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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
12: ...ts]] and [[Atomists]] (the world is composite of innumerable interacting parts), the [[Eleatic School|...
14: ..., and thereby grow wealthy and respected. Since winning debates led to wealth, the subjects and method...
20: ...s the reason for them being more appropriate in running society.
37: ...sms of two subjects, permitting them to validly connect a subject and object. A few geniuses developed...
44: ...such as the work of [[René Descartes]], [[Blaise Pascal]] and [[Thomas Hobbes]], attempting to integrate ... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...hina]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north...
16: ...ver, and carries certain cultural and political connotations. During the [[Spring and Autumn Period]],...
18: ...nbei]] and [[Xiongnu]]. As the PRC now governs [[Inner Mongolia]], [[Xinjiang]], and [[Tibet]], and th...
25: ...esent political legitimacy. It was used in this manner from the tenth century onwards by the competing...
30: ... short-lived and was often regarded as overly tyrannical it unified the written language in China and ... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
9: ...ttention, but he was focused on the older sister Anna and he very probably proposed to her.
15: ...matical study, calling her "a new [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]]" in the process.
22: *Ann Hibner Koblitz: <cite>A Convergence of Lives: Sof... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
22: ...at have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone."
33: ...rize. Other awards bestowed upon her included a Kennedy Prize ([[1971]]), the [[Albert Schweitzer]] In...
70: ...d [[Tariq Ali]], produced a critical British [[Channel 4]] documentary, ''Hell's Angel'', based on Cha...
75: ...some criticism. Many advocates of the [[family planning]] and [[pro-choice]] movements were critical o...
79: ...holic Church]], which asserts [[natural family planning]] is the only acceptable form of [[birth contr... - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
3: ...f [[Monaco]]''', was an [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning [[United States|American]] film [[actor|actres...
5: ...er was a self-made millionaire and a gold-medal-winning [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] [[Sport rowing|scull...
9: ...t Supporting Actress]], but the award went to [[Donna Reed]] for her role in ''[[From Here to Eternity...
13: ...rred in the role of a princess, alongside Alec Guinness and Louis Jourdan.]]
19: - Actinium (7046 bytes)
67: | [[Vapor pressure]] || unknown [[Pascal|Pa]] at 1323 K - Earth (30908 bytes)
17: ...s much less viscous than the mantle, and a solid inner core. The liquid outer core gives rise to a wea...
64: *5100 to 6378 km - Inner Core
70: ...ss described by the [[dynamo theory]]. The solid inner core is too hot to hold a permanent magnetic fi...
72: Recent evidence has suggested that the inner core of Earth may rotate slightly faster than t...
80: ...ges between 10<sup>21</sup> and 10<sup>24</sup> [[pascal second|Pa?s]], depending on depth [http://www2.un... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
18: ...nfederation (Switzerland)|VP 2005]])</small><br>[[Pascal Couchepin]]<br>[[Joseph Deiss]]<br>[[Samuel Schmi...
55: The [[Congress of Vienna]] in [[1815]] fully re-established Swiss indepen...
63: ...], and although a German intervention was both planned and anticipated, it ultimately didn't occur. Th...
99: *[[Appenzell Innerrhoden]] (Inner Rhodes) *
129: The population varies between 15,000 (Appenzell Innerrhoden) and 1,253,500 (Z?, area between 37 km? (... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
17: ===[[9th millennium BC]]===
21: ===[[8th millennium BC]]===
24: ===[[7th millennium BC]]===
29: ===[[6th millennium BC]]===
33: ===[[4th millennium BC]]=== - Aenesidemus (3613 bytes)
16: ...s effect and effect cause. If not, since effect cannot precede cause, cause must precede effect, and t...
20: ...osophy'', [[ɭile Saisset]], ''Ænesideme'', Pascal, Kant; Ritter and Preller, ?? 364-370. - History of science (41710 bytes)
29: ...lected astronomical information in a systematic manner through simple observation. Though they had no...
52: ... upon. In addition, there was the [[Hajj]]. This annual [[pilgrimage]] to [[Mecca]] facilitated schola...
54: ... [[algebra]] is derived from ''al-jabr'', the beginning of the title of one of his publications. [[Tur...
65: ...iaan Huygens]], [[Johannes Kepler]], and [[Blaise Pascal]]. In philosophy, major contributions were made b...
