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| NEWSLETTER - JANUARY 20 | |
| 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 | |
| "Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?" - Joy Adamson, naturalist, conservationalist and author of Born Free (born 20 Jan 1910) "I hope when I get to Heaven I shall not find the women playing second fiddle. - Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer (died 20 Jan 1921) "Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man. - Edouard Seguin, French-American psychiatrist who opened the world's first school for the severely mentally retarded (born 20 Jan 1812) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| An American astronaut, born 20 Jan 1930, set a record for extravehicular activity and was the second man to set foot on the Moon.. Can you name this astronaut? | |
| Alexandre-Emile Beguyer de Chancourtois, born 20 Jan 1820, was a French geologist who was the first to arrange the chemical elements in a certain order (1862). He plotted them on the surface of a cylinder. The resulting helical curve brought closely related elements onto corresponding points above or below one another on the cylinder. Although significant, his publication was ignored by chemists as it was written in the language of geology. What characteristic did Chancourtois use to order the elements? | |
| Deaths | |
| A Russian chemist (1834-1907) developed the periodic classification of the elements. In his final version of the periodic table (1871) he left gaps, foretelling that they would be filled by elements not then known and predicting the properties of three of those elements. Can you name this scientist? | |
| Events | |
| On 20 Jan of a certain year, the first U.S. patent for a roller coasting structure was issued to La Marcus Thompson of Coney Island, NY. (No. 332,762). In which decade was this patent issued? | |
| On 20 Jan 1998, American researchers announced they have cloned animals that may produce medicinal milk. They were cloned from fetal cells in which human genes were spliced into the animal DNA. Their goal was to turn the animals into drug factories, mass producing milk that contains human proteins important for treating human diseases. What animal was cloned in this way? | |
| 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 January 20 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. | |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for January 19: steel; James Watt; Germany; the decade including the year 1915. | |
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