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- the Celtic year was based on both lunar and solar cycles, it is possible that ... perhaps connecting with the waxing power of the sun." ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 08:55, 27 September 2023
- In 1965, BP found natural gas in the English Channel, enough to power ... began with Muammar al-Ghaddafi’s rise to power in Libya in a military coup ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- of local chiefdoms and regional centers of power centered around Cahuachi ... the elites could enhance their political power and status while opting the ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:59, 11 November 2022
- replacement of the lunar calendar with a solar calendar, prohibition of ... replacement of the lunar calendar with a solar calendar, prohibition of ...20 KB (3,050 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024
- ====Solar power==== There have been a number of designs for barbecues that use solar power ...43 KB (6,886 words) - 08:03, 20 September 2023
- long-term health effects. In the case of solar flares, all current habitats ... [[Image:Power Tower Space Station Concept.jpg|thumb|right|Space Station ...12 KB (1,622 words) - 17:12, 14 October 2022
- Nuclear power is a type of nuclear technology involving the controlled ... The use of nuclear power has also engendered much debate. Critics ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- to use biofuels to generate electrical power as well. However, the fluctuations ... 23, in addition to providing energy for heat and power. ...36 KB (5,134 words) - 17:54, 31 October 2023
- the result of an earlier fusion of two solar deities, Ra and Horus), in ... partly motivated by the desire to curb the power of the priests, whose wealth ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- must always be partly on, consuming standby power. Studies indicate that around ... Remote control is used for controlling substations, pump storage power ...20 KB (3,126 words) - 03:59, 8 December 2022
- Since solar events in Allahabad occur 5 hours and 27.4 minutes ahead ... alleging that he had placed himself in the power of the Marathas. ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 13:37, 17 May 2021
- spacecraft, and satellites. The nuclear power industry uses beryllium in ... has also been used to check variations in solar activity and the age of ice cores. ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 17:26, 29 September 2023
- signal applications, and as rectifiers in power supplies. Today, valve diodes ... have a maximum limit to the current and power in the zener or avalanche region. ...25 KB (3,818 words) - 17:12, 22 July 2020
- apparently due to shrapnel.Views of the Solar System, [http://www.solarviews ... the launch of space probes to explore our solar system, satellites to monitor ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- a tank, the use of concentrated solar power, the calculator, a rudimentary ... Vatican, he planned an industrial use of solar power, by employing concave ...29 KB (4,455 words) - 08:02, 6 March 2023
- sector developing wind, hydrogen and solar power opportunities. Shell is ... business that has made investments in solar power, wind power, hydrogen ...44 KB (6,285 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- too diffuse to both generate the observed power and fit within a deep gravitational ... The brightest known quasars devour 1000 solar masses of material every ...16 KB (2,372 words) - 15:39, 7 December 2022
- among them the Göktürks, based their power on a mandate from Tengri ... Kagan, who was ethnically a Khazar, the power belonged to the Bulgar nobles ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 06:07, 27 February 2023
- the reduced ultraviolet component of solar radiation, and the higher ... produced potash, or potassium chloride, by solar evaporation of the brine. ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- permitting the economic transmission of power over long distances. All ... used to interconnect portions of national power grids. All operate with the ...40 KB (5,952 words) - 02:06, 2 May 2023
- of 244Pu remain from the birth of the solar system from the waste of ... periodic table than uranium), by analogy to solar system planet order as Pluto ...37 KB (5,382 words) - 08:10, 24 November 2022
- Copernicus' heliocentric model of the solar system in the sixteenth and ... model has a certain type of explanatory power, which implies that it tells ...17 KB (2,610 words) - 15:53, 11 August 2023
- other more unconventional methods such as solar power. There are wet saunas, dry saunas, smoke saunas, steam saunas, and those that work with infrared ...15 KB (2,539 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- *Lady of the Words of Power *Moon Shining Over the Sea ===Isis in literature ... the horns of a cow on her head, and the solar disc between them. She was ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- Fusion reactions power the stars and produce all but the lightest ... Research into controlled fusion, with the aim of producing fusion ...39 KB (6,029 words) - 23:53, 16 November 2022