74: ...st known model of planetary motion given by [[Johannes Kepler|Kepler]] in the early [[17th century]], ... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
12: ... pressure]] on height was first shown by [[Blaise Pascal]] and [[Ren頄escartes]], this idea was also rese...
26: ...t successful [[weather satellite]] marked the beginning of the age where weather information is availa...
36: ...irically derived expressions for processes that cannot be resolved on the model grid. For example, in ...
40: ...ut grid computing might automate the process of running a model where the right amount of computing re...
42: ...used to study clouds that are so thin that they cannot be seen by the naked eye such as certain types ... - Anemometer (11426 bytes)
1: ... 20 foot (6 m) lengths. The wire (4 conductors running inside a shield) runs along the rightmost leg ...
5: ...] of the wind, but inasmuch as there is a close connection between the pressure and the velocity, a su...
13: ...n greatly exaggerated by the springiness of the connection, and not only is the plate itself driven to...
15: ...at the plate being once driven back by the wind cannot return until released by hand; but the catch do...
23: ...d. It might appear at first sight as though one connection would serve, but the differences in pressur... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
41: ...England — [[lawnmower]] and [[adjustable spanner]]
66: *[[W.K. Dickson|William Kennedy Laurie Dickson]], motion picture camera
105: *[[Johann Gutenberg]], (circa 1390s-1468), [[Germany]] &mda...
130: ...z Klatte]] — invented vinyl chloride, forerunner to [[polyvinyl chloride]] - Human (48024 bytes)
14: ...me = Homo sapiens | author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
24: ...cured in response to a need for long distance [[running]]. Humans are said to be one of a short list o...
47: ...''woman''. For the etymology of '''man''' see [[mannaz]].
52: ...ial]] [[population genetics]] (numbers are [[millennia]] before present).]]
104: ...C1R. Human skin has a capacity to darken ([[sun tanning]]) in response to UV exposure. Variation in th... - Mars (27704 bytes)
11: ...the [[air pressure]] on the surface is only 750 [[pascal]]s, about 0.75 percent of the average on Earth. H...
41: ...e prime meridian by the Italian astronomer [[Giovanni Schiaparelli]] when he began work on his notable...
85: ...e manner or another before completing or even beginning their missions. Part of this high failure rate...
93: ...ir targets; while a 90-day nominal mission was planned, as of February 2005, their missions have been ...
122: ...terial activity. On [[August 6]], [[1996]] NASA announced that analysis of the [[ALH84001|ALH 84001]]... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
111: | 70 [[Pascal|kPa]]
183: ...first noticed by [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini|Giovanni Cassini]] ([[1690]]). The rotation of Jupiter's ...
199: ...axis and offset from the center of Jupiter in a manner similar to the axis of the Earth's field. The '...
223: ...eployment of its high-gain radio transmitting antenna.
233: ...[Juno (spacecraft)|Juno]]'', the spacecraft is planned to launch by [[2010]]. - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
114: | 140 [[Pascal|kPa]]
161: In [[1675]] [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] determined that Saturn's ring...
167: ...|Mimas]] maintains the Cassini division in this manner. Still more structure in the rings actually co...
179: ...th, we cannot appreciate this because the Earth cannot view Saturn from an angle that displays the bac...
184: ...bital mechanics]]. It is assumed that they are connected to [[electromagnetism|electromagnetic]] inte... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
122: | 120 [[Pascal|kPa]]
168: ...1750]] and [[1753]]; [[Mayer]] in [[1756]]. [[Lemonnier]] observed it four times in [[1750]], twice in...
172: ... it in the first [[ephemeris]], published in [[Vienna]]. Examination of earliest issues of ''Monthly N...
206: ...tory]]. The discovery was serendipitous; they planned to use the [[occultation]] of a star by Uranus ... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
9: ...hn Couch Adams]]<br> [[Johann Gottfried Galle|Johann Galle]]
119: | ≫<!--Much greater than-->100 [[Pascal|MPa]]
152: ...because it was stationary in the sky and only beginning the planet's yearly retrograde cycle, its moti...
158: ...rbain Le Verrier|Le Verrier]] had convinced [[Johann Gottfried Galle]] to search for the planet. Thoug...
202: ...ng is at 53,000 km and the broader, fainter [[Johann Gottfried Galle|Galle]] Ring is at 42,000 km. A f... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
115: | 0.15-0.30 [[pascal]]s
128: ...us, the name Pluto was officially adopted and an announcement made by Slipher on [[May 1]], [[1930]].
