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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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:Anthropology ... of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser Antilles ...23 KB (3,719 words) - 18:05, 20 January 2024
- 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
- ) 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
- 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
- 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
- | 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- . 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics at the point of purchase for certain goods and services. The tax is usually ...25 KB (4,002 words) - 01:49, 23 December 2022
- trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim ... Tim O'Reilly is generally credited for coining the term and the ...39 KB (5,412 words) - 23:24, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Industry and business [[Image:Piggly-wiggly.jpg|thumb|250 ...16 KB (2,486 words) - 08:16, 4 August 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology It can be influenced by public relations and the political media. Additionally ...30 KB (4,541 words) - 18:05, 14 April 2023
- production, it is mainly used in dry areas and in periods of rainfall shortfalls ... Irrigation is also a term used in the medical/dental fields and refers ...28 KB (4,276 words) - 13:24, 6 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen ...13 KB (1,764 words) - 13:09, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle ... tube runs up the middle of the container and is filled with burning charcoal ...16 KB (2,540 words) - 01:15, 21 April 2023
- a size considerably smaller than an asteroid and considerably larger than an ... The Royal Astronomical Society has proposed a new definition, where ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 16:25, 9 November 2022
- ) are an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the United States and ... Most speak a German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch at home and ...35 KB (5,323 words) - 07:31, 25 July 2023
- over or around solid objects. The speed and flow of air in a wind tunnel ... English military engineer and mathematician Benjamin Robins (1707–1751 ...21 KB (3,348 words) - 10:57, 15 May 2023
- areas of research included schizophrenia and family therapy, but she is ... of respected psychological institutions and high-profile prosecutors, ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 04:08, 6 November 2022
- the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1874 between Japan and Korea, and ended with the ... by Kim Gwang-jip to study Japanese technology and society. They hope the mission ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 23:06, 30 November 2022
- – October 2, 1927) was a Swedish chemist and one of the founders of the ... Uppsala, Sweden, the son of Svante Gustav and Carolina Thunberg Arrhenius ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen ...30 KB (4,416 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- a revolutionary activist, a prolific writer and Marxism's key ideologue ... transform the existing economic structures, and create a society in which ...40 KB (6,034 words) - 17:41, 31 March 2023
- Printing is a process for producing texts and images, typically with ... or other paper in either black and white or color, using a negative ...36 KB (5,772 words) - 18:43, 29 April 2023
- An adhesive is a material that can adhere (stick) to other materials ... Various types of adhesives are now available, derived from natural ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 05:51, 15 June 2023
- that occurred in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries ... states—almost every aspect of daily life and human society was, eventually ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- Today, telecommunication is widespread and devices that assist the process ... Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, and John Logie Baird. Telecommunication ...40 KB (5,781 words) - 02:52, 19 April 2023
- :For the former Secretary of Health and Human Services, see Louis ... April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and is often referred to as the ...24 KB (3,459 words) - 04:09, 4 November 2022
- In science and technology, a battery is a device that stores chemical ... portable electronic devices to automobiles and space probes. ...31 KB (4,897 words) - 11:28, 20 September 2023
- Fossil findings of early hominids is often fragmentary and inferences ... have been found in Africa, Asia (Indonesia and China), and Georgia (Caucasus ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 12:01, 2 February 2024
- artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first ... 1984, 8 independent hits dated between 1984 and 1989, 63 hits between 1990 ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 01:11, 11 November 2022
- who had emigrated from Perth, Scotland, and his wife, Martha (née Thompson ... His parents had moved to New Zealand "to raise a little flax ...17 KB (2,514 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- 20, 1996) was an American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly ... Sagan is famous for writing popular science books and co-writing and ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
- in which the various entities could live and communicate in freedom and ... fact that so many of the great philosophers and religious leaders including ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology ... can be detrimental to students’ well-being and development.]] ...28 KB (4,146 words) - 18:43, 22 November 2023