- Qinghai, a province remote to the centers of power in China and newly ... each year. The construction cost of each power station in Qinghai is 20 ...18 KB (2,519 words) - 04:02, 7 December 2022
- can regulate their body temperature, via solar radiation, internal mechanisms ... fly, the bumblebee succeeds under "the power of its own arrogance." ...16 KB (2,396 words) - 18:44, 22 November 2023
- Earth’s magnetic field protects the planet from the solar wind whose ... dominate the world's electrical power supply systems. ...54 KB (8,712 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- chemicals manufacturing and sales, and power generation. Chevron is one ... The company also has interests in 13 power generating assets in the ...26 KB (3,656 words) - 18:40, 8 December 2023
- the return of warmth and the increasing power of the sun over the coming months. ... the light half of the year, and the power that will bring people from ...20 KB (3,131 words) - 15:26, 4 February 2023
- keyboard, so that all the pianist's power came from the hand and fingers ... correspond to astronomical events such as solar eclipses. ...18 KB (2,898 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- religious, commercial, and bureaucratic power grew into incredible cities ... Like the Aztec and Inca who came to power later, the Maya believed ...31 KB (4,849 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- her claim to the throne when she later assumed power. Adolf Erman, ... sailed this canal in victory and in the power of his return from overthrowing ...23 KB (3,474 words) - 17:25, 18 April 2023
- Yu admired Qi more than Boyi, and Yu passed power to Qi instead. Another version ... called "Xia" after Yu's centre of power. ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- to have experienced a vision during a solar eclipse on January 1, 1889 ... rumored to repel bullets through spiritual power. Despite the uncertainty ...15 KB (2,439 words) - 18:46, 8 December 2022
- as well as potential for hydroelectric power, that promises to bring wealth ... also significant potential for wind and solar power development in Gansu, ...21 KB (2,969 words) - 04:27, 18 April 2024
- pharaoh, and one of the sources of his divine power. Richard H. Wilkinson ... Finally, she was also seen as a solar deity, a daughter/consort of ...21 KB (3,284 words) - 11:08, 20 September 2023
- facing the rising sun. It was the focus of solar worship in the Old Kingdom ... depictions show a sphinx in a position of power and wisdom, looking down ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- ruling class, to gain wealth, position, and power. It was therefore called ... light-emitting diodes, laser diodes, and solar cells. Some of its electronic ...21 KB (2,920 words) - 04:00, 15 August 2023
- quot; of the system. It consists of a solar collector, a condenser or ... example of this is to provide the cooling power for the Oxford Instruments ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 05:41, 15 June 2023
- atmosphere (or any other matter in the solar system) produce minute quantities ... technologies as deuterium-tritium fusion power (assuming that such a power ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 06:25, 31 July 2023
- has been diverted into making electrical power. Another possibility would ... bodies in the system. For example, in the Solar System the planets and planetoids ...22 KB (3,694 words) - 14:17, 5 October 2022
- Windows 8, an operating system designed to power both personal computers and ... sensor, it employs higher-end processing power and new software, it can ...49 KB (6,708 words) - 10:40, 10 March 2023
- gain himself a large amount of political power. Hong, Yang, and their followers ... leader who had most of the political power during the rebellion. ...20 KB (2,973 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- (exchange rate) $2.8 trillion (purchasing power parity) ... | $1,584 (exchange rate) $4,927 (purchasing power parity) ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- translating that effect into one of greater power at its destination through ... temperatures for different parts of the solar disk. They determined that ...17 KB (2,654 words) - 04:14, 7 May 2024
- " or "drama." Through the power of maya (illusion, magic ... of King Bharata; Prithu, monarch of the solar pantheon who introduced agriculture ...18 KB (2,850 words) - 07:10, 23 August 2023
- a heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory of the solar system in his epochal book ... the first serious model of a heliocentric solar system. His work about a ...33 KB (5,163 words) - 02:58, 8 January 2024
- for the motion of planets and moons in the solar system with exquisite accuracy ... stars in the Sun's vicinity during a solar eclipse. During the total ...66 KB (9,838 words) - 15:01, 26 September 2022
- — and also with the "hidden and unknown creative power which ... with) most other deities and asserting his power over the gods of foreign ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- a king with a white bull that was wearing a solar disc between its horns. When ... Years. (Grimal 1992, 256f) However, neither power could decisively defeat the ...38 KB (6,086 words) - 05:03, 17 July 2022
