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  • Austrian mathematician and physicist. He was the first to quantify the change ... Christian Doppler was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of a well ...
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  • occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another. When an ... The object closest to the star is called the occulting object, as ...
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  • In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free ... Free space is characterized by the defined value of the parameter ...
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  • diplomat and conservative politician. He was the fourth secretary-general of ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...
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  • a C-type asteroid. This image was taken by the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft.]] a planet, which in our Solar System orbits the Sun. Most asteroids are believed ...
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  • :This article is intended as a generally accessible introduction to ... and 1915. According to general relativity, the observed gravitational attraction ...
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  • developed was incomplete at best, regarding the external (physical) aspects ... to 1980, teaching and serving as chairman of the anthropology department. He ...
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  • sea captain, author and scientific observer. He was the first Englishman ... Dampier's life belongs to the great age of so-called "Discovery ...
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  • , Japanese novelist and lady-in-waiting in the imperial court at the height ... The name “Lady Murasaki” refers both to the author of The Tale ...
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  • Coelacanth is any sarcopterygian fish of the subclass Coelacanthimorpha ... The coelacanths, which are related to lungfishes and tetrapods, were ...
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  • (“induced”) by an electric current. The current may be as small as ... Earth’s magnetic field protects the planet from the solar wind whose ...
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  • 250 px|A traditional, formal presentation of the bride price at a Thai engagement ... or other form of wealth "paid" to the parents of a woman for the ...
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  • is a global news agency, headquartered in the United States. The company ... Newspaper publisher Edward W. Scripps (1854 — 1926) created the ...
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  • The Nile is one of the world's great waterways, at 4,180 miles ... Flowing northward from remote sources in the mountains of Ethiopia ...
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  • Anthropology in Great Britain) is one of the four branches of general anthropology ... of culture and behavior, and are some of the pieces of human history that ...
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  • author, self-declared feminist and womanist—the latter a term she herself ... The style of the text was that of a traditional epistolary novel, ...
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  • Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, ... This planet is heavily cratered and appears similar to the Moon. It ...
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  • Daniel Kahneman, he was a key figure in the discovery of systematic human ... Tversky was an astute observer of human behavior, recognizing that ...
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  • Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled the country since ...
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  • and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism ... Thompson himself became a central figure in the 1960s and 1970s ethos ...
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