- Diethyl ether, also known as ether and ethoxyethane, is a clear, colorless ... by distilling a mixture of ethanol and sulfuric acid (then known ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:33, 29 January 2024
- is home to one of the world's oldest and most complex civilizations ... Chinese culture underwent several turning points and renewals throughout ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- known for her work on monetary economics and development of undeveloped ... quot; given the quality of her work and her contributions to the development ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- Dubai shares legal, political, military, and economic functions with the ... Dubai has the largest population and is the second largest emirate ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- or the heater for an industrial process, and sometimes it is a synonym ... furnaces can be 98 percent efficient and operate without a chimney. ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 09:57, 18 October 2022
- culture in the face of modern technology, coupled with the decline ... mother in 1844; died on October 10, 1876) and the feminist Charlotte Mathilda ...32 KB (4,917 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
- of Classical Learning, were private research and educational institutions in ... (Mongol), but were revived during the Ming and Qing dynasties; some became ...12 KB (1,749 words) - 07:12, 14 June 2023
- critic, essayist, inventor, teacher, and environmental activist. Since ... Atwood is also the inventor and developer of the LongPen and associated ...39 KB (5,259 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- a museum, library, archive, zoo, and others. The term originates ... as their own cultural heritage in historical and global contexts. Curators ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- is a relatively recent form of insurance; and it did not become important ... that cover every visit to a physician and all medications. Health insurance ...25 KB (3,768 words) - 09:24, 20 January 2024
- by a worm-like body divided into a trunk and retractable introvert, typically ... are divided into two classes, Sipunculidea and Phascolosomatidea, with the ...11 KB (1,484 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law on the gathering, analysis, protection, and dissemination of information ...18 KB (2,595 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are considered ... the twentieth century in architecture, art, and literature; and 2) postmodernism ...45 KB (6,401 words) - 05:50, 30 November 2022
- statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant. Educated ... the Navy's operational effectiveness and later revolutionizing management ...24 KB (3,501 words) - 22:00, 3 May 2023
- including those in academic, business, and government networks, transcending ... The Internet connects information resources and provides various services ...48 KB (7,277 words) - 23:46, 30 November 2022
- Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen ... located 37 miles southeast of San Francisco and 20 miles northwest of San ...29 KB (4,059 words) - 19:49, 9 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics ... to the "shrinking" of the world and the increased consciousness ...36 KB (5,269 words) - 08:02, 24 January 2023
- The Victorian era of the United Kingdom and its overseas Empire was ... of peace, known as the Pax Britannica, and economic, colonial, and industrial ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 20:11, 3 May 2023
- producer, film director, medical doctor, and television producer best known ... basis of theories such as global warming and some of the more radical versions ...24 KB (3,558 words) - 10:38, 10 March 2023
- chief executive officer (from 1971), and chairman of the board (from ... (Japanese rice liquor) for 14 generations, and from third grade he was groomed ...10 KB (1,542 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia and the most populous ... a site for penal colonies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with ...24 KB (3,443 words) - 02:23, 22 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University-Jen ...42 KB (5,941 words) - 09:17, 10 March 2023
- is a mythical island nation first mentioned and described by the classical ... the first, is found in the dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in the year ...22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
- inaugurated by the death of Joseph Stalin and the so-called "Secret ... ==De-Stalinization and the Khrushchev era== After Stalin died in March ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 12:48, 1 February 2024
- ) is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation ... worldwide, it is the largest information technology employer in the world. ...48 KB (6,957 words) - 06:47, 6 March 2024
- 14, 1912) was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. He is ranked among ... a shipping agent from a bourgeois family, and Ulrika Eleonora (Nora) Norling ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 18:29, 21 August 2023
- was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from September ... Iraqis, but before long they were repulsed and the conflict stabilized into ...36 KB (5,506 words) - 17:42, 29 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:EducationCategory:Psychology ... broad knowledge or learning. Renaissance Man and (less commonly) Homo Universalis ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work ... providing humanitarian aid to persons and communities who have suffered ...28 KB (4,048 words) - 15:27, 29 January 2024
