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- The forge or smithy is the workplace of a smith or a blacksmith. Forging ... and steel in particular often get some type of heat treatment. This can result ...15 KB (2,453 words) - 06:32, 1 April 2024
- A glacier is a large, slow-moving river of ice formed from compacted ... There are two main types of glaciers: alpine glaciers, which are found ...37 KB (5,884 words) - 14:29, 22 May 2024
- |motto = Fiat Lux (Latin) (Let There be Light) ... science, physicist famous for measuring the speed of light. ...22 KB (3,029 words) - 10:50, 19 December 2023
- Computer graphics, a subfield of computer science, is concerned with ... can now be used by anyone in the form of freeware. In the future, computer ...34 KB (4,961 words) - 02:33, 8 January 2024
- at very high pressures beyond the range of unaided human survivability ... Submarines encompass one of the largest ranges in capabilities of ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- from significant delays due to the speed of light and the greatly varying ... such as a solar sail to approach the speed of light, allowing short subjective ...37 KB (5,482 words) - 22:47, 5 February 2023
- discussed the "postulate of the speed of light," and formulated ... motion will ever be able to exceed the speed of light … the mass of a body ...40 KB (5,908 words) - 07:01, 22 January 2024
- produced through rapid, confined burning of a propellant. This process ... which the match was held that was used to light the touch hole on the hand ...44 KB (7,015 words) - 19:53, 26 March 2024
- Spearfishing is a form of fishing that has been popular throughout ... and is illegal in many others. Because of the belief of lack of sport ...23 KB (3,586 words) - 15:19, 27 April 2023
- track and field athletics, is a collection of sports events that involve ... The Roman Games stressed the Greek sports of chariot racing and wrestling ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- for buttons would be eliminated and the size of the device would be further reduced. ... comptometers, Napier's bones, books of mathematical tables, slide ...24 KB (3,458 words) - 18:22, 25 November 2023
- is one of the two styles of Indian classical music; the other is Hindustani ... but it is also generally accepted that the natural origins of music ...40 KB (6,040 words) - 15:47, 28 November 2023
- Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan), refers to a ritual drink of importance ... qualities. In the Avesta scripture of Zoroastrianism, Haoma has an ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 01:08, 4 February 2023
- The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron ... of the electrons approach the speed of light, and special relativity ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- who became the leading exponent of ragtime music. Ragtime combined ... American instrumental music was derivative of European classicism, Joplin ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- publishing the first official observations of the transit of Mercury in 1631. Like many intellectuals during the first half of the sixteenth century ...19 KB (2,823 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
- a single note being played. He was a pioneer of chance music, non-standard ... Cage was a long-term collaborator and romantic partner of choreographer ...40 KB (6,250 words) - 17:00, 5 April 2024
- was a Victorian era English poet. He was one of the founding members of the ... and Ben Jonson. He wrote a number of plays in imitation of the Elizabethan ...19 KB (3,190 words) - 21:27, 20 July 2023
- the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences of the roughly 40,000- to 50,000 ... The issue of whether the Denisovans are a unique species or a subspecies ...32 KB (4,672 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- is the home stellar system for human beings and all known forms of ... with their four known moons, and billions of small bodies, classified primarily ...60 KB (9,448 words) - 15:09, 27 April 2023
