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| NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 22 | |
| 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 | |
| (Referring to "the two dreadful world wars we have recently been through...") "Man's loathsome cruelty to man is his most outstanding characteristic; it is explicable only in terms of his carnivorous and cannibalistic origin." - Raymond Arthur Dart, Australian-born South African physical anthropologist and paleontologist (died 22 Nov 1988) "Mediocre people may appear big to themselves (and to others) if they are surrounded by small circumstances. By the same token, big people feel dwarfed in the company of giants, and this is a most useful feeling. So what giants of science teach us is to see ourselves modestly and not to overrate ourselves." (1981) - Hans Adolf Krebs, German-born British biochemist (died 22 Nov 1981) "Our ultimate analysis of space leads us not to a 'here' and 'there' ... space is not a lot of points close together, it is a lot of distances interlocked." - Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, British astrophysicist (died 22 Nov 1944) (Upon identifying the cause of yellow fever) "The prayer that has been mine for twenty years, that I might be permitted in some way or some time to do something to alleviate human suffering, has been answered!" (writing to his wife, New Year's Eve, 1900) - Major Walter Reed, U.S. Army pathologist (died 22 Nov 1902) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| One of the most colourful figures of the early years of U.S. aviation, was born 22 Nov 1899. He set many records. Between 15-22 Jul 1933, he made the first round-the-world solo flight (15,596 miles) in his single-engine Lockheed Vega 5B aircraft "Winnie Mae." Can you name this aviator? | |
| Benedict Augustin Morel, born 22 Nov 1809, was an Austrian-born French psychologist who introduced the term dementia praecox to refer to a certain mental and emotional deterioration beginning at the time of puberty. The disorder was renamed in 1908 by the Swiss psychologist Eugen Bleuler. What is the name of the disorder, given by Bleuler, and in use today? | |
| Deaths | |
| Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981) was a German-born British biochemist who received (with Fritz Lipmann) the 1953 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery in living organisms of the series of chemical reactions known as Krebs cycle. What process does the Krebs cycle describe? | |
| Events | |
| On 22 Nov of a certain year, the first U.S. patent for a snowmobile was issued to Carl J.E. Eliason. His "motor toboggan" had ski-like front runners and a rear drive track. The early machines used a 2.5 hp outboard motor for power and a metal frame body. A few years later, he introduced an improved model that was bigger, sturdier and used a converted motorcycle engine and could travel over 40 mph. Although some vehicles before his had been made for snow travel, he is credited for creating the first reliable, self-propelled vehicle that could be manufactured on a sustained production basis. In which decade was the patent issued? | |
| On 22 Nov 1906, a radio distress signal was adopted. What was this signal? | |
| 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 22 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 21: indium; the weak nuclear force and the electromagnetic force; Piltdown Man; tin foil; the decade containing the year 1783. | |
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