"Shut UP!" "I didn't say-" "You were thinking. It's annoying."
-Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Lestrade
Yes. Let's get it out of the way. The Beeb's new show 'Sherlock' is, indeed, a modern interpretation of our favorite consulting detective. I've only seen the first episode, titled A Study in Pink, but I am now (to my surprise) quite looking forward to the next one, and the one after that.
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The Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) was first introduced commercially in 1965. However, the principles behind the electron microscope were first theorized by Louis de Broglie (1925) saying that the electron had wave-like characteristics with substantially smaller wavelength than visible light. In 1927, the Davisson & Germer group and the Thomson &…
The following scenario attempts to describe a typical play on a typical Sunday here in America while watching an NFL game.
Play by play announcer: "He's at the twenty, cuts back across the field, the thirty, the forty! One man to beat, ooh what a hit! He took that helmet right in the breadbasket! I'm surprised he held on to the ball!
Commentator: " Yeah, that had to hurt. Looks like he's gonna be down for awhile"…
This is a brigade-sized mechanized unit of the United States Army, originally formed in 1901 during the Philippine Insurrection as horse cavalry (more properly, dragoons/mounted infantry) and involved in the Punitive Expedition of 1916 but not World War I.
Reorganized as armored cavalry shortly after America entered World War II, the 11th was further reorganized and re-flagged as two tank battalions and a cavalry group headquarters, all of which saw action in the…