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According to Pliny, the name was derived from that of a shepherd named Magnes who first discovered magnetite on mount Ida while pasturing his flock, when pieces of magnetite (lodestone) clung to the metal nails in his shoes. ... How did strong desert winds cause the the Nile River to flood each year?
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wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_was_magnetite_found_and_when
wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_was_magnetite_found_and_when
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I remember being taught that the Greeks discovered naturally occurring magnets of magnetite in Turkey. ... When where magnets first discovered? Who was magnus who discoverd magnets? In what year were magnets discovered? Who is the person who discovered magnets? When were magnets discovered and by whom? Who discovered that...
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wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_discovered_magnets
wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_discovered_magnets
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Thales knew that the mineral magnetite (named after the district of Magnesia in Asia Minor, where it was first discovered in quantity), also known as lodestone, exerts an attractive force on nearby iron objects.
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users.wsg.net/bedrosian/em_history.htm
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View Additional jPOWD Structure files for Magnetite; ... Named for Magnes, a Geek shepherd, who discovered the mineral on Mt, Ida, He noted that the nails of his shoe and the iron ferrule of his staff clung to a rock.
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webmineral.com/data/Magnetite.shtml
webmineral.com/data/Magnetite.shtml
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Magnetite pebbles were first discovered on the Chesil Beach in recent years by Mr David Harvey, who discovered black magnetic pebbles at the Abbotsbury end of the Chesil Beach in the year 2000. With them were other pebbles apparently of magnetite which seemed to have no major effect on a compass.
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www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/cheslode.htm
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Just another WordPress weblog ... Opus started his All New Year on his birthday, March 5, 2007 and completed it one year ... I’m getting a lot of interesting comments, links, and emails from people who have only discovered the blog now that it’s all over. Hi, new people! Sorry that my life is boring now. I need a break.
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www.allnewyear.com/
www.allnewyear.com/
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This year is no different. ... I don’t know what it will be and I’m unsure it will work, but I can’t see Twitter waving their hands for yet another year. Time to walk the walk Twitter. ... 2009 was, in many ways, the year of real time search. It was the brand new shiny toy for the Internati. Nearly everyone I meet thinks...
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www.blindfiveyearold.com/
www.blindfiveyearold.com/
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Events and information on the 175th Anniversary of the birth of Scotland's greatest scientist. ... The year 2006 marked the 175th anniversary of the birth of James Clerk Maxwell, a Scot whose ideas increasingly electrify, magnetize and change the world today.
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www.maxwellyear2006.org/
www.maxwellyear2006.org/
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Nick and Nooshin spend a year in Mexico ... Nick’s home for the next year is a language I don’t speak, a culture where even the similar is dissimilar, a foreign country I’ve always longed to visit. I copy the address into my notebook, double-checking the spelling and numbers. “That looks right,” I say...
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mexicanyear.odinsoli.com/
mexicanyear.odinsoli.com/
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