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The Question: Where did the name "pap smear" come from? The Answer: The pap smear, a test for cervical cancer, is named for George N.…Robert Metcalfe Biography
inventorBorn: 1946 With his invention of Ethernet, Metcalfe created a way to link computers to one another and to the Internet. Ethernet is the most widely used…Frank Zappa
Guitarist Frank Zappa was a composer and musician and production wizard whose early work with The Mothers of Invention displayed terrific musical knowledge and an outrageous sense of humor. His foul…Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe may not be as famous as Galileo or Copernicus, but in some circles he's considered the father of modern astronomy. He spent much of his life compiling the world's first truly accurate…John Lynott Biography
inventorBorn: 1921Died: 1994 Goddard and Lynott's invention of magnetic disk storage while with IBM was a major advancement in mass-storage technology,…Otto Wichterle Biography
inventorBorn: 1913Died: 1998 Wichterle's soft contact lens proved to be less expensive and more comfortable than traditional glass or hard plastic lenses. A…William Goddard Biography
inventorBorn: 1913Died: 1997 Goddard and Lynott's invention of magnetic disk storage while with IBM was a major advancement in mass-storage technology,…Robert Adler Biography
physicist and inventorDied: Feb. 15, 2007 (Boise, Idaho) Inventor who held about 200 U.S. patents, the most famous of which was the first wireless television…The Devil's Dictionary: Mythology
by Ambrose Bierce MYRMIDONMYTHOLOGY -n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts…Trending
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