The unbearable lightness of being was published in Paris in 1984 by Czech author Milan Kundera. The novel is a mix of genre-defying mix of historical fiction‚ love stories‚ philosophy‚ and experimentation with narrative technique. Set mostly in Prague in the late 1960s‚ the novel focuses on the love lives of four Czech intellectuals as they struggle with relationships‚ sex‚ politics‚ and the military occupation of their country. The narrator frequently interrupts the story to analyze his own characters
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first heard it‚ while the Catholic church deemed such a position heretical in 1615. In search of the most detailed notes about the paths of the planets‚ Kepler contacted astronomer Tycho Brahe. A wealthy Danish nobleman‚ Brahe built an observatory in Prague where he tracked the motions of the planets and maintained the most accurate observations of the solar system at the time. In 1600‚ Brahe invited Kepler to come work with him. Brahe‚ however‚ proved to be suspicious and unwilling to share his detailed
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Other Works by Milan Kundera Poetry * Man: A Broad Garden‚ 1953 * The Last May‚ 1954-1955-1961 * a homage to Julius Fučík‚ the hero of communist resistance against the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia during the Second World War. The work conforms to the tenets of socialist realism and the strictly official communist version of history. * Monologues‚ 1957-1964-1965 * a collection of poems in which Kundera highlights betwen lovers. Here he rejects political propaganda
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Stonehenge The background of Stonehenge’s megalithic properties and astronomical history may lead to a better understanding of the ancestors that originally built them. Located in Wilshire‚ England‚ Stonehenge is Britain’s greatest national icon and one of the most highly visited ruins around the world. The underlying history and its purpose have left skeptics to question its true stance in history‚ and scientists to find unequivocal truth of how it was used. The construction of Stonehenge must
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This calendar helped shed light on the use of stone circles as astronomical calendars‚ and in particular‚ Stonehenge. In 1990‚ a paper by researcher Alban Wall summarized the similarities between the Sequani Calendar and Stonehenge. “Both Stonehenge and the Sequani Calendar are luni-solar (combining movement of the sun
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| Ancient India saw the relationship between knowledge of science and technology‚ with religion and social relations. The archaeological remains of the Indus Valley reveal knowledge of applied sciences. Scientific techniques were used in irrigation‚ Metallurgy‚ making of fired bricks and pottery‚ and simple reckoning and measurement of areas and volumes. Aryan achievements in the field of astronomy‚ mathematics and medicine are well known. Chinese records indicate knowledge of a dozen books of Indian
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The stages of transportation systems research are suggested below. Stage 1.Identification of objectives and functioning of the subject of research‚ defining the criterion of system’s efficiency. Stage 2.Defining the borders of the system. Stage 3.Identification of the structure of environment. Stage 4.Research of the structure of transportation system; identification of its elements. Stage 5.Investigation of the characteristic interrelations between the elements of the system; design of the mathematic
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titanium and steal on the outside walls nowadays you can tell that’s a Ghery’s building just by knowing the style of him. Some of his remarkable works of architecture are the Stata Center in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts‚ The Dancing House in Prague‚
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with honours. He received a degree later without even being examined in 1814. After graduation Babbage was hired by the Royal Institution in order to lecture on calculus. There‚ in 1816 he was elected as a member of the Royal Society and found the Astronomical Society. In the meantime (1817) he received MA from Cambridge. Since 1828 and some years after‚ until 1839 he was named the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. Charles Babbage also has the nickname "Father of Computing" due to his
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“Since we cannot change reality‚ let us change the eyes which see reality” -Nikos Kazantzakis. Nicolaus Copernicus battled with the powerful church to change the minds that believed Earth is the center of the universe therefore he changed today’s reality. The heliocentric theory proposed in 1543 revolutionized the scientific world throughout Europe socially by sparking a scientific revolution and religiously by causing a major conflict between theologians and astronomers. The Idea of heliocentrism
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