http://quezi.com "Now You Know" Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:27:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://quezi.com/11818 http://quezi.com/11818#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:27:22 +0000 eiffel http://quezi.com/?p=11818 Despite the hopes of many people, and the wishful thinking of writers over the decades, it looks as if the physical barriers to inter-stellar travel are so big as to be insurmountable. Although humans will probably visit some of the other planets of our solar system within the 21st century, travel to other stars is [more...]]]> http://quezi.com/11818/feed 0 http://quezi.com/11814 http://quezi.com/11814#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:29:52 +0000 answerfinder http://quezi.com/?p=11814 The recent success of Christine Bleakley’s attempt at cross-channel water-skiing is just the latest in the long list of channel crossings by various methods. The English Channel, or La Manche to the French, is 21 miles wide at its narrowest point at The Straights of Dover (Pas de Calais), and separates Britain from France. It is [more...]]]> http://quezi.com/11814/feed 1 http://quezi.com/11809 http://quezi.com/11809#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:02:59 +0000 answerfinder http://quezi.com/?p=11809 In the 1940s, 50s and 60s, Popular Science Magazine ran a column called I’d like to see them make?. The magazine invited readers to write in with suggestions on the gadgets, tools and innovations they would like to see invented to make their lives a little easier. It was a popular item, and published suggestions [more...]]]> http://quezi.com/11809/feed 0 http://quezi.com/11789 http://quezi.com/11789#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:53:40 +0000 eiffel http://quezi.com/?p=11789 I have only once in my life created graffiti. in 1980, a  friend and I were visiting Melbourne where the City Council had just installed a public graffiti wall. We thought this was a great idea, so we bought a couple of cans of spray paint and set to work on our masterpiece. We were almost [more...]]]> http://quezi.com/11789/feed 1 http://quezi.com/11804 http://quezi.com/11804#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:22:55 +0000 eiffel http://quezi.com/?p=11804 Between 1350 and 1791 there were 28 Dauphin de France, the title of the heir apparent to the French throne, similar to the title Prince of Wales in England. But why should he be the “dolphin” of France? Strictly, the correct title was Dauphin de Viennois, the dolphin of Vienne, a town in Département Isère. But [more...]]]> http://quezi.com/11804/feed 0 http://quezi.com/11797 http://quezi.com/11797#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:59:22 +0000 answerfinder http://quezi.com/?p=11797 It is generally thought that the first jigsaws were created in the mid-18th century for educational purposes. One of the first commercial jigsaws was made by John Spilsbury in 1766. Spilsbury was a geographer who designed maps in the form of a jigsaw for use as a teaching aid. One can be seen on the [more...]]]> http://quezi.com/11797/feed 3