Although the Chinese couldn't tell anyone exactly what an earthquake measured on the Richter scale (since the Richter scale wasn't created until 1935), they did manage to invent the world's first earthquake detector -- a seismograph.
WHAT IS AN ALIBI? An alibi is any evidence showing that a citizen accused of a crime was somewhere other than at the scene of a crime when the crime occurred. While T.V. and movies often portray the alibi as a fraudulent and untruthful, in the real world, the alibi is a perfectly respectable legal defense.
Ali (Arabic: Ø¹ÙÙâ , Ê¿AlÄ«) is a male Arabic name, derived from the Arabic root Ø¹ Ù Ù which literally means high or Elevated. It is a common name in Arabic countries and the rest of the Muslim world.Islamic traditional use of the name goes back to Ali ibn Abu Talib, the Islamic leader and cousin of Muhammad, but the name is identical in form and meaning to the Hebrew: ×¢Öµ×Ö´× â, Eli, which goes back to the Eli in the biblical Books of Samuel.t can also be an English nickname, as a shortened form of Alexandra, Alison, Alice, Alistair, or Alexander. Ali is also a Finnish male given name, derived from Aleksanteri.