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Glad you asked that! I"m not sure of the year but it was twentieth century. a Girl mayvbe in her teens was hiking with her landowner-amateur explorer father in altamira, Spain(approximately High View) She discoved cave painings of bulls on the walls and yelled out (Toros!) ion SApa niosh.l daddy thought the kid was nut but heToo saw the bulls. In a sense this was the only scientific discovery(not an invention_ That was made by a juvenile and perhap syou might say remote ancestor of the cartoon charactr Dopra The Explorer as the Girl was Spajmnoish, her father was a local landlord type c alled a Hidalgo. No Bull! its true.

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