- but it is also a valuable industrial reagent and building block in organic ... by exposing a mixture of carbon monoxide and chlorine to sunlight. He named ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 22:44, 28 March 2023
- against hard objects such as the steering wheel and dashboard. conventional restraints, such as seat belts and seatbelt pre-tensioners, not ...35 KB (5,475 words) - 07:00, 16 June 2023
- in Economics, together with Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe in 1990, for ... he was able to apply vigorous empirical and theoretical analyses to the ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 16:14, 9 November 2022
- images of a mechanical device that looks and acts like a human being. This ... robots, if they acquire intelligence and emotions that allow them to ...27 KB (4,060 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- An effective organizer and military leader, Uzziah conquered the Philistines ... them by entering the Temple of Jerusalem and burning incense there, an ...10 KB (1,704 words) - 22:57, 13 November 2022
- could produce enough surplus value to meet society's needs. As Russia ... some took much longer than expected, and others failed altogether and ...52 KB (7,308 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- engineering projects should be designed and managed. Issues such as logistics ... The need to identify and manipulate the properties of a system as ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- as sunlight, or thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth) or naturally ... used interchangeable with alternative energy and green energy. While by most ...57 KB (8,258 words) - 20:49, 29 April 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- as the radio gained popularity worldwide, and new media and technologies ... Music performances became increasingly visual with the broadcast and ...34 KB (5,125 words) - 20:42, 3 November 2020
- investigation of the building blocks and interactions of atomic nuclei ... Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are the most commonly known applications ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 00:29, 17 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication ... communication between an organization and its key publics to build, ...32 KB (4,723 words) - 18:08, 14 April 2023
- of light as an electromagnetic phenomenon, and led to the employment of electromagnetic ... regarding the existence of the electron and the structure of the atom. ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 16:54, 9 November 2022
- itself may be divided into two sub-layers and may be overlain by a layer ... Past episodes of melting and volcanism at the shallower levels of ...21 KB (3,036 words) - 02:57, 6 November 2022
- A newspaper is a publication containing news, information, and advertising ... sheets were filled with information on wars and politics in Italy and Europe. ...26 KB (3,891 words) - 23:23, 14 November 2022
- carrying wires exert a force on one another, and worked out the mathematical ... son of Jeanne-Antoinette Desutieres-Sarcey and Jean-Jacques Ampère. As a ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 17:59, 27 July 2023
- —ethics applied to the fields of medicine and health care. Nursing ethics ... Today the field has become very large and broad, with many books, textbooks ...22 KB (3,471 words) - 09:37, 10 March 2023
- 25, 1956), was a professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947, founded ... were experiencing, transforming attitudes and practices relating to sex ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- the first Methodist missionary to Korea. He and the American Presbyterian ... to bringing American style democracy and capitalism to Korea. He believed ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 13:51, 8 February 2022
- place the Vedic period in the second and first millennia B.C.E. continuing ... continuous civilization on earth. Vedic society's sophisticated organization ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- It has historically been very difficult and expensive to separate rare ... fractions which he called yttria, erbia, and terbia. He named the new element ...11 KB (1,419 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeology ... stone; most often it refers to markings and paintings on rocks made by ...11 KB (1,550 words) - 02:26, 16 December 2022
- along with Seoul National University and Korea University in South Korea. 1957 through the union of Yonhi College and Severance Union Medical College ...28 KB (3,704 words) - 21:29, 4 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock. An outgrowth ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 06:10, 28 July 2023
- It is often done by melting the workpieces and adding a filler material to ... arc, a laser, an electron beam, friction, and ultrasound. Although it is ...41 KB (6,376 words) - 23:28, 3 May 2023
- December 29, 1834) was a British demographer and political economist, best ... later theories about the Great Depression, and to the works of admirer and ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 15:46, 6 February 2024
- It is its country's largest city, and is home to approximately twenty ... in 1944, the Battle of Budapest of 1945, and the Revolution of 1956. It ...27 KB (3,960 words) - 16:54, 22 November 2023
