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Galileo and Was
In Galileo Was Right, episode 10 of From the Earth to the Moon ( HBO TV miniseries ), at 48: 00 into the episode, Mission Control is overheard telling the crew of Apollo 15 " As the space-poet Rhysling would say, we're ready for you to ' come back again, to the homes of men, on the cool green hills of Earth ' "
* In Episode 10 (" Galileo Was Right ") of the TV series From the Earth to the Moon, ( produced by Tom Hanks for HBO ), his role in the training of the Apollo astronauts was featured in a segment entitled " The Brain of Farouk El-Baz.

Galileo and .
As a formal concept, the method has variously been ascribed to Alhazen, René Descartes ( Discourse on the Method ) and Galileo Galilei.
Galileo wrote " Waves are produced by the vibrations of a sonorous body, which spread through the air, bringing to the tympanum of the ear a stimulus which the mind interprets as sound ", a remarkable statement that points to the beginnings of physiological and psychological acoustics.
Galileo used smaismrmilmepoetaleumibunenugttauiras for Altissimum planetam tergeminum observavi (" I have observed the most distant planet to have a triple form ") for discovering the rings of Saturn in 1610.
* 1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
" The Four Books on Measurement " were published at Nuremberg in 1525 and was the first book for adults on mathematics in German, as well as being cited later by Galileo and Kepler.
The Copernican theory of the solar system – that the Earth revolved annually about the Sun – had received confirmation by the observations of Galileo and Tycho Brahe ( who, however, never accepted heliocentrism ), and the mathematical investigations of Kepler and Newton.
Although observations of some aerodynamic effects such as wind resistance ( e. g. drag ) were recorded by Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei, very little effort was made to develop a rigorous quantitative theory of air flow prior to the 17th century.
Later he claimed to be the discoverer of the moons, which led to a dispute with the true discoverer, Galileo Galilei.
Following Galileo and Torricelli, in 1646 he refuted Aristotle's followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum.
In 1616, on the orders of Paul V, Bellarmine summoned Galileo, notified him of a forthcoming decree of the Congregation of the Index condemning the Copernican doctrine of the mobility of the Earth and the immobility of the Sun, and ordered him to abandon it .< ref > Blackwell ( 1991, p. 126 ).
< cite id = disputedinjunction > The Vatican archives contain an unsigned copy of a more strongly worded formal injunction purporting to have been served on Galileo shortly after Bellarmine's admonition, ordering him " not to hold, teach, or defend " the condemned doctrine " in any way whatever, either orally or in writing ", and threatening him with imprisonment if he refused to obey .</ cite > However, whether this injunction was ever properly served on Galileo is a subject of much scholarly disagreement.
( Blackwell, 1991, p. 127 – 128 ) Galileo agreed.
( In 1633, Galileo would again be called before the Inquisition in this matter.
Several space observatories did the same, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the ROSAT X-ray observing satellite, and significantly the Galileo spacecraft, then on its way to a rendezvous with Jupiter scheduled for 1995.
While the impacts took place on the side of Jupiter hidden from Earth, Galileo, then at a distance of 1. 6 AU from the planet, was able to see the impacts as they occurred.
Instruments on Galileo detected a fireball which reached a peak temperature of about 24, 000 K, compared to the typical Jovian cloudtop temperature of about 130 K, before expanding and cooling rapidly to about 1500 K after 40 s. The plume from the fireball quickly reached a height of over 3, 000 km.
A few minutes after the impact fireball was detected, Galileo measured renewed heating, probably due to ejected material falling back onto the planet.
It is often said that Galileo thought the curve of a hanging chain was parabolic.
* Hanging With Galileo – mathematical derivation of formula for suspended and free-hanging chains ; interactive graphical demo of parabolic versus hyperbolic suspensions.

Galileo and 1980
Amalthea was photographed in 1979 and 1980 by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, and later, in more detail, by the Galileo orbiter in the 1990s.
By the end of the 1970s the gaps between issues were lengthening, and the title was finally sold to Galileo publisher Vincent McCaffrey, who brought out only a single issue in 1980.
This was to serve him in good stead in John Dexter's masterly staging of The Life of Galileo in 1980, the first Brecht to become a popular success.
His craggy looks soon made him into a character actor, although he won critical acclaim as Galileo in John Dexter's production of The Life of Galileo by Brecht at the National Theatre in 1980.
* The Life of Galileo ( title role ), National Theatre ( Olivier ), 1980
* Galileo, by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Howard Brenton directed by John Dexter with Michael Gambon ( 1980 )
< li > The Gold of Galileo ( 1980 )
* The Life of Galileo, translation from Bertolt Brecht, National Theatre, Olivier ( August 1980 )
* Galileo, 1976 – 1980, 16 issues
In 1979 and 1980 the company operated two ex-Lloyd Triestino liners, SS Galileo Galilei and SS Guglielmo Marconi, as a cruise ships, but this again proved unprofitable.

