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Unusual Counting Systems
number zero, 0 balloon
Is Zero an Even or an Odd Number?
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Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)
The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church
Computer mapping, woman at early 1990s computer
Timeline of the 1990s
The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
New Seven Wonders of the World
A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England
Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
12 Greek Gods and Goddesses
Statue of Nostradamus
Nostradamus and His Prophecies
Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

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Also Known As Sir David Roxbee Cox
Born July 15, 1924 (age 100) • Birmingham • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (2010)

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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
British geneticist and statistician
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Sir Charles Frank
English physicist
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
British physicist
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British physicist
Sir Alan Cottrell
British metallurgist
Patrick Blackett
British physicist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist