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  2. Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia

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    Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ oʊ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ /, US also / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː oʊ-/; Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]), was an Italian (Florentine) [a] astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.

  3. Mycosphaerella - Wikipedia

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    Mycosphaerella is a genus of ascomycota. With more than 10,000 species, it is the largest genus of plant pathogen fungi. The following introduction about the fungal genus Mycosphaerella is copied (with permission) from the dissertation of W. Quaedvlieg (named: Re-evaluating Mycosphaerella and allied genera). [1]

  4. Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    Title page of Lucubrationes, 1541 edition, one of the first books to use a variant of the word encyclopedia in the title. An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopaedia (British English) [1] is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field or discipline. [2][3 ...

  5. GOP-led House committees release lengthy report alleging ...

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    August 19, 2024 at 10:26 AM. Reps. James Comer, R-Ky., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, at a hearing on Capitol Hill in March. The Republican-led House committees investigating whether to impeach President ...

  6. Edmund Husserl - Wikipedia

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    Phenomenological description. Mereology. Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (/ ˈhʊsɜːrl / HUUSS-url; [ 14 ] US also / ˈhʊsərəl / HUUSS-ər-əl, [ 15 ]German: [ˈɛtmʊnt ˈhʊsɐl]; [ 16 ] 8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938 [ 17 ]) was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology.

  7. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery - Wikipedia

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    Designated. 25 April 1952. Reference no. 1210333. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BM&AG) is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, natural history, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history.

  8. Ibn al-Haytham - Wikipedia

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    Biography. Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) was born c. 965 to a family of Arab [9][31][32][33][34] or Persian [35][36][37][38][39] origin in Basra, Iraq, which was at the time part of the Buyid emirate. His initial influences were in the study of religion and service to the community. At the time, society had a number of conflicting views of religion ...

  9. Great Pyramid of Giza - Wikipedia

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    The Great Pyramid of Giza [a] is the largest Egyptian pyramid.It served as the tomb of pharaoh Khufu, who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom.Built c. 2600 BC, [3] over a period of about 27 years, [4] the pyramid is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only wonder that has remained largely intact.