Word: goldings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mounted on the circuit board is a microprocessor, which is housed in a protective container and connected to rows of gold-plated pins...
Fifty years ago this week--shortly after lunch on Dec. 23, 1947--the Digital Revolution was born. It happened on a drizzly Tuesday in New Jersey, when two Bell Labs scientists demonstrated a tiny contraption they had concocted from some strips of gold foil, a chip of semiconducting material and a bent paper clip. As their colleagues watched with a mix of wonder and envy, they showed how their gizmo, which was dubbed a transistor, could take an electric current, amplify it and switch...
Upon his death, the senior monks of Lhasa set about finding his successor in the traditional fashion. The regent went to the sacred lake of Lhamoi Lhatso, famous for its visions, and saw in its waters an image of a gold-roofed, three-story monastery beside a winding path. Other signs appeared. The embalmed body of the departed ruler seemed to move from pointing south to pointing toward the northeast. And auspicious cloud formations also appeared in the northeast. When a search party of monks arrived at the 20-family settlement of Takster, in the northeastern province of Amdo...
...category is Fashion History. The clue is: It was the 49ers going to the Gold Rush by boat who gave this hat its name. This was the final question that Harvard Medical School first-year Wes Ulm missed in his fifth Jeopardy! match in June of this year. But fellow contestant Arthur M. Phillips '90 came up with the right question: "What is a Panama...
Located in Hakuba, 30 miles from Nagano, the ski-jumping venue expects crowds of 36,000 to cheer for a home team that has serious hopes of gold. A curtain hung on the poles at left will protect jumpers from tricky winds...