- quot; xxix. Christians used to swear by the power of the cross (Apocalypse ... derives from the Indo-European Swastika, or Solar Wheel ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- Instead, they compare the explanatory power of many competing hypotheses ... kind of galaxy to support life, and our solar system is situated in a relatively ...70 KB (10,563 words) - 12:54, 7 February 2023
- including the Earth's location in the Solar System. If Earth were about ... is located in the habitable zone of the Solar System. If it were slightly ...56 KB (8,647 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- narratives, a myth also derives some of its power from being more than a simple ... for elaborate festivals that magnify the power of the deity. ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 22:45, 10 November 2022
- displacing the Earth from the center of the solar system and replacing it with ... is just by justice, is powerful by power," "an accident ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- of its proportions. It is a work of power, unity and style." ... II: "as the measurements of solar and lunar time cycles were ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 01:44, 9 January 2023
- materials that he viewed as having the power to convert invisible ultraviolet ... of the prismatic analysis of light to solar and stellar chemistry had ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 10:37, 13 December 2023
- person to have applied hydraulic motive power to rotate an armillary sphere ... age 40. The new system also transferred the power of the candidates' assessment ...53 KB (7,780 words) - 16:31, 19 January 2024
- are typically moderate. During summer, more solar radiation reaches the surface ... of study about material formed early in the solar system; most are thought ...41 KB (6,181 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- and various interstellar clouds. The Solar System is located in the ... by gravitational forces, akin to the solar system but on a much larger ...57 KB (8,514 words) - 03:49, 18 April 2024
- * A power source, such as a battery or a solar panel or both ... data were retained in CMOS memory during power-off. In 1979, HP released ...24 KB (3,458 words) - 18:22, 25 November 2023
- depictions that characterized Horus as a solar deity. === Sun god === ... making. When the cult of Thoth arose in power, Thoth was retroactively ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 18:16, 7 February 2024
- patterns of shadow and light that indicate solar noon distinctively at the ... The Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest ...40 KB (6,073 words) - 19:47, 26 July 2023
- started a slow and steady decline in actual power, although it maintained all ... acquired tax raising and administrative power in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- or demagnified; curved mirrors have optical power. Such mirrors may have surfaces ... Later in 499, Aryabhata, who proposed a heliocentric Solar System ...39 KB (6,028 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- * Solar power * Thermodynamics ==Notes== ==References== * Davies, Clive. Calculations in Furnace Technology, 1st ed. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 09:57, 18 October 2022
- calendar year was governed by the lunar, solar, vegetative and herding cycles ... ancient customary law they had the power of executing judgments, among ...19 KB (2,969 words) - 09:43, 15 January 2023
- for new research came from the field of power engineering: as power transmission ... 500 MJ (megajoules), or enough energy to power a 100 watt lightbulb for ...51 KB (7,568 words) - 08:38, 8 March 2023
- or longer), whether caused by natural (solar changes, etc.) or anthropogenic ... forcings such as modulations of the solar cycles, volcanic eruptions ...86 KB (12,789 words) - 20:17, 1 June 2023
- work, and its inverse, the thermodynamic power cycle. In the power cycle ... is available, where heat is derived from solar collectors, or electricity ...28 KB (4,251 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- who died in 1927 prior to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, ... the theory that most bodies in our solar system are covered with ice ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- The solar cell developed at NJIT uses a carbon nanotubes complex, ... electrical grid more efficient and variable power suppliers (like wind turbines ...62 KB (8,806 words) - 19:09, 26 November 2023
- oppression of his scientific views on the Solar theory of Copernicus to the ... anniversary of National Socialism seizing power in Germany, thus further ...27 KB (3,968 words) - 01:05, 9 November 2022
- of the universe. In particular, the spatial power spectrum (how much difference ... Probe (WMAP) observations: the angular power spectrum. Astrophysical Journal ...47 KB (6,936 words) - 08:12, 10 January 2024