Was and Dec
* ‘ HUMPHREY, George ’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920 – 2008 ; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 2 Feb 2012
* GRAHAM, Sir ( John ) Reginald ( Noble ), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920 – 2008 ; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 21 Aug 2012
Started 14 games at RDE, declared inactive vs. San Francisco, Dec. 3, with a knee injury and vs. Carolina, Dec. 31, with the Saints having clinched a playoff berth … Posted five or more tackles in seven contests ... Ranked 14th in the NFL with a career-high 10. 5 sacks and added 56 tackles ( 35 solo ), two pass defenses, three forced fumbles and a fumble recovery … Had a sack in each of the first three games, and added a fumble recovery at Green Bay, Sept. 17 … Notched five stops, a career-high two sacks and a forced fumble at Tampa Bay, Nov. 5 … Had a pair of sacks again at Atlanta, Nov. 26 – where he also deflected a pass and forced a fumble – and had two more sacks at Dallas, Dec. 10 … Was also a force in the postseason, with eight stops in the NFC Divisional Playoffs vs. Philadelphia and seven tackles at Chicago in the NFC Championship.
*‘ ABERCROMBY ’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920 – 2007 ; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
The 2011 SAFF Cup was held here from 2 Dec-11 Dec 2011. The Final Was also Played Here Which India Won Against Afghanistan 4-0.

Was and .
Was the topic for a round-table discussion at the Bayerische Rundfunk in Munich.
But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.
Was a question that had to be asked long before they saw Paree.
Was he ever successful, Theresa wondered.
Was believed to have been founded by Branchus, son or lover of Apollo.
Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.
In recent years, the tea has been popularized by Wade Davis ( The Serpent and The Rainbow ), English novelist Martin Goodman in I Was Carlos Castaneda, Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, writer Kira Salak, author Jeremy Narby ( The Cosmic Serpent ), author Jay Griffiths (" Wild: An Elemental Journey "), and radio personality Robin Quivers.
When the Wind Was a River Aleut Evacuation in World War II.
Was one that kept his word.
" And There Was Light " chronicles his experiences from early childhood until his liberation from a concentration camp.
* Invasion of Cayenne ( 1809 ) ( 1809 ): Was a combined military operation by an Anglo-Portuguese-Brazilian expeditionary force against Cayenne, capital of the French South American colony of French Guiana in 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars.
* Luso-Brazilian invasion ( 1816-1820 ): Was an armed conflict between the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves and the partisans of José Artigas over the Banda Oriental ( Eastern Bank ), present-day Uruguay.
* Confederation of the Equator ( 1824 ): Was a short-lived rebellion that occurred in the northeastern region of Brazil during that nation's struggle for independence from Portugal.
* War of the Ragamuffins ( 1835-1845 ): Was a Republican uprising that began in southern Brazil, in the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina in 1835.
* Contestado War ( 1912-1916 ): Was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners, the latter supported by the Brazilian state's police and military forces, that lasted from October 1912 to August 1916.
* Constitutionalist Revolution ( 1932 ): Was the armed movement occurred in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, between July and October 1932, which aimed at the overthrow of the Provisional Government of Getúlio Vargas and the promulgation of a new constitution for Brazil.
Holly was depicted in the Quantum Leap episode entitled " How the Tess Was Won " although his identity isn't revealed until the very end of the episode.
*"' Wreckreation ' Was The Name Of The Game That Flourished 100 Years Ago ", The New York Times, March 30, 1969.
* Al Jazeera: Was approved by the CRTC in 2004 as an optional cable and satellite offering, but on the condition that any carrier distributing it must edit out any instances of illegal hate speech.
The surviving reels were featured in the BBC documentary The Epic That Never Was ( 1965 ), revealing some of Laughton's most accomplished acting.
The DVD release of the television series contains the The Epic that Never Was documentary.
* UbuWeb: William S. Burroughs featuring a cut-up, K-9 Was in Combat with the Alien Mind-Screens ( 1965 ), made with Ian Sommerville
Was the notion of " effective calculability " to be ( i ) an " axiom or axioms " in an axiomatic system, or ( ii ) merely a definition that " identified " two or more propositions, or ( iii ) an empirical hypothesis to be verified by observation of natural events, or ( iv ) or just a proposal for the sake of argument ( i. e. a " thesis ").
: Was not fond of gravy.

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