Pliny the Elder described a Whale ...  Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question:
Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.
Will Cuppy
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aeolipile: aeolipile:
An ancient prototypal steam engine, consisting of a spherical or cylindrical vessel fitted with circumferential exhaust jets and mounted to permit free rotation about the steam inlet axis.
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