List of physics topics R-Z - G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z R Rabi, Isidor Isaac Radiation Radiation of sound Radiation pressure Radioactivity Rainwater, Leo James Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman spectroscopy Ramsey, Norman Rayleigh Rayleigh scattering Rayleigh-Taylor Rayleigh, Lord Reflection Reflection coefficient Refractive index Redshift Reines, Frederik Renormalization Resistance Resolution of the identity Resonance Rest mass Reynolds, Osbourne Reynolds number Ricci tensor Richardson, Owen Willans Richardson, Robert C Richardson number Richter, Burton Richtmyer-Meshkov Riemann, Bernhard Riemannian geometry Riemannian manifold Ring wave guide Robertson, Howard Percy Rohrer, Heinrich Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad Rosen, Nathan Rotation Rotation group Rotation operator Rotational invariance Rubbia, Carlo Ruska, Ernst Rutherford cross section Rutherford scattering Rutherford, Ernest Rydberg, Johannes Ryle, Sir Martin S Sakharov, Andrei Dmitrievich Salam, Abdus Felix.
List of members of the Hockey Hall of Fame - the list is being Wikized. This eventually will list all members of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, Ontario. A Sid Abel (Sidney Gerald Abel) Charles Adams Jack Adams (John James Adams) Weston Adams (Weston W. Adams) Frank Ahearn (Franklin Thomas Ahearn) Bunny Ahearne (John Francis Ahearne) Sir Montagu Allan Keith Allen Syl Apps (Charles Joseph Sylvanus Apps) Al Arbour (Alger Joseph Arbour) Chief Armstrong (George Edward Armstrong) Neil Armstrong John Ashley (John George Ashley) B Ace Bailey (Irvine Wallace Bailey) Dan Bain (Donald H. Bain) Hobey Baker (Hobart Amery Hare Baker) Bill Barber (William Charles Barber) Marty Barry (Martin A. Barry) Andy Bathgate (Andrew James Bathgate) Bobby Bauer (Robert Theodore Bauer) Jean Beliveau (Jean Arthur Beliveau) Clinton S. Benedict Doug Bentley (Douglas Wagner Bentley) Max Bentley (Maxwell Herbert Lloyd.
Joseph Cook - Joseph Cook Joseph Cook Sir Joseph Cook (1860-1947), Australian politician and sixth Prime Minister of Australia, was born on 7 December 1860 in Silverdale, a small mining town near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. He had no formal education and worked in the coal mines from the age of nine. He married Mary Turner in 1885 and shortly after emigrated to New South Wales. Cook settled in Lithgow and worked in the coal mines, becoming General-Secretary of the Western Miners Association in 1887. He was also active in the Single Tax League and was a founding member of the Labour Party in 1891. In that year he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as MP for the coalfields seat of Hartley, in Labor's first.
Joseph Banks - Joseph Banks Sir Joseph Banks (February 13, 1743 - June 19, 1820) was the British naturalist and botanist on Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771) and some 75 species bear Bank's name. He is credited with the introduction to the West of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa, and the genus named for him, Banksia. Born in London to a wealthy family, Joseph Banks acquired a passion for botany while at Oxford University in the early 1760s; it was an exciting time for the field. In the decades following the revolution sparked by Linnaeus, and after inheriting his father's fortune, Banks set himself up as a full-time botanist. He soon established his name by publishing the first Linnean descriptions of the plants and animals of Newfoundland and Labrador. He was.
Victor Cousin - Royer-Collard in the history of modern philosophy chair of the faculty of letters. Another thinker who influenced him at this early period was Maine de Biran, whom Cousin regarded as the unequalled psychological observer of his time in France. These men strongly influenced Cousin's philosophical thought. To Laromiguière he attributes the lesson of decomposing thought, even though the reduction of it to sensation was inadequate. Royer-Collard taught him that even sensation is subject to certain internal laws and principles which it does not itself explain, which are superior to analysis and the natural patrimony of the mind. De Biran made a special study of the phenomena of the will. He taught him to distinguish in all cognitions, and especially in the simplest facts of consciousness, the voluntary activity in which our.
1926 in music - Johnson "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" w. Roy Turk m. Lou Handman "Baby Face" w. Benny Davis m. Harry Akst "Barcelona" w. Gus Kahn m. Tolchard Evans "Because I Love You" w.m. Irving Berlin "Big Butter And Egg Man" w.m. Sidney Clare, Cliff Friend & Joseph H. Santly "The Birth Of The Blues" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "Black Bottom" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "Black Bottom Stomp" m. Jelly Roll Morton "The Blue Room" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers "Breezin' Along With The Breeze" w.m. Havan Gillespie, Seymour Simons & Richard Whiting "Bridget O'Flynn" King, Sterling "Bring Back Those Minstrel Days" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Martin Broones "But I Do - You Know I Do" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson "By The Tamarisk" m. Eric Coates "Bye Bye Blackbird" w. Mort Dixon.
