Notes

1.  Played on an authentic HP instrument by Finale's inner piano virtuoso.  Back to Music.

2.  This may sound a bit harsh, but that byte of the P-38 made skeletons of many.  Back to Weapon.

3.  Yamamoto and his staff, flying aboard a pair of G4M1 Betty bombers, were intercepted by a pair of P-38s while they (the Japanese) were on an inspection tour. The knowledge of Yamamoto's itinerary was the result of U.S. codebreakers.  Back to Weapon.

4.  Vincent J. Esposito, A Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars, 2nd edition. London: Greenhill Books, 1999.  Back to History.

5.  Shortly after the French entered Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, had its first performance.  Back to History.

6.  A bit is a single binary digit.  Back to Lab 2.

7.  A nybble is four bits, or half a byte.  Back to Lab 2.

8.  A byte is eight bits.  Back to Lab 2.

9.  A word is two or more bytes, dependent on the microprocessor.  Back to Lab 2.

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