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Произведения автора582007
Vasco da Gama
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (Portuguese pronunciation: ) (c. 1460 or 1469 – 24 December 1524) was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. For a short time in 1524 he was the Governor of Portuguese India, under the title of Viceroy.
Pat Clayton
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Patrick Andrew Clayton DSO MBE (16 April 1896 - 17 March 1962 ) was a British surveyor and soldier. He was the basis for the character of Peter Madox in The English Patient.
Precambrian
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Precambrian (Pre-Cambrian) is the name which describes the large span of time in Earth`s history before the current Phanerozoic Eon, and is a Supereon divided into several eons of the geologic time scale. It spans from the formation of Earth around 4600 Ma (million years) ago to the beginning of the Cambrian Period, about 542 Ma, when macroscopic hard-shelled animals first appeared in abundance. The Precambrian is so named because it precedes the Cambrian, the first period of the Phanerozoic Eon, which is named after Cambria, the classical name for Wales, where rocks from this age were first studied. The Precambrian accounts for 88% of geologic time.
Paris-Sorbonne University
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paris-Sorbonne University is a public research university in Paris, France. The 1968 cultural revolution, commonly known as the French May, resulted in the division of the world`s second oldest academic institution, the University of Paris, into thirteen autonomous universities. Paris-Sorbonne University is the inheritor of the former arts, languages and humanities faculties of the University of Paris.
Vacuole
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A vacuole is a membrane-bound organelle which is present in all plant and fungal cells and some protist, animal and bacterial cells. Vacuoles are essentially enclosed compartments which are filled with water containing inorganic and organic molecules including enzymes in solution, though in certain cases they may contain solids which have been engulfed. Vacuoles are formed by the fusion of multiple membrane vesicles and are effectively just larger forms of these. The organelle has no basic shape or size; its structure varies according to the needs of the cell.
O`Shaughnessy Dam
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The O`Shaughnessy Dam is a curved gravity dam on the Tuolumne River in the Hetch Hetchy Valley of California`s Sierra Nevada. The dam is located in Yosemite National Park, and creates the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. It is named for former San Francisco chief engineer and the original chief engineer of the Hetch Hetchy Project Michael M. O`Shaughnessy.
Operation Rolling Thunder
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained US 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 1 November 1968, during the Vietnam War.
Pastiche
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A pastiche is a literary or other artistic genre or technique that is a "hodge-podge" or imitation. The word is also a linguistic term used to describe an early stage in the development of a pidgin language.
Third Italian War of Independence
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Third Italian War of Independence was a conflict which paralleled the Austro-Prussian War, and was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austrian Empire.
Sun National Bank Center
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sun National Bank Center is a $53 million, 8,500 seat arena in Trenton, New Jersey, home to the Trenton Titans of the ECHL and other special events. In 2011 it will be home to the Trenton Steel of the Southern Indoor Football League. On November 13, 2009, Sun National Bank signed a naming rights deal for seven years for $2.1 million.
Pre-production
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pre-production or In Production is the process of preparing all the elements involved in a film, play, or other performance.
Snake oil
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Snake oil is a topical preparation made from the Chinese Water Snake (Enhydris chinensis), which is used to treat joint pain. However, the most common usage of the phrase is as a derogatory term for quack medicine. The expression is also applied metaphorically to any product with questionable and/or unverifiable quality or benefit.
Open theism
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Open theism is a recent theological movement that has developed within evangelical and post-evangelical Protestant Christianity as a response to certain ideas that are related to the synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian theology. Several of these ideas within classical theism (a designation which is not to be taken as inclusive of all of orthodox theism) state that God is immutable, impassible, and timeless. For several versions of classical theism, God fully determines the future; thus, humanity does not have libertarian free will, or, if free, that its freedom must necessarily be compatible with God`s determining actions. Open theists argue that these attributes do not belong to the...
Post-production
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Post-production is part of filmmaking and the video production process. It occurs in the making of motion pictures, television programs, radio programs, advertising, audio recordings, photography, and digital art. It is term for all stages of production occurring after the actual end of shooting and/or recording the completed work.
UNIX System V
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Unix System V, commonly abbreviated SysV (and usually pronounced—though rarely written—as "System Five"), is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system. It was originally developed by American Telephone Telegraph (AT T) and first released in 1983. Four major versions of System V were released, termed Releases 1, 2, 3 and 4. System V Release 4, or SVR4, was commercially the most successful version, being the result of an effort, marketed as Unix System Unification, which solicited the collaboration of the major Unix vendors. It was the source of several common commercial Unix features.
Passy
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Passy is an area of Paris, France, located in the XVIe arrondissement, on the Right Bank. It is traditionally home to many of the city`s wealthiest residents.
Theory of Colours
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Theory of Colours (original German title Zur Farbenlehre) is a work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet`s views on the nature of colours and how these are perceived by man, published in 1810. It contains some of the earliest published descriptions of phenomena such as coloured shadows, refraction, and chromatic aberration.
Pope Urban II
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pope Urban II (ca. 1035 – 29 July 1099), born Otho de Lagery (alternatively: Otto, Odo or Eudes), was Pope from 12 March 1088 until his death on July 29 1099. He is most known for starting the First Crusade (1096–1099) and setting up the modern day Roman Curia, in the manner of a royal court, to help run the Church.
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