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Robert Hooke, FRS (July 18, 1635 - March 3, 1703) was an English polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work.

The famous Newton quote, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants", appeared originally in a letter to Hooke, and this has been interpreted as a sarcastic remark directed against Hooke. This is somewhat speculative: Hooke and Newton had exchanged many letters in tones of mutual regard, and Hooke was not of particularly short stature, although he was of slight build and had been afflicted from his youth with a severe stoop.

Newton's animosity towards Hooke extended to the removal of Hooke's portrait in the Royal Society (long believed destroyed but recently rediscovered) and an attempt (prevented) to have Hooke's papers in the Society burned. It is probably thanks to Newton that Hooke's name remained relatively unknown until the latter part of the 20th Century, although Hooke's own unsympathetic character was undoubtedly also a factor: he was known to have had acrimonious exchanges with many other contemporaries, and to bear grudges.

For I am the mayor of Albequerque!

The *Monkees*

the Led Zeppelin bandwagon ran into a roadblock by the name of Frau Eva von Zeppelin, according to Richard Cole "a direct descendent of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the aeronautical legend". She claimed to be guarding the honour of her family name and demanded through the press that the band desist from using 'Zeppelin' in their name while working in Denmark.
The dispute was not a new one; Page's comments to Melody Maker the week before the Danish gig imply that the problem had been brewing for some time. He said: "The whole thing is absurd. The first time we played Copenhagen [in October 1969] she turned up and tried to stop a TV show. She couldn't, of course, but we invited her to meet us to show we were nice young lads. We calmed her down, but on leaving the studio, she saw our LP cover of an airship in flames and exploded! So –- it's shrieking monkeys now! But she is quite a nice person."
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"You know, there's a need to create furniture music; that is to say, music that would be a part of the surrounding noises and that would take them into account. I see it as melodious, as masking the clatter of knives and forks without drowning it completely, without imposing itself. It would spare them the usual banalities. Moreover, it would neutralize the street noises that indiscreetly force themselves into the picture

http://solomonsmusic.net/Satie.htm

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‏¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Benz
‏² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Jellinek

‏¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca
‏² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_nut
‏³ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kocovnikuv

‏⁵ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colo_(king)

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