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The Tempest Prognosticator 1951 Festival of Britain Replica Tempest Prognosticator. The tempest prognosticator, also known as the leech barometer, is a 19th-century invention by George Merryweather in which leeches are used in a barometer. The twelve leeches are kept in small bottles inside the device; when they become agitated by an ...
His best-known invention was the Tempest Prognosticator—a weather predicting device also called "The Leech Barometer". [2] It consists of twelve glass bottles containing leeches, which, when disturbed by the atmospheric conditions preceding a storm, climb upwards, triggering a small whalebone hammer which rings a bell. Merryweather referred ...
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For the full year of 2024, the economy expanded by 2.8%, slightly less than the 2.9% growth recorded in 2023. Inflation, or the rise in prices, also picked up toward the end of the year.
He seeks advice from a doctor, who prescribes leeches to be dissolved in his mouth, [3] and (on Baldrick's advice) consults the Wise Woman, who gives him three options: 1) kill Bob; 2) commit suicide; or 3) go ahead and sleep with Bob and, to ensure no one ever finds out, kill everyone in the entire world.
A 23-year-old college student was found murdered at her off-campus apartment in a "senseless and violent act," authorities said, who are now seeking to identify a person of interest in the homicide.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, one of his closest advisers, have mounted a sweeping campaign to slash the size of the 2.3 million-strong federal workforce, firing thousands ...