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Oobleck may refer to: Oobleck, a non-Newtonian fluid suspension of starch in water Bartholomew and the Oobleck, a Doctor Seuss novel, after which oobleck is named;
The book opens with an explanation of how people in the Kingdom of Didd still talk about "the year the King got angry with the sky". Throughout the year, the king of Didd, Theobald Thindner Derwin, gets angry at rain in spring, sun in summer, fog in autumn, and snow in winter because he wants something new to come down from the sky, but his personal advisor and page boy, Bartholomew Cubbins ...
Bartholomew Cubbins is a fictional page, a pleasant boy, and the hero of two children's books by Dr. Seuss: The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938) and Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949). Cubbins also appears in "King Grimalken and the Wishbones", the first of Seuss's so-called "lost stories" that were only published in magazines. [1]
1974: The J/ψ meson was independently discovered by a group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, headed by Burton Richter, and by a group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, headed by Samuel Ting of MIT. Both announced their discoveries on 11 November 1974. For their shared discovery, Richter and Ting shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics.
According to these experiments, one moai of similar size to a T-shaped pillar from Göbekli Tepe would have taken 20 people a year to carve and 50–75 people a week to transport 15 km. [77] Schmidt's team has also cited a 1917 account of the construction of a megalith on the Indonesian island of Nias, which took 525 people three days.
The oldest human skeletal remains are the 40ky old Lake Mungo remains in New South Wales, but human ornaments discovered at Devil's Lair in Western Australia have been dated to 48 kya and artifacts at Madjedbebe in Northern Territory are dated to at least 50 kya, and to 62.1 ± 2.9 ka in one 2017 study.
1946: Ejection seat – first live test of a reliable, successful modern ejection seat invented by James Martin. [54] 1947: Duty-free shopping invented by Brendan O'Regan. [55] 1950: Flavoured potato crisps invented by Joseph Murphy. [56] 1954: Clofazimine discovered by a medical research team led by Vincent Barry.
Mark & Olly: Living with the Tribes [1] is a group of three documentary adventure reality television series that aired on BBC Knowledge and the Travel Channel which premiered in 2007. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The program follows British explorers Mark Anstice and Oliver Steeds as they travel around the world to reside with indigenous peoples .