Yes, the product is named after some guy who has been dead for 276 years: Sir Isaac Newton, considered by many to be the greatest scientific mind in human history. From the very beginning we wanted to develop a system that would offset the head loads that occured during rapid deceleration. In a perfect world this would be an "equal and opposite reaction," Newton's Third Law of Motion.

silverchair's interview on the syndicated radio program Rockline yielded the real story behind the band's name. September 1994: 'We were all over at the drummer's house, requesting some songs on the radio and one of them was... Sliver something by the Smashing Pumpkins, and the other one was Berlin Chair. Someone wrote Silver Chair instead of Sliver Chair, and that's how silverchair popped up.

Hemingway took "For Whom The Bell Tolls" from "Meditation 17" of John Donne's (1572-1631) work Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions. The tolling of the bell refers to the act of ringing a bell (the death knell) at a funeral to indicate that someone has died. Hemingway is drawing a parallel between the death of one person and the consequent affect on everyone, and the loss of Spain to the fascists in the Spanish Civil War.

PM Saturday, May 2nd, 1863 Jackson was wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville. He was shot through the left upper arm just beneath the shoulder. The humerus was fractured--the rachial artery was injured. He bled profusely. A second bullet entered the lateral left upper forearm and exited diagonally from the medial lower third of the forearm. A third bullet struck his right hand fracturing the second and third metacarpal bones and lodged beneath the skin on the back of his hand.

The term "electoral college" does not appear in the Constitution. Article II of the Constitution and the 12th Amendment refer to "electors," but not to the "electoral college." In the Federalist Papers (No. 68), Alexander Hamilton refers to the process of selecting the Executive, and refers to "the people of each State (who) shall choose a number of persons as electors," but he does not use the term "electoral college.

The name comes from the founders of the company, widows and widowers, who found one another in chat rooms on America Online. See also our History page.

The Surfriders Foundation is an organization that seeks to protect the oceans and beaches around the world for everyone to enjoy. Many alternative bands were asked to contribute classic surf songs for the the Foundation's fundraising album MOM (Music of Our Mother ocean). silverchair accepted the opportunity to contribute along with Everclear, their touring buds. Since all of them surf and come from an industrial beach city (Newcastle), they felt close to the cause.

quot;Jai Maharaj" means "conquering (or victorious) king", which is not likely to be a real name. His real name is apparently Jay Stevens, which of course means nothing; in his case, that is appropriately descriptive.

The name "Dejal" is pronouced "DEE-JILL". It is not a French word, so should not be pronounced as "DAY-ZHAL" or other variations. The name originated from the former initials of the founder of the company, David Sinclair. He used to be David J. Lambert, but both he and his wife changed their surnames to "Sinclair" when they got married, being people who like to make their own conventions.

That is a very good question. Cascade Quilting is based in Salem, Oregon. Salem is in the Northern part of the Willamette Valley, which lies at the foot of the Cascade mountain range. Hence the name "Cascade Quilting".

Padghams was first established in 1964 by the late Clarrie L. Padgham. Considered a pioneer in the field of quantity surveying and cost consultancy services in Australia at the time, Clarrie's humble beginnings built a foundation of reputable business dealings, independence and expertise in developing sound cost management solutions for the property and finance sectors.

The original inhabitants of the area called it Kahsheshebogamog. There is a variety of opinions on what that means. One version says that it means lake of many islands. This name was shortened to accommodate the maps -- it was just too long! Some say it means Lake Of Healing Waters and others say it means Lake of Many Bays. Boaters can identify with the story that it is Lake of Many Rocks!

When first starting out, Bob Chandler was always breaking axles & engine parts. One day he asked a friend what he thought the problem was. Ron Magruder responded with "it's because of your big foot"! Eventually that name made onto the door of the original truck, in small letters just below the window.

After Dick and Denny decided to form a racing team, they were struggling to come up with a name. They found the name "Widget" on an advertisement on an airplane. Sorry, you are just another victim of an elaborate Widget joke. After Dick and Denny came up with the name, they made Widget decals to put on their cars. People at the track naturally got curious and asked them about it.

The name comes from a condition involving "black hairs" emerging from the skin of children that was documented in France in the 1600's. It is unknown whether that description is related to the illness we are now describing. However, the similarities were such that the name seemed a unique label for an illness not described by any other medical label, and thus became a much-needed niche for patients otherwise falling outside the present medical paradigm.

Labor laws establish how many hours a worker can work, in a given period, before the employer is required to pay overtime. For firefighters this amount is set at 53 hours a week. This does not mean that a firefighter gets overtime pay the instant he or she works over 53 hours in a week. For a 24/48 schedule this would amount to 19 hours of OT every third week because on two weeks the firefighter would work 48 hours but on the third it would be 72.

The way "Jammer" came about followed a series of inside jokes that I wouldn't begin to bore you with. Suffice it to say that it worked well on the Internet, so it stuck. I originally posted my reviews as "Epsicokhan's Review," but that was far too cumbersome and I knew no one would be able to pronounce it, so I went with "Jammer" instead. In real life, almost nobody calls me that. They call me by my first name, Jamahl.

The word originated with the portable clocks that were carried by the town watchman as he made his rounds. They were first called "watchman's clocks," then "watch clocks," and finally just "watches."

From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The 4-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy.

Bee" is what we like to call the plastic toy we play with. It's short for Frisbee, a registered trademark, and since we use the Wham-O frisbee, we wanted to simplify the issue. Many players refer to the "Bee" as a "flying disc" or "golf disc" or "Ultimate disc" and we feel that could lead to confusion with the "discs" of the computer and music world — or your spinal column. for "Spinning" — that's how we work our magic.

The name "John G" came about before the events in the movie. Nothing is explicitly given in the movie to indicate how he got the name.

The word for tea in most of mainland China and also in Japan is "cha." Hence its frequency in names of Japanese teas: Sencha, Hojicha, etc. But the word for tea in Fujian province is "te" (pronounced approximately "tay"). The first mass marketers of tea in the West were the Dutch, whose contacts were in Fujian. They adopted this name, and handed it on to most other European countries.

The Illinois DOT uses an average bumper height of 27" to design road guard rails, and we felt this would be a similar design requirement for the TrafficGuard.

The crystals in the glazes on our porcelain pots are grown at just over 2000?? for up to 6 hours, but the process is as similar, delicate and unpredictable as making snowflakes or the frost on your winter window. Just as water vapor, under exactly the right conditions, will become a snow flake (a crystal form of water), so the glaze on these pots, when fired precisely, will grow crystals, in this case made of zinc and silica. Think of each crystal on a pot as if it were a snowflake.

quot;That one hit me because I wanted something that summed up the philosophy of the show in those main titles."

The acronym for Health Alliance Network Delivery Systems HANDS and the ability through this service to free up valuable processing time - Free, "HANDS FREE"

Lars took the name from a friend named Ron Quintana who came up with the name during a discussion for a fanzine he was creating. Lars quickly suggested another name for Ron and kept "Metallica" for himself.

I placed a casting call notice in an actor's publication. So I was always answering the phone by saying "Katzenberg Entertainment" (which is a typical sounding casting agency name that I made up). After a while I realized that THIS particular call was a wrong number call for an auto lube shop. So I played along with it. The couple got really angry! By the way this call was recorded, mixed and mastered entirely in the digital domain (as they say) on an AKAI DR-16.