It may have been an invention of the Chaldeans of ancient Babylonia; specimens from Egypt date from the 14th century bc. The Romans invented a clepsydra consisting
Strange, such prejudice from a writer, because engineering has been described (by the engineer Ove Arup) as "a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice".Bayley, Stephen
18 、Nobody who was near the scene of the crime is above suspicion.───在犯罪现场附近的人无不受到怀疑。 19 、How can you turn away from a soldier who was wounded?───你怎么能对一个受伤的战士不闻不问呢? 20 、Can you tell me who invented the telephone?───你能告诉我是谁发明了...
Many of my most treasured childhood memories involve Koi Goo, an incredible woman who lived with my grandparents for over 50 years. She is one of the best chefs I know and learned everything through trial and error. She was hired as a maid when my eldest uncle was born and stayed on t...
What if David Prowse is actually responsible for coming up with the whole idea of the whole Skywalker saga? Well, then address your complaints about the last movie to him, because he’s dead. 9. Frederick “Toots” Hibbert The lead vocalist of Toots and the Maytals literally invented reggae...
One of my goals in purchasing sethholloway.com is to carve out my own niche on the Internet superhighway–the series of tubes invented by a politician from Tin-uh-see. However, as I google myself (which is even dirtier than it sounds) I can’t help but feel that my job is not yet...
Willy, you see, invented the video game.We've received several manuscripts which attempt to set the record straight on the history of the video game. If you claim and can document a video game predating 1958, let us know.Otherwise, give Willy Higinbotham his profound and historic due. ...
the fundamental urban design concept, like how an alphabet invented in the Sinai by a handful of literate turquoise miners became the conceptual model for nearly all the world’s alphabets thereafter. Thus was the urban design deliberately laid out by the planners of Ur over five thousand years...
Before I had my plan set last year, when I saw how travelling bit by bit became easier after the vaccine was invented, I told Ruli that I would be going soon. Then, when he was still alive, he told me that he missed me, asking me when would I fly home. We had this place in...
Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford—they’re all supremely famous right now, because we use lightbulbs, telephones, planes and cars, and we want to know who’s the rad dude who invented it. But how about a time when no one uses those things anymore?