We met Jason Bradley, Donald Craig, Edith Craig and Roy Emerson. We learned how they became rich and famous. Then we saw Roy Emerson joining the board of Parkinson's. Then a request for quotations for a few million bubbles of toughened glass comes up and Roy thinks that the mystery customer is after the Titanic. We then saw Donald and Edith "sanitizing" the movie "A Night to Remember". Next comes a news item from the London Times on the rumours about the plans to raise the Titanic…!
Then Roy and Rupert Parkinson talk about raising the Titanic. Rupert is going to hire Jason Bradley to do a feasibility study on it. Then we read a letter from Lord Aldiss written to the editor of the London Times. Next we learned about an octopus attack on the Hibernia Platform from a telephone conversation between Jeff Rawlings and Jason. Jason does a short research on octopus and heads for the airport…
1) Handicap - disadvantage
2) Lord Byron - English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824)
3) Ada, Lady Lovelace - Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, born Augusta Ada Byron, was the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron. She is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. She is today appreciated as the "first programmer" since she was writing programmes - that is, encoding an algorithm in a form to be processed by a machine-for a machine that Babbage had not yet built. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others, including Babbage himself, focused only on these capabilities.
4) Binomial - (mathematics) a quantity expressed as a sum or difference of two terms; a polynomial with two terms.
5) Theorem - An idea accepted as a demonstrable truth.
6) Boolean - Of or relating to a combinatorial system devised by George Boole that combines propositions with the logical operators AND and OR and IF THEN and EXCEPT and NOT.
7) Recursive - generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation.
8) Evocative - remindful; Serving to bring to mind.
9) Great Dane - Very large powerful smooth-coated breed of dog.
10) Irish wolfhound - Large breed of hound with a rough thick coat.
11) Vestige - An indication that something has been present.
12) Camera obscura - A darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface.
13) Excrescence - Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings.
14) Semaphore - An apparatus for visual signaling with lights or mechanically moving arms.
15) Battlements - A rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns.
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