146: ...phere was determined to have a pressure of 0.15 [[pascal]] (Pa). This thin atmosphere is most likely [[nit...
167: Originally the ''[[Voyager 1]]'' probe was planned to visit Pluto, but due to budget cuts and lack...
173: ...http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/asphistory/1994.html] - Religion (72319 bytes)
5: ...shers of men; Oil on panel by [[Adriaen van de Venne]] ([[1614]])]]
10: ...ligament]]) in the sense of "bind" rather than "connect," hence interpreting "religion" as "returning ...
67: ...Deists]] believe that there was a God at the beginning of the universe, but either that God has cease...
264: ... to explaining religion. Foremost among them is [[Pascal Boyer]], whose book, ''[[Religion Explained]]'', ...
266: ...er cognitive faculty without showing any actual connection between the two, and without providing any ... - Pressure (9004 bytes)
23: ..., the individual molecules of the gas, which we cannot see, are in constant random motion. Because we ...
33: Also see [[Pascal's Law]].
38: ...ns such as a [[Kiel probe]] or [[Cobra probe]], connected to a [[manometer]]. Depending on where the i...
41: The [[SI]] unit for pressure is the [[pascal]] (Pa), equal to one [[newton]] per [[square metr...
49: ...meter]]). Some [[meteorologist]]s prefer the hectopascal (hPa) for atmospheric air pressure, because it gi... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
7: ...ppo in [[Nola]], in [[Campania]], the son of Giovanni Bruno, a soldier. In [[1565]] he took the name ...
17: ... as his "Italian dialogues." In [[1582]], Bruno penned a play summarizing some of his cosmological pos...
43: ...rd century|third century A.D.]], or like [[Blaise Pascal]]'s nearly a century after Bruno, had its center ...
45: ...o Galilei|Galileo]] ([[1564]]-[[1642]]) and [[Johannes Kepler]] ([[1571]]-[[1630]]) were younger, so t...
57: ...st the planetary spheres. (Two years later, Rothmann did the same in [[1586]], as did [[Tycho Brahe]] ... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...n]], full of irrationality, superstition, and tyranny (which they believed began during a historical p...
16: ... ways, influenced by the ideas of [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]], [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]], [[Galileo Galil...
33: The "long" Enlightenment is seen as beginning the [[Renaissance]] drive for [[humanism]] and...
41: ...e mid-century, what was regarded by many as the pinnacle of purely Enlightenment thinking was being re...
43: ...dible reports, viewed through the lens of reason annealed knowledge, empirical observation, and knowle... - Blue Whale (22203 bytes)
14: ...enoptera musculus | author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linneus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
18: ...ot (unit of length)|feet]]) in length and 140 [[tonne]]s (150 [[short ton]]s) or more in weight.
20: ... in most oceans around the world up until the beginning of the [[20th century]]. For the first 40 year...
29: ...terpreted as "little mouse". [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], who named the species in his seminal work ...
32: ... (each one metre long) hang from the upper jaw, running half a metre back into the mouth. Between 60 a... - Apple Macintosh (24250 bytes)
9: ...intosh has introduced or popularized a number of innovations adopted later by other PCs and operating ...
11: Innovations introduced or popularized with the origin...
23: Innovations introduced or popularized with later Maci...
38: ... on [[Universal Serial Bus|USB]] for peripheral connection (original iMac, 1998)
40: ...ys as a standard feature on a desktop (Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, [[1997]]) - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
137: [[Binary symmetric channel]] --
491: [[Pascal programming language]] --
651: [[Von Neumann machine]] -- - Charles Babbage (13539 bytes)
29: ...es carried out by [[Wilhelm Schickard]], [[Blaise Pascal]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]]. He first discussed ...
48: ...fety—I am almost worn out with disgust and annoyance at the whole affair." In [[1842]] the gover...
62: ...replica was built in 1991 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Babbage?s birth.[http://www.sciencemus... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
6: *[[37]] - The [[Roman Senate]] annuls [[Tiberius]]' will and proclaims [[Caligula]] ...
19: ...]]. Despite the recent Polish successes, Soviets annex [[Ukraine]] and [[Belarus]]. Government of [[Uk...
25: ...lf Hitler]] and [[Benito Mussolini]] meet at [[Brenner Pass]] in the [[Alps]] and agree to form an all...
29: ...1961]] - In [[Cannes]], [[France]], [[Jean-Claude Pascal]] wins the sixth [[Eurovision Song Contest]] for ...
