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- between electric current, voltage, and resistance. This relationship ... to another area (the study of electricity), and his use of mathematics to ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- accounts report him dying on August 25 and being buried on September ... in Scotland. His grandfather was a surveying and navigation instructor, while ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 08:53, 1 April 2024
- They include security, profits, energy, and raw materials. For example ... sizes: cylinders five miles (8 km) wide and twenty miles (34 km) long ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 19:03, 7 February 2023
- translated from originally Palatine German and other Southwest German dialects ... are given this time to choose their faith and lifestyle, their decisions ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 18:14, 22 December 2022
- fluid from within a rocket engine. The study and development of rockets is ... against the inside of combustion chambers and expansion nozzles. In this ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Tokyo ...19 KB (2,825 words) - 22:33, 23 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... who does not own the land that he lives on and works, but rather it is owned ...20 KB (3,132 words) - 16:23, 14 February 2024
- to teaching science to the Russian people, and he also wanted Russia to be ... Siberia, to Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev and Maria Dimitrievna Mendeleeva ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- devices such as catapults, trebuchets, and battering rams were referred ... engine," "rendering engine," and "text-to-speech engine ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- Lighting includes both artificial light sources such as lamps and ... for various functions. Some are very plain and functional, while some are ...20 KB (3,109 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- prepared from such sources as cotton, hemp, linen, and rice. As a means of communicating and storing ideas, knowledge, art, and ...25 KB (4,009 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... famous for his work on cultural symbols and meaning. During thirty years ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- According to Samguk Yusa and other records, See also Jewang Ungi, Dongguk ... century B.C.E. in the basins of the Liao and Taedong Rivers, ruling over ...18 KB (2,662 words) - 09:14, 19 December 2022
- Factories are a hallmark of industrialized society. They have changed ... In ancient China, imperial and private workshops, mills, and small ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 23:24, 26 June 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Bureaucracy is a concept in sociology and political science referring ...17 KB (2,464 words) - 18:44, 22 November 2023
- renowned German-American psychologist and humanistic philosopher. His ... Marx’s early “humanistic” thought—and in his philosophical work ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- from the fossilized remains of dead plants and animals, during exposure to ... can be burned (oxidized to carbon dioxide and water), producing significant ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 06:36, 1 April 2024
- 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar – a professor of ... discourse from the late 1960s to his death and he continues to be an influential ...44 KB (6,751 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- parents in 1855, when he was two years old, and grew up in the rough mining ... Michelson graduated from high school in 1869, and applied for admission ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2022
- ("Κόσμος," the Universe) and polis ("Πόλις," ... refer to more inclusive moral, economic, and/or political relationships ...12 KB (1,700 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- used to abbreviate authors' names and generate unique call numbers ... Cutter is widely recognized by library and library science communities today. ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to ... The first BAFTA Awards ceremony was held in 1949, and the ceremony ...26 KB (3,803 words) - 02:24, 22 November 2023
- civilization was a complex Pre-Columbian society that included as many as ... The Norte Chico civilization, one of the oldest and most sophisticated ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 02:50, 16 November 2022
- off the effects of Japanese colonial rule and the devastation of the Korean ... Korea's culture. The industrialization and urbanization of South Korea ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- or foreign aid) is aid given by governmental and other agencies to support ... provided significant amounts of economic and technical assistance to support ...34 KB (5,026 words) - 10:14, 29 January 2024
- Scientology has attracted much controversy and criticism, and it has been ... a fully integrated system of religious technology dedicated to the rehabilitation ...33 KB (4,873 words) - 17:26, 25 January 2023
- Głowacki, was a Polish journalist and novelist known especially ... world increasingly dominated by science and technology, as technological ...24 KB (3,556 words) - 07:13, 17 November 2023
- whose ground-breaking technical advances and attention to principles of ... a predominantly agricultural to industrial society and played a singular role ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 18:19, 20 July 2023
- served as a Brigadier general, Major general and Lieutenant general in the ... in April 1942 was in that moment a failure, and that he would face court-martial ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- (cosmic round), Mahayugas (great ages) and yugas (ages). Each great age ... in the quality of human moral standards and religious piety. While temples ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 21:36, 4 June 2023
- of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. Together ... the establishment of modern technological society. Thus, electricity is used ...20 KB (2,998 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- 1778 – May 9, 1850) was a French chemist and physicist whose discovery ... of Haute-Vienne. Of the three daughters and two sons of Antoine Gay-Lussac ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 07:30, 2 April 2008
