• Science is a rigorous, systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world. Modern...
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    The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad (Greek: Αγώνες της 1ης Ολυμπιάδας, romanized: Agónes tis 1is Olympiádas) and...
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    L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (translated from French into English as The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, Arrival of a Train at La...
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  • The following is an overview of the events of 1896 in film, including a list of films released and notable births. January – In the United States, the...
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    (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). His science fiction imagined alien invasion, biological...
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  • Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The...
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    Territory. Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces in 1905. Between 1871 and 1896, almost one quarter of the Canadian population emigrated south to the US...
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    The Royal Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (Dutch: Koninklijk Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, 1778–1962) was a Dutch learned...
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  • time travel concept. Time travel is a common theme and plot device in science fiction films. The list below covers films for which time travel is central...
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    Alfred Nobel (category 1896 deaths)
    (/noʊˈbɛl/ noh-BEL, Swedish: [ˈǎlfrɛd nʊˈbɛlː] ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer and businessman. He is known for...
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    democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, theatre, and the Olympic...
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    Aix-en-Provence (UK: /ˌɛks ɒ̃ prɒˈvɒ̃s/, US: /ˌeɪks ɒ̃ proʊˈvɒ̃s, ˌɛks -/), or simply Aix (Occitan: Ais de Provença), is a city and commune in southern...
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    thus offering a solution to the Jewish question of the European states. In 1896, Herzl published Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State); the following year he...
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    Prize, Nobel laureates, and the founder of the prize, Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) Nordic Museum, dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden...
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    Pieter Zeeman (category Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    Zeeman's observations on Saturday 31 October 1896 at the meeting of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, where these results were...
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    Fitoussi has taught at Sciences Po since 1982. Élie Halévy taught history of English political ideas and socialism at Sciences Po from 1896 until his death in...
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  • Canadian playwrights List of Canadian short story writers List of Canadian science fiction authors List of Canadian historians List of Canadian women writers...
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    Germain En Laye" "Children > Presentation." Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Retrieved 1 September 2016. "Facts and Figures". Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye (in...
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    in humanities and social science joined the association: École française d'Extrême-Orient, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), École...
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    63, 65, 68–69, 70, 144–146, 159, 160, 180, 182, 183, 233, 247, 248. Lévi 1896, pp. 288–292, "The Sabbath of the Sorcerers". Jackson, Nigel, & Howard, Michael...
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    terms and expressions into the mainstream cultural lexicon; for instance, en masse, from French; cookie, from Dutch; kindergarten from German, and rodeo...
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    Japanese yen (redirect from Japanese en)
    from foreign nations. The name, "Yen", derives from the Japanese word 圓 (en, []; "round"), which borrows its phonetic reading from Chinese yuan, similar...
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  • explanatory models, is referred to as racialism, race realism, or race science by those who support these ideas. Modern scientific consensus rejects this...
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    Cross-dressing (redirect from En femme)
    borrowed from the modern French phrase en femme meaning "as a woman." Most crossdressers also use a female name whilst en femme; that is their "femme name"...
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  • Michelin the First and nephew of Girault Michelin. John Everett Millais (1829–1896), British artist. Louise Moillon (1610–1696), French artist, daughter of...
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    Lord Kelvin (category Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences)
    his own hand X-rayed in May 1896. His forecast for practical aviation (i.e., heavier-than-air aircraft) was negative. In 1896 he refused an invitation to...
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    (named as Ahasverus) and Prometheus at the end of time. It was published in 1896 as part of the book Várias histórias (Several stories). Castro Alves, another...
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    Jackson's chameleon (category Reptiles described in 1896)
    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T172531A1344462.en. Retrieved 18 February 2022. Boulenger, George Albert (1896). "Description of a new Chameleon from Uganda"...
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    Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (category Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences)
    justification for the Arrhenius equation. In 1896, he became a professor at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. His studies of the salt deposits...
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    de Brasil, or castañas de Pará (or Para). In North America, as early as 1896, Brazil nuts were sometimes known by the slang term "nigger toes", a vulgarity...
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