- Native American cultures of the Great Plains and Eastern Woodlands. Most earth ... of the Plains, such as the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara (also known as the ...18 KB (2,809 words) - 17:35, 12 February 2024
- measured from other molecules in the mixture and allows it to be isolated. ... Different types of Chormatography and some uses are: # Liquid Chromatography ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 21:51, 10 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication ... from pictography such as cave drawings and paintings on the one hand ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- neo-Marxist social theory, social research, and philosophy. The grouping emerged ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...23 KB (3,258 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- its original cause, was fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia ... The War of the Pacific grew out of a dispute between Chile and Bolivia ...34 KB (5,333 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- modern parachutes are quite maneuverable and can facilitate controlled ... when the main parachute has to be cut away and the reserve needs to be deployed. ...30 KB (4,644 words) - 07:42, 18 November 2022
- against contemporary agricultural genetics and lasted until the mid-1960s ... Lysenko was the son of Denis and Oksana Lysenko, a peasant family ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 17:45, 2 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole }} The Creek are ...29 KB (4,264 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- directly under the central government and have provincial-level status ... The urban area of Tianjin is located along the Haihe River, and is ...29 KB (3,826 words) - 23:22, 30 April 2023
- or current. Because of its fast response and accuracy, it may be used in ... bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and field effect transistors ...30 KB (4,329 words) - 02:07, 2 May 2023
- objects, such as spacecraft, planets, stars, and galaxies. It produces very ... exist, dealing with gases, liquids, and solids, and so on. Classical ...33 KB (4,963 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for ... Clarke served in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor and technician ...45 KB (6,700 words) - 11:08, 16 August 2023
- issues—such as divorce, contraception and abortion—and attempts to ... He was a proponent of the United States of Europe and, having limited ...24 KB (3,434 words) - 16:28, 29 December 2020
- who dedicated his life to applying science and technology toward benefiting ... Carver said that in his search for truth he embraced both faith and ...18 KB (2,882 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- "self-fulfilling prophecy" and "unintended consequences ... doctoral dissertation, Science, Technology and Society in 17th-Century England ...30 KB (4,398 words) - 21:28, 16 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Industry and business [[Image:swindon.shopping.arp.750pix ...16 KB (2,407 words) - 01:55, 15 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen ...31 KB (4,374 words) - 13:08, 3 May 2023
- other, attached to a frame. The basic shape and configuration of a typical ... since the advent of modern materials and computer-aided design. These ...29 KB (4,462 words) - 03:45, 1 October 2023
- #039;s Republic of China who were arrested and removed from their positions ... Party leaders quickly took power, arresting and deposing 30 radical party ...19 KB (2,985 words) - 04:24, 18 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen ...36 KB (4,859 words) - 09:30, 10 March 2023
- based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found ... Science fiction is part of, and in organizational or marketing contexts ...54 KB (7,938 words) - 02:35, 21 April 2023
- thriving along the lower Indus River and the Ghaggar River-Hakra River ... This was a flourishing culture, with artistic and technological development ...32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024
- – March 24, 1948) was a Russian religious and political philosopher. He ... German philosophers Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Kant. He also excelled in ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
- Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879 – July 28, 1968) was a German chemist and ... am Main, the youngest son of the glazier and entrepreneur Heinrich Hahn ...24 KB (3,736 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- spread via traditional news media (print and broadcast) or online social ... Fake news undermines serious media coverage and makes it more difficult ...44 KB (6,310 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- library portal of over 7,000,000 astronomy and physics papers from both peer ... ADS is an extremely powerful research tool, and has had a significant ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 18:28, 19 August 2023
- origin, made by coagulating soy milk, and then pressing the resulting ... else is known about the origins of tofu and its method of production. ...37 KB (5,817 words) - 03:52, 1 May 2023
- the Sun. It is the third largest by diameter and fourth largest by mass. Uranus ... is a combination of the devices for the Sun and Mars, as Uranus was the personification ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 13:36, 3 May 2023
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