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| NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 4 | |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on this day. 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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| Quotations for Today | |
| "Every little girl needed a doll through which to project herself into her dream of her future. If she was going to do role playing of what she would be like when she was 16 or 17, it was a little stupid to play with a doll that had a flat chest. So I gave it beautiful breasts." - Ruth Handler, inventor of the Barbie doll (born 4 Nov 1916) "If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster." (1995) - Joseph Rotblat, Polish-born British physicist, a leading critic of nuclear weaponry, and Nobel Peace Prize winner (born 4 Nov 1908) "To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth." - Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (born 4 Nov 1901) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| James Douglas, born 4 Nov 1837, was U.S. metallurgist and mining engineer, industrialist, and philanthropist who contributed greatly to the industrial growth and welfare of the U.S. Southwest . He was co-inventor of the Hunt-Douglas process for extraction of a certain metal from its ore. He examined such ore deposits in Arizona during 1881, and established mines at Bisbee, Ariz. The town of Douglas, Ariz., where he founded a huge smelting centre, is named for him. For extracting which metal is he known? | |
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| Erasmus Bartholin (1625-1698) was a Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist. He discovered an unusual optical phenomenon when he observed images seen through Icelandic feldspar (calcite). What is this optical phenomenon? | |
| Events | |
| On 4 Nov of a certain year, the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in Egypt in the Valley of the Kings where the English archaeologist Howard Carter had been making extended excavations. One of Carter's labourers stumbled upon a stone step, the first step in a sunken stairway that ran down into the rock. Later in the month, Carter opened the virtually intact tomb of the largely unknown child-king Tutankhamen, In what decade was King Tut's tomb discovered? | |
| On 4 Nov 1939, the first automobile with a certain feature was exhibited by its manufacturer, Packard Motor Co. of Detroit Michigan at the 40th Automobile Show in Chicago, Illinois. At the time, it reduced the space for luggage in the trunk, but since then, this feature has been improved, and is now a very popular option in modern cars. What is this optional equipment? | |
| 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 November 4 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. | |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for November 3: Scotland; iodine; the decade containing the year 1975; peas . | |
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