Identify the controversy
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Elisha Gray and Graham Bell’s telephone invention controversy
There are two places marked on the map below (with the usual Google map markers). What is the significance of the two places, and the major geographical feature you see in the map?
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Amazon.com’s first page rendering engine was called Obidos, named after the town on the banks of the Amazon. This was phased out and replaced with Gurupa, another town on the banks of the Amazon and seemingly ‘upstream’ :)
Identify the lady in the pictures below:
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Stephanie Kwolek - scientist and inventor of Kevlar, while at DuPont.
The original book - a textbook of magic - was said to be written by a ‘half-crazed arab’, as the author put it. It soon gained widespread circulation across the world as a store of occult information, but was suppressed by later regimes.
The book recently resurfaced, although most sane people deny that it has anything to do with the original. Identify the book.
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Necronomicon - the fictional grimoire in HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. This book, the so called ‘simon necronomicon’, claims to be the original but has no linkage :)
What connects? (Not an exhaustive list, there are a few more)
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Awards from The Royal Society. Strangely disconnected bunch, but all of them have sponsored awards that the Society awards till today.
Fully framed guest question from %gqh% Jean Valjean. Thanks Sire!
Simply identify this guy who passed away about 3 months back. Perhaps
best known for inventing X for which he was inducted into the Cable
Hall of Fame and given 2 Emmy Awards. Plenty of clues in the picture
X is a good example of the subject line.
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Hubert Schlafly
Simple stuff. This pic of this guy in this outfit was in the news yesterday. Why?
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Niko Alm listed his own religion as Pastafarianism (from the church of the FSM of course), and claimed that a pasta strainer was his religious headgear. He was allowed to wear it for his drivers license pic. Awesome details here.
An ‘ad’ for what?? Hint: This was sometime in the first decade of the 1800s!!
Sorry for the small size of image, but much of the detail is visible once you zoom in.
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William John Wallaston’s flyer advertizing his Palladium for sale :)
Most of us have seen the twins, but not many of us have seen the third guy. Identify 1(who is the third guy), connect to 2.
Posting early. For a change.
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Dude on the left is Divya Narendra,associate of the winklevii,who claimed that facebook was their idea originally.On the right is Max Minghella,who played Divya Narendra in the movie ‘The Social Network’. Quoting dity-i
This two Afghan dudes was in news recently for building 2. What is it? (Thanks to shrik for corrections)
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Fab-Fi network.