Monday, September 13, 2021

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Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Sep 12 08:32PM -0500

Mark Brader wrote:
> Princess Elizabeth of the House of Windsor with Prince Philip.
> Name either the nation whose royal family he belonged to,
> or his royal house there.
 
Greece
 
> Nonetheless, his dynastic name would continue in the royal
> family until 1917, when it was changed to Windsor. By his
> dynastic title, he was the duke of what?
 
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
 
> 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career.
> His varied creations included the Shasta daisy and the freestone
> peach.
 
Burbank
 
> philosopher is considered to be the first electrical engineer.
> In his 1600 publication "De Magnete", he was the originator of
> the term "electricity".
 
Newton
 
> Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. He and his
> team """are""" noted for issuing a seasonal report every year
> forecasting what?
 
Meteor showers
 
> with water, and for the working of all sorts of mills where they
> have not the benefit of water nor constant winds". He was also
> the first to use the term "horsepower". What was this invention?
 
Steam engine
 
> (1908-2003) known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb".
> He also worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the
> first atomic bomb.
 
Feinman
 
 
Pete Gayde
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