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33:39and warfare. If you complain about Wi-Fi on your flight, please don't because it's one of the greatest things that we have in humanity. Paleontology makes an entry in 1905 with the discovery of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Eat your heart out. Steven Spielberg. Yes. This was American paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborne. He was working with specimens collected by Barnum Brown out in Wyoming. And he formerly named and described the Tyrannosaurus Rex, which is an icon in the dinosaur population. Unbelievable. We are moving quickly because we have a lot to cover. 1908, the first detection

34:21of extraterrestrial magnetic fields. Yes, this is solar astronomer George Ellery Hail. He was

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