Richard Dias

I live in London, came here a couple of years ago from New Zealand. I scrape a living as a Sitecore CMS specilist.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

When war broke out in 1914, Maria Skłodowska Curie's first act was to carry France's entire radium supply 600 kilometres by train to Bordeaux in a safe-deposit box, and her second was to return to Paris and reinvent herself as a field radiographer. Surgeons at the front were digging for bullets and shrapnel by probing, with the resulting infections and amputations, because every X-ray machine in France sat in a city hospital.

Curie commandeered idle equipment from laboratories and from doctors who had gone to war, and mounted it in vehicles with a dynamo driven off the car's own engine so the units could work where there was no electricity. The soldiers called them petites Curies. By October 1914 the first were operating; eventually about twenty mobile units and two hundred fixed radiological posts were in service, and an estimated one to 1.2 million wounded were examined through them. She did not run this from Paris. She learned to drive, change tyres and clean carburettors, and took a unit to the front herself, accompanied by her seventeen-year-old daughter Irène as assistant.

At the Radium Institute she and Irène trained about 150 women, many with no scientific background, in electricity, anatomy, and plate development. She had earlier refused to patent the radium isolation process, on the grounds that it belonged to science, and she spent her second Nobel money on war bonds. At the end of the war the French government gave Irène a medal and gave Marie no official recognition at all.

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@archeohistories Looks like a death cap mushroom- goes with the theme of the new translation

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@Kansas1111 @rickygervais He's definitely reaching well above his level with her as a Mrs, he's lucky he looks so funny on TV, and probably off it.

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12 Monkeys up your bum

#ruinafilmbyaddingupyourbum

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The dirty dozen up your bum

#ruinafilmbyaddingupyourbum

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@scretadventures Looking for 3 tickets if anyone has some spares or can no longer attend this.

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@123reg *fine

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@123reg your DNS service is playing up, several of our sites are not reaching the servers. Servers are file!

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@traceyspencer sorry Tracy I ran off without saying bye, is this how a PM in twitter works? :)

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@traceyspencer thanks :) Tracey

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Looking forward to the SC site of the year awards tonight. Wondering who I should be rooting for.

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Companies Value Big Data But Are Still Hesitating, Says IBM http://t.co/kYE1ooOj

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@BBCWatchdog, I like what you are doing but your test to catch the rogue PC repair guys is not fair. HD Jumper pins dont switch themselves.

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Just finished the first Sitecore DMS training course in UK, now to find some clients to apply it on.

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loving #HedgehogTDS for distributed development of my sitecore site. Saves a lot of time when working with the offshore team.

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All booked for the sitecore symposium in Amsterdam! All work and some play I hope. Looking forward to Tim's talk on Item Buckets.

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Coolest Jobs of 2012 - http://t.co/gNMoNKcU

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I guess its no longer politically correct to show white people in the #openingceremony since we already had 3, Queen, Bond & Bean

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please tell me #openingceremony is going to get a bit better soon?

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Here is a handy new 8 part tutorial for any fledgling sitecore developers out there. http://t.co/BqeSg7HM