Furthermore, it has been established that a substantial portion of it was taken, without citation, from a 1864 satire on Napoleon III by one Maurice Joly ( his French language work, The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu )-so that it also constitutes plagiarism.

The additive RGB model and variants such as orange – green – violet were also used in the Autochrome Lumière color plates and other screen-plate technologies such as the Joly color screen and the Paget process in the early twentieth century.

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.

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.

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

Joly Braga Santos also wrote three operas, chamber music for a wide variety of instruments and ensembles, film scores, and several choral works based on poems from the great classical and modern Portuguese and Spanish poets such as Camões, Antero de Quental, Teixeira de Pascoaes, Fernando Pessoa, Garcilaso de la Vega, Antonio Machado and Rosalía de Castro.

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.

Joly also writes a weekly column on the " Weird World of Sport " for The Independent Sports supplement on Mondays.

Joly also frequently sits in for Gabby Logan on her Sunday Five Live show.

Joly was also a roving reporter for Five Live at both the Beijing Olympics and Wimbledon 2009.

Joly has also talked about plans for a television show based on popular social networking site Facebook, visiting random people who have added him as a ' friend '.

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 ..."

During the three-year period Joly also initiated the Paris Declaration Against Corruption in 2003.

Decker also appeared in the British comedy series Trigger Happy TV in which she appeared in a " bull in a china shop " sketch ( the joke being that she had previously had a hit with the song, " China in Your Hand "), and in another sketch where she accompanied Dom Joly as he pretended to be a door-to-door salesman.

* The signature sketch of the series sees Joly innocuously present in a public location, often a place of relative quiet such as an art gallery, a library or an internet cafe, when a loud Nokia ring tone sounds.

* Joly, dressed in authentic costumes, would walk up to people sitting at a table or bench, often outside a restaurant, and offer ( usually in a mock-foreign accent and broken English ) to perform some form of entertainment, most commonly play a musical instrument, sing or perform a dance.

* Other examples were the " ___-a-gram " services, wherein Joly delivers an actor in costume to an innocuous business location ( often a laundromat ) and the actor proceeds to stand in the corner, looking completely forlorn and sighing often after he leaves.

Such scenes include Joly answering a gigantic novelty mobile phone and shouting at the top of his voice into it ( normally in quiet locations like golf courses, cinemas, libraries and parks ), a chef chasing an actor in a large rat costume out of a restaurant, and two actors dressed as masked Mexican wrestlers getting into spontaneous fights in grocery stores.

* 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.

* In Trafalgar Square, people sit down to have Joly, dressed as a French artist, paint their portrait.

* Joly, dressed as a Swiss tourist, holding a Phrasebook, asks a passerby a question in comical and especially bad broken english, such as " Where may I go to empty my bottom?

* Joly, dressed as a traffic warden, accuses motorists stopped in traffic or at traffic lights of being illegally parked and proceeds to ticket them.

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.

The programme included a lot more than just attempting to discover foreign drinking habits, for instance, in Russia Joly received a haircut from a nude woman and both he and Wilkins performed their own version of a morris dance before a bemused dance academy.

When the customer leaves the shop, fanfare erupts, cameras flash and Joly yells congratulations to the person for being the millionth customer.

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

" 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.

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

" 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.

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

* Joly is seen in a laundrette with boxer shorts and an undershirt on, and wearing a hockey mask on his face, à la Jason Voorhees.

* 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.

* 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 ".