57: *[[1872]] - [[Anna Held]], actress amd singer, (d. [[1918]]) - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
21: *[[al-Marrakushi ibn Al-Banna]] (Morocco, [[1256]] - [[1321]])
32: *[[Kenneth Appel]] (? - ?)
53: *[[Paul Bachmann]] (Germany, [[1837]] - [[1920]])
74: *[[Johann Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1667]] - [[1748]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
48: *[[Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno]], (1433-1504){{fn|R}}
78: *[[Anniceris]], (fl. 300 BC){{fn|C}}
94: *[[Hannah Arendt]], (1906-1975){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
105: *[[Kenneth Arrow]], (born 1921){{fn|O}} - Politics of Switzerland (6055 bytes)
6: ...]], [[Samuel Schmid]], [[Micheline Calmy-Rey]], [[Pascal Couchepin]], [[Christoph Blocher]], [[Hans-Rudolf...
29: ...ch as defense, neutrality, and immigration. Quadrennial national elections typically produce only marg... - Moon (37975 bytes)
171: | 3 × 10<sup>-13</sup>[[Pascal|kPa]]
197: ...ide, the "[[Far side (Moon)|far side]]", mostly cannot be seen from Earth, except for small portions n...
297: ...tists term "incompatible elements": those which cannot fit into a [[crystal]] structure and thus were ...
309: ... relatively undisturbed for many hundreds of millennia.
313: ...main illuminated for the entire Lunar day. These unnamed "[[Peak of Eternal Light|mountains of eternal... - Antimony (9093 bytes)
68: | [[Vapor pressure]] || 2.49 E-9 [[Pascal|Pa]] @ 6304 K
148: ... [[1450]], and was known to be a metal by the beginning of the [[17th century]]. The origin of the na... - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
67: | [[Vapor pressure]] || __ [[Pascal|Pa]] at __ K
166: element in [[1250]]. In [[1649]] [[Johann Schroeder]] published two ways of preparing arsen... - Barium (8466 bytes)
69: | [[Vapor pressure]] || 98 [[Pascal (unit)|Pa]] at 371 K - Beryllium (15119 bytes)
78: | 4180 [[Pascal (unit)|Pa]] - Bismuth (9188 bytes)
80: | 0.000627 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 544 K - Bromine (8073 bytes)
77: | 5800 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 266.1K - Cadmium (10755 bytes)
78: | 14.8 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 597 K - Caesium (11026 bytes)
75: | 2.5 [[kilo|k]][[Pascal (unit)|Pa]]
172: ...posits there are estimated to contain 300,000 [[tonne|metric ton]]s of pollucite at an average of 20% ...
180: ...tably from the 1986 [[Chernobyl]] explosion. Beginning in [[1954]] with the commencement of [[nuclear... - Calcium (9166 bytes)
56: ...ure]] </td><td>254 [[Pascal (unit)|Pa]] at 1112 K</td></tr> - Cerium (12377 bytes)
76: | n/a [[Pascal|Pa]] at 1071 K - Chromium (13677 bytes)
58: ...re]] </td><td>990 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 2130 K</td></tr>
126: * Chromium salts are used in the [[tanning]] of [[leather]].
132: In 1761, Johann Gottlob Lehmann found an orange-red mineral in the [[Ural Mountai...
134: ...eter Simon Pallas]] visited the same site as Lehmann and found a red "lead" mineral that had very usef...
171: ...pounds were/are used in dyes and paints and the tanning of leather, these compounds are often found in... - Cobalt (13481 bytes)
55: ...re]] </td><td>175 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 1768 K</td></tr>
140: In 1938, [[John Livingood]] and [[Glenn Seaborg]] discovered cobalt-60. - Copper (13595 bytes)
78: | 0.0505 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 1358 K
212: * [[Sterling silver]], if it is to be used in dinnerware, must contain a few percent copper. - Europium (8579 bytes)
77: | 144 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 1095 K - Gadolinium (9860 bytes)
77: | 24400 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 1585 K
177: ...ineral [[gadolinite]], is named after [[Finland|Finnish]] chemist and [[geologist]] [[Johan Gadolin]]. - Gallium (9500 bytes)
81: | 9.31 ×10<sup>-36</sup> [[Pascal|Pa]] at 302.9 K
138: Very pure gallium has a stunning silvery color and its solid metal fractures [[...
156: ...ning impurities (such as Mn<sup>+2</sup>), is beginning to be used in [[ultraviolet]]-activated [[phos...
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