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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Computational ability of houseflies
Message-ID: <1196@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-May-86 04:55:29 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  4 04:55:29 1986
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Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: Picky Kekule correction

Peter S. Shenkin (peters@cubsvax.UUCP) writes:
> The chemist Kekule several times described his 1857 discovery of the structure
> of benzene as having come to him in a a vision, while gazing at a fire.  
> (Benzene is a ring;  he "saw" the ancient alchemical symbol of the ourobouros,
> a snake swallowing its tail.)

I can't let this go uncorrected.  It was 1865, and more important,
he wasn't gazing at a fire; he was riding a bus.  Really now!

Mark Brader, transit fan