The cohesion-tension theory is a theory of intermolecular attraction commonly observed in the process of water traveling upwards ( against the force of gravity ) through the xylem of plants which was put forward by John Joly and Henry Horatio Dixon.

" Joly Herman of Commonsense media describes the show as a " cute, highly stylized series thrills the senses with its strange characters, funny situations, and lots of lowbrow humor " she goes on to say however, that the show does go from innocent to violent in no time and that there is not much protecting young viewers against the violent undertones.

* 1903 – George Darwin and John Joly claim that radioactivity is partially responsible for the Earth's heat

The ship on the left is La Belle ( ship ) | La Belle, in the middle is Le Joly, and L ' Aimable is to the right.

Along with his friend Henry Horatio Dixon, Joly also put forward the cohesion-tension theory which is now thought to be the main mechanism for the upward movement of water in plants.

After his death, his friends subscribed the sum of £ 1, 700 to set up a memorial fund which is still used to promote the annual Joly Memorial Lectures at the University of Dublin, which were inaugurated by Sir Ernest Rutherford in 1935.

He is also remembered by the Joly Geological Society, a student geological association established in 1960.

* George Darwin and John Joly claim that radioactivity is partially responsible for the Earth's heat.

Dominic John Romulus " Dom " Joly (; born 15 November 1967 ) is a British television comedian and journalist.

Joly is also an author with several books to his name, and an award-winning travel writer for both the Sunday Times and the Mail On Sunday.

However, his first show for the BBC, This is Dom Joly, a spoof chatshow in which Joly played an appallingly egotistical media character who had the same name as him, thereby confusing a lot of the audience as to what was real and what wasn't, did not achieve the same success as Trigger Happy TV, leading to the hidden camera format being revamped on BBC1 as World Shut Your Mouth.

" The premise of investigating alcohol is ridiculous ," Joly admitted during an interview.

In the show Joly goes on a road-trip around the UK looking at what is still made there after his house is emptied of everything not made in Britain.

Joly published a humour travel book called The Dark Tourist: Sightseeing in the World's Most Unlikely Holiday Destinations ( 2010 ) which is about dark tourism.

Joly is married to Stacey Joly ( née MacDougall ), a Canadian graphic designer.

Joly has stated that he is an atheist.

" This region is filled with spacious country parks areas and leisure facilities, including Val Joly, an outdoor sport and nature park, being one of the most popular parks in the region.

There is general agreement that Russian-French writer and political activist Matvei Golovinski fabricated the text for Okhrana, the secret police of the Russian Empire, as a work of counter-revolutionary propaganda prior to the 1905 Russian Revolution, by plagiarizing it, almost word for word in some passages, from The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, a 19th century satire against Napoleon III of France written by French political satirist and Legitimist militant Maurice Joly.

Hector de Joly, the minister of justice wrote to the president of the Assembly, " I have denounced these attacks in the criminal court ; but law is powerless ; and I am impelled by honour and probity to inform you, that without the promptest assistance of the legislative body, the government can no longer be responsible.

* A random customer about to enter a grocery store is told by Joly ( dressed up in a flamboyant suit, flanked by glamorous women and beneath a celebratory banner ) that they are the millionth customer and anything they can get in their shopping trolley in a one minute " dash " will be free.

* Joly is seen dressed in a stereotype burglar costume and asks a random passerby to aide him in some apparently criminal endeavour.

* Outside an incongruous location ( such as a pornography shop or public toilet ), a random customer is seen to enter and quickly Joly sets up outside in flamboyant suit and wig, holding a microphone, flanked by glamorous women holding champagne, a couple of men with brass horn instruments, photographers, and all beneath a large banner, faced by a television crew.

In one scene two rabbits were seen simulating sexual intercourse, and in another Joly dressed up as a snake and slithered around on the floor, as a supposed addition to a screening advising people to be vigilant about pick-pockets.

* Mikhail Kalashnikov with Elena Joly: The Gun that Changed the World

Joly also invented a photometer for measuring light intensity, a meldometer for measuring the melting points of minerals, a differential steam calorimeter for measuring specific heats and a constant-volume gas thermometer, all of which bear his name, together with one of the first color photographic processes, the Joly Colour process.

A short list of past and present Portuguese musicians with important contributions must necessarily include the names of composers Pedro de Escobar, Manuel Cardoso, Duarte Lobo, Filipe de Magalhães, Carlos Seixas, Diogo Dias Melgás, João Domingos Bomtempo, Marcos Portugal, José Vianna da Motta, Luís de Freitas Branco, Joly Braga Santos, Fernando Lopes-Graça, António Fragoso and Emmanuel Nunes ; organists such as António Carreira or Manuel Rodrigues Coelho ; singers such as Luísa Todi, Elisabete Matos or José Carlos Xavier ; pianists such as Maria João Pires or Sequeira Costa ; cellists such as Guilhermina Suggia ;

In 1977, Joly Braga Santos was distinguished with the Order of Santiago de Espada by President of the Republic of Portugal.

This aired prior to screenings of Trigger Happy TV in the USA and earned critical acclaim, with one reviewer, Bob Croft of the Los Angeles Times, calling Joly " the funniest man in Britain ".

A new series of Trigger Happy TV was made for an American audience in 2003 with an altered format in that it featured a band of different " comedians " who performed skits without Joly.

Though Joly did cameo sporadically on the show, he was very unhappy with the programme and called it " Trigger Happy by numbers-take joke, put it in slo-mo, add fluffy animals and random indie soundtrack-it was made by uncaring idiots ".

His next project for Sky One was a critically acclaimed spoof travel series supposedly investigating attitudes to alcohol around the world, entitled Dom Joly's Happy Hour, in which Joly teamed up with his friend, Canadian digital artist Peter Wilkins.

Joly recently starred in the ITV2 reality programme Deadline with Janet Street Porter where he had to become a paparazzo.

In June 2008, Joly became the co-star of the Cobra Pubcast, a podcast from British beer company Cobra Beer that he hosted with humorist Danny Wallace.

Joly would only accept friend requests if he has any type of connection with them.

* Bluffer's Guide to Gadgets with Dom Joly on Comet. co. uk

Combined with the neighbouring Townships of Strong and Joly, the population of the area in 2001 was 2642.

Joly also often dressed as a Cub Scout, a foreign person with bad English, or a park attendant.

* Joly is in the process of conducting a streetside interview with a British celebrity, but becomes increasingly distracted before abruptly departing.

This aired prior to screenings of Trigger Happy TV in the USA and earned critical acclaim, with one reviewer Bob Croft, LA Times calling Joly " the funniest man in Britain ".

" Though Joly did cameo sporadically on the show ( he appeared to a greater or lesser extent in 4 episodes ), he was very unhappy with the programme and called it " Trigger Happy by numbers ".

The three individual releases have also been released together, along with " Being Dom Joly " as a box-set entitled " Trigger Happy TV Complete ", again on both VHS and DVD, along with unseen footage of " Being ..."