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  2. Lazy Bones - Wikipedia

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    Lazy Bones was originally a comic strip in the British comic Whizzer and Chips. It made its first appearance in 1978. The strip was about a boy called Benny Bones, who would constantly fall asleep everywhere, much to the annoyance of his parents. Until 1986, the strip was drawn by Colin Whittock, [1] and moved to Buster in 1990 after Whizzer ...

  3. Eugene F. McDonald - Wikipedia

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    In 1950 Zenith came up with a remote control called the "Lazy Bones" which was connected with wires to the TV set. The next development was the "Flashmatic" (1955), designed by Eugene Polley, a wireless remote control that used a light beam to signal the TV (with a photosensitive pickup device) to change stations. One problem was that during ...

  4. List of animated short films - Wikipedia

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    Lazy Bones: United States Traditional Animation Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing: United States Traditional Animation Let's Sing with Popeye: United States Traditional Animation Let's You and Him Fight: United States Traditional Animation The Lion Tamer: United States Traditional Animation A Little Bird Told Me: United States Live-action ...

  5. Sweeny Toddler - Wikipedia

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    Sweeny Toddler (sometimes titled Help!It's Sweeny Toddler) was a British comic strip by Leo Baxendale, which originally appeared in the British magazines Shiver and Shake, Whoopee!, Whizzer and Chips and finally Buster between 1973 and 2000.

  6. Remote control - Wikipedia

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    The remote, called Lazy Bones, [15] was connected to the television by a wire. A wireless remote control, the Flash-Matic , [ 15 ] [ 16 ] was developed in 1955 by Eugene Polley . It worked by shining a beam of light onto one of four photoelectric cells , [ 17 ] but the cell did not distinguish between light from the remote and light from other ...

  7. List of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack episodes

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    The evil inventor's twin brother builds a "Grand Flying Contraption" to impress Bubbie, on whom he has a crush. However, when Bubbie does not return the same feelings (she sees him as a friend, rather than a love interest) he becomes very sad. Because of this, Flapjack and crew are inadvertently led into danger.

  8. List of ice hockey nicknames - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of nicknames in the sport of ice hockey. Most are related to professional ice hockey such as the National Hockey League. A few notable nicknames from the Canadian major junior hockey leagues, the U.S. colleges, and national teams are excluded.

  9. John Napier - Wikipedia

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    His invention of logarithms was quickly taken up at Gresham College, and prominent English mathematician Henry Briggs visited Napier in 1615. Among the matters they discussed were a re-scaling of Napier's logarithms, in which the presence of the mathematical constant now known as e (more accurately, e times a large power of 10 rounded to an ...