American Shani Davis celebrates after defending his Olympic title in the men's 1,000-meter speedskating. Jamie Squire/Getty Images When he won this race four years ago, Davis became the first African-American athlete to win an individual gold at the Winter Games.
What is Gauss? Gauss is a unit of measurement used to describe both the coercivity of a magnet and its saturation magnetization. Basically, it describes how strong the magnetic fields are extending from the magnet and how strong of a magnetic field it would take to de-magnetize the magnet. The name comes from the mathematician physicist Carl Freidrich Gauss.
A gab or gap is an Occitan boasting song of the High Middle Ages, when the troubadours were popular. It is often considered related to the tenso and partimen, two types of debate poem. Sometimes the gab is not considered a separate genre of poetry but simply a boast found within another genre, commonly the sirventes.he first gab was Ben vuelh, composed by William IX of Aquitaine. The sirventes De mots ricos no tem Peire Vidal by Uc de Lescura begins with a gab proclaiming the composer's superiority to eight of his contemporary troubadours, including the man of the title, Peire Vidal, who was himself a famous composer of gabs.