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• History of Astronomy - astronomy.

  Egypt, the Sun was directly overhead at noon. On the same date and time in Alexandria, Egypt, the Sun was about 7 degrees south of zenith. With simple geometryand knowledge of the distance between the two cities, he estimated the circumference of the Earth to be 250,000 stadia. (The stadium was a unit of length, derivedfrom the length of the racetrack in an ancient Greek stadium. We have an approximate idea of how big an ancient Greek stadium was, and based on that approximationEratosthenes was...

• Value of Art

• Licence

• Igor Stravinsky.

• Berdiaev, Nikolai Aleksandrovich

  was a period of intense spiritual searching for Berdiaev as for many others; under the influence of a great range of thinkers, including Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Vladimir Solov'ëv , Vasilii Rozanov, Fëdor Dostoevskii, Lev Tolstoi and Dmitrii Merezhkovskii (see Russian Religious-Philosophical Renaissance ), he moved from Neo-Kantian Marxism (though without abandoning his socialist convictions, as we shall see in §5) to the religiously oriented, mystically coloured personalism that he would...

• L'espionnage

  not change the governments mind about a law. In history a crowd always led the greatest events. The "Prise de la Bastille" in France for example. This act was a revolting act led by a crowd with a year of accumulating anger inside of them, which burst. If there were to be only one man, taking down the Bastille, he would have been stopped and put in jail therefor failing his task. When you act out as a crowd, the impact is more violent but also more influential. The crowds that would like to make...

• Lele - the writer in his time

  Many films and books have been adapted to this real story as the movie «   A Study in   Terror.        »  Sherlock Holmes i nvestigates a series of murders of prostitutes and chasing Jack the   Ripper.   His   investigations   lead   shallows   of   Victorian   London   to   the   most   exclusive   neighbourhoods in the capital.  Bloodhound finally unmasks  the culprit, the son of a notable. If   he   direct ed   Sherlock   Holmes,   the   famous   detective   investigation   that   is   not  ...

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: AL-KINDÏ

• Honey Bee.

• WOMEN'S LIVES WILL CHANGE IN EVERY WAY

  Women in decision-making positions may also be important in creating a more peaceful society-at least until both sex roles are more humanized, and men feel less need to prove their masculinity with confrontation, toughness and even mass violence. Feminism brings something else to the poUtical scene that's very important: a sense that change must start at the bottom, organically. 1t may be attached to theory, of course, but radical or revo...

• Augustinianism

  contradictory in some of its details. Although there were early attempts to make his work both more accessible and more systematic, the interpretations of Augustine 's writings depended very much on which works were being read. There was not always a choice in what to read. The reception of any author in the earlier Middle Ages depended on the hard facts of manuscript survival and distribution. In the cultural disarray that destroyed books and the means of producing them, Augustine was rela...

• Bradwardine, Thomas

  velocity is a self-contradiction, a vacuum is impossible. In De proportionibus , Bradwardine first laid out the theory of ratios familiar from the theory of musical ratios as found in Boethius . He used this understanding of operations on ratios to reinterpret Aristotle 's theory. Velocities vary, he said, as the ratio of force to resistance. When the ratio of force to resistance is ‘doubled' the velocity is doubled, when the ratio is ‘tripled' the velocity is tripled and so on, with the...

• lean management

• Ernest Hemingway.

• Ernest Hemingway - USA History.

• Celsus

• Diego Velázquez (artist).

• Berlin, Isaiah

  assumption. The denial of a fixed human nature comes to saying first, that there are many different and no canonically correct expressions of these potentialities; second, that what expressions these potentialities might receive cannot be recognized in advance of historical experience; third, that these two points hold good for the future, so that there can be no Hegelian (or - more particularly for Berlin's concerns - Marxist) total realization of human possibilities (see Hegel, G.W.F. ; Ma...

• William Faulkner.

  published shortly before his death the same year. Selected Letters of William Faulkner , edited by Joseph Blotner, was issued in 1977. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• Essay The great Gatsby/bluest eye

  Gatsby's heart easily. Consequently, after this scene and the car accident she was implicated in, she withdrawswith Tom in her materialistic world, forgetting for ever Gatsby without any remorse. However, Gatsby still believesthat she will call him again, he is pathetic and in total delusion, he cannot accept that his dream as faded awayand that he totally overestimated Daisy and her love for him. Finally, in the very end, Gatsby's incorruptible faith in his dream leads him to protect Daisy from...

• Artificial intelligence

  justice to the normativeness that is integral to the judgment. The issue of the intersubjective validity of a judgmentof artistic value - whether such a judgment can be valid for all people, and, if so, what validates it - has still notbeen adequately resolved. Non-artistic values There are many interesting questions about the relations between artistic value and other kinds of value, especially cognitive value and ethical value. For example: Is there an inherent link between the kindand deg...

• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

• Paul Cézanne.

