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Gnomon Chronicles is a work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones (nonfiction).
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Electricity
Twisted Pair Sister was an American heavy metal band and network technology company originally from Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, and later based on Long Island, New York.
Ionic Bondi Beach is a popular beach and the name of the surrounding suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, famed for its chemical bonding, both the bonding of oppositely charged ions, and the bonding of two atoms with sharply different electronegativities.
"Static Mat" is a song by Yup from their album Obdurate.
Liquid Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (LCCBB) is a downloadable, user-reprogrammable cologne. The bottle's distinctive automobile design has an unusual feature — two decorative spare tires which conceal a Fleming valve. When activated, the valve emits "putt-putts" of ionized cologne.
NiCaddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy film about Nickel–cadmium battery technology.
Dynamo Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; March 1, 1917 – February 24, 1994) was an American electrical engineer, singer, actress, and television personality. She rose to prominence as an engineer artist during the Bell Telephone era.
Are You Sure ...
... that physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox?
... that Intercontinental Ballistic Pizza is a transdimensional pizza delivery service based in the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere?
On This Day in History and Fiction: June 29
1818: Astronomer, academic, and Jesuit Angelo Secchi born. Secchi will be a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy, and one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
1868: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
1895: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley dies. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1896: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky born. He will work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
2010: Chemist Marc Julia dies. Julia (along with his colleague Jean-Marc Paris) discovered the Julia olefination reaction in 1973.