Ivory Billiard Ball
As cited by Anacharsis, the Greeks played in the fourth century. C. a set of balls on the ground. Some see this as a precedent to the game of billiards. The French claim that the inventor of the pool was the English Bill Yar. While the English brought to Henry Devigne as its inventor. Despite this dispute between the French and British over who invented the game of billiards, as we know it today, it appears that the balance comes out for the French, given that King Louis XI, XV century, and I played in your living room on a table. In fact, the pool table furniture appeared as fixed by the year 1510. The first public billiards hall opened in Paris in 1610. Louis XIII of France was a big fan of this game, later transformed into sport. Louis XIII was the first to allow commoners could also play pool. In Spain also became popular the game of billiards among the nobility of the time. In this historical moment derived the adjective is now known as "ball" to point to a person offering excessive attentions to another. This is because the name was named to the courtiers and nobles who played billiards with Fernando VII, which left him balls or ivory billiard ball so that the king could be easily make a carambola and get well the balls in their respective holes. This curious fact is also reflected in the famous phrase: "So they are left to Ferdinand VII." In the late eighteenth century joined a small piece of leather to the end of the block, allowing to achieve effects not seen before. The pool game has evolved over time and thus have appeared different types of games such as billiards French, English (snooker) and the American. The first pool tournament held in England was officially in 1827. In 1835 the Frenchman Gustave Gaspard Coriolis wrote the "Mathematical Theory of the game of billiards" work that discovered the possibility of attack paths for non-horizontal parabolic. Begins its journey this new blog where you can find articles about psychology, solidarity, animals, mystery .. and much more which will be added gradually. We hope you find interesting. All people have experienced throughout our life chances, coincidences that have amazed us at any given time and, almost certainly have forgotten with the passage of time. These coincidences are also called Serendipias, but usually this word is generally used to refer to scientific discoveries that occur suddenly due to an amazing coincidence. The term comes from a story Serendipity Persian past, exactly the eighteenth century, called The Prince of Serendip. This story had the lives of the Princes of Serendip, whose conflicts were resolved provided through extraordinary coincidences. Hence comes the Anglo-Saxon word serendipity, which refers to casualties impossible. Serendipi the Spanish term was widely used in the beginning, but was gradually being forgotten. The term is also used when the researcher seudoserendipia, after spending much time on the trail to something concrete without success, finally achieved his purpose by an unforeseen event. It should be clear that the advance is not serendipity. For example, it would be a serendipity that someone had said sixty years ago that man would reach the moon someday. But it is what he wrote Lester del Rey, in 1954, one of his books: "The ship Apollon landed on the surface of the moon. After several small jumps could stabilize. Opened its ramp and she descended the commander Armstrong first stepped on the soil of this unknown world. " Amazing .. see more cases The billiard balls. Fortunately there came a time when thought of seeking an alternative to ivory to make billiard balls, that happened in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1870, a New Jersey inventor John Wesley Hyatt, I was thinking a combination of paper with glue and sawdust, because I imagined that there would emerge a different element and suitable for the purpose pursued. He injured a finger and inadvertently spilled a bottle of collodion (cellulose nitrate dissolved in ether and alcohol). This raised part of the shelf on which was experiencing were both covered with a layer of nitrocellulose. On close inspection, Wesley realized that this mixture would stick better mix of paper and sawdust, thus ruling out the tail. Thus it was discovered celluloid, which currently is used, inter alia, for making billiard balls. Alexander Fleming. In 1922 Alexander Fleming analyzed a bacterial culture, fortuitously a tear slid down his plate occupied by the crop. The next day he discovered amazed that where the tear had fallen there was a vacuum, which led him to believe that the tears should have some quality unknown until then. Inadvertently discovered lysozyme, an antibiotic that eliminated the bacteria without destroying the white blood cells, which did make the phenol was used at that time. Hugh Williams. On 15 December 1664 a ship sinks off the coast of Wales. 82 people die, and there is one survivor named Hugh Williams. On December 5, 1785 nautical new misfortune occurs. Sixty people die, and only one survivor named Hugh Williams. On August 5, 1860, in the Scottish coast, occurs another shipwreck. All are killed except a man named Hugh Williams. Travel. Argentine industrialist has to travel from Buenos Aires to San Carlos de Variloche. He has a dream where the plane is traveling in crashes. He informed his wife and partner, and tells them not to travel by air. They both convey the same sense of disbelief, but leave you to your choice of travel mode. Decides to go by car. When halfway listening on the radio that his plane has crashed. Breathe relieved by judicious choice, but fate does not seem to share his joy, and died in a car accident 12 kilometers from San Carlos de Variloche. The miracle of the choir. This event occurs in 1950 in Beatrice, Nebraska. Members of a gospel choir come to seven-twenty in the afternoon to test day. On March 1 the fifteen members of the choir are delayed for one reason or another. A fault in the boiler had burst the church at twenty-five past seven p.m.. The bullet persevering. The Texan Ziegland Henry abandons his girlfriend, this happens in 1893. The brother of the girl, angry, decides to take revenge, so it will look for and shoots him. The elusive boyfriend pound, and the bullet remains embedded in a nearby tree. Twenty years later, Ziegland want to cut the tree, try an ax and a saw, but it is very laborious and decides to use dynamite. When the tree explodes, the same bullet lodged in the tree for two decades kills him. The taxi driver. Bermuda taxi driver runs over a guy who goes on a motorcycle. When you exit the car horrified amazement discovered that the same motorcycle that had a mishap last year, the boy who drove is the brother of that hit and the passenger in the taxi carrying the same who had at that times. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin on November 30, 1667. It was a trenchant writer, who wrote plays in verse and prose. In 1726 wrote what is considered his best book, Gulliver's Travels. In its pages explains in detail the existence of the two satellites of Mars, whose name is "Fear" and "Terror". According to Swift these moons were irregular, and had a size and very rough orbital velocities to discover that 151 years later, in 1877. Also called them "Phobos" and "Deimos". In Greek mythology "Phobos and Deimos" are sons of Ares (Mars) and Aphrodite (Venus). Phobos is Greek for "fear" (the root of phobia). Deimos is Greek for "panic." Edgar Allan Poe. This American writer born in Boston on January 19, 1809. In 1850 he wrote The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym. This story is the story of a shipwreck near the Falkland Islands. This skill only survive on a raft four. Desperate hunger, cast lots for the victim who will be food for them. Lose a boy named Richard Parker. In 1884, a British schooner wrecked near the South Sandwich Islands. There are four survivors. As if reality was imitating fiction in the most macabre, also cast lots who should die for others to survive. The unfortunate, is a boy named .. Richard Parker. Abraham Lincoln – John F. Kennedy. Plenty of similarities unite the life of Lincoln and Kennedy, the following are just a brief example to arouse the curiosity of the reader. The presidents who followed them were called Johnson in both cases, and were Southerners. Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, was born in 1808. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, in 1908. Ohio twins. Two twin brothers are separated at birth and adopted by different families. They are 39 years later. People say the same, both have studied industrial design and their wives are called Linda. Both were divorced and his second wife, in either case, called Betty, and both dog named Toy. It is hard to draw a conclusion from all these facts.