- beauty, the latter precision and surpassing power. 5 For it is not possible ... Amazed at this, then, and comprehending the power of his art, the king persuaded ...30 KB (4,881 words) - 06:19, 12 August 2023
- sources such as lightning, city lights, and power flashes from broken lines ... Initially, the tornado has a good source of warm, moist inflow to ...56 KB (8,507 words) - 00:50, 20 February 2024
- The second was originally defined as one-86400th of the mean solar ... of ten, one hundred or a positive integer power of one thousand. ...26 KB (4,128 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- to fit transponders once devices with low power requirements become available. ... to reduce temperature rise due to solar heating. Color is not used ...22 KB (3,495 words) - 08:00, 24 January 2023
- movement. Some kibbutzim try to generate all their power through solar cells. Kibbutzniks are also prominent among Israel's peace activists. ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 03:59, 6 October 2022
- to have experienced a vision during a solar eclipse on January 1, 1889 ... leader called a chief, who can come into power either by inheritance, or ...23 KB (3,614 words) - 06:17, 18 November 2022
- Matthew Power, [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/07/dispatch ... they once stood. The laser systems will be solar and wind-powered. The project ...24 KB (3,495 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- a crossroads of international turmoil and power ploys while stronger nations ... C.E., in an effort to re-exert its trading power, Athens launched the Sicilian ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- include trade, travel, mineral extraction, power generation, warfare, and ... ice caps and similar planets in other solar systems may have oceans. ...69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
- arrival. The Russian nobility then gained power upon the ascension of the ... for his frequent use and development of power series: that is, the expression ...33 KB (4,972 words) - 15:54, 5 July 2023
- emissions from automobiles, factories, and power plants that burn fossil fuels. ... atmospheric circulation patterns as well as solar intensity. ...30 KB (4,607 words) - 06:05, 18 November 2022
- historical events, which affirm both the power of divinity as well as substantiate ... to be an authoritative sign of divine power. Indeed, some miracles were ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- that created a centralized government with power concentrated in the president ... Texas has a plural executive branch system that limits the power of ...36 KB (5,158 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- The leader, Mikko Hese, had no absolute power and was was not guaranteed ... of breath." He was the supreme god, a solar deity. He is also called ...29 KB (4,264 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- the birth and death of universes, our solar system and the workings of ... of religion and ideology into sublime moral power, insight and spiritual wisdom. ...25 KB (3,799 words) - 17:00, 14 May 2024
- as an uncreated, eternal cosmological power in opposition to Ahura Mazda ... an augmenting force for the latter's power, one which aids in the continual ...42 KB (6,394 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- "the whole theory of the motive power of heat is founded on … ... decide on the design of the Niagara Falls power station. Despite his previous ...36 KB (5,321 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- early 1930s, after Hitler's rise to power in Germany. He anglicized ... ice caps in order to enhance absorption of solar radiation (by reducing the ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- natural laws. The unifying and predictive power of his laws was integral ... to diophantine equations, and to use power series with confidence and ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 19:00, 7 March 2024
- Goguryeo, the dominant power, constantly fought with the Sui and Tang ... In the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries, Silla's power gradually ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- August 31, 1142 based on a coinciding solar eclipse. Barbara A. Mann ... The Seneca were at the height of their power in the seventeenth century ...28 KB (4,085 words) - 15:59, 26 October 2023
- had made in 1973. The new act came into power in 1978 and allowed a reclamation ... people he thought to be fellow Kryptonians, Power GirlJohns, Conner, et al ...61 KB (9,123 words) - 13:55, 28 April 2023
- the Enlightenment confidence on the power of reason. Romanticism, with ... , all knowledge can be gained by the power of reason alone; the latter ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- gendered principles, with Atum as the male power (the divine phallus) and ... form, is typically represented bearing the solar disk atop her head. ...27 KB (4,192 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- The most important factors are heating by solar radiation, radiational cooling ... There are several ways to prevent avalanches and lessen their power ...28 KB (4,333 words) - 07:09, 23 August 2023
