Two Irishmen had just won $500,000 in a lottery.
Having a pint in a pub Tim say to Sean, "What about all them beggin letters? "
Sean replies, "We'll just keep sending them."
William GilbertBorn 24 May 1544; died 10 Dec 1603 at age 59. English scientist, the “father of electrical studies” and a pioneer researcher into magnetism, who spent years investigating magnetic and electrical attractions. Gilbert coined the names of electric attraction, electric force, and magnetic pole. He became the most distinguished man of science in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Noting that a compass needle not only points north and south, but also dips downward, he thought the Earth acts like a bar magnet. Like Copernicus, he believed the Earth rotates on its axis, and that the fixed stars were not all at the same distance from the earth. Gilbert thought it was a form of magnetism that held planets in their orbits.[EB gives death date as 10 Dec (Old Style 30 Nov) 1603.] |
