We study a new context-free computationally simple stylometrybased attributor: the sliced conditional compression complexity (sCCC or simply CCC) of literary texts introduced in [8] and inspired by the incomputable Kolmogorov conditional complexity (KC). Other stylometry tools can occasionally almost coincide for different authors. Our CCCattributor is asymptotically strictly minimal for the tr...

Although a rare event, sudden whitening of hair (canities subita) has reportedly affected a number of well-known historical figures, usually in relation to dramatic events in their lives. Although early accounts are substantiated by more recent case reports in scientific literature, we suspect that the phenomenon is not only used as a literary means in fiction, with the aim of dramatizing, but ...

This article surveys the ethnobotany of Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf. in the Middle East from various aspects: historical, religious, philological, literary, linguistic, as well as pharmacological, among Muslims, Jews, and Christians. It is suggested that this is the only tree species considered "holy" by Muslims (all the individuals of the species are sanctified by religion) in addition to...