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Baker's Dozen

 
 
coluber2001
 
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Reply Tue 1 Nov, 2022 12:35 pm
@tsarstepan,
13 people who did something/invented something to change the World

1. Samuel Plimsoll
2. Johannes Gutenberg, movable type printing press
3. Jesus
4. Alexander Graham Bell. telephone
5. Marie Curie
6. Galileo, improved the telescope and his observations destroyed geocentrism.
7. Hedy Lamarr and signal hopping. A key component to WiFi level internet
8. Not one person but an event in 1985, the conquering of Cordoba with its vast library by European Christians and, consequently, the rediscovery of ancient Greek science that the Muslims had preserved. This, eventually led to the Italian Renaissance.
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Yalow
 
  1  
Reply Tue 1 Nov, 2022 03:15 pm
@tsarstepan,
Wow, I didn't know about Hedy Lamarr! Thanks for the info!
tsarstepan
 
  1  
Reply Tue 1 Nov, 2022 03:47 pm
@Yalow,
Yalow wrote:

Wow, I didn't know about Hedy Lamarr! Thanks for the info!

A very good documentary on the actress came out several years ago.
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)

13 people who did something/invented something to change the World

1. Samuel Plimsoll
2. Johannes Gutenberg, movable type printing press
3. Jesus
4. Alexander Graham Bell. telephone
5. Marie Curie
6. Galileo, improved the telescope and his observations destroyed geocentrism.
7. Hedy Lamarr and signal hopping. A key component to WiFi level internet
8. Not one person but an event in 1985, the conquering of Cordoba with its vast library by European Christians and, consequently, the rediscovery of ancient Greek science that the Muslims had preserved. This, eventually led to the Italian Renaissance.
9. Ben Franklin and the Franklin stove
P E Dant
 
  1  
Reply Tue 1 Nov, 2022 05:34 pm
@tsarstepan,

13 people who did something/invented something to change the World

1. Samuel Plimsoll
2. Johannes Gutenberg
3. Jesus
4. Alexander Graham Bell
5. Marie Curie
6. Galileo
7. Hedy Lamarr
8. Not one person but an event in 1236, the conquering of Cordoba
9. Ben Franklin
10. John Harrison (chronometer)
BillW
 
  1  
Reply Tue 1 Nov, 2022 10:21 pm
@P E Dant,
13 people who did something/invented something to change the World

1. Samuel Plimsoll
2. Johannes Gutenberg
3. Jesus
4. Alexander Graham Bell
5. Marie Curie
6. Galileo
7. Hedy Lamarr
8. Not one person but an event in 1236, the conquering of Cordoba
9. Ben Franklin
10. John Harrison (chronometer)
11. Albert Einstein
coluber2001
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Nov, 2022 11:04 am
@BillW,

13 people who did something/invented something to change the World

1. Samuel Plimsoll
2. Johannes Gutenberg
3. Jesus
4. Alexander Graham Bell
5. Marie Curie
6. Galileo
7. Hedy Lamarr
8. Not one person but an event in 1236, the conquering of Cordoba
9. Ben Franklin
10. John Harrison (chronometer)
11. Albert Einstein
13. Filippo Brunelleschi, linear perspective in art
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Yalow
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Nov, 2022 11:51 am
13 trees

1.Ash
coluber2001
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Nov, 2022 02:54 pm
@Yalow,
Sorry, I put 13 instead of 12.
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coluber2001
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Nov, 2022 02:57 pm
@Yalow,
13 trees

1.Ash
2. Texas buckeye

https://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/2004/02/26/Jeff_Beck/74a8b8.jpg
Yalow
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Nov, 2022 02:58 pm
@coluber2001,
13 trees

1.Ash
2. Texas buckeye
3. Maple
tsarstepan
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Nov, 2022 03:30 pm
@Yalow,

13 trees

1.Ash
2. Texas buckeye
3. Maple
4. Douglas fir
Yalow
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Nov, 2022 03:41 pm
@tsarstepan,
13 trees

1.Ash
2. Texas buckeye
3. Maple
4. Douglas fir
5. Birch
tsarstepan
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Nov, 2022 03:47 pm
@Yalow,

13 trees

1.Ash
2. Texas buckeye
3. Maple
4. Douglas fir
5. Birch
6. American elm, state tree of Massachusetts
Yalow
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Nov, 2022 03:49 pm
@tsarstepan,
13 trees

1. Ash
2. Texas buckeye
3. Maple
4. Douglas fir
5. Birch
6. American elm, state tree of Massachusetts
7. Beech
tsarstepan
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Nov, 2022 03:59 pm
@Yalow,

13 trees

1. Ash
2. Texas buckeye
3. Maple
4. Douglas fir
5. Birch
6. American elm, state tree of Massachusetts
7. Beech
8. Eastern white pine, state tree of Maine
Yalow
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Nov, 2022 04:04 pm
@tsarstepan,
13 trees

1. Ash
2. Texas buckeye
3. Maple
4. Douglas fir
5. Birch
6. American elm, state tree of Massachusetts
7. Beech
8. Eastern white pine, state tree of Maine
9. Plane tree
P E Dant
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Nov, 2022 05:37 pm
@Yalow,
13 trees

1. Ash
2. Texas buckeye
3. Maple
4. Douglas fir
5. Birch
6. American elm, state tree of Massachusetts
7. Beech
8. Eastern white pine, state tree of Maine
9. Plane tree
10. Paulownia (a remarkable tree)
BillW
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Nov, 2022 10:20 pm
@P E Dant,
13 trees

1. Ash
2. Texas buckeye
3. Maple
4. Douglas fir
5. Birch
6. American elm, state tree of Massachusetts
7. Beech
8. Eastern white pine, state tree of Maine
9. Plane tree
10. Paulownia (a remarkable tree)
11. baobab
Bubbles66
 
  1  
Reply Thu 3 Nov, 2022 05:51 am
@BillW,
13 trees

1. Ash
2. Texas buckeye
3. Maple
4. Douglas fir
5. Birch
6. American elm, state tree of Massachusetts
7. Beech
8. Eastern white pine, state tree of Maine
9. Plane tree
10. Paulownia (a remarkable tree)
11. baobab
12. Laburnum tree
Yalow
 
  1  
Reply Thu 3 Nov, 2022 07:30 am
@Bubbles66,
13 trees

1. Ash
2. Texas buckeye
3. Maple
4. Douglas fir
5. Birch
6. American elm, state tree of Massachusetts
7. Beech
8. Eastern white pine, state tree of Maine
9. Plane tree
10. Paulownia (a remarkable tree)
11. baobab
12. Laburnum tree
13. Oak
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