Banksia - genus of the Proteaceae, named after the great English botanist Sir Joseph Banks, of the Cook expedition in 1768. They are native to Australia, growing in the form of shrubs and trees (they are also known as Australian Honeysuckle Trees). The smallest banksias are prostrate miniatures and the largest are fully-grown trees. In most cases the under surface of the leaves is silvery white, contrasting with the deep green of the upper surface. When flowering, they often produce magnificent flower spikes containing hundreds of flowers. In the photos you can clearly see the spiky nature of both the leaves and flowers. Once the flowers start to die off the cones become dry and brown, clinging to the plant for several seasons. Any fertilised flowers become knobbly brown seedpods during this time..
Magnesium - DE MeV DP 24Mg 78.99% Mg is stable with 12 neutrons 25Mg 10% Mg is stable with 13 neutrons 26Mg 11.01% Mg is stable with 14 neutrons SI units & STP are used except where noted. Magnesium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Mg and atomic number 12. Magnesium is the eighth most abundant element and constitutes about 2% of the Earth's crust, and it is the third most plentiful element dissolved in seawater. This alkaline earth metal is primarily used as an alloying agent to make aluminium-magnesium alloys. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Notable Characteristics 2 Uses 3 History 4 Sources 5 Compounds 6 Isotopes 7 Precautions 8 External Links Notable Characteristics Magnesium is a fairly strong, silvery-white, light-weight metal (one third lighter than.
List of people by name: Si-Sj - List of people by name: Si-Sj List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z Sa-Sb - Sc-Sd - Se - Sf-Sg - Sh - Si-Sj - Sk - Sl - Sm - Sn - So - Sp-Sq - Sr-Ss - St - Su - Sv - Sw-Sx - Sy - Sz Si Sibbeston, Nick, Canadian senator Sibbett, Jane, (born 1961), actress Sibelius, Jean, (1865-1957), Finnish composer Siberry, Jane, (born 1955), singer entrepreneur Sibylla of Jerusalem, Crusader queen of Jerusalem Sibylla, (died.
History of Australia before 1901 - made such a claim in 1531. In 1606, the Dutch vessel Duyfken, led by William Jansz, explored perhaps 200 miles of western side of Cape York, in the Gulf of Carpentaria. They made one landing, but were promptly attacked by natives and hence did not attempt to explore further. A Portuguese expedition commanded by Luis Vaez de Torres and piloted by Pedro Fernandez de Quiros set out for Australia in 1605. De Quiros was a Counter-Reformation Catholic. When he landed on the New Hebrides, he christened the island group "Austrialia del Espiritu Santo," translated as "South Land of the Holy Spirit." In another ship, De Torres sailed through the Torres Strait, but he probably didn't sight the Australian coast as he later claimed. This voyage occurred a couple of weeks after.
Eucalyptus - woodland eucalypts. Eucalypts originated between 35 and 50 million years ago, not long after Australia-New Guinea separated from Gondwana, their rise coinciding with an increase in fossil charcoal deposits (suggesting that fire was a factor even then), but they remained a minor component of the Tertiary rainforest until about 20 million years ago when the gradual drying of the continent and depletion of soil nutrients led to the development of a more open forest type, predominantly Casuarina and Acacia species. With the arrival of the first humans about 50 thousand years ago, fires became much more frequent and the fire-loving eucalypts soon came to account for roughly 70% of Australian forest. Eucalypts were introduced to the West by Sir Joseph Banks, botanist on the Cook expedition in 1770. The name Eucalyptus.
Chicago, Illinois - United States with a population of 2,896,016 (2000). It is located in the state of Illinois, on the shores of Lake Michigan. The city is the county seat of Cook County. The greater Chicago metropolitan area is known colloquially as Chicagoland. The name Chicago comes from "Checagou" or "Checaguar" which in the language of the Potawatomi Indians means 'wild onions' or 'skunk'. The area was so named because of the smell of rotting marshland onions that used to cover it. Four ships called the USS Chicago were named after the city by the U.S. Navy. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 1.1 Important Historical Events 1.2 Important Citizens or people born here 1.3 Nicknames 2 Geography 2.4 Major Neighborhoods & Areas 2.5 See Also 3 Demographics 4 Government 4.6 City Departments.
Cocaine - (after treated with ammonia). In addition, it appears that compulsive cocaine use may develop even more rapidly if the substance is smoked rather than snorted. This is because the high from snorting is much less prominent than from smoking. Furthermore, prolonged snorting of cocaine can degrade the cartilage separating the nostrils (the septum), leading eventually to its complete disappearance. The smoking of cocaine breaks down tooth enamel and creates tooth decay and loss. The Isolation of Cocaine Although the stimulant and hunger-depressant properties of coca had been known for many centuries, the isolation of the cocaine alkaloid was not achieved until summer of 1859. Although many scientists had attempted to isolate cocaine, no one had been successful because of two reasons. First, the knowledge of chemistry required was unknown at the.
