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Learning is not instinctive - learn how to learn.

Robert Hooke
England's Leonardo.

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Canals 
The Birmingham Canals.

Railways 
The 'Schools' of the SR.

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Rubaiyat  
of Omar Khayyam

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First edition: 18th July 1998. This edition: 29th August 2008


You don't have to spell sulphur with an f! Read more...

Many of you will have found that exam boards have decided to go along with a recommendation from QCA and the RSC that sulphur should be spelled with an 'f' rather than 'ph', ostensibly to 'avoid confusion'. Who is confused? You don't have to spell it with an -f- ; using the -ph- form is not a mark-deductible offence, in case you were worried.

The defining dictionary for British English is the Oxford English Dictionary - a work of dazzling scholarship by a huge number of people over many decades. I take my authority from that. Sulfur is not listed in the online version; if you type it in you get sulphur. Of course sulfur is given as an alternative (American) form, but the -ph- spelling has been around since at least the 14th century and has been universal since the spelling of British English became standardised several centuries ago.

There are seven towns in America named for element 16: in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nevada, Texas, Wyoming, Arkansas, and South Dakota. All of them named Sulphur.

Title portraits: Nobel Prize
Winners in Chemistry
1921 - 1929:

1921 Frederick Soddy
1922 F W Aston
1923 Fritz Pregl
1924 not awarded
1925 Richard Zsigmondy
1926 Theodore Svedberg
1927 Heinrich Wieland
1928 Adolf Windaus
1929 A Harden
        Hans von Euler-Chelpin

Further details are on the Nobel website.
Title bar photos
© Nobel Foundation.
 

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Robert Hooke memorial window (now destroyed) in St. Helen's Bishopsgate
Schools' Class 'Stowe'
KLM 747-400
Roses in English Canal style
Samuel Morse in youth and old age
Hooke's Law: "as the tension, so the extension"

 

 

 

 

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