Michael Farady ( 1791-1869) was arguably the greatest physicist of the 19th century. He was the son of a blacksmith and was hired to be the apprentice of a bookbinder, where he came to the attention of Sir Humphry Davy ( 1778- 1829), who was a professor at the Royal Institute, Great Britain, and is credited with the discovery of chlorine.

During his time as Davy’s assistant, Michael Faraday learned much and soon proved that he had a great knack for experimental science. Faraday made many discoveries in chemistry and electricity, such as the creation of the Bunsen Burner, And wrote quite a few books, including the book, The chemical History of a Candle, a Course of Six Parts.

Many people built their work off of Faraday’s work, such as James Clerk Maxwell ( 1831- 1879), who then, after reading Faraday’s works, published his own, Maxwell’s Equations.

In his later life, Faraday became a doctor of civil law degree at the University of Oxford. On one of his last experiments, though, Faraday received mercury poisoning and lost much of his memory, a common symptom of scientists’ in those days. Michael Faraday was buried at Westminster Abbey.

If you don’t know the history of your language not only is that sad, but you now have to read this entire article! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! I’m soooo evil!*

The English language, as you should know, consists of 26 letters. It originates from a west German language that was once spoken in the U.K. It was much different from modern English and even if you tried to you wouldn’t be able to understand it.

Lots of people speak English (almost 400 million, to be exact) and over 60% of those people are from America. Not only does English have lots of German origin , but it also has some French and Dutch in there as well such as ability & accept from french, and ahoy and avast from dutch.

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Ever heard of an acronym? Well, ‘ya have now!

An acronym is a word or abbreviation such as NASA or radar. It is where you take a long phrase and shorten it by using only the first letter in each word.

Example:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

would become:

NASA

Here is a list of words that you probably never would have thought were acronyms:

• laser is Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
• Sci-fi is Science fiction.
• SCOTUS is Supreme court of the United States.
• scuba is Self contained underwater breathing apparatus.
• lab is Logistics assault base.
• LARP is Live action role-playing
• HALT is hungry angry lonely tired
• OMG is object management group

—–And about 1,000,000 more!

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So, have you ever wondered who created bbq? Was it the round ‘em up western cowboys? Or maybe the meat loving Europeans? No one nows for sure, but this may help you better understand this subject!

The word barbecue is believe to have come from the Taíno native american word, barabicoa, which means sacred fire pit. Another belief is that the word comes from the french word barbe a queue.

Original BBQ consists of cooking meat over a small fire on a wooden platform. Modern BBQ consists of cookn meat on a metal grill over a fire made by charcoal, wood that is burnt and used to make fires, and usually well seasoned. but in modern BBQ, people even cook their food on their car engine!* That, ladies and gentlemen, I do not recommend.

But one thing is for sure, barbecue was not invented in America and no one knows for sure who invented it.

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*Can you really trust that?

Learn to understand the word using two famous online references!

Have you ever heard of an MMORPG? Long Acronym, huh? An MMORPG stands for massively multiplayer online role-playing game, such as games like *runescape (runescape.com)*and *sherwood (maidmarian.com)*. In MMORPGs, one may communicate with other people from all around the world on on of the multiple servers that the game has, so not to have a million people on one server and to let it get backed up.

Look at Runescape, for example, There are about 140 RuneScape servers located throughout the world, which are numbered and referred to as worlds by players and by Jagex crew, the makers of runescape. On Runescape, you have the ability to choose your OWN world and then, you know which server you’ll be on and then, you will be able to see An talk to your friends!

Another game to look at is a much less developed and primitive game, yet, sooo much fun to play, Sherwood dungeon. Sherwood dungeon uses a system where your computer remembers you every time you log in as the same person, but you log in using only a username. Then, it randomely generates a world with other people on it, but you can change the server, or dungeon, that you want to use anytime you like. you may only talk to the people in your sight range on your server, though, so it’s not like runescape, where you can chat with your friends anywhere, but then again, it hasn’t been around for as long as runescape.

So, yeah, i’ve just mentioned two of millions of types of MMORPGs, there is a lot of of games, just these are some of the best!

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have you ever wondered why your cell-phones blank out, or why you see black spots on the sun? The answer is called Coronal mass ejection, otherwise known as CMEs.

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CMEs
A CME is an ejection of material from the sun. Ejected is a material consisting primarily of electrons and protons (in addition to some lesser elements such as helium, oxygen, and iron).
Coronal Mass Ejections range in speed from about 20 km per sec. to 2,700 km per sec. with an average speed of 489 km per sec. The CME was discovered on December 14, 1971 by R. Tousey and the 7th Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO-7). CMEs reach Earth approximately one to five days after their eruption from the Sun. Another word for CMEs is solar flares.

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Solar flares: What the heck are those black dots?
A solar flare is a violent explosion in the Sun’s atmosphere. Most flares occur in active regions around sunspots. A sunspot is a region on the Sun’s surface, called the photosphere, that has a lower temperature than the surrounding mass and has intense magnetic activity. the first apparent references to sunspots were made by Chinese astronomers in 28 BC, who probably could see the largest spot groups when the sun’s glare was filtered by air-borne dust from certain central Asian deserts.

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Why it affects our cell phones.
Because sun spot, CMEs, and/or solar flares are so powerful, they affect the earths magnetic field so that static electricity makes your cell phone fuzzy, but don’t go looking up at the sun every time your phone buzzes or cracks!

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