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education high school differs from country to country, and may vary within the same jurisdiction ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen ...29 KB (4,327 words) - 22:24, 25 January 2024
- arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well ... Art Deco experienced a decline in popularity during the late 1930s ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 04:01, 15 August 2023
- or phenyl. By varying their composition and molecular structures, silicones ... cleaning solvents, electrical insulators, and protective material for electronic ...15 KB (2,090 words) - 22:06, 29 January 2023
- be in orbit. Several design groups at NASA and elsewhere have examined orbital ... access to additional natural resources, and the spreading of life in the ...37 KB (5,482 words) - 22:47, 5 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education such as Germany, the Benelux countries, and Scandinavia, secondary schools ...13 KB (1,906 words) - 22:22, 30 November 2022
- this time, Japan started its modernization and rose to the status of a world ... about the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and returned the nation to the ...24 KB (3,557 words) - 04:15, 9 November 2022
- to seven people, typically have four wheels and are constructed principally ... the electric motor, the electric light bulb, and the telephone—that played ...30 KB (4,553 words) - 07:06, 23 August 2023
- major culture of prehistoric Japan developed and flourished. The word “jomon” ... The Early and Middle Jomon periods correspond to a period of climactic ...17 KB (2,630 words) - 19:45, 4 May 2024
- Preservation, in library and information science, is activity concerned ... While conservation is used interchangeably with preservation and their ...34 KB (4,751 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
- to continue Japan along traditional lines and those who advocated modernizing ... Japan imitated not only the West's technology and society and ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- Korean and world experts have celebrated Jeong Yak-yong's contribution ... a consistently high level of comprehensive and careful scholarship, sophisticated ...14 KB (2,321 words) - 07:14, 31 July 2022
- moral philosopher who was a cultural and intellectual historian. He ... of his father’s example of self-discipline and simplicity. After graduating ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. His books ... His works often veer into philosophical speculation on technology ...29 KB (4,415 words) - 15:49, 27 April 2023
- Knowledge is evaluated and organized information with implications ... of the nature, origin, scope, method of and access to knowledge. Other ...16 KB (2,254 words) - 16:10, 15 October 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law officer's clothing, accessories, and behaviour must be as unremarkable ...16 KB (2,298 words) - 12:20, 21 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... which cannot be identified by the observer and which remains unidentified ...29 KB (4,399 words) - 01:37, 3 May 2023
- at the confluence point of the White Nile and the Blue Nile, is the capital ... that included the Kushite, Meroitic, Alodic, and Sennar Kingdoms, as well as ...22 KB (3,228 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- scientific discoveries, advances in technology, improvements in transportation ... he became a clerk in the civil service, and by 1816 had risen to the post ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- a long-time professor at Harvard University, and the author of several books ... ==Life and work== John Bordley Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland ...20 KB (2,773 words) - 07:09, 3 August 2022
- , was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist best known for his ... father was also a friend of Rene Descartes and a prolific poet. At first ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- known for his role in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his ... influenced his interest in philosophy, and Mauss entered the University ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- most common propellants consist of a fuel and an oxidizer that participate ... ballistic missiles, manned spacecraft, and interplanetary space probes. ...24 KB (3,649 words) - 02:28, 16 December 2022
- Cartography or mapmaking (in Greek chartis - map and graphein - write ... Cartography, however mechanized it becomes, remains both a science ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
- , was a French physicist who by his theories and discoveries advanced support ... His early progress in learning was slow, and he could barely read when ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics ... The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom, and ...16 KB (2,510 words) - 03:34, 17 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser Antilles ...23 KB (3,719 words) - 18:05, 20 January 2024
- a Chinese scholar, journalist, philosopher and reformist who is considered ... an important role in educating the public, and used his writing to advocate ...24 KB (3,503 words) - 22:24, 25 October 2022
- ) was a Russian writer and polymath who made important contributions ... accessible to him he almost learned by heart and, seeing that there was no ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- of the Earth to geostationary orbit (GSO) and a counter-mass beyond. Space ... would be held in tension between Earth and the counterweight in space ...39 KB (5,875 words) - 15:17, 27 April 2023
- – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting ... It also freed up workers to be employed by the Industrial Revolution ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- service of the British East India Company and as a private moneylender. ... which came to be an important spiritual and reformist religious movement ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- major shift of technological, socioeconomic, and cultural conditions that occurred ... The effects spread throughout Western Europe and North America during ...43 KB (6,275 words) - 12:45, 1 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... or cultures. Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists identify class ...31 KB (4,685 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- | WHS = Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites | Image = [[Image:Avebury henge and village UK.jpg|300px|Avebury ...18 KB (2,901 words) - 07:14, 23 August 2023
