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- 2271: Octavian Augustus
- ... feared that the brothers were trying to take power away from the government. They ordered mobs to kill the brothers and hundreds of their supporters. The Gracchi's efforts were the beginning of the Roman Revolution (Hanes 1997). In 107 B.C.E., a popular general named Marius was elected consul. Because of his military background, Marius was interested in improving the army. He started to accept anyone into the army ...
- 2272: To What Extent Does Acid Precipitation Affect Annelids?
- ... Precipitation that has a pH lower than about 5.0" (Allaby, Michael (1994) Ecology, Oxford Press,). Acid rain is created by many things, of which pollution from cars contributes the most. Ever since the Industrial revolution, the acidity of rain has been haywire. Sulfur and nitrogen are found widely throughout the world in the air, "even in unindustrialized tropics" (Graedel, Thomas, et. al, (1989, V261 n3 p. 58-68 Sep. 1989 ...
- 2273: Yeast
- Yeast In 1876 a French scientist by the name of Louis Pasteur found something that would make college students eternally grateful of his scientific knowledge. He discovered that yeast played an important part in making beer. Since then yeast has ...
- 2274: The Study of Biology
- The Study of Biology Biology is the science of life. The term was introduced in Germany in 1800 and popularized by the French naturalist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck as a means of including the growing number of disciplines involved with the study of living forms. The unifying idea of biology received its greatest motive from the English zoologist ...
- 2275: The Acid Rain Effects On Living Things
- The Acid Rain Effects On Living Things From the early times through the Industrial revolution to the Space Age, humans have produced inventions that use many of the earth's varied energy resources to make living easier. In many cases the energy comes from burning fossil fuels such as coal ...
- 2276: The Theory of Evolution
- ... them. But, Robert Jastrow says that the general view is that “dinosaurs, like all reptiles, were cold-blooded animals” (Jastrow 1979, 253). Commenting on the change from cold-blooded animals to warm-blooded animals, a French evolutionist said: “This stands out today as one of the greatest puzzles of evolution.” He later said that birds have “all the unsatisfactory characteristics of absolute creation;” characteristics unsatisfactory to the theory of evolution, that ...
- 2277: Possibility of Terraforming One of Earth's Neighboring Planets
- ... that it has taken nature. Terraforming would have to take hundreds of years instead of billions. The key to engineering a planetary environment is first to realize that it is not impossible. Before the industrial revolution, the Dyke Systems of Holland were used to recover arable land. This geo-engineering was an alteration of the environment, the first evidence that terraforming is possible on a regional scale. "Thus it does not ...
- 2278: Darwin’s Finches
- ... a lighter pattern, and the darker colored moths were rare. This was due to the lighter colored moth’s ability to blend in with the tree trunk, and protect itself from predators. During the Industrial Revolution, soot and other industrial wastes darkened tree trunks. Therefore, the lighter of the species no longer blended into their surroundings, and were spotted easier by predators. The darker colored moths became more common, while the ...
- 2279: Deinonychus Antirrhopus
- ... throughout the Cretaceous period, almost 140 to 65 million years ago. For many years, dinosaurs were thought of as overgrown reptiles that were sluggish, dim-witted, and cold blooded. The discovery of Deinonychus ignited a revolution in the study of dinosaurs. The creature’s skeleton clearly depicts one of an active hunter who relied on speed and agility to capture and subdue its prey. As far as their tail goes, dinosaurs ...
- 2280: Pablo Picasso
- Constant Change: The Life and Styles of Pablo Picasso Now is the time in this period of changes and revolution to use a revolutionary manner of painting and not to paint like before. - Pablo Picasso, 1935. (Barnes) Undoubtedly Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous and well-documented artists of the twentieth century. Picasso ...
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