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- Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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27: ... Kesteven" -->''', [[Order of the Garter|LG]] [[Order of Merit|OM]] [[Privy Council|PC]] [[Royal Socie...
29: ...he Conservative leadership in [[1975]]. She was undefeated at the polls, winning the [[United Kingdom ... - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
2: ... Her contributions to science are reputed to include the invention of the [[astrolabe]] and the [[hydr...
4: ...man Empire had embarked on an intense campaign to destroy pagan places of worship.
8: ...e, and dogmatic Christians who demanded the final destruction of paganism on the other. Hypatia herse...
12: ...ll the philosophers of her own time. Having succeeded to the school of Plato and Plotinus, she explain...
14: ...contemporary information about Hypatia's life and death. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...apher]] who made important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of [[coal]], [[DN...
8: ...h carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945...
9: ...es Mering, her mentor, had been unhappy about her decision to leave and refused to put his name on the...
15: ...t 'Strictly speaking, our model was not finally ''decisively'' proved until some 25 or so years later'...
18: .... In fact, she had already prepared a draft paper describing the structure as a double helix when Cric... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...rogrammer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer p...
3: ... at [[Yale University]], where she received an MA degree in the same two subjects in [[1930]] and in [...
5: ...d from the Navy, but she continued to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculat...
7: ...auchly]] Computer Corporation and joined the team developing the [[UNIVAC I]]. In the early [[1950s]] ...
9: ...machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assembler]]s of the time. It is fa... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...wig Boltzmann]]. After she obtained her doctorate degree, she went to [[Berlin]] in [[1907]] to study ...
10: ...|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, whi...
12: ...[[1966]], when Hahn and Meitner together were awarded the [[Enrico Fermi Award]] with [[Fritz Straßan...
17: ...h, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics: Essays Dedicated to Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Max von Laue o... - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
1: ...jpg|thumb|225px|Harriet Tubman in 1880, Image provded by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
2: ...e organizer, raid leader and [[intelligence commander]], [[nurse]] and healer, [[revival speaker]], [[...
5: ...eatment from her various owners, including an incident where an overseer hurled a two-pound weight in ...
9: ...e North, and again was never captured. And she guided hundreds of people trapped in slavery up to the ...
13: ...unning, daring and ruthlessness in following well developed plans for her expeditions. For instance, ... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...ves because they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
8: ...ather than in self-propelled vehicles. These include:
13: ...tly motive power assets can be moved around as needed.
17: ...s of providing motive work - the common ones include:
20: ...illustration of a historical train. Pictures provided by by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Cli... - Actinium (7046 bytes)
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25: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
39: | [[van der Waals radius]] || n/a pm - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...he scientific revolution was the publication of ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium'' by [[Nicolaus ...
3: ...nly were there major theoretical and experimental developments, but even more importantly, the way in ...
7: ...as; some of the rancor and cross-purposes in such debates may arise from lack of recognition of these ...
9: ...tially as it is understood and practiced in the modern world; there is no concern here with "other nar...
15: ... (This and Galen's anatomy, though largely superseded by later work, are none the less important contr... - Evaluation (3857 bytes)
1: '''''Evaluation''' also means determining the value of an [[expression (mathematic...
3: '''''Evaluation''''' is determining describes the process of examining information about...
5: ...cher may have greater worth because of the higher demand and lower supply of qualified mathematics tea...
7: ...tion and Joint Committee Standards can be found under "external links".
10: ...ng of 14 questions that should be considered when determininig the effectiveness of an evaluation: - Ceramics (15941 bytes)
7: ...rthenware and porcelain to decorative tiles and modern sculptures, reflecting both functional and aest...
10: ...cement, leading to more uniform and sophisticated designs.
17: *Hand-Building: This includes pinching, coiling, and slab building. It's one o...
19: ...is popular for making bowls, vases, and other rounded forms.
21: ... making it easier to produce multiple copies of a design. - Process (6114 bytes)
1: ...n the [[properties]] of one or more [[object]]s under its influence. Compare: [[project]]. See also: ...
