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- List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
4: ...s, Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Constantinople
5: ...born 1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
51: ...yd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...]) and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
3: ...e in the fall. Among her professors were three [[Nobel prize]] winners: [[Max Born]], [[James Franck]...
5: ...ear shell structure. For this work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[E...
7: She was awarded the Novel for discovering the reasons as to why if there...
9: ...many dancers by having one pair go clockwise and another pair go counterclockwise. Then add one more v... - Human brain (15406 bytes)
7: Human [[encephalization]] is especially pronounced in the [[neocortex]], the most complex porti...
23: ...tic brain injuries]] and a [[pediatric]] disease known as [[hydrocephalus]]. Increased fluid pressure ...
31: ...yond cognitive functions, the brain regulates autonomic processes related to essential body functions ...
38: The human brain appears to have no localized center of conscious control. Like the b...
40: ...le in modulating arousal of the cortex and of autonomic systems. - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
1: ...6th century]] in [[northern Europe]]. It is also known as "'''Rinascimento'''" (in Italian).
5: ... of [[classical education|classical learning and knowledge]] through the rediscovery of ancient texts,...
10: ... believe to not be accurate. The entire period is now often replaced by the term "[[Early Modern]]". (...
12: ...ancisco Renaissance]]. The other renaissances are not considered further in this article, which will c...
19: ...the Renaissance is almost universally ascribed to Northern Italy, especially the city of [[Florence]].... - Slide whistle (1974 bytes)
1: A '''slide whistle''' (variously known as a '''swanee whistle''', '''piston flute''' o...
7: ...ore modern uses in classical music include [[Luciano Berio]]'s ''Passaggio'', which uses five, and pie... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...e the accretion time of the Earth is not exactly known yet and the predictions from different accretio...
3: == Prescientific notions ==
4: ...lculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and [[numerology]]) that creation began on [[...
9: ...re scientific basis. The naturalist [[Mikhail Lomonosov]], regarded as the founder of [[Russia]]n scie...
11: Lomonosov's ideas were mostly speculative, but in [[1779... - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ... [[Europe]]. It is bordered to the north by the [[North Sea]], [[Denmark]], and the [[Baltic Sea]], to...
51: ...ages per the [[European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages|ECRML]].<br>
57: ...e [[G8]] nations and a founding member of what is now the [[European Union]].
62: ...o back more than a thousand years, the state now known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state...
66: ...ading state of Germany, from the more western and northern parts. - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
11: national_motto = Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno<br>(English: One for all, all for one)|
24: ...nominal = $309 billion|GDP_nominal_year=2003|GDP_nominal_rank=17th|
26: GDP_nominal_per_capita = $42,138|GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank=3rd|
35: footnotes = |
42: Switzerland is a federation of relatively autonomous [[Cantons of Switzerland|canton]]s, some of w... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...nvented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practi...
96: * [[1128]]: [[Cannon]] in [[History_of_China|China]]
99: ...lasses|Eyeglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]]
130: * [[1709]]: [[Piano]]: [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|...
47: *[[Cristofano Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
108: *[[Jacopo Bassano]] (ca.[[1510]]-[[1592]])
137: *[[Alexander Benois]] ([[1870]]-[[1960]]) - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...inst the [[Cathars]] of southern France and the [[Northern Crusades]].
4: ...sade has evolved to have multiple meanings and connotations. For additional meanings see [[Crusade#Usa...
7: ...nt that there was an entire class of warriors who now had very little to do but fight among themselves...
13: ...faced with invasions by Muslims and other hostile non-Christians such as the Vikings and Magyars. Howe...
18: ...oly war emerged from this background.'' — [[Norman F. Cantor]] - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...carus]]. Daedalus was trapped on the island of Minos, and so built wings out of feathers and wax for ...
13: ... of early flying machines]] for a list of these. Note that there are many claims and counter-claims h...
15: ...d designs for a helicopter, but this design would not have flown.
17: ...g. Sufficiently light and powerful engines would not be available for powered flight until the [[gaso...
19: The first known human flight ever took place in [[Paris]] in [[... - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
6: ... of the oldest paper manufactures include [[Fabriano]], Italy, opened in [[1276]], and Arches, France,...
10: ...s in a water medium on wet [[plaster]]. One well-known example of buon fresco is the [[Sistine Chapel]...
12: The earliest known use of European watercolor painting is by [[Ita...
35: ...being quite demanding, although they are actually no more demanding than those used with other media. ...
39: ...[Wassily Kandinsky|Kandinsky]] produced the first non-objective abstract paintings in transparent wate... - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
1: '''[[Timeline]] of [[microscope]] [[technology]]'''
6: ...609]] - [[Galileo Galilei]] develops an ''occhiolino'' or compound microscope with a convex and a conc...
7: * [[1612]] - Galileo presents ''occhiolino'' to [[Poland|Polish]] king [[Sigismund I of Swed...
10: * [[1624]] - Galileo presents his ''occhiolino'' to Prince Federico Cesi, founder of the ''Accad...
15: ...ernike]], professor of [[theoretical physics]], [[Nobel Prize]] in Physics for his invention of the [[... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
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26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
34: *[[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]] — [[snowmobile]]
40: ... and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
1: This is a list of notable people associated with the [[Renaissance]].
77: * [[Jan Kochanowski]]
89: * [[Angelo Poliziano]]
99: * [[Szymon Szymonowic]]
109: ...owy Wiśnicz.jpg|thumb|right|[[Maciej Tropola]] [[Nowy Wiśnicz]]]] - Microscope (8708 bytes)
1: ...erm '''microscopic''' means minute or very small, not easily visible with the unaided eye. In other wo...
11: ...of short [[focal length]] for the objective, and another single glass lens for the [[eyepiece]] or ocu...
16: [[image:Microscope.png|frame|none|Basic microscope main elements]]
20: #objective turret, or nosepiece
22: #coarse adjustment knob - January 2 (10888 bytes)
15: ...ry of the planet [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] was announced at a meeting of the [[Acad魩e des Sciences]...
22: ...epiece Standards in North America: [[Railroad chronometers]].
23: *[[1900]] - [[John Hay]] announces the [[Open Door Policy]] to promote trade wi...
31: *[[1935]] - [[Bruno Hauptmann]] goes on trial for the murder of Charl...
33: *[[1941]] - The U.S. government announces its [[Liberty ship]] program with a stated g... - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
3: '''Rog(i)er van der Weyden''', also known as Roger de la Pasture, Rogier de Bruxelles, (c...
7: ...ered the studio of [[Robert Campin]], previously known as the Master of Flemalle.
9: ...is visit shows no result on his style, which owes nothing to Italian models; and he returned to [[Brus...
15: ...ting into Italy in the late 15th century. He did not study with Jan van Eyck, his older colleague who... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...a [[treason|traitor]]. More was [[canonization|canonized]] in [[1935]] by the [[Roman Catholic Church...
9: ... several years his senior. His new wife bore him no children, but More raised as his own her daughter...
14: ...ed administrative and judicial control of much of northern England.
27: ...ative Christian, intended to offer the communist, non-Christian Utopia as a concrete model for politic...
34: ...mony that the marriage between her and Arthur had not been [[consummate|consummated]].
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