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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 7 | |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on August 7. Some of the names are very familiar. Others will likely stump you. Tickle your curiosity with these questions, then check your answers on today's web page. | |
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| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| William Ross Maples, born 7 Aug 1937, American forensic anthropologist who examined and identified the skeletons of a number of historical figures, including a famous Russian family Who were the Russian family he identified? | |
| Louis Leakey, born 7 Aug 1903, was an archaeologist and anthropologist, was born in Kabete, Kenya, of English missionaries parents. Leakey was largely responsible for convincing scientists that Africa, rather than Java or China, was the most significant area to search for evidence of human origins. Leakey led fossil-hunting expeditions to eastern Africa from the 1920's. What were the most significant fossils he found? | |
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| A Swedish chemist (1779-1848) was one of the founders of modern chemistry by his determination of atomic weights and the development of modern chemical symbols (such as Fe, F). Can you name this man ? | |
| Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834)was a silk weaver whose invention for his industry included a concept that was later used for US census data.. What was his invention? | |
| Events | |
| On 7 Aug of a certain year, the first telephone link was made between Israel and Jordan In what decade was this telephone link established? | |
| Answers | |
| When you have your answers ready to all the questions above, you'll find all the information to check them, and more, on the August 7 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. | |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for August 6: Internet's address system of names and numbers; penicillin; due to an asymmetric carbon atom bound to four different groups; 10.3 year cycle; a fossil found on a meteorite believed to have come from Mars; Hiroshima; the decade including the year 1890. | |
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