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Quick Quiz: The Old Contemptibles and the invention of the cell
The Old Contemptibles were the small British Expeditionary Force in France at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. The term reportedly derives from the Kaiser’s sneer about England’s “contemptible little army.” The second item notes Robert Hooke coined the term cell after observing plant cell walls, likening them to prison cells.
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