Timeline of ornithology - Mauritius 1731-1743 - Mark Catesby publishes his Natural History of Carolina, which contains coloured plates of the birds of that colony, Florida and the Bahamas 1735 - First edition of Carolus Linnaeus' Systema Naturae. The classification of birds follows that of Ray 1741 - Georg Steller studies the birds of the north Pacific on his voyage with Vitus Bering 1743 - George Edwards begins publication of his bird plates 1760 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson's six-volume Ornithologie improves upon Linnaeus' classification 1768-1780 - Voyages of James Cook to the Pacific and Australia during which many birds new to science are collected by Joseph Banks and Johann Reinhold Forster 1770-1783 - Buffon's Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux was the first work to take into account the geographical distribution of birds 1776 - Francesco Cetti.
Sunday Times Rich List 2003 (501-1000) - Kingdom as of January of that year. See also: Sunday Times Rich List 2003 (1-500) 501. Andrew Rosenfeld (Property) - £69m 501. Michael Astor and family (Finance) - £69m 501. Sir Bernard and Robert Audley (Business services) - £69m 504. Adrian White and family (Water services) - £68m 504. Christopher Oughtred and family (Food and car sales) - £68m 504. John Boyle and family (Travel, property and investments) - £68m 504. John Cook and family (Holiday centres) - £68m 504. Robbie Williams (Music) - £68m 504. Sir Terence Conran and family (Restaurants and retailing) - £68m 504. Ted Smart (Books) - £68m 511. Mark Coombs (Finance) - £67m 512. Bill Davies (Property) - £66m 512. Carl Brian and family (Property and construction) - £66m 512. Dr Ros Smith and Steve Edwards.
January 18 - Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde. 1535 - Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro. 1670 - Henry Morgan captures Panama. 1701 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia. 1778 - James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands." 1861 - Georgia joins the Confederacy. 1871 - Wilhelm I of Germany becomes the first German Emperor. 1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. 1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time. 1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship 1919 - World War I: A peace conference opens in.
Honoré Mirabeau - Mirabeau Comte de Mirabeau, 1789 portrait by Joseph Boze Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau, (often referred to simply as Mirabeau) (March 9, 1749 - April 2, 1791) was a French writer, popular orator and statesman. During the French Revolution, he was a moderate, favored a constitutional monarchy built on the model of Great Britain, and conducted secret negotiations with the king in order to reconcile the monarchy and the revolution--an effort that failed. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Family 2 Early life, conflict with father, imprisonments 3 Period before French Revolution 4 Work during French Revolution 5 Death 6 Collaborators Family The family of Riquet, or Riqueti, originally of the little town of Digne, won wealth as merchants at Marseille, and in 1570 Jean Riqueti bought the château and seigniory.
Giovanni Battista Cipriani - he became a very clever draughtsman. He was in Rome from 1750 to 1753, where he became acquainted with Sir William Chambers, the architect, and Joseph Wilton, the sculptor, whom he accompanied to England in August 1755. He had already painted two pictures for the abbey of San Michele in Pelago, Pistoia, which had brought him reputation, and on his arrival in England he was patronized by Lord Tilney, the duke of Richmond and other noblemen. His acquaintance with Sir William Chambers no doubt helped him on, for when Chambers designed the Albany in London for Lord Holland, Cipriani painted a ceiling for him, He also painted part of a ceiling in Buckingham Palace, and a room with poetical subjects at Standlynch in Wiltshire. Some of his best and most permanent.
Franz Schubert - Himmelpfortgrund, a small suburb of Vienna. His father, Franz, son of a Moravian peasant, was a parish schoolmaster; his mother, Elizabeth Fitz, had before her marriage been a cook in a Viennese family. Of their fourteen children nine died in infancy; the others were Ignaz (b. 1784), Ferdinand (b. 1794), Karl (b. 1796), Franz, and a daughter Theresia (b. 1801). The father, a man of worth and integrity, possessed some reputation as a teacher, and his school, in the Lichtenthal, was well attended. He was also a fair amateur musician, and transmitted his own measure of skill to his two elder sons, Ignaz and Ferdinand. At the age of five Schubert began to receive regular instruction from his father. At six he entered the Lichtenthal school where he spent some of.
Edward Young - took his degree of D.C.L. in 1719. His first publication was an Epistle to ... Lord Lansdoune (1713). It was followed by a Poem on the Last Day (1713), dedicated to Queen Anne; The Force of Religion: or Vanquished Love (1714), a poem on the execution of Lady Jane Grey and her husband, dedicated to the Countess of Salisbury; and an epistle to Joseph Addison, On the late Queen's Death and His Majesty's Accession to the Throne (1714), in which he rushed to praise the new king. The fulsome style of the dedications jars with the pious tone of the poems, and they are omitted from his own edition of his works. About this time he came into contact with Philip, Duke of Wharton, whom he accompanied to Dublin in 1717..
