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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World!: June 2006
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World! Friday, June 30, 2006. The term spam is derived from a British comedy, Monty Python, sketch, set in a cafe where every menu item is made of SPAM luncheon meat. As the waiter recites the SPAM-filled menu, a chorus drowns it out with a song repeating the word "SPAM" thus "SPAMming" the dialogue. The excessive amount of SPAM mentioned is a reference to SPAM being widely available in Britain during World War 2. The first...
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World!: January 2006
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World! Tuesday, January 31, 2006. Matthew Gray's Wandex (1993) the first search engine was designed to track the growth of the internet. Initially, it only counted Web servers but later also started capturing URLs. Wandex exploited the linked nature of the Web, following one link to the next- a procedure that is still followed by modern search engines. Posted by Vaidehi at 11:40 AM. Monday, January 30, 2006. Microsoft's fir...
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World!: October 2006
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World! Tuesday, October 31, 2006. The first submersible with reliable information on its construction was built in 1620 by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, a Dutchman in the service of James 1, while working for the british Royal Navy. It was propelled by means of oars. Between 1620 and 1624 Drebbel successfully built and tested two more submarines, each one bigger than the last. Posted by Vaidehi at 10:42 AM. Pompeii is a rui...
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World!: March 2006
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World! Friday, March 31, 2006. Infrared was discovered by William Herschel an astronomer in the early 19th century. He used a prism to refract light from the sun and detected the infrared, beyond the red part of the spectrum, through an increase in the temperature. The name infrared means "below red" (from the Latin word 'infra' which means 'below'). Posted by Vaidehi at 11:21 PM. Wednesday, March 29, 2006. The idea of biol...
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World!: July 2006
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World! Friday, July 28, 2006. Some species of geckos are known to be parthenogenic (from the Greek parthenos, 'virgin', genesis, 'birth') meaning the females are capable of reproducing without copulating. This improves the geckos' ability to spread to new places. Posted by Vaidehi at 9:53 PM. Sunday, July 16, 2006. Posted by Vaidehi at 1:44 PM. Posted by Vaidehi at 1:33 PM. Thursday, July 13, 2006. The word kangaroo derives...
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World!: August 2006
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World! Thursday, August 31, 2006. The European Space Agency (ESA), established in 1975, is a European organisation dedicated to space exploration, currently with 17 member states. ESA's spaceport, however, is located in South America in Kourou, French Guiana- a site chosen because it is close to the equator from which commercially important orbits are easier to access. Posted by Vaidehi at 3:06 PM. Wednesday, August 30, 2006.
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World!: April 2006
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World! Sunday, April 30, 2006. The existence of DNA was discovered in the mid 19th century. But the fact that it stored genetic information was only accepted after the double helix structure of DNA was described by James D Watson and Francis Crick in their 1953 paper. In 1962, Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins-another scientist who researched DNA- jointly received the Nobel Prize for their work in the field. Compressed Natu...
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World!: February 2006
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World! Tuesday, February 28, 2006. Ramses 2 also known as Ramses the great was an Egyptian pharaoh of the nineteenth Egyptian dynasty. He bacame pharaoh in his early 20s, and reigned for a total of 66 years and 2 months. He was once said to have lived to be 99 years old, but it is more likely that he died in his ninetieth year. Posted by Vaidehi at 8:54 AM. Monday, February 27, 2006. Posted by Vaidehi at 8:53 AM. In the 198...
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World!: September 2006
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Technology Facts about the world of Technology. Scientific Facts from the Science World! Monday, September 18, 2006. In Greek mythology, Cerberus or Kerberos meaning 'demon of the pit', was a monstrous three-headed dog with a snake for a tail and serpentine mane. He guarded the gate to Hades (the Greek underworld) and ensured that the dead could not leave and the living could not enter. Posted by Vaidehi at 9:20 AM. Friday, September 15, 2006. Posted by Vaidehi at 12:28 PM. Wednesday, September 13, 2006.
