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- 821: Little Green Men or Just Little Microscopic Organisms?
- ... over Mars? How did we evolve? From microscopic microbes, right? They may have evolved, too. When I read all of this I am reminded by a quote from a character on Jurassic Park named Ian Malcolm who said, "Life finds a way." Bibliography Chui, Glennda. "Life on Mars II". [http://www.sjmercury.com/news/nation/mars.htm.] December 19, 1995. Davidson, Keay. "New Signs That There Was Life On Mars." San ...
- 822: Joan Of Arc
- ... In 1455 her family called for a new trial. In 1456, a mere 25 years later, Pope Calixtus III declared that Joan was innocent in the end. Almost 500 years later in 1909 Pope Pius X beatified her, or proclaimed her to exalt above all others. Which is a step towards canonization, or sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church. In 1920, almost 500 years after her death, the Catholic Church canonized ...
- 823: Supernova
- ... with the solar nebula, eventually becoming part of the structures of the Sun, the Earth, and all living things. Bibliography: Clark, D. W., and Stephenson, F. R., eds., Historical Supernovae (1977); Jastrow, Robert, and Thompson, Malcolm, Astronomy (1984); Marschall, Laurence A., The Supernova Story (1988); Murdin, Paul and Leslie, Supernovae (1985); Shy, Frank, The Physical Universe (1982); Woosley, Stan, and Weaver, Tom, "The Great Supernova of 1987," Scientific American, August 1989 ...
- 824: Led Zeppelin
- ... a record store on London's Gerard Street. The building has since been torn down, and the district reshaped as the city's Chinatown district, but Page remembers it vividly. "The room was about 18 x 30," remembers Page, "very small. We just played one number, 'Train Kept a Rolling,' and it was there immediately. An indescribable feeling...." They rehearsed for several weeks at page's home at Pangborne, on the ...
- 825: Light: A Fundamental Force In Our World
- ... wave at a certain frequency. It travels in a straight line, and is subject to refraction. All of these characteristics are found in waves of any type, from radio frequency waves, up to Gamma and X- rays. Light, however, also exhibits qualities characteristic of particles such as neutrons and protons. A photon, or quanta, is the "packet" of energy that is sent in a light wave. Like a particle, the photon ...
- 826: Mark Twain
- ... resident born. Although he would only stay there for four, years this little town would be in the record books forever. His father moved the family to Hannible, Missouri in the autumn of 1839(Miller x ). His experiences in this small town would help him to write some of his greatest novels. Twain's best work was often characterized by broad, irreverent humor, realism, love of democracy, and a strong hatred ...
- 827: Michelangelo
- ... Michelangelo s masterly understanding of human anatomy and movement, changed the course of painting in the West. During his long lifetime, Michelangelo was a friend of princes and popes, from Lorenzo de Medici to Leo X, Clement VIII, and Pius III, as well as cardinals, painters, and poets. Neither easy to get along with nor easy to understand, he expressed his view of himself and the world even more directly in ...
- 828: Martin Luther 2
- ... he was taking on a force of great strength and authority. Luther did what most kings would fear to do. Luther's courage and boldness can be seen in his "Open Letter to Pope Leo X," "I have, to be sure, sharply attacked ungodly doctrines in general, and I have snapped at my opponents, not because of their bad morals, but because of their ungodliness. Rather than repent this in the ...
- 829: Virtual Reality - What it is and How it Works
- ... for aerospace companies. Medical researchers have been using VR techniques to synthesize diagnostic images of a patient's body to do "predictive" modeling of radiation treatment using images created by ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, and X-ray. A radiation therapist in a virtual would could view and expose a tumour at any angle and then model specific doses and configurations of radiation beams to aim at the tumour more effectively. Since ...
- 830: Nostradamus
- ... Centuries. This name comes from the fact that each Century contains 100 prophetic verses of 4 lines. These verses are called quatrains. Nostradamus wrote 10 Centuries, which are commonly numbered by roman numerals I to X. (Flanagan WWW) Nostradamus left his predictions in the form of several letters, almost 1000 4-line verses called quatrains (the Centuries), and a collection of 6-line verses called sixains. The prophesies are not sequential ...
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