• Benjamin, Walter

  Benjamin accepts elements of Nietzsche's metaphysics. 3 Symbolism, melancholy and politics Benjamin's thought runs through two phases. In his earlier work, which included the important essay 'Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften' (Goethe's Elective Affinities) (1922) and culminated in The Origin of German Tragic Drama , Benjamin is concerned to explore the manner in which art adopts pragmatic stances. His initial target is what he calls the 'symbolist' approach to art: the view, whether as...

• Bosanquet, Bernard

  individuality is judged not by the atomic and exclusive self, nor by what persons are, but by what they can become, and that is shown in their society and its cultural achievements. Bosanquet's approach shows to advantage in his political philosophy. It arms him against the atomic individualism he finds in the ‘theories of the first look' of Bentham, Spencer andJ.S. Mill. Instead, combining Rousseau andHegel, Bosanquet argues that the individual members of a state are linked together by t...

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: AVICENNA

  is to say, whose essence includes that mark of necessity which is lacking in all other things and which can also beexpressed as the identity in it of essence and existence. In this way, the cosmogony sketched above is given aphilosophical basis. Just as the whole system of the world comes about from the thought which the Necessary Beinghas of itself, so this being, in thinking itself at the same time thinks everything in the universe: it thinks ‘the higher(that is, heavenly) beings, each in its...

• Christophe Perrin 56, avenue Victor Hugo F-9217O VANVES Tel: 00 33 (0)1 99

  Collaboration on a three-month governmental mission, set up in order to implement the material and staffing structures of the French Library. Estimation of costs and staff organisation of several departments. Presentation of reports in large meetings, from which the proposals were largely adopted. 1991-92 Management of the public relations group in the Ecole Polytechnique, involving the organisation of communication seminars in a TV studio and training for meetings, group work...etc 1991 Staat...

• Robert Frost.

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Sigmund Freud

  his career, regarded neurotic symptoms as the result of the repression of sexual impulses during child¬hood, andsaw neurotic characters as fixated at an early stage of their development.Freud attached great importance to the onset of the phallic stage. At that time, he believed, a boy was sexuallyattracted to his mother, and began to resent his father's possession of her. But his hostility to his father leads tofear that his father will retaliate by castrating him. So the boy abandons his sexua...

• Robert Frost I INTRODUCTION Robert Frost Usually set amid the natural beauty of rural New England, the concise, direct poetry of American poet Robert Frost conveys a wide range of emotions.

  Frost's Collected Poems (1930) won him his second Pulitzer Prize. And his next two collections— A Further Range (1936) and A Witness Tree (1942)—also won Pulitzers. He then wrote two plays in blank verse. The first, A Masque of Reason (1945), received lukewarm praise from critics. The second, A Masque of Mercy (1947), which is a modern treatment of Christian biblical figures, was more successful. Frost's final volumes of poetry were Steeple Bush (1947) and In the Clearing (1962). Th...

• Vincent van Gogh.

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Bentham and James Mill

  terms of pain, a real entity. Thus a fiction is made clear by its translation into its relation to the real. Ideas are thus clarified by reference to their context—the sentence; whether or not the sentence can be paraphrased into one which contains real terms is the deciding factor with regard to its sense or nonsense. In a sense the substitute sentence provides the possibility of verifying the original by reference to the world of real entities. Thus if the word ‘duty' were used without re...

• Lexique travail social en anglais

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Abstract objects

  to be an abstract object; but while it is not located anywhere, it has not always existed, but was devised at acertain time. Other examples are natural languages, many if not all works of art, and words and letters in the type-as opposed to token-sense (roughly, the sense in which there are just six, not eight, distinct letters in the word'abstract') (see Type/token distinction ). Thus while the abstract-concrete distinction undoubtedly has much to do with spatiality and temporality, it does no...

• Ptolemy.

• Art, abstract

  without any optical interference, the figures have become enigmatic new realities inhabiting an equally unnaturalspace. This contrasts with the effect in Analytic Cubism of normal objects seen through a radically fractured lens.Another of the many currents of schematic abstraction is generally known as lyrical or expressionist and isrepresented by various works of Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee and others. Objects and space are dematerializedby blurred and calligraphically naive transf...

• Text - science as a vocation

• Arthurian Legend I INTRODUCTION King Arthur Legend and lore surround the life of Arthur, a medieval king of the Britons.

  Merlin and ArthurIn the tales of Arthurian legend, Merlin is an aged magician who helps bring King Arthur to power. Some authors alsodescribe Merlin as the young king’s tutor.Corbis Arthur is conceived when King Uther Pendragon falls in love with a married woman, Ygraine, and arranges for the magician Merlin to transform him into the likeness ofYgraine's husband. The husband, Gorlois, dies in battle, and Arthur's parents marry soon thereafter. Arthur Receiving ExcaliburAccording to legend, soon...

• 1984 - George Orwell

  about his book. The science-fiction have the advantage of to secede the author’s intentions from the reality in order to make this reality more universal. By being so straddled in his works G.O. describes caricatoonish world to impose a reflection. G.O. displays a mastery of writing because he manages to do not create a ridiculous world but rather a world which recalls something that already happen. c) The message By reading Nine...

