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Aristarchus of Samos (/ ˌ æ r ə ˈ s t ɑːr k ə s /; Greek: Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος, Aristarkhos ho Samios; c. 310 – c. 230 BC) was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the universe, with the Earth revolving around the Sun once a year and rotating about its axis once a day.
New Guinea to Howland Island was the long leg over the Pacific Ocean. Waiting off Howland’s shore was the U.S. Coast Guard cutter USS Itasca, equipped with its own radio system and direction finder.
2,097 (1st edition) ISBN. 0-911560-02-5. OCLC. 49687706. The Urantia Book (sometimes called The Urantia Papers or The Fifth Epochal Revelation) is a spiritual, philosophical, and religious book that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States sometime between 1924 and 1955. When first published, it claimed to have been written by celestial ...
The " Great Moon Hoax ", also known as the " Great Moon Hoax of 1835 " was a series of six articles published in The Sun (a New York newspaper), beginning on August 25, 1835, about the supposed discovery of life and civilization on the Moon. The discoveries were falsely attributed to Sir John Herschel and his fictitious companion Andrew Grant.
Launched. December 2003; 20 years ago. ( 2003-12) FactCheck.org is a nonprofit [ 1] website that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics by providing original research on misinformation and hoaxes. [ 2] It is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University ...
Drawing of the inscription of the hymn text (1908 publication). The Great Hymn to the Aten is the longest of a number of hymn-poems written to the sun-disk deity Aten. Composed in the middle of the 14th century BC, it is varyingly attributed to the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Akhenaten or his courtiers, depending on the version, who radically changed ...
A review published in the Science notes that the volume incorporated insights from science and technology studies to explore modeling beyond its technical aspects [2] A second review [3] in the Minerva notes the book’s reference to the works of historians Margaret Morrison and Mary S. Morgan in considering models as mediators whereby models ...
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