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- Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
15: |'''Date of Birth:'''
27: ...''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]...
31: ...e labour market that would create jobs and could adapt to market conditions. Exacerbated by the global...
33: ...[House of Lords]] and as head of the Thatcher Foundation. - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
2: ...;πατία'') (?[[370|370]]–[[415]]) was a [[neo-Platonism|neo-Platonic]] [...
4: ...ertainly included the [[Serapeum]] (a temple and "daughter library" to the Great Library). In [[391]],...
12: :"There was a woman at Alexandria named Hypatia, daughter of the philosopher Theon, who made such att...
18: Theories, without sufficient data, (in the ancient world it is common for "histor...
26: ...reat church, named Caesarion. Now this was in the days of the fast. And they tore off her clothing and... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...ioner (effectively governor) for the [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to N...
12: ...nforming Wilkins of that fact. Wilkins was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to fin...
15: ...and Franklin illuminating their X-ray diffraction data published in the same issue of ''Nature'' suppo...
18: ...ell have been deliberately exacerbated by John Randall. Watson has stated that Franklin should have di...
32: *Maddox, Brenda ''Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA'', 2002. ISBN 0060184078. - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
9: ...]] and its compiler. COBOL was defined by the [[CODASYL]] committee which extended her FLOW-MATIC lang...
14: ...n over in the 1980s by the National Bureau of Standards, now [[NIST]].
18: ...oodwill ambassador, lecturing widely on the early days of computers, her career, and on efforts that c...
25: ...sociation of Information Technology Professionals|Data Processing Management Association]].
26: * [[1971]] — The annual "Grace Murray Hopper Award for Outs... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: '''Lise Meitner''' ([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [...
10: ... completely unexpected; it took some study of the data and creative thinking to free her mind from the...
12: ...ess Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949.
17: ..., Max von Laue on the Occasion of their 80th Birthday''. New York: Interscience.
18: *Patricia Rife, ''Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age'' Birkhäµ³er, 1999 - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
5: ...hought that she was born in around 1820, but that data cannot be authenticated because there are no re...
13: ... in her adventures was partly due to her cunning, daring and ruthlessness in following well developed ...
21: ...er the fact. That same year she married [[Nelson Davis]], another Civil War veteran.
23: ...ld stories of her adventures until the end of her days. - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
5: ...ives haul their trains. Increasingly common these days in passenger service is [[push-pull]] operation...
27: ...wo and a half times that of diesel power, and the daily mileage achievable was far lower. As labour co...
29: ...e in [[China]], where [[coal]] is a much more abundant resource than [[petroleum]] for diesel fuel. In...
32: ...mber of which survive and are still operational today.
60: ...cal suppliers over German ones. In the US and Canada, they are now greatly outnumbered by diesel-elect... - Actinium (7046 bytes)
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12: <div align="right"><small>[[Periodic table (standard)|Full table]]</small></div>
47: | [[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) || 3 (neutral)
102: ! [[natural abundance|NA]]
109: | [[1 E_ s|10 days]] || α || 5.935 - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...ca]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not uncontroversial, with some claiming t...
7: ...es may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differences.
31: ...ar to fill fourteen centuries, and the other candidates are few:
36: ... extending to the early 17th century, are the raw data on which are built the theoretical studies of h...
40: ...ts for a means of creating a more accurate [[calendar]] for its activities. For almost two millennia,... - Evaluation (3857 bytes)
7: ...o the full AEA Evaluation and Joint Committee Standards can be found under "external links".
10: Dr. David Williams, from [[Brigham Young University]], h...
18: ...hat processes and activities were used to collect data to answer the questions and compare the evaluan...
19: ...at analysis procedures were used to interpret the data?
22: # What recommendations does this study yield? - Ceramics (15941 bytes)
1: Ceramics, a form of art and craftsmanship that dates back thousands of years, involves the creation...
34: ...e Grayson Perry and Ai Weiwei have pushed the boundaries of ceramics, using it to make political and s...
