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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. Whizzer and Chips - Wikipedia

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    Whizzer and Chips was a British comics magazine that ran from 18 October 1969 to 27 October 1990, when it merged with the comic Buster.As with most comics of the time, Whizzer and Chips was dated one week ahead of the day it actually appeared on newsstands in Great Britain (the date referred to the day the comic needed to be taken off the shelves to make way for the new issue, rather than a ...

  5. Ismail al-Jazari - Wikipedia

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    The elephant clock was one of the most famous inventions of al-Jazari.. Badīʿ az-Zaman Abu l-ʿIzz ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ar-Razāz al-Jazarī (1136–1206, Arabic: بَدِيعُ الزَّمانِ أَبُو العِزِّ بْنُ إسْماعِيلَ بْنِ الرَّزَّازِ الجَزَرِيّ, IPA: [ældʒæzæriː]) was a Muslim polymath: [2] a scholar, inventor, mechanical ...

  6. List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world - Wikipedia

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    The invention of the kamal allowed for the earliest known latitude sailing, and was thus the earliest step towards the use of quantitative methods in navigation. [42] Programmable machine and automatic flute player: The Banū Mūsā brothers invented a programmable automatic flute player and which they described in their Book of Ingenious ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Penmanship - Wikipedia

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    The lowercase letters of Classical Greek were a later invention of the Middle Ages. The Phoenician alphabet also influenced the Hebrew and Aramaic scripts, which follow a vowel-less system. One Hebrew script was only used for religious literature and by a small community of Samaritans up until the sixth century BC.

  9. Laz people - Wikipedia

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    [A] the name was considered to be an 'unpatriotic' invention of ancien regime. [38] Laz ancestral lands are nota well-defined and there is no official geographic definition for the boundaries of Lazistan. However, parts of the following provinces are usually included: Adjara region in Georgia; Artvin province in Turkey; Rize province in Turkey