a collateral and further considerations such as your current bank balance, your job, etc).

Deficit financing is a deliberate voluntary strategy used by governments to finance their budget deficits or shortfalls in revenue by borrowing money rather than reducing expenditures or increasing taxes, in order to achieve specific economic and social objectives

You are a newly-married musician in the 70s, the golden age of rock-n-roll. You are lead guitar and vocals in a band trying to make it big. Person X has been added to your band by your manager in the hopes that you and Person X together will propel the band to stardom. In a moment of prescience, you have been shown two paths:
Path A - Stay with the band: You will fall in love with Person X, leave your happy marriage for them and collaborate on one of the greatest albums ever. The band will implode on the album's tour, with you and Person X becoming bitter enemies. The drama adds to your fame. You will be a rock-n-roll legend, widely considered as one of the greatest ever.
Path B - Leave the band: You go your own way becoming a modest musician with only a small cult following who believe you should have had a big break. Your former band achieves little success without you. Your marriage is a long and happy one.

On the Island of Sodor,all the trains, and the majority of trucks, carriages, and motor vehicles, are sentient. They are shown to have free will, feel pain and the capacity to age. The Sodor Railway
Company is run by Sir Topham-Hatt(known-as-the•Fat-Controller).His approach to running the railway and the way he treats his engines is called the Really Useful Engine Doctrine."'.This-means that an engine's value is only derived from how useful they are.-He expresses this belief system regularly on the show, frequently criticizing engines for causing confusion and delay and insults them by saying they. are not useful. Punishments for engines that are not useful have. included being
converted into a generator-(RIP-Smudger) and being sent to the scrap yards. However, when the engines are. productive, his means of praise is to say they are a really useful engine. The engines are shown to gain great satisfaction from hard work and and being useful.

Humanity has invented a machine that will definitively determine whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. The results will be revealed publicly in Cedar College in the next hour.