4: ...rocesses which repeat at a constant rate are considered periodic. The more periodic a process is the ...
22: ...of the core are doubled. More companies announced development of multicore processors.
24: ===Software development===
25: ...s take to create software. The steps usually include [[requirements analysis]], [[programming]], [[Sof... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ... manuscripts (hence its familiar name) and only made available in Latin translation (by [[Gerard of Cr...
7: ...modern system of constellations, but unlike the modern system they did not cover the whole sky.
11: ...ar circle). He put the meridian of 0 longitude at the most western land he knew, the Canary Isla...
13: ...|thumb|300px|Ptolemy System Explained. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
14: ...f latitude from the Arctic to the East-indies and deep into Africa; Ptolemy was well aware that he kne... - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
1: ...olemy]], until they were successfully revived and developed by [[Copernicus]] nearly 2000 years later.
7: ...[hypothesis]] of the heliocentric model. [[Archimedes]] wrote:
9: ...it appears, as a consequence of the assumptions made, that the universe is many times greater than the...
11: ...table with [[telescope]]s. But the [[geocentric model]] was assumed to be a simpler, better explanatio...
17: ...arth was 42,000 km in [[circumference]], he concluded that the Moon was 14,000 km in circumference. Th... - Culture (23440 bytes)
1: ...250px|Villager in Northern Thailand. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
5: ...|thumb|left|250px|Street in Myanmar. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroo Clipart...
6: ...ied to eliminate popular or mass culture from the definition of culture.
8: ...usic|classical music]], and the word ''cultured'' described people who knew about, and took part in, t...
10: ...n seemed more "natural", and observers often defended (or criticized) elements of [[high culture]] for... - Map (10223 bytes)
3: ...that space. Usually, a map is a [[2D geometric model|two-dimensional, geometrically accurate represen...
7: ...itten language by several millennia. One of the oldest surviving maps, painted on a wall of the [[Cat...
9: ...y in the works of J.B. Harley, Mark Monmonier and Denis Wood.
11: ... in [[English language|English]] as "[[On Exactitude in Science]]".
13: ... internationally renowned for its comprehensively detailed work). - Cartography (10500 bytes)
1: ...s into one of three main types; [[computer-aided design |CAD]], [[geographic information system | GIS...
7: ... map dates from the [[5th millennium BCE]]. The oldest maps emphasized topological relationships such ...
9: ...flooding of the [[Nile]] obscured the property borders.
11: ...rence of the earth to within 15 per cent of the modern-day accepted value.
13: ...le]] later provided arguments in support of this idea. Those arguments can be summarized as follows: - Science (19868 bytes)
8: ...ce in terms of [[ontology]]: science attempts to identify what "things" in the world, their causal pow...
10: ...the empiricist tradition, we must be careful to understand that "prediction" refers to the outcome of ...
12: ...used interchangeably. Both have been subjected to devastating criticisms:
14: ...demonstrated the impossibility of a theory-independent observation language, so the very notion of tes...
15: ...steady accumulation of facts, as the empiricist model implies. - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
3: ...300 BC]]. Archeological evidence indicates that a developed Egyptian society has existed for much long...
10: ...span of about three millennia. There is a recommended revision of the chronology of Egypt.
27: ...ociety]] (see [[Nile#History|Nile: History]]). Evidence of [[pastoralism]] and cultivation of [[cereal...
29: ...there must have realized the benefits of a more sedentary life. Scientific analysis of the remains of ...
31: ...stract&list_uids=12495079]; reveals also that ''modern day'' Egyptians "''reflect a mixture of [[Europ... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
1: ...y]] is a type of [[chronology]] worked on for decades by scholars of [[Egyptology]].
5: ...ist with no satisfactory solution. Scholars consider the creation of an Egyptian chronology a difficu...
7: ...ages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Teaching/HIS-SCI-STUDY-GUIDE/0006_egyptianChronolgoy.html]
9: ...plete, also (with relics and artifacts missing or destroyed). Egyptian chronology is in a constant sta...
13: ...phres Era'' may radically modify the prevailing modern Egyptian chronology, so the previous "firm" dat...
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