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- Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
21: |'''[[Political Party]]:'''
27: ...on|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...h the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]. Thatcher also dispatched a [[...
31: ...rgaret Thatcher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
33: ...'; since then her direct political work has been within the [[House of Lords]] and as head of the That... - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
2: ...tion of the [[astrolabe]] and the [[hydrometer]]. It has been romanticized that she had Athene like be...
4: ...sius]] had published an edict which prohibited visiting pagan temples, and Christians in the entire Ro...
12: .... For all men on account of her extraordinary dignity and virtue admired her the more."
14: ...[1] This indicates that books were rewritten to suit the prevailing Christian dogma, which may also re...
18: ...a "rebellion" and her murder unfortunate, but inevitable. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ... 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physical chemist]] and [[crystallographer]] ...
5: ...h Commissioner (effectively governor) for the [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was mar...
8: ...oing war, [[World War II]], she worked at the ''British Coal Utilization Research Association'' studyi...
9: ... equally involved in the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
12: ...ng out X-diffraction analysis of DNA in the Unit (it was one of his photos, shown at a meeting in Napl... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...ssertation was on ''New Types of Irreducibility Criteria''. Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vass...
5: .... She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from t...
7: ...r versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-MATIC]] and [[FLOW-MATIC]] compi...
9: ...ine code, such as the [[assembler]]s of the time. It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on ...
12: ...for a six-month period that turned into an indefinite assignment. She was promoted to Captain in [[19... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
1: [[Image:Lise_Meitner.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Lise Meitner]]
2: ...]]n [[physics|physicist]] who studied [[radioactivity]] and [[nuclear physics]].
4: ...ner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of ch...
8: ...n [[1923]], she discovered the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Aug...
10: ... Einstein|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning le... - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
5: ...head. As a result of the blow, she suffered intermittent bouts of [[narcolepsy]] the rest of her life.
7: == Escape and abolitionist career ==
9: ...ductor. During the [[American Civil War]], in addition to working as a cook and a nurse, she served a...
13: ...e them to recapture them. This would amuse the whites who would assume the ineffectual chicken chaser...
15: ...essfully gambling that the retreat into enemy territory would never be anticipated by her pursuers and... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...comotives, and may be referred to as [[multiple unit]]s or [[railcar]]s; the use of these self-propell...
5: ...and are controlled from a control cab at the opposite end of the train in the other.
7: ==Benefits of locomotives==
8: ...sons why the motive power for trains has been traditionally isolated in a locomotive, rather than in s...
10: * ''Ease of maintenance'' - it is easier to maintain one locomotive than many se... - Actinium (7046 bytes)
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25: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
56: ...Kelvin|K]] (1050 ?[[Celsius|C]] / 1922 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
69: | [[Velocity of sound]]
74: | [[Electronegativity]] || 1.1 ([[Pauling scale]]) - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...rnicus]] in [[1543]], while others wish to extend it into the [[18th century]]. Nevertheless, the basi...
3: ...science was highly [[Aristotle|Aristotelian]]; at its end, science was [[mathematics|mathematical]], [...
7: ...oses in such debates may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differences.
9: ...ed in the modern world; there is no concern here with "other narratives" or alternate ways of knowing,...
11: ...of the causes of the revolution (Margolis, 2002). It may be summarized in the following lists of signi... - Evaluation (3857 bytes)
5: ...story and a mathematics teacher may have equal merit in terms of mastery of their respective disciplin...
7: ... A link to the full AEA Evaluation and Joint Committee Standards can be found under "external links".
10: Dr. David Williams, from [[Brigham Young University]], has established an framework consisting of 14...
12: # What is the background/context/literature information for understanding an evaluatio...
13: ...information users who care about the evaluand and its evaluation? - Ceramics (15941 bytes)
10: ...story of ceramics can be traced back to the Paleolithic era. Early pottery was used primarily for stor...
12: ...r instance, ancient Greek pottery is renowned for its red and black figure techniques, while Chinese c...
17: ...ling, and slab building. It's one of the most traditional methods where the artist shapes the clay by ...
21: ...od, liquid clay slip is poured into molds, making it easier to produce multiple copies of a design.
