This excerpt from "How the Internet and Other Technologies Came About," explains that virtual reality, which is now used as a new type of video games, was first used to create tanks and submarine simulations.
This supports the idea that the technology now used in videogames resulted from an effort to solve national security problems.
Answer:
Hercule Poirot returns home after an agreeable luncheon to find an angry woman waiting to berate him outside his front door. Her name is Sylvia Rule, and she demands to know why Poirot has accused her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met.. She is furious to be so accused, and deeply shocked. Poirot is equally shocked, because he too has never heard of any Barnabas Pandy, and he certainly did not send the letter in question. He cannot convince Sylvia Rule of his innocence, however, and she marches away in a rage.Shaken, Poirot goes inside, only to find that he has a visitor waiting for him a man called John McCrodden who also claims also to have received a letter from Poirot that morning, accusing him of the murder of Barnabas Pandy.
Homophones are words that sound the same but are different words.
Examples:
flour and flower
ate and eight
bare and beer
