N is for the Navigator.
Ask him where we are. He knows.
“Possibly at the equator,
Land of the eternal snows;
Possibly in North Dakota,
Where the elephants roam free;
Possibly the Latin Quarter,
By the chilly Java Sea;
Possibly in Kampuchea
(Now known by the name ‘Myanmar’);
Possibly in North Korea;
Possibly in Zanzibar.
Let me make a small admission:
I was never trained to know
Geographical position.
I just know which way to go.”

 

From Dr. Boli’s Encyclopedia of Misinformation.

Nylon. The work of Lavoisier proved the theoretical possibility of Nylon, but it was not until the twentieth century that the technology caught up with the theory.