History of Science
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Greeks during the Hellenistic period (Alexander the Great's time). Archimedes of Sicily used them when defending his city from...
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He died in Frankfurt am Main on July 23, 1881.
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space shuttles were made to be reusable, rockets were used only once
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Mermaids are not real. They come from legends and fairy tales. You can not become a mermaid and there are no spells to make you...
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Johannes Kepler was born on December 27,1571, at the free imperial city of weilder stadt (now stuttgart region in German state.)
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Facultative anaerobes
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he is the god of the new world,king of all.
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T-beam bridge Plate girder bridge Composite bridge Pre-stressed bridges
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yes there is a element called "Copernicum" which is named after Nicolas Copernicus.
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Golgi apparatus
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This was at Shippingport in Pennsylvania, started operating 1957. See Wikipedia link given below. It was only rated at 60 MW so...
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William howard tart
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d2 = (x2-x1)2 + (y2-y1)2
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a wavy up and down motion
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The Germans tried to use the Zepplin as a type of air warfare, dropping bombs with it. However, it didn't work becasue it moved...
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Because it is hollow.
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The concept of awards and prizes given for scientific or literary achievement is a relatively new one. Kepler lived centuries...
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The first known magnets were naturally-occuring magnetic rocks called lodestones. Lodestone is composed of magnetite, an...
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This is the basic time line of the scientist and inventor, Marie Curie: 1867~She was born on November 7th in Warsaw 1891~Went...
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ADAM AND EVE FIRST WALKED THE EARTH
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we will probably never know but it is probably made in 105 CE.
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Matthias Jakob Schleiden passed away on June 23, 1881 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
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All of their combined work. Schleiden: Announced that all plants are composed of cells1. Schwann: Discovered that all animals...
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i dont know that is why I asked
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The Biological Levels of Classification from largest grouping to smallest grouping...
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Paper money was invented not discovered. Probably by the Chinese.
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Gaius Plinius Secundus and Gaius Caecilius Cilo more commonly known as Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger respectively were...
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Heiroglyphs were a system of writing developed in Egypt for carving into stone or writing on papyrus.
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they main source of biomass fuel is soybean's and rice.. The problem with this is they are destroying rain forests to be able to...
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its fat and wierd and redish ,orange
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Thales died in c. 547 BC and cause of death is not definite but i think either of heat exhaustion or just old age.
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They are called ganglia.
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He blessed people's throats and cured the sick under the power of God.
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Earnest Rutherford discovered the nucleus via his gold foil experiment.
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independence day on September 18 th
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" a dancer who moves the butox often as a dance move. originated by r&b dances or hip hop stars in early 90's see videos:...
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The Fregoli delusion or Fregoli syndrome is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are...
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It wasn't exactly discovered, but developed and built as part of the WW2 Manhattan project, to build the A-bomb.
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In his lifetime, Thomas Edison had 1093 patents and held the record for having the most patents. If we look at his very first...
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quien fue el padre de la calculadora
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stress changes the earth's surface by the way it looks and the layers.
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The 'newton', named for the 17th Century physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, is the unit of force in the SI system.It's...
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The widest part of the large intestine is the rectum, it makes up the last 4 in. of the large intestine and ends at the anus....
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In the 1600's, the Italian scientist Francisco Redi performed experiments that showed that flies did not spontaneously generate...
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Edward A Bouchet was the first African-American to earn a Ph.D from an American university, Yale, in 1876.
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Oil has been in use for lamps for thousands of years. The names of the people who first started using oil are not recorded.
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Schwann's contribution to the cell theory was concluding that all living organisms have cells.
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The Little Dipper is also known as the Ursa Minor which means "little bear" in Latin.
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First of all, "found" should be "find". Newton made huge contributions to the worlds of both Physics and Mathematics. In the...
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Edward Jenner became famous because he discovered the smallpox vaccine.
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his invention was false at one point in time and killed about 800-8,000 people in 1980.. He was arrested for false accurizatiom
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Thomas Edison was not so Britte and only went to school for 3 mounts then his teeter said he was no longer in the school but his...
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William Harvey discovered or as some people like to know it as a demostrated the functions of the heart and the complete...
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by radiation
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Alfedo McCobslived in Italy1908-1993good man
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Many Hispanic inventors have been recognized for their work in physics and engineering. Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano is a Puerto...
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Phosphorus was discovered in 1669 by a German scientist called Hennig Brand.
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A Carnot cycle representes a gas undergoing a theoretical - means it cannot be implemented realistically - thermodynamic cycle...
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it was discovered in 1962.
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The first man in space was a Russian named Major Yuri Gargarin, Vostok Rocket, 1961.
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isaac newton made his discovery of gravity when he saw an apple fall from a tree and realized gravity then he wrote his three...
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The subliminal election campaign by the democratic party was not good enough to attract the majority votes.
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1. Barrack Obama - Has become the first successful black presedent in the United States of America, and has had wide publicity...
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nothing at all is what i belive...there is noscientific reason for the world to end...at all
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I know that the word "Earth" is from an old English and German word meaning ground and is about 1,000 years old, however, before...
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the "john giordano" originates from the deepest heart of the jungle in Vietnam. these crazed animals were rumored to attack U.S....
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Dust devils form in areas of strong surface heating, usually at the interface between different surface types, such as asphalt...
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Law 1 - An object at rest shall remain at rest until an outside force acts upon it. An object in motion shall remain in motion...
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He trained and commanded the best British division in France in 1939, he commanded the South-Eastern sector of the British...
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Inventions are important because they help human survivean example would be cells now that scientists figured out about our body...
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Seaborgium was obtained for the first time, simultaneously, by Albert Ghiorso, J.M. Nitschke, J.R. Alonso, C.T. Alonso, M....
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the divers uses oxygen cylinder
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Mary Stilwell died in August 9 1884 in the age of 29 because of Brain tumor.
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Archaeological evidence is not just a stele, piece of pottery or foundation of an ancient building. It is also provenance,...
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Newton was primarily a physicist. He invented calculus in order to understand and explain the laws of physics. He and Leibniz in...
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Americium was first obtained by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James and Albert Ghiorso in 1944 (University of...
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Soldier. engineer, mechanic, carpenter, chemist, teacher, ships captain, bucher, shopkeeper, farmer, pumpkin maker, shoe polisher
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I believe it was to preserve the body for the afterlife.
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it means the coolest kid in the world. and people are just mad cuz they dont know him
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Cooling it down will make it condense back into water.
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Kepler attended the University of Tübingen as a theology student, and studied philosophy under Vitus Müller.
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