General Riddles

If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

Some months have 31 days, some have 30 days, how many months in the Gregorian calendar have 28?
All the 12 months!

I'm the start of nothing and the end of sun and I'm also in the number one What am I?
The letter "N".

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

I am 3/8 of Tortoise, 2/5 of Onion and 2/6 of Tomato. Who am I?
Toronto. Explanation:Tortoise has 8 letters and the first 3 letters are TOR. Onion has 5 letters and the first 2 letters are ON. Tomato has 6 letters and the first 2 letters are TO.

Does the government of Texas permit a man to marry his widow's sister?
No question of legitimacy, because the man is already dead!

What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter "M"

The more I am present, the less you can see. Who am I?
Darkness.

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.

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