Robert Hooke. -. The cell was discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665. He examined very thin slices of cork and saw a multitude of tiny pores that he remarked looked like the walled compartments a monk would live in. Because of this association, Hooke called them cells, the name they still bear.
While Cheney sounded positive notes about Clinton, he said not to expect him to endorse anyone on the Republican side anytime soon. âI donât plan to endorse anybody till we get a lot farther down the road,â he said.Related Topics: Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton, Ben Bernanke, Barack Obama, Republican Presidential Candidates, Rick Perry, Democratic Party, Federal Reserve.hile Cheney sounded positive notes about Clinton, he said not to expect him to endorse anyone on the Republican side anytime soon. âI donât plan to endorse anybody till we get a lot farther down the road,â he said.
1 Republican convention nominates Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (Aug. 14); Democratic convention nominates incumbents Clinton and Gore, who win the national election (Nov. 5). 2  Clinton appoints Madeleine Albright as first female US secretary of state (Dec. 5). Militant Taliban leaders seize Afghan capital of Kabul (Sept. 27). 2  Ethnic violence breaks out in Zairian refugee camps (Oct. 13); Clinton approves plan for UN-backed relief mission for 1.2 million Hutu refugees starving in eastern Zaire (Nov. 13). 3  Hundreds of thousands return to Rwanda (Nov. 15â18).