- from audiences emotions of fright, fear, and terror. In such plots, evil ... exploring contemporary fears about technology and society. ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 14:21, 7 February 2024
- [[image:EB White and his dog Minnie.png|thumb|250px]] Maine) was a leading American essayist and author of children's ...13 KB (2,032 words) - 05:37, 4 August 2023
- concept developed from both science fiction and actual science. The term is ... to allocate. Also, the long timescales and practicality of terraforming ...32 KB (4,766 words) - 14:58, 30 April 2023
- 1993) was a Canadian journalist, politician, and stateswoman. She was the first ... Her tenure was marked by extensive travel and meetings with a variety of ...18 KB (2,686 words) - 17:42, 2 April 2024
- by a highly favorable account of science and what is taken to be the scientific ... are that science is the only valid knowledge and facts the only possible objects ...11 KB (1,561 words) - 05:45, 30 November 2022
- as the founder of the Arya Samaj "Society of Nobles," a great ... He was a sanyasi (one who has renounced all worldly possessions and ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- the first culture in Japan to cultivate rice and to manufacture and use metal ... development of a sedentary agricultural society and the eventual establishment ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:53, 23 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education ... Public schools, funded from tax revenue and most commonly administered ...32 KB (4,665 words) - 18:08, 14 April 2023
- is concerned with digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content ... graphics, which were once very expensive and complicated, can now be used ...34 KB (4,961 words) - 02:33, 8 January 2024
- Industrialization (or industrialisation) is the period of social and ... unintended consequences, both economically and socially. As industrial workers ...23 KB (3,165 words) - 17:35, 25 September 2021
- of Man) which sold over two million copies and remains a popular introduction ... Born and raised a Methodist, Smith studied and practiced many of the ...17 KB (2,414 words) - 21:25, 9 February 2024
- Hêphaistos) was the Greek god of fire, metals and metallurgy, and ... with the volcano god Adranus (of Mount Etna) and Vulcanus (of the Lipara islands ...15 KB (2,287 words) - 13:45, 9 February 2022
- Lynd, Robert and Helen Robert Staughton Lynd (September 26, 1892 – November 1, 1970) and ...13 KB (1,965 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics is economic activity involving the buying and selling of merchandise or ...19 KB (2,879 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2023
- dark stripes located only on the head, neck, and shoulders, with the stripes ... to anthropogenic factors: Over hunting and competition with domestic ...10 KB (1,564 words) - 04:03, 7 December 2022
- known as Sir Syed, was an Indian educator and politician who pioneered modern ... education by founding modern schools and journals and organizing Muslim ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- . Business ethics deals with ethical rules and principles within a business ... demand for more ethical business processes and actions is increasing. Many ...55 KB (8,456 words) - 18:51, 22 November 2023
- crossed three oceans in primitive rafts and boats to prove theories about ... Heyerdahls's voyages across the Atlantic and across the Pacific ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 23:00, 30 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations ... science magazine, published (first weekly and later monthly) since August ...13 KB (1,844 words) - 17:24, 25 January 2023
- be stored to be released only when needed, and that the release is controlled ... All known life forms, from microorganisms to humans, depend on and ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 00:50, 18 October 2022
- as a Buddhist monk, seeking Western learning and working to establish the Thammayut ... In 1851 Mongkut ascended the throne and immediately instituted modern ...12 KB (1,824 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
- century, which was as a neutral descriptive and roughly synonymous with logical ... The terms "scientific imperialism" and "scientific fundamentalism ...22 KB (3,110 words) - 02:36, 21 April 2023
- observations, scientific experimentation, and monitoring of the Earth's ... a minimal orbit around the Earth at 8 km/s, and that a multi-stage rocket ...35 KB (4,993 words) - 00:11, 8 January 2024
- was a United States born archaeologist and diplomat who is best known ... confiscated, or settled. Attitudes of racial and cultural superiority on the ...16 KB (2,447 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... Rosetta Stone. Yet interest, both amateur and academic, in Egyptian civilization ...16 KB (2,384 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- of outer space, by both human spaceflights and robotic spacecraft. Although ... by a space race between the Soviet Union and the United States. The launch ...20 KB (2,963 words) - 19:03, 7 February 2023
- . X-rays are a form of ionizing radiation and as such can be dangerous. ... X-rays are valuable in the field of medicine and for scientific research ...25 KB (3,822 words) - 14:14, 20 May 2023
- former Prisoner of Zion, Israeli politician and author. As a refusenik and dissident, he became a member of the Moscow Helsinki ...16 KB (2,307 words) - 01:29, 11 November 2022
- developed by his competitors into one system and his success in securing funding ... secure funding there, Marconi proved his technology and established his company ...27 KB (3,973 words) - 00:54, 7 March 2023
- is, at frequencies lying below the visible and infrared regions of the electromagnetic ... Radio technology gives humanity the convenience of extremely rapid ...35 KB (5,160 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- enormous changes in Japan's political and social structure. It occurred ... There are several opinions concerning the event and the year that ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 04:13, 9 November 2022
- lecturer, consultant, architect, builder, and prototypical British gentleman ... series of early steam powered road vehicles; and laid claim—still discussed ...27 KB (4,255 words) - 22:32, 29 January 2023
- October 14, 2010) was a Polish-born, French and American mathematician, noted ... Mandelbrot was one of the first to use computer graphics to create ...24 KB (3,447 words) - 10:15, 28 September 2023
