Two lives remembered - in Science:
One real - one fiction - both consequential:
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (Russian: Дми́трий Ива́нович Менделе́ев, 8 February 1834 – 2 February 1907 O.S. 27 January 1834 – 20 January 1907) was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created his own version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of elements yet to be discovered.
Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905)was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
Verne was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days.
Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, not least because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted.
Verne is the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, between the English-language writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare, and probably was the most-translated during the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of the authors sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction", as are H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.
Congratulations to @Fuezie and @steve-allen. Your questions were chosen for tonight’s Ask Greg and the Panelists.
@Fuezie What's one job where you have to trust people even though you really don't want to.....?
@steve-allen What daily habit do you do that you really didn't know you had until someone pointed it out?
Super Bowl Commercial Gutter Poll
The game is over. The commercials live on.
Now tell us what really won the night.
For each category, list the brand and a short description so we know exactly which commercial you mean.
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🏆 THE POST-GAME BALLOT🏆
Best Overall Commercial (The One Everyone Will Remember)
Worst Commercial
Funniest Commercial
Best Celebrity Cameo during the game
Most Confusing (But We’re Still Thinking About It)
Share your Super Bowl day with The Gutter Family. We want to see your signature football spread, pets in team gear, watch party photos with family and friends….We want to see it all.
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Hey Gutterites, please join me in wishing a very happy birthday to one of our best here, @RockNRollHS .
Teg is a comedy / musical maven, whose knowledge of such is surpassed only by his grace and class.
So, for the man who sets the example for husbands, fathers, and grandfathers, here's a little ditty right up his alley.
Happy Birthday, Teg! We're a better Gutter with you here. 🤝