Fireworks and Gunpowder
We all think we know how fireworks and gunpowder came about … but here we look at really how they came about.
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Colemanballs, or a bad case of “foot in mouth”
Colemanballs – a term coined by Private Eye magazine to describe verbal gaffes perpetrated...
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Power to the People – The Clameur de Haro
The ordinary Guernseyman, and indeed all Channel Islanders, have an extra-ordinary legal power at their fingertips, available no whereelse in the world. The “Clameur de Haro”.
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Fusion Reactors – The Holy Grail of Green Power
Nuclear fusion is the energy source of the future. It promises to be a safe, clean and supply virtually limitless energy source. But how will it likely work?
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The Zipper
The zipper is an indispensable little piece of technology that we’d be lost without. It was an out-of-the-blue invention. Nothing like it had ever existed before.
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