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Wikipedia eklektiline sügavus XX

Rainhill Trials were an important competition in the early days of steam locomotive railways, run in October 1829 in Rainhill, Merseyside for the nearly completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway. When the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was approaching completion, the directors of the railway ran a competition to decide whether stationary steam engines or locomotives would […]

Wikipedia eklektiline sügavus XIX

Samson Option is a term used to describe Israel’s alleged deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a “last resort” against nations whose military attacks threaten its existence. Israel refuses to admit it has nuclear weapons or to describe how it would use them, an official policy of nuclear ambiguity, also known as […]

Wikipedia eklektiline sügavus XVIII

Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first U.S. test of a dry fuel thermonuclear hydrogen bomb device, detonated on March 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, by the United States, as the first test of Operation Castle (a longer series of tests of various devices). Fallout from the detonation — intended […]

Wikipedia eklektiline sügavus XVII

Chupa Chups is a lollipop company founded by Spanish native Enric Bernat in 1958. In the early 1950s, Bernat worked for an apple jam factory. After he broached the idea of making lollipops, the investors left. Bernat took over the company in 1958 and renamed it Chupa Chups. Within five years Bernat’s sweets were being […]

Wikipedia eklektiline sügavus XVI

Mappa mundi is a general term used to describe medieval European maps of the world. To modern eyes, mappae mundi can look superficially primitive and inaccurate. However, mappae mundi were never meant to be used as navigational charts and they make no pretense of showing the relative areas of land and water. Rather, mappae mundi […]

Wikipedia eklektiline sügavus XV

Euro ja suuremate võlglaste käekäik on jätkuvalt huvitav, kuid mul pole eriti millelegi paremale viidata kui Tyler Cowen’i postitusele, mis sisaldab asjalike mõtteid ja viiteid olulisemale. Lõpus toodud Yglesias’e postituse võib rahulikult vahele jätta. Dark Flow is a name given to a net motion of galaxy clusters with respect to the cosmic microwave background radiation […]

Wikipedia eklektiline sügavus XIV

Sperrgebiet (German, meaning “Prohibited Area”) is a diamond mining area in south-western Namibia, in the Namib Desert. It spans the Atlantic Ocean-facing coast from Oranjemund on the border with South Africa, to around 45 miles north of Lüderitz, a distance of 320 km (200 miles) north. The Sperrgebiet makes up three percent of Namibia’s land […]

Wikipedia eklektiline sügavus XIII

Celebration, Florida is a census-designated place and an unincorporated master-planned community in Osceola County in the U.S. state of Florida, near Walt Disney World Resort. It was developed by The Walt Disney Company. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,736 people, 952 households, and 716 families residing in the community. The population density was […]

Wikipedia eklektiline sügavus XII

Kusjuures “Garcia effektist” võib järeldada ühe hoiatuse: kui oled haigeks jäämas või tunned ennast füüsiliselt halvasti, siis ära igaks juhuks enda lemmik toite söö…kui sa neid just enda jaoks igaveseks ära rikkuda ei soovi. Lagrangian points are the five positions in an orbital configuration where a small object affected only by gravity can theoretically be […]

Wikipedia eklektiline sügavus XI

Kaalusin mõnda aega wikipedia eklektilise sügavuse seeria lõpetamist, kuid see on omamoodi kentsakas jälg uudishimust ja wikipedia mitmekülgsusest. Ühtlasi on tegu postitustega, kust on võimalik lihtsalt üle libiseda. Ja lõppude lõpuks, miks ka mitte taolisi postitusi aeg-ajalt välja panna… The caduceus is typically depicted as a short herald’s staff entwined by two serpents in the […]