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- November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...ate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material...
24: ...orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939...
31: ...d as the [[Arno]] and [[Po]] rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless...
47: *[[1744]] - [[Johann Bernoulli, III]], [[Switzerland|Swiss]] mathematician
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953... - Vocal cords (1030 bytes)
5: ...folds, lowering the pressure ([[Bernoulli's principle]]). A person's voice [[pitch_(music)|pitch]] is ...
8: * [[Adam's apple]] - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
11: ...velace'''. She is widely known in modern times simply as '''Ada Lovelace'''.
15: ...nd scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent."
23: ... some debate as to whether Lovelace understood deeply the concepts behind programming Babbage's engine... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
6: Simple metal or wood reed instruments ("Maultrommel", J...
10: ...f a table top. The reed is fitted inside a holder plate, and as air is drawn through the hole in the h...
15: *Activation of sound through air ([[Bernoulli effect]])
20: ... used in Europe around [[1800]] AD for organs. People used their knowledge and the standard of the con...
28: ...r each note. The instrument was copied by many people, and many variations came into existence in a ve... - Aeolian harp (2264 bytes)
3: ...gs stretched lengthwise across two bridges. It is placed in a slightly opened window where the wind ca...
7: ... the trailing side; then (see [[Bernoulli's principle]]) the pressure ahead is slightly less than that...
9: ... in the anchor line of a ship in a river, for example. - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: ...ervable weather events which illuminate and are explained by the science of meteorology. Those events...
5: ...ics]], and [[atmospheric chemistry]] are sub-disciplines of the [[atmospheric sciences]].
10: ...|halo]] around the moon, without bothering with explanations.
12: ...[[Robert Hooke]], while [[Horace de Saussure]] completed this list of the most important meteorologica...
16: The first overall correct explanation of [[atmospheric circulation|global circul... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
4: ..." bgcolor="#000000"| [[Image:Uranus.jpg|250px|The planet Uranus]]<br>
145: ...] [[Uranus (mythology)|Ouranos]], and is the only planet in the [[solar system]] named after a Greek g...
149: ...res of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]] and [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]] minus the massive liquid [[metallic...
155: ...xactly equivalent as physical descriptions of the planet but result in different definitions of which ...
158: ...n of the planet it collided with an enormous protoplanet, resulting in the skewed orientation. - Pressure (9004 bytes)
1: ...n easily damage the wall, even though the force applied is the same, because the point concentrates th...
12: ...t necessarily being a that of a body, but for example the cross sectional area of a conduit.
16: ...are sometimes called '''gauge pressure'''. An example of this is the air pressure in a tire of a car, ...
36: ...ces in the elevation (height) of the fluid. See [[Bernoulli's equation]]. - Aircraft (13315 bytes)
1: ...t-airport.jpg|650px|center|thumb|Airbus Passenger Plane at Airport]]
15: ...h lift and thrust. The abbreviation [[VTOL]] is applied to aircraft other than helicopters that can ta...
18: ... as [[helium]], [[hydrogen]] or heated air, to displace the air around the craft. The distinction betw...
35: '''Lighter Than Air Examples'''
37: Examples of lighter-than-air aircraft include non-steera... - Charles Babbage (13539 bytes)
2: ...'s original plans, a [[Difference Engine]] was completed, and functioned perfectly. It was built to to...
5: ...on Estate in [[Teignmouth]]. His mother was Betsy Plumleigh Babbage. In [[1808]] the Babbage family mo...
16: ...le lived happily at 5 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, London. They had eight children, but only thr...
29: ...Gottfried Leibniz]]. He first discussed the principles of a calculating engine in a letter to Sir [[Hu...
36: ..., [[1822]] and in a paper entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astrono... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
8: ...s Marquette]] and [[Louis Jolliet]] begin their exploration of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi riv...
10: ...ston, Massachusetts]] after [[George Washington]] places [[artillery]] overlooking the city.
32: ...Minister, [[Robin Cook]], resigns over government plans for [[2003 invasion of Iraq|war with Iraq]].
39: ...[1804]] - [[Jim Bridger]], American trapper and explorer (d. [[1881]])
49: *[[1894]] - [[Paul Green]], novelist, playwright (d. [[1981]]) - Mathematician (9627 bytes)
5: ...any devoted to subjects to which mathematics is applied (such as [[theoretical computer science]] and ...
17: ... mathematicians are motivated by either the sheer pleasure of mathematical activity or by expectation ...
23: ...ures is probed by testing them on a number of examples, generally using [[computer|computers]].
27: ...al]] (1661-1704) was rich enough to hire [[Johann Bernoulli]] to instruct him in the new calculus that was th...
31: As is the case in many scientific disciplines, the field of mathematics has been disproport... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
70: *[[Eric Temple Bell]] (Scotland, USA, [[1883]] - [[1960]])
73: *[[Jakob Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1654]] - [[1705]])
74: *[[Johann Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1667]] - [[1748]])
75: *[[Daniel Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1700]] - [[1782]]) - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ... He is credited with being one of the first to apply [[calculus]] to [[physics]].
5: ...es of the newly invented [[calculus]]. He was completely [[blindness|blind]] for the last seventeen y...
10: ...d respected his family. When Daniel and Nikolaus Bernoulli asked him to allow his son to study mathematics h...
12: ...ntia analytice exposita'' ("Mechanics or motion explained with analytical science"—that is, calc...
18: ...ler continued to be very productive, despite a complete loss of vision, due to his extraordinary power... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as [[17...
17: * [[1700]]-[[1721|21]]: [[Russia]] supplants [[Sweden]] as the dominant [[Baltic region|Ba...
26: ... long decline and the [[Maratha Empire]] slowly replaces it.
51: ...edition]] from Mexico and travel into the [[Great Plains]]
52: * [[1720]]–[[1721]]: The [[Great Plague of Marseille]] - Physics (25628 bytes)
4: ...al systems that obey the laws of physics. For example, chemistry is the science of [[molecule]]s and t...
6: ...and the mathematics involved is generally more complicated than in the other sciences. The difference ...
15: ...erimentalists devise and perform experiments to explore new phenomena and test theoretical predictions...
38: ...hanics)|Hamiltonian]], [[Identical particles]], [[Planck's constant]], [[Quantum entanglement]], [[Qua...
42: | [[Equivalence principle]], [[Four-momentum]], [[Reference frame]], [[Spa...
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