Two interesting things I’ve read about Mendel:
Apparently Mendel’s results have been statistically analyzed and were just a little too good. He must have tweaked the data just a bit.
He published in an obscure journal so his results were not noticed for years. Finally, around the same time, three separate scientists published similar results, all three found Mendel’s paper, and all three referenced it. An amazing instance of scientific integrity that rendered all three into obscurity.
Trying for a Yoko/John meet-cute. There are no new ideas in the world of art.
Indeed. Even those wrappings of rocks etc. by Christo were done previously on a much smaller scale by Meret Oppenheim in 1936:
“We know that throughout history, Poland has slipped from time to time into this madness of hatred towards Russians,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
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Mikhail Kalinin was one of six Soviet Politburo signatories to the order to execute more than 21,000 Polish prisoners of war in the forests of Katyn and elsewhere in 1940.
An example of a subcontrabass saxophone, invented by Aldophe Sax, but not actually built till 2010.
