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- Puritan (15882 bytes)
34: ...rength, though the theology of the Society of Friends is radically different from that of Puritanism (f...
59: ...ion of Puritans in colonial America, whose social experiment took the form of a Calvinist [[theocracy]]. - Performance (3170 bytes)
22: ...ent]] becomes the performance (execution) of an [[experiment]]. - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ...was co-investigator in the [[Bone]] Cell Research experiment in the [[Spacelab]] laboratory module. Jemison re... - Apple (20408 bytes)
86: ...s|hardier]] cultivars. For example, the Excelsior Experiment Station of the [[University of Minnesota]] has, s...
157: ...tonutrients and that the amount of phenolic compounds in the apple flesh and in the skin vary from year... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
3: ...pher]]. Not only were there major theoretical and experimental developments, but even more importantly, the wa...
48: == Experimental developments ==
58: Aristotle recognised four kinds of causes, of which the most important was the "f...
64: ...tural" circumstances, and hence the results of an experiment would not agree with the true way nature worked.
66: ...abandoned, and a research tradition of systematic experimentation was slowly accepted throughout the scientifi... - Science (19868 bytes)
10: ...and that "prediction" refers to the outcome of an experiment or study, rather than to literally predicting the...
16: ...r.html] has shown that the practice of scientific experiments presumes a "layered" ontology in which empirical...
26: ...(yet) been either well supported nor ruled out by experiment. A ''physical law'' or a ''law of nature'' is a s...
34: ...s example of a law which was found not to hold in experiments involving motion at speeds close to the speed of...
44: ...thematics as a science, since it does not require experimental test of its theories and hypotheses. In either ... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
75: ... of government; this was called [[Egypt's Liberal Experiment]]. In [[1952]] a popularly-supported military ''[...
142: Egypt's economy depends mainly on agriculture, media, petroleum exports, ...
146: .... Egypt is the second largest recipient of such funds from the United States after Israel. Economic con... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
9: ...m the rest of the universe, several hundred thousands of years before.
11: ... obtain a value for the age of the Earth using an experiment. He created a small globe that resembled the Eart...
93: ...it the chance of contamination. Hundreds to thousands of measurements are done daily with excellent pre...
96: ...by showing Earth to be billions rather than thousands of years old. They point to anomalies ([[lava flo... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
4: ...er controlled [[Taiwan]] and some neighboring islands, which are controlled by the [[Republic of China]...
13: ...ng in control of [[Taiwan]] and some outlying islands of [[Fujian]]. On [[October 1]], 1949, [[Mao Zedo...
21: ...leadership, but is viewed by his supporters as an experiment in direct democracy and a genuine attempt at purg...
63: ...f these claims on [[irredentism|irredentist]] grounds, while the opposing claimants tend to view the PR...
68: *Over islands on the [[East China Sea]] or [[South China Sea]]: - Nepal (22444 bytes)
62: ...s son, King [[Mahendra]] dissolved the democratic experiment and declared a "partyless" [[panchayat]] system w...
129: Media control extends past censorship to the printing of verifiable fal... - Camel (3819 bytes)
32: Humans first domesticated camels many thousands of years ago. The Dromedary and the Bactrian Came...
38: ... from Turkey, were part of the [[US Camel Corps]] experiment and used as draft animals in mines, and escaped o... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
15: ... hit Orioles' attendance significantly. To make ends meet, Dunn was obliged to dispose of his stars fo...
35: ... major league record for over 80 years ([[Barry Bonds]] eclipsed it with a .860 mark in 2001). Perhaps...
55: ...a single-season record not broken until [[Barry Bonds]] 177 walks in [[2001]], runs (131), RBI's (151),...
57: ...as well as a threat of eviction from the Polo Grounds by the Giants, the Yankees needed a new home. In...
81: ...ined a shot down the line into the right-field stands for number 60 off [[Washington Senators]] pitcher... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
12: Governor = [[Mike Rounds]] |
132: ...home to the Homestake Chlorine Solar [[Neutrino]] Experiment, famous for detecting the [[solar neutrino proble... - History of science (41710 bytes)
11: ...d whether it exhibits large-scale patterns and trends. The [[sociology of science]] in particular has f...
17: ==Pre-experimental "science"== {{seemain|Pre-experimental science}}
23: ...d that setting up ''artificial'' conditions in an experiment could never produce results that would describe n...
65: ...lso developed: the new way of thinking emphasized experimentation and reason over traditional considerations.
74: ... [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]] pioneered the use of experiment to validate physical theories, which is the key i... - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
23: ...nipal]], a royal archive containing tens of thousands of baked clay tablets covered with cuneiform insc...
25: ... four men met in London and took part in a famous experiment to test the accuracy of their decipherments. - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
7: ...t his winter retreat (The Mangoes). They were friends until Edison died. The [[Edison and Ford Winter E...
12: ...in the 1700's. Ironically, in the 1800's, his grandson, Sam, would become a rebel joining the [[MacKen...
16: ... Edison encouraged and taught her son to read and experiment. Many of his lessons came from reading the book ...
29: ... Woodward and Evans patent of 1875, his employees experimented with a large number of different materials to i...
58: ...val, Edison conducted many costly trial-and-error experiments. Sprague's approach was to calculate the optimum... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...[[physics]]," and as "father of [[science]]." His experimental work is widely considered complementary to the ...
9: ==Experimental science==
10: ...leo's father, [[Vincenzo Galilei]], had performed experiments in which he discovered what may be the oldest kn...
12: ... the experiments were merely illustrative thought experiments.
14: ...rly as [[1604]] clearly showed the reality of the experiments and even indicated the particular results that l... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
38: In one experiment, to prove that colour was caused by pressure on t...
46: ...hen unknown; which makes me trust the more to his experiment, though I have not tried it myself." Thus Newton ...
61: ...p that lasted until [[1693]]. The end of this friendship led Newton to a [[nervous breakdown]]. - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
1: ...still remembered for his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."]]
10: *[[1713]] - Queen Anne's War ends with the [[Treaty of Utrecht (1713)|Treaty of Utr...
23: *[[1748]] - King George's War ends with the [[Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle]]
26: *[[1752]] - [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s kite experiment - History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
74: ... installments to the United States chiefly with funds obtained from German reparations payments, and Ge...
78: ...le for liquidity that followed the Great Crash, funds flowed back from Europe to America and Europe's f...
86: ...fs, import quotas, and barter agreements-- and by experimenting with new plans for their internal economies. [...
88: ...eal" would be often contradicting, pragmatic, and experimental. What many considered incoherence of the New De...
90: ...conomy for the [[Great War]]. And from the policy experiments of the 1920s, New Dealers picked up ideas from e...
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