Word: backgroud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scientists have known-or thought they have known-the answer ever since man has had bathtubs. backgroud information on the subject has been building ever since the greeks advanced the notion that the earth rotates on its axis. Left to itself, a tub of water should theoretically be influenced by the rotation of the earth and go down a drain in the tub's bottom in the same direction as the earth is spinning-which would look clock wise to an observer hovering in space hovering in space above the Southern Hemisphere, Counterclockwise to an observer in the north...
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