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What amounts to an algorithm for solving this problem was described by Aryabhata ( 6th century ; see ).
During the Middle Ages, heliocentric models may have also been proposed by the Indian astronomer, Aryabhata, and by the Persian astronomers, Albumasar and Al-Sijzi.
* 499 – The Indian astronomer-mathematician, Aryabhata, in his Aryabhatiya, propounds a possibly heliocentric solar system of gravitation, and an eccentric epicyclic model of the planets, where the planets follow elliptical orbits around the Sun, and the Moon and planets shine by reflected sunlight
* 499-Aryabhatiya written by Aryabhata
B. L. van der Waerden has interpreted the planetary models developed by Aryabhata ( 476 – 550 CE ), an Indian astronomer, and Albumasar ( 787 – 886 CE ), a Persian astronomer, to be heliocentric models but this view has been strongly disputed by others.
While there is a tendency to misspell his name as " Aryabhatta " by analogy with other names having the " bhatta " suffix, his name is properly spelled Aryabhata: every astronomical text spells his name thus, including Brahmagupta's references to him " in more than a hundred places by name ".
B. L. van der Waerden has interpreted the planetary models developed by Aryabhata ( 476-550 ), an Indian astronomer, and Abu Ma ' shar al-Balkhi ( 787-886 ), a Persian astronomer, to be heliocentric models but this view has been strongly disputed by others.
One of his interesting findings was that the duration of the lunar eclipse of 30 August 1765 was predicted by a Tamil astronomer, based on the computation of the size and extent of the earth-shadow ( going back to Aryabhata, 5th c .), and was found short by 41 seconds, whereas the charts of Tobias Mayer were long by 68 seconds.
India ’ s first satellite, Aryabhata, was built by ISRO and launched by the Soviet Union in 1975.
India's first satellite, the Aryabhata, was launched by the Soviet Union on 19 April 1975 from Kapustin Yar using a Cosmos-3M launch vehicle.
Virasena gave the approximate formula C = 3d + ( 16d + 16 )/ 113 to relate the circumference of a circle, C, to its diameter, d. For large values of d, this gives the approximation π ≈ 355 / 113 = 3. 14159292 ..., which is more accurate than the approximation π ≈ 3. 1416 given by Aryabhata in the Aryabhatiya.
Aryabhata II also deduced a method to calculate the cube root of a number, but his method was already given by Aryabhata I, many years earlier.
*‘ Aryabhata Medal Award 2000 ’ conferred by Indian National Science Academy, Calcutta ( 2001 )
*‘ Aryabhata Award 2003 ’ by Astronautical Society of India ( 2005 )
* X-ray observations of GX 17 + 2 and GX 9 + 9 from Aryabhata by K. Kasturirangan, U. R.
The table of sines by the Indian mathematician, Aryabhata, were translated into the Chinese mathematical book of the Kaiyuan Zhanjing, compiled in 718 AD during the Tang Dynasty.

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The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.
Parsons would produce and engineer songs written by the two, and the Alan Parsons Project was born.
Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.
While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.
The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).
This score was partly in the Project style, recorded by most of the Project regulars, and produced and engineered by Parsons.
* Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey by Washington Irving, from Project Gutenberg
First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.
Project Mercury was followed by the two-man Project Gemini ( 1962-66 ).
In September 1962, by which time two Project Mercury astronauts had orbited the Earth, Gilruth had moved his organization to rented space in Houston, and construction of the MSC facility was under way, Kennedy visited Rice to reiterate his challenge in a famous speech:
* Lovers ' Lips by Plato in the Project Gutenberg eText Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by J. W. Mackail.
In October 1943, shortly before he was to be arrested by the German police, Niels Bohr escaped to Sweden with his family, later travelling to London and on to work on the Manhattan Project.
When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.
The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.
* Sephardic Cantillations for the Book of Job by David M. Betesh and the Sephardic Pizmonim Project
Bash is a Unix shell written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell ( sh ).
* Project Voldemort – A distributed database used by LinkedIn.
* Bernoulli Inequality by Chris Boucher, Wolfram Demonstrations Project.

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* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
Under the 1999 U. S. Government's Leadership and Investment in Fighting an Epidemic ( LIFE ) Initiative, CDC through the BOTUSA Project has undertaken many projects and has assisted many organizations in the fight against the HIV / AIDS epidemic in Botswana.
The Human Genome Project is an initiative of the U. S. Department of Energy (" DOE ") and the National Institutes of Health (" NIH ") that aims to generate a high-quality reference sequence for the entire human genome and identify all the human genes.
The U. S. State Department-funded Yale Cambodian Genocide Project estimates approximately 1. 7 million.
In 2000, Venter and Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health and U. S. Public Genome Project jointly made the announcement of the mapping of the human genome, a full three years ahead of the expected end of the Public Genome Program.
Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale did collaborate with Austin, Texas band The Octopus Project to perform " Girl U Want " and " Beautiful World.
It began as a U. S. Army proposal to place a scientific satellite into orbit during the International Geophysical Year ; however, that proposal was rejected in favor of the U. S. Navy's Project Vanguard.
Malina's thesis advisor was aerodynamicist Theodore von Kármán, who eventually arranged for U. S. Army financial support for this " GALCIT Rocket Project " in 1939.
* 1958 – The U. S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
Many of these were under contract by the U. S. government as part of the espionage program Stargate Project, which terminated in 1995 having failed, in the government's eyes, to document any practical intelligence value.
* U. S. Party Platforms from 1840-2004 at The American Presidency Project: UC Santa Barbara
Director of Defense Advanced Research Project Agency testified that U. S. Military is using P2P networks.
Modern romantic nationalism in the United States, characterized by the myth of the frontier, the assertion of natural dominance over North and South America expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, and the belief that U. S .- style democracy should prevail over other cultures ( e. g. Project for the New American Century ), has strongly influenced American foreign policy and is influencing global conflicts, and religious, ethnic and nationalist alignments.
According to the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, the actual de facto desegregation of U. S. public schools peaked in the late 1980s ; since that time, the schools have, in fact, become more segregated mainly due to the ethnic segregation of the nation with whites dominating the suburbs and minorities the urban centers.
North tells Poindexter that Noriega can assist with sabotage against the Sandinistas, and supposedly suggests paying Noriega a million dollars cash ; from " Project Democracy " funds raised from the sale of U. S. arms to Iran – for the Panamanian leader's help in destroying Nicaraguan economic installations.
In 1959, von Braun, head of the Development Operations Division at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, submitted his final Project Horizon plans to the U. S. Army.
* Mark V-by Sebastian Shaw for U. S. government's Project Wideawake.
The first operational Victor squadron was No. 10 Squadron RAF The Valiant arrived in service first, equipped with nuclear weapons supplied by the U. S. under Project E that supplemented the British Blue Danube and later Red Beard.
* October 11 – Manhattan Project: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented a letter signed by Albert Einstein, urging the United States to rapidly develop the atomic bomb.
* December 2 – Manhattan Project: Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction ( a coded message, " The Italian navigator has landed in the new world " is then sent to U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ).
* April 27 – The U. S. Federal Writers ' Project is shuttered.
* November 6 – Operation Grommet: The U. S. tests a thermonuclear warhead at Amchitka Island in Alaska, code-named Project Cannikin.
directed by Remo Bufano in New York, 1939, by the U. S. Works Project Administration ( WPA ).
U. S. WPA Federal Theatre Project poster for the production by the Marionette Theatre, New York, 1939.

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