The first sewing machine was patented in 1846, by Elias Howe.
It didn’t catch on, and in 1851 the now-broke Howe sold the patent
to Isaac Singer for $2,000 in 1851. Hence, Singer Sewing Machines.

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Seven thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians bowled on alleys not unlike our own.
They didn’t have to rent bowling shoes, however.

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Galileo became totally blind shortly before his death, probably because of the damage done to his eyes during his many years of looking at the Sun through a telescope.

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Some viewers of Gilligan’s Island apparently took the show seriously in the 1960s.
The U.S. Coast Guard received several telegrams from concerned citizens,
asking why they didn’t rescue the Minnow’s crew.

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I don't think Galileo was so fool to look directly to the Sun through a telescope. He projected its image on a sheet of paper or a white cloth and so discovered the existence of solar spots, which was cause of a friction with the Jesuit order because one of them, Father Christoph Scheiner, had discovered them too. This was one of the three times Galileo had quarreled with the Jesuit order in astronomical matters.
Tullio

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Seven thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians bowled on alleys not unlike our own.
They didn’t have to rent bowling shoes, however.

One has to wonder how they know that there weren't rental shoes

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Diogenes Of Sinope

There are 1040 islands around Britain, one of which is the smallest island in the world: Bishop's Rock.

??? For some or another reason I dont belive that statement. ;-))

Here you go Moon, if you can dispute it, that's O.K.


Bishop Rock (Cornish: Men an Eskob) is a small rock at the westernmost tip of the Isles of Scilly (49°52′24″N 06°26′41″W / 49.87333°N 6.44472°W / 49.87333; -6.44472), known for its lighthouse, and listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest island with a building on it in the world.

Sorry - never saw this post before now.. ;-)

46 x 16 meter - The smallest island with a building on???? hehehe - thats the
craziest thing Ive heard. ;-D They may have missed some few
islands when writing that story ;-)

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The dread Black Plague in Europe was partially due to the belief that people thought cats were witches. Therefore, all the felines were hauled away and incinerated, which left the rats (who hosted the true culprits: plague-breeding fleas) to run around towns and villages and multiply. Ironically, cat lovers giving felines safe haven were a large part of those who survived.

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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.

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The dread Black Plague in Europe was partially due to the belief that people thought cats were witches. Therefore, all the felines were hauled away and incinerated, which left the rats (who hosted the true culprits: plague-breeding fleas) to run around towns and villages and multiply. Ironically, cat lovers giving felines safe haven were a large part of those who survived.

And I'm proud to be one of those survivors, But then I love My Cat.

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GeoCities is closing(being deleted forever) on October 26th 2009?

http://blogs.computerworld.com/14969/yahoo_geocities_closes_on_october_26

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Lotteries are not new. The original thirteen colonies of the United States were financed with the help of lottery dollars.
Additionally, the U.S. government used lotteries to raise money to help defray the costs of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.

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Early handheld lights used carbon-zinc batteries that did not last very long.
To keep the light burning required that the user turn it on for a short time,
and then turn it off to allow the battery to recover.
That’s how they originally became known as a flashlight.

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REO Speedwagon is named after a flatbed truck



Ransom Eli Olds built a three-wheeled carriage in 1887 and a petrol (gasoline) car in 1896. In 1899, he founded the Olds Motor Works, producing the first Oldsmobile in 1901. Although he didn’t invent the motorcar, he still is known as the “Father of the Automobile.” His heavy-duty flatbed truck was considered a milestone in transportation history. It was from this truck that the American rock band REO Speedwagon chose their name. REO is for the name of Ransom Eli Olds.

REO Speedwagon formed in 1967, debuted their self-titled album in 1971. They reached the charts in 1971 with Ridin’ the Storm Out. Their 1977 live album You Get What You Play For went platinum. Hi-Infidelity, released 1980, sold 7 million copies, reaching No 1 on the Billboard charts. Keep the Fire Burning, the single off their 1982 album Good Trouble, reached the Top 10. Their 2007 album release is also the title for their online video game Find Your Own Way Home, released in 2009. Their latest CD is called Not So Silent Night. And they are still touring.

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Leonardo da Vinci wrote notebook entries in mirror (backwards) script,
a trick that kept many of his observations from being widely known until decades after his death.

I believe I read somewhere that he could do this simultaneously while writing normally with his other hand.

I would like to see anyone do that!

Martin

Leonardo da Vinci wrote notebook entries in mirror (backwards) script,
a trick that kept many of his observations from being widely known until decades after his death.

I believe I read somewhere that he could do this simultaneously while writing normally with his other hand.

I would like to see anyone do that!

Martin

I've seen my wife writing with both hands. My son is lefthanded, my daughter righthanded, like me.
Tullio

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I've seen my wife writing with both hands. My son is lefthanded, my daughter righthanded, like me.

Your statement reminded me of an old BBS tagline: "I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous." I am. I write and eat lefthanded - bowl, throw, and bat righthanded. I can (attempt to) write righthanded, but the result isn't so easy to decipher sometimes.

But, what I meant was he (LdV) could write in "mirror" mode with one hand and in normal mode with the other, simultaneously. Which may not be much more difficult, if any, than what your wife can do. I guess if he was that comfortable with mirror mode, maybe it wasn't any more difficult.

Remarkable!

Martin

I've seen my wife writing with both hands. My son is lefthanded, my daughter righthanded, like me.

Your statement reminded me of an old BBS tagline: "I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous." I am. I write and eat lefthanded - bowl, throw, and bat righthanded. I can (attempt to) write righthanded, but the result isn't so easy to decipher sometimes.

But, what I meant was he (LdV) could write in "mirror" mode with one hand and in normal mode with the other, simultaneously. Which may not be much more difficult, if any, than what your wife can do. I guess if he was that comfortable with mirror mode, maybe it wasn't any more difficult.

Remarkable!

Martin

I at one time could bat left or right handed in baseball, use a bow and arrow or shoot left or right handed(And not miss(still or moving, 50 to 600 Meters no problem), I have the marksmens medal to prove It too, done without the prescription glasses I now wear), I write with My right hand, But I tried My left hand and found I could do that also, But being trained one way already the printing was crude as heck.

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First projection of an image on a screen


Joseph Necephore Niepce developed the world’s first photographic image in 1827. In 1839 Frenchman Louis Jacques Daguerre introduce a better photographic process and in the same year Englishman William Fox Talbot discovered the process of using negatives and positives to develop photographs. American George Eastman invented the paper film roll for photography in 1885. In 1894 Americans Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the first film camera. In the next year French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere demonstrated a projector system in Paris, screening Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon, the first public movie. It was 46 seconds in duration.

But the very first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen

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Wigs that are 3 feet high

In 1500 BC in Egypt women shaved their head as the ultimate display in beauty. Remaining hair was removed with special gold tweezers and then their scalps were buffed to a high sheen with soft cloths. Over the next 100 years the rich Egyptian women placed cones of scented grease on their heads, allowing the grease to melt and drip down over their bodies, bathing bodies and clothes in fragrance.

The exact opposite would be in practice by the 18th century in England when women’s wigs were sometimes 3 ft (1 metre) high. The wigs were dusted with flour and decorated with stuffed birds, fruit, replicas of gardens, or even model ships. Women would wear the wigs continuously for several months. They were matted with lard to keep them from coming apart, which made mice and insects a constant problem, leading to the spreading of skin lice in the upper classes. When a hair-powder tax was introduced in 1795, the wig craze disappeared abruptly

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