The name dysprosium traces back to the Greek word dysprositos, meaning hard to get at or hard to obtain, a reference to the extraordinary difficulty that chemists faced in separating it from the tangle of other rare earth elements surrounding it. It was identified in 1886 by French chemist Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran in Paris….
Things I Like: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007 Film)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix came out about a year after I graduated high school, though I wasn’t into the series at the time. I ended up watching it three years later in 2010 and genuinely loved it. It’s a little bittersweet that I wasn’t in theaters as a kid experiencing these…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Hong Kong Dollar
The Hong Kong dollar, carrying the symbol $ and the currency code HKD, is the official currency of Hong Kong. It divides into one hundred cents, and monetary authority over it rests with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. Three commercial banks hold licenses to issue banknotes: HSBC, Bank of China, and Standard Chartered. They produce…
Things I Like: Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (GameCube)
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes was easily one of my favorite games on the Nintendo GameCube. It’s wild how little time actually passed between it and the original Metal Gear Solid on PlayStation. Konami had developed a pretty solid relationship with Nintendo by that point, and in a way, this felt like them correcting…
Fun Facts and Trivia About From Russia with Love (1963 Film)
From Russia with Love is a 1963 spy film directed by Terence Young and the second entry in the James Bond film series. Produced by Eon Productions, it stars Sean Connery as MI6 agent James Bond. Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman produced it, with Richard Maibaum and Johanna Harwood adapting Ian Fleming’s 1957 novel…