42: ...d in ancient traditions, continues to evolve and adapt, reflecting the changing times and cultural con...
55: ...|data storage]] elements. [[crystallite|Grain boundary]] phenomena in these materials can give rise to...
82: ... in the electrical properties that show grain boundary effects. - Process (6114 bytes)
11: ...e [[information processing]] of a [[stream]] of [[data]].
33: ...gram]], and represents an action performed on the data.
45: ...r on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, Budapest, Hungary, June 1993.</td> - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
3: ...μαῖος; [[c.]] [[85]] – c. [[165]]), known in English as '''Ptolemy'''...
5: ... (in Greek ''Η μεγάλη Σύνταξι&sig...
7: ...ains a [[star catalogue]], which is probably an updated version of a catalogue created by Hipparchus. ...
11: ... than degrees of arc (the length of the midsummer day increases from 12h to 24h as you go from the equ...
16: ...g manuscripts of Ptolemy's ''Geography'' however, date only from about 1300, after the text was redisc... - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
21: ...orrect [[geometry]], but inaccurate observational data, Aristarchus concluded that the Sun was 20 time... - Culture (23440 bytes)
6: Many people today use a conception of "culture" that developed in ...
10: ...and [[value]]s; but rather that only a single standard of refinement suffices, against which one can m...
14: Today most social scientists reject the [[monadic]] co...
19: ...[[anthropology|anthropologists]] had adopted and adapted the term ''culture'' to a broader definition ...
21: ...s a supplement to it, as the main means of human adaptation to the world. - Map (10223 bytes)
7: ...n south-central [[Anatolia]] (now [[Turkey]]); it dates from about [[6200 BC]].
9: ... the same period are remarkably accurate. Even today, maps can be powerful rhetorical tools beyond th...
13: Road maps are perhaps the most widely used maps today, and form a subset of navigational maps, which a...
49: ... computer. Much of cartography, especially at the data-gathering survey level, has been subsumed by [[...
59: ... a curve may eventually result in a series of standard geometric figures such as straight lines or arc... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
3: ...red from [[measurement]] and can be stored in a [[database]], from which it can be extracted for a var...
7: The oldest known map dates from the [[5th millennium BCE]]. The oldest ma...
9: ...m the Kassite period ([[14th century BCE|14th]] – [[12th century BCE|12th centuries BCE]]) of Ba...
11: ... of the earth to within 15 per cent of the modern-day accepted value.
21: ...pping tended toward diagrammatic as well, since cadastral needs generally were met by descriptions of ... - Science (19868 bytes)
6: ...jective, empirically testable, and "predictive" — they predict empirical results that can be che...
16: ...d empiricism makes a crucial error of reasoning — the '''epistemic fallacy'''. This is the mista...
30: ...t is nevertheless conceivable that they will some day be supplanted. Younger theories such as [[string...
32: ...evidence is presented. Even the most basic and fundamental theories may turn out to be imperfect if ne...
52: ...es or replaces it in light of new observations or data. - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
8: ...ng to the dynasty of the ruling [[pharaoh]]. The dating of
10: ... dates are not supported by any reliable absolute date for a span of about three millennia. There is a...
13: ...tic Period of Egypt|Early Dynastic Period]] (1st–2nd Dynasties)
14: * [[Old Kingdom of Egypt|Old Kingdom]] (3rd–6th Dynasties)
15: ...Period of Egypt|First Intermediate Period]] (7th–11th Dynasties) - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
5: ... As Dr. Robert A. Hatch of the University of Florida puts it:
7: ...yptian calendar with attested dates in other calendaric systems, for example, Greek, Jewish, Assyrian,...
9: ...ite]]s," adding that [[Ramses II]]'s accession is dated by various [[Egyptology|Egyptologist]]s to 130...
11: ==Dating and eras==
13: ...odern Egyptian chronology, so the previous "firm" dates cannot be supported astronomically.
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