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...that Hertfordshire puddingstone conglomerate rock named after its resemblance to Christmas pudding ?
... that the 12th century illuminated manuscript the Codex Calixtinus Pope Callixtus II ?
Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp autopsy depicted in Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn's oil painting Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp pictured ) was a real event which took place on January 16, 1632?... that the New Testament 's "camel passing through the eye of a needle " is an example of adynaton hyperbole used to imply impossibility?
...that a quadrature phase booster transformer used to control the flow of electric power on electricity transmission networks ?
... that the Scouting movement's "one good turn" was inaugurated on behalf of British newspaper magnate Cyril Arthur Pearson newspapers before going blind with glaucoma and then devoted his life in support of the blind ?
... that the early contact lens pioneer August Müller scleral lenses by correcting his own severe myopia ?
... that videokeratography non-invasive medical imaging technique for mapping the surface topology of the cornea ?
... that Corippo Switzerland 's smallest municipality with a population of only 17, has its own website , coat of arms , mayor and town council ?
... that the Strépy-Thieu boat lift Belgium is the tallest boat lift in the world at 73 metres high and has a structural mass of 200,000 tonnes?
... that some elements of the Jules Verne adventure story Two Years' Vacation William Golding 's Lord of the Flies
... that the taekwondo form Ko-Dang Korean nationalist Cho Man-sik Kim Il-sung 's communists ?
...that Unsinkable Sam ship's cat of both the Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy during the Second World War who survived the sinking of all three ships on which he served?
... that TenneT Dutch transmission system operator , is a joint owner of the ±450 kV, 580-km NorNed , the longest high-voltage undersea power line in the world?
... that a dispatcher training simulator computer-based training system which simulates the behaviour of an electrical power system ?
... that a Carley float liferaft fashioned from a large ring of copper tubing surrounded by cork and canvas ?
... that conductor gallop Hz oscillation of overhead transmission lines , is also known as "dancing"?
... that the dumbbell -shaped devices commonly seen on overhead power lines are Stockbridge dampers wind-induced vibrations ?
... that Cavallo's multiplier electrostatic influence machine used to amplify electric charge ?
... that arcing horns high voltage transmission systems from damage during flashover ?
... that the Jadad scale clinical trials ?
... that Réseau de Transport d'Électricité transmission system operator , manages a 100,000-kilometre (62,000 mi) network of high-voltage power lines ?
... that Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard big-game hunter , international cricketer , novelist and marksman who founded the British Army 's sniping school during the First World War ?
... that live-line working power line that may be energized up to 1,150,000 volts ?
... that the village of Christmas Common philologist and lexicographer William Craigie ?
... that Christmas Island National Park invertebrate , the Coconut crab ?
... that Polish writer Franciszek Karpiński hymns and carols ?
... that the 1774 Schiehallion experiment density of the Earth also made the first use of contour lines to represent height?
