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.
History. A gambus or qanbÅ«s (Arabic: Ø§ÙÙÙØ¨ÙØ³ â) is a short-necked lute that originated in Yemen and spread throughout the Arabian peninsula. Sachs considered that it derived its name from the Turkic komuz, but it is more comparable to the oud.owever, unlike a guitar, the gambus has no frets. Its popularity declined during the early 20th century reign of Imam Yahya; by the beginning of the 21st century, the oud had replaced the qanbÅ«s as the instrument of choice for Middle-Eastern lutenists.