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Geggs Posted Apr 21, 2011
Wow, that was a quick one. All done and dusted in one night.
Would you mind giving us your full answer, bob? I'd be quite interested to know the dates and origins of these items.
Geggs
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Rod Posted Apr 21, 2011
Fooey.
(I was too late, then) (but would have been wrong anyway, especially with the aquarium).
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Geggs Posted Apr 21, 2011
If it's any consolation I was expecting a few more runs around the block before we found the right order - I just kinda lucked onto it, really. With some astute reasoning as well, of course. 
Geggs
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shagbark Posted Apr 21, 2011
Does the QI continue until we get the inventor and country of origin
or are we free of restriction to google that now?
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bobstafford Posted Apr 21, 2011
I will still give points for any worthy DGI please feel free to add information. 
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Geggs Posted Apr 22, 2011
There's still points for identification? Lovely.
Babbage (who we have already found) is British.
Would that first magazine - and I've just thought of this this morning - be The Strand? Which would therefore the British again.
Geggs
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shagbark Posted Apr 22, 2011
Jules Vernes was French
Leonardo Davinci was Italian.
Archimedes was Greek.
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Geggs Posted Apr 22, 2011
I've just stumbled across a book telling me that the first 'periodical' was Monthly Discussions, published by German theologian Johann Rist in 1663.
Geggs
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toybox Posted Apr 22, 2011
Jules Verne is written without a final "s", unlike Henri Vernes (who is Belgian).
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Apr 22, 2011
leonardo wasn't italian!!!!!
italy didn't come to exist until garibaldi, up untill then italy was a conglomerate of city states
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shagbark Posted Apr 22, 2011
By that logic an inventor could be Prussian or Transylvanian rather than German or Chech.
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shagbark Posted Apr 22, 2011
If over bad financial policy the US were to fall to pieces and Michigan were annexeed by Canada, then I would be Canadian Even though I was born and raised in the US.
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Apr 22, 2011
there was speculation that leonardos diving suit would not be very effective as the snorkle/airhose would be too long and the diver would not be able to braeth due to the pressure, when it was constructed it was found that the snorkles "float" that kept the free end above the water had a bouant valve on it and could serve as an air reseviour, the diver would pull the float down to him, and there by preasurizing the air , allowing the diver to breath
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Apr 22, 2011
but if the US did fall apart it would no longer be the US
"United States" the clues in the name, you would still be a michiganian.....!?!>?
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shagbark Posted Apr 23, 2011
There are two camps on what Michigan residents call themselves.
The other camp says they are Michiganians.
I and most people I know say we are Michiganders. 
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