Definition of ordnance. 1  1a : military supplies including weapons, ammunition, combat vehicles, and maintenance tools and equipment bombers dropped heavy concentrations of ordnance on every targeted airfield â Ron Dickb : a service of the army charged with the procuring, distributing, and safekeeping of ordnance.
Hasdai ibn Shaprut born about 915 at JaÃ©n, Spain; died about 970 at CÃ³rdoba, Andalusia, was a Jewish scholar, physician, diplomat, and patron of science. His father, Isaac ben Ezra, was a wealthy and learned Jew of JaÃ©n. Hasdai acquired in his youth a thorough knowledge of Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin, the last-named language being at that time known only to the higher clergy of Spain. He also studied medicine, and is said to have discovered a panacea, called Al-Faruk. Appointed physician to ...
Official website. V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai is an Indian-born American scientist and entrepreneur. Ayyadurai is notable for his controversial claim to be the inventor of email, based on the electronic mail software called EMAIL he wrote as a New Jersey high school student in the late 1970s. Initial reports that repeated Ayyadurai's assertionâfrom organizations such as The Washington Post and the Smithsonian Institutionâwere followed by public retractions. These corrections were triggered by objections ...