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What is poon?

P.O.O.N is a rival with the latest celebrity Judfho, who is a kangaroo...He is a famous story writer and gives away free gobies to call kid. His recent book: FreeFalling was a smash hit with Wallsaoi Tribe and is well know in Australia. However, he took a large fall with a car crash in the bushes on NT and was never seen again. Although there have been recent sightings of him near ULURU and LAKE EYRE, people are believing the ghost of P.O.O.N is back. If you see P.O.O.N in the bush please alert authorities at the RSPCA, this dog is very loved.


Who Discovered the inverse square law?

There is more than one kind of Inverse Square Law. French physicist, Charles Augstine de Coulomb (1736-1806) established the Inverse Square Laws of Electricity and Magnetism in 1785. [Electromagnetic Fields and Waves by V.V. Sarwate] However, the more controversial Inverse Square Law of Gravity is slightly convoluted. In the end it was Isaac Newton, but before you blow a breaker, let me try to explain. Ismael Bouleau only assumed, without much evidence, that gravity behaves exactly like light. Robert Hooke tried to sort out what Bouleau did wrong, but in his paper to the Royal Society in London, he used Newton's 3rd law of motion, and did not have the mathematical formula to back it. Hooke was a rival scientist of Newton, who also harshly criticised Newton's work. The famous Hooke/Newton dispute has gone down in history as Hooke states Newton stole his work in his "Principia" (1686-7) for the Inverse Square Law - as it pertained to gravity in the planets orbiting around the sun. In 1679, Hooke wrote Newton that "The velocity of a planet varies as the reciprocal of its distance from the sun," which was completely wrong. Christopher Wren challenged each of them to produce the math to prove Newton's law of universal gravitation follows an inverse-square law (just as do the effects of electric, magnetic, light, sound, and radiation phenomena). Only Newton was successful and his world view still dominates physics today. Seventeen Equations that Changed the World (2012) by Ian Stewart Electromagnetic Fields and Waves (1993) by V. V. Sarwate


When was the 45 rpm record invented?

The 45 RPM record was developed by RCA Victor in 1949 as a competing format for the 33 1/3 RPM (33) format of rival Columbia records that premiered in 1948. Eventually the 45 RPM format (7 inches in diameter with a one-inch center hole) was adopted for shorter recordings while 33 RPM (12 inches in diameter with a 1/4 inch center hole) was used for so called LP (long playing) albums. This eliminated the need to reduce the groove width or quality of 45 RPM recordings.


What does steady the buffs mean?

Stay calm, be careful and persevere; a phrase similar to: "Stay calm and don't panic". It derives from an incident in 1858 in the British Army when the Adjutant of the regiment known as "The Buffs" saw his men disintegrate into chaos while on parade. Embarrassed in front of a rival regiment he shouted: "Steady the Buffs". It has been used ever since in the British Army to mean: calm down, take it slow (don't dwell on what's gone wrong) and move on. Kipling immortalized the phrase in his writings. Later writers have muddied the waters by talking of applying brakes or buffs to slow down trains. They are of course wrong.


Was Nikola Tesla poor or wealthy?

Tesla was considered an eccentric man who talked of death rays that could destroy 10,000 airplanes at a distance of 250 miles. However, Tesla devised the AC (alternating current) system that we use in our homes today. AC offered great advantages over the rival DC system. If you read about Tesla, most biographies state that Tesla died penny less. You would read that when World War One began in 1914, Tesla lost his payments from European patents. By 1916, he was living in poverty and had filed for bankruptcy to escape a massive tax debt. As a matter of fact, he did go bankrupt. But one thing is a personal bankrupt and another thing is company bankrupt. He did not miss a payment on his hotel rent. At the time of his death, his family cashed in the heritage. From them on, his family lived a comfortable live. No one ever found out how much money his family received after his death. One thing is for sure, his family did receive his belonging and a museum was erected. The museum is something for everyone to see.

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Thomas Jefferson was 83 years old when he died of old age. He died on the same day as he political rival, John Adams on July 4, 1826.


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Michelangelo was the one that stuck his face with a mallet by an envious rival disfiguring him for life.


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Why is Uluru famous?

Uluru is famous for being Australia's (and the world's) second largest monolith - or the largest, if one considers its rival, Mt Augustus, to be a monocline. It rises up starkly from the desert surrounding it, and it is famous for appearing to change colour with the weather and the time of day.