Pluto, named after the Roman and Greek god of the underworld, is the coldest, smallest, and outermost planet in our solar system. Pluto and its moon, Charon, are called “double planets” because Charon is so large it seems less of a moon than another planet. Pluto was predicted to exist in 1905 and discovered in 1930. It is the only planet that has not yet been studied closely by a space probe....
The Clay Institute’s Millennium Problems Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer ConjectureHodge ConjectureNavier-Stokes EquationP vs NP ProblemPoincaré ConjectureRiemann HypothesisYang-Mills and Mass Gap Related Links Henri PoincaréBernard RiemanFields Medal WinnersTopologyBiographies of Mathematicians Million Dollar Reward To create a bit of frisson among the public for the so-called Millennium Prize Problems, the Clay Institute announced it would offer a one-million-dollar reward apiece for solutions to the problems. While a layperson might have a tough time penetrating the quantum physics behind the Yang-Mills and Mass Gap problem, they have no difficulty understanding the meaning of the number 1 followed by 6 zeros and preceded by a dollar sign....
Hazel Scott was born in Trinidad in 1920. She began playing the piano at the age of 3. Her family moved to New York City when she was 4. At the age of 5 she debuted in a piano concert. When she was 8, she was accepted to the Juilliard School of Music on a six-year scholarship. At that time, students had to be 16 to enter the school. By the time she was 13, Hazel was called the child wonder pianist....
Related Links Conflict from 1948 through 2000 IsraelPalestineGlossary of TermsConflict Timeline During Passover in 2002, an explosion at a hotel in Nethanya killed 27 people. In retaliation, Israel launched operation Defensive Shield in an effort to stamp out terror. The operation included reoccupying such towns as Ramallah, Nablus, and Jenin. During the operation, Israel found evidence that Arafat had approved the organization of terror cells and that the PNA treasury department funded explosive belts used by suicide bombers....
Any number of applicants can meet the requirements for a nomination in these categories. Appointments (offers of admission), however, can only be made to a much smaller number, about 1,150 to 1,200 each year. Candidates may be nominated for vacancies during the year preceding the day of admission, which occurs in late June or early July. The best time to apply is during the spring of the junior year in high school....
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That’s not the only difference. ENIAC weighed more than 30 tons, filled an 1,800-square-foot room and included 6,000 manual switches. It used so much electricity that it sometimes caused power shortages in its home city of Philadelphia. By contrast, a notebook PC today might weigh in at about 3 pounds. You may know that “booting” your computer means starting it up. But did you know the word comes from “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”?...
Size: About 650 miles smaller in diameter than EarthDiameter: 7,519 miles (12,100 km)Surface: A rocky, dusty, waterless expanse of mountains, canyons, and plains, with a 200-mile river of hardened lavaAtmosphere: Carbon dioxide (95%), nitrogen, sulfuric acid, and traces of other elementsTemperature: Ranges from 55°F (13°C) to 396°F (202°C) at the surfaceRotation of its axis: 243 Earth daysRotation around the Sun: 225 Earth daysYour weight: If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 88 pounds on Venus....
title: “1998 Election Outlook” ShowToc: true date: “2023-02-12” author: “Mary Fowler” Gans attributes the steady decline in turnout to a prevailing cynicism with government that has been building since Vietnam. “The media looks for a hidden agenda in everything the government does, which projects a cynicism onto the electorate,” he said. In addition, “the malling of America, the decline of community, children being brought up in two-wage earner homes where parents don’t have the time or interest to vote, shifts in values to consumerism, a decline in the quality of education have all contributed to a shift away from civic responsibility....
Lightweight Double Sculls: 1. Tomasz Kucharski & Robert Sycz, POL (6:21.75); 2. Elia Luini & Leonardo Pettinari, ITA (6:23.47); 3. Pascal Touron & Thibaud Chapelle, FRA (6:24.85). Double Sculls: 1. Luka Spik & Iztok Cop, SLO (6:16.63); 2. Olaf Tufte & Fredrik Raaen Bekken, NOR (6:17.98); 3. Giovanni Calabrese & Nicola Sartori, ITA (6:20.49). Quadruple Sculls: 1. Italy (5:45.56); 2. Netherlands (5:47.91); 3. Germany (5:48.64). Coxless Pairs: 1. Michel Andrieux & Jean-Christophe Rolland, FRA (6:32....
