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Foucault's Pendulum.
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 1/8/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...than in The Name of the Rose, in Foucault's Pendulumn he conjures Culture...attempts to control history. (Foucault's pendulum, by the way, was invented in 1851 by Jean Bernard Leon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of...
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DRAMATIC FOUCAULT PENDULUM TO BE INSTALLED AT BUFFALO'S COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/13/2006; 531 words
; ...a dramatic, 25-foot-long Foucault Pendulum extending from the third...on Friday, April 14. The Foucault Pendulum, named after the French physicist Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, is the only instrument that...
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Are genes real?
Magazine article from: Natural History; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...the cathedral ceiling. It is known as a Foucault's pendulum, after Jean-Bernard-- Leon Foucault, a French physicist of the nineteenth century...succession. Science often behaves more like a Foucault's pendulum than like the forward march...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/11/1994; 459 words
; ...William Shenstone, poet and gardener, 1763; Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist, 1868; Honore Daumier, caricaturist, 1879; Milan IV, former king of Serbia, 1901; Jean- Francisque Raffaelli, painter, etcher and architect...
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WEEKEND BIRTHDAYS
Newspaper article from: The Press; 9/18/2004; 307 words
; ...Johnson, English poet- critic (1709-1784); Jean-Bernard- Leon Foucault, French scientist (1819-1868); Greta Garbo...Tomorrow: France's King Henry 3 (1551- 1589); Jean- Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French astro- nomer...
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ANNIVERSARIES
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/18/1995; 295 words
; Births: Dr Samuel Johnson, lexicographer and writer, 1709; Jean- Bernard Leon Foucault, physicist, 1819; Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson), actress, 1905; Kwame Nkrumah, prime minister of Ghana, 1909...
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Classic experiments, clay feet, doughnuts.(BOOKS)(SCIENCE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 2/22/2004; 700+ words
; ...proof that light was a wave after producing an interference pattern by passing light through two thin slits; and Jean Bernard Leon Foucault's use of a pendulum to demonstrate the earth's rotation by the apparent movement of the pendulum's plane...
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NA A&E BKS World Best Sellers Books
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 4/21/2006; 700+ words
; ...Darkly," by Donna Leon (William Heineman...American Vertigo" by Bernard-Henri Levy (Grasset...Savoir manger" by Jean-Michel Cohen and...bonne ecole" by Jean-Paul Brighelli...sont de retour" by Jean-Pierre Foucault 10."La face cachee...
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