30: ...for its simplistic beauty, is deeply intertwined with the Japanese tea ceremony and Zen philosophy. - Process (6114 bytes)
1: ...e [[properties]] of one or more [[object]]s under its influence. Compare: [[project]]. See also: [[pr...
4: .... The more periodic a process is the more useful it is as the basis of a [[clock]]. Below are a few ...
11: ...e [[information processing]] of a [[stream]] of [[data]].
15: See [[process music]] and [[Sol Lewitt]].
22: ...]]'s [[Pentium 4]] with [[Hyperthreading]] capability, can actually execute two proceses at a time, be... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ...sical Greek science, in Arabic manuscripts (hence its familiar name) and only made available in Latin ...
7: ...ted version of a catalogue created by Hipparchus. Its list of 48 [[constellation|constellations]] is a...
11: ...polar circle). He put the meridian of 0 longitude at the most western land he knew, the Canary I...
14: ...c Ocean to China, and about 80 degrees of latitude from the Arctic to the East-indies and deep in...
18: ...ata: this is a testimony of the persistent popularity of this influential work. - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
7: ...d on a geocentric [[worldview]]. We know through citations, however, that Aristarchus wrote another bo...
9: ... fixed stars as the center of the sphere bears to its surface."
11: ...jection of the heliocentric view was apparently quite strong, as the following passage from [[Plutarch...
13: ...circle, while it rotates, at the same time, about its own axis."
21: ...e Moon. This is also incorrect, although logical. It does, however, suggest that the Sun is clearly la... - Culture (23440 bytes)
1: ...rm "culture" to refer to the universal human capacity to classify, codify and communicate their experi...
6: ...o eliminate popular or mass culture from the definition of culture.
8: ...as [[punk rock]] or than the indigenous music traditions of aboriginal peoples of [[Australia]].
10: ...ore "natural", and observers often defended (or criticized) elements of [[high culture]] for repressin...
12: ...rupted by the highly-stratified [[capitalism | capitalist]] systems of [[western culture | the West]]. - Map (10223 bytes)
3: ...l aid which highlights relations between objects within that space. Usually, a map is a [[2D geometri...
7: ...t in south-central [[Anatolia]] (now [[Turkey]]); it dates from about [[6200 BC]].
9: ...d this has been the source of much fruitful map criticism over the last twenty years, notably in the w...
11: ...own in [[English language|English]] as "[[On Exactitude in Science]]".
13: ...an government agency internationally renowned for its comprehensively detailed work). - Cartography (10500 bytes)
1: ...raphy. Most commercial quality maps are now made with map making [[software]] that falls into one of t...
3: ... we can make reliable representations of that reality by adding levels of abstraction.
9: ...ater used geometry to survey land and to resurvey it after the periodic flooding of the [[Nile]] obscu...
11: ...rene estimated the circumference of the earth to within 15 per cent of the modern-day accepted value.
13: ...ical cult that developed many number-based superstitions that later became the basis of [[mathematics]... - Science (19868 bytes)
6: ...ical results that can be checked and [[Falsifiability|possibly contradicted]].
10: ...inding a certain type of dinosaur" is consistent with the empiricist's use of prediction. On the other...
12: ...geably. Both have been subjected to devastating criticisms:
14: ...language, so the very notion of testing theories with [[facts]] is problematic.
15: ...assumptions, rules, practices, etc. and that transitions from one paradigm to another generally does n... - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
3: ...ified Egyptian state]] formed around [[3300 BC]]. It survived as an independent state until about [[13...
29: ...ple who settled there must have realized the benefits of a more sedentary life. Scientific analysis of...
31: ...netic]] study links the maternal lineage of a traditional population from Upper Egypt to [[Eastern Afr...
33: ...pt reached the peak of its power, wealth, and territorial extent in the period called the New Empire (...
35: ...e invaded by [[Indo-European]]s and [[Hyksos]] Semites. They defeated the invaders around 1570 BC and ... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
5: ...Robert A. Hatch of the University of Florida puts it:
7: ...em is reconciling dates in the Egyptian calendar with attested dates in other calendaric systems, for ...
9: ...of these questions while others may last for eternity.
13: ...ulers and even overlapping dynasties. The possibility of a calendar reform called ''Menophres Era'' ma...
15: ...d important article has observed that Theon explicitly stated, and [[Al-Biruni]] supported him, that t...
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