• Augustine

  do what one knows one ought not to be doing, mark him off from ethicists of the classical Greek period. YetAugustine also preserves in his own thinking important strands of ancient Greek thought. Thus, for example, hisdevelopment of the doctrine of the Christian virtues includes an echo of Plato's idea of the unity of the virtues. Hisinsistence that 'ought' does not, in any straightforward way, imply 'can', distinguishes him, not only from hiscontemporary Pelagius, whom he helped brand...

• Révolution industrielle

• Slavery in Africa - history.

  Arab Slave TradersThis 19th-century engraving depicts an Arab slave trading caravan transporting black African slaves across the Sahara. The trans-Saharan slave trade developed in the 7th and 8th centuries, as Muslim Arabs conquered most of North Africa. The trade grewsignificantly from the 10th to the 15th century and peaked in the mid-19th century.Archive Photos The spread of Islam from Arabia into Africa after the religion’s founding in the 7th century AD affected the practice of slavery and...

• Slavery in Africa.

  The spread of Islam from Arabia into Africa after the religion’s founding in the 7th century AD affected the practice of slavery and slave trading in West, Central, and East Africa. Arabs had practiced slave raiding and trading in Arabia for centuries prior to the founding of Islam, and slavery became a component of Islamic traditions.Both the Qur'an (Koran) (the sacred scripture of Islam) and Islamic religious law served to codify and justify the existence of slavery. As Muslim Arabs conquered...

• Le Wi-Fi

  ~ 1 ~ Wi -f i i s a pr etty r e cen t w i r el es s r a di o co mm uni cati o n te c hno l o gy us e d i n par ti cul ar i n co mp uti n g a cti v i ti es . I t i s us ed i n p ar ti c ul ar f o r w i r el es s l o cal n etw o r ks , a nd no w ad ay s i t’s t he f i r s t w ay to ac ces s t he i nter net.  What are the advantages and the drawbacks of Wi -Fi technology, and how safe is it ? SUMMARY I - General Presentation .............

• Lifehack

• Prints and Printmaking I INTRODUCTION Prints and Printmaking, pictorial images that can be inked onto paper, and the art of creating and reproducing them.

  Bewick’s The SkylarkBritish engraver Thomas Bewick’s The Skylark is part of his History of British Birds (2 vols., 1797 and 1804). Bewick wasthe first artist to demonstrate the full potential of wood engraving and is renowned for his fine natural history illustrations.Each illustration shows some of the bird’s natural habitat.Folio Society, London/Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Historically, the wood engraving was chiefly used for illustrations in magazines and books. It is similar to th...

• Japanese Art and Architecture I INTRODUCTION Otani Oniji as Eitoku Otani Oniji as Eitoku is one of a number of woodblock prints created by the artist T? sh ?sai Sharaku between 1794 and 1795 during the Edo period in Japan.

  Jō mon PotteryJapan’s J ōmon people, who thrived from 10,000 to 300 bc, made distinctive pottery for boiling, steaming, and storing food.The pots were made with coils of clay and then decorated by rolling carved sticks, plant fibers, or braided cords over theouter surface. This cord-marked (j ōmon) pottery gave the culture its name.Scala/Art Resource, NY The first settlers of Japan, the J ōmon people (10,000?-300? BC), named for the cord markings that decorated the surfaces of their clay vessel...

• Indian Art and Architecture I INTRODUCTION Art on the Indian Subcontinent This map highlights places in India and Pakistan where prominent examples of Indian art and architecture have been produced.

  Sun Temple of KonarakThis 13th-century relief depicting a wheel of the chariot of Indian sun god Surya is situated in the Konarak temple. Thetemple, dedicated to Surya, is situated at Puri in the Gulf of Bengal.Keren Su/Corbis The arts of India expressed in architecture, sculpture, painting, jewelry, pottery, metalwork, and textiles, were spread throughout the Far East with the diffusion ofBuddhism and Hinduism and exercised a strong influence on the arts of China, Japan, Myanmar (formerly known...

• Cuba - country.

  Only two land mammals, the hutia, or cane rat, and the solenodon, a rare insectivore that resembles a rat, are known to be indigenous. The island has numerous batsand nearly 300 kinds of birds, including vultures, wild turkeys, quail, finches, gulls, macaws, parakeets, and hummingbirds. The bee hummingbird of Cuba is thesmallest bird in the world. Among the few reptiles are tortoises, caimans, the Cuban crocodile, and a species of boa that can attain a length of 3.7 m (12 ft). More than700 speci...

• Portraiture I INTRODUCTION Portraiture, visual representation of individual people, distinguished by references to the subject's character, social position, wealth, or profession.

  CaracallaCaracalla is a Roman portrait bust in marble of the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, probably done circa ad 215. Theson of Septimius Severus, Caracalla (as he was known) was a brutal man whose qualities come through in this piece withits dramatic realism. The bust, which is now in the Louvre, Paris, evidently served as the inspiration for Michelangelo’sbust of Brutus more than one thousand years later.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York The first representations of identifiable ind...