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Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain.
August 04, 2015, 10:35:05 AM
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Fractional crystallisation serves to reduce a melt in iron, magnesium, titanium, calcium and sodium, and enrich the melt in potassium and silicon – alkali feldspar (rich in potassium) and quartz (SiO2), are two of the defining constituents of granite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon



Spectral lines of silicon
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August 03, 2015, 03:08:23 PM
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The building is built in yellow brick with details and basement in light gray granite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite


The Cheesewring, a granite tor on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall
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August 03, 2015, 03:03:21 PM
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From 1901 to 1904, the ceremony took place in the Storting (Parliament)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storting_building


The proposal by Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno that won the 1856 competition, but was finally rejected by the Storting.
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August 03, 2015, 02:59:50 PM
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The organisation was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its "campaign against torture," and the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in 1978.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize


The 14th Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureates
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July 29, 2015, 07:52:40 PM
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Amnesty International later learned that the girl was in fact 13 years old and had been arrested by al-Shabab militia after she had reported being gang-raped by three men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International


The Amnesty Canadian headquarters in Ottawa.
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Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain.
July 29, 2015, 07:49:33 PM
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Furthermore, Deuteronomic code prescribes stoning not only for female extramarital sex, but also for female premarital sex in the case where the woman lies about her virginity:

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If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, … and say, / I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid. / … But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: / Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning


Du'a Khalil Aswad was stoned to death in Iraq
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July 29, 2015, 07:46:11 PM
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In 1781 Nash instigated action against Jane for separation on grounds of adultery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery


Anne Boleyn was found guilty of adultery and treason and executed in 1536. There is controversy among historians as to whether she had actually committed adultery.
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July 28, 2015, 03:11:55 PM
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Piccadilly Circus was created in 1819, at the junction with Regent Street, which was then being built under the planning of John Nash on the site of a house and garden belonging to a Lady Hutton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nash_(architect)


Cronkhill
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July 28, 2015, 03:07:22 PM
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The statue known as Eros atop the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain (1885–1893) in London's Piccadilly Circus is also of cast aluminium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly_Circus


Piccadilly Circus in 1949
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July 28, 2015, 03:04:02 PM
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Swaging is normally the method of choice for precious metals since there is no loss of material in the process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_metal


1 oz Vienna Philharmonic gold coin
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July 27, 2015, 02:20:33 AM
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A head is formed by clenching it over a washer in a swage plate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaging


A selection of blacksmithing swages.
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July 27, 2015, 02:17:15 AM
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The plates were laid in a clinkered (overlapping) fashion from the keel to the bilge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinker_(boat_building)


Clinkered prow of the Viking Oseberg ship
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July 27, 2015, 02:13:40 AM
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The funnels of the RMS Titanic and all other ships of the White Star Line were designated to be "buff with a black top" in order to indicate their ownership.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic


Copy after Merry-Joseph Blondel of the neoclassical oil painting La Circassienne au Bain; the most highly valued single item of cargo lost on the Titanic.
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July 25, 2015, 06:09:43 PM
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The fur is most commonly long and soft, with colors such as shades of brown, gray, and buff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buff_(colour)


General Washington wearing The Buff and Blue
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July 25, 2015, 06:04:51 PM
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Rabbits eat the bark of olive trees and can do considerable damage, especially to young trees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit


Outdoor entrance to a rabbit burrow
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July 25, 2015, 06:01:08 PM
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The sacred space, dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, Athena, had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive


Olive tree in Bar, Montenegro that is over 2,000 years old
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Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain.
July 24, 2015, 11:31:21 PM
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This account is generally accepted by modern scholars, although the earliest datable mention of it is from coins issued by Ptolemy II in 263 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia


Nalanda, ancient center of higher learning in Bihar, India from 427 to 1197
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Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain.
July 24, 2015, 11:25:56 PM
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Proclus later retells a story that, when Ptolemy I asked if there was a shorter path to learning geometry than Euclid's Elements, "Euclid replied there is no royal road to geometry."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter


The taking of Jerusalem by Ptolemy Soter ca. 320 BC, by Jean Fouquet.
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July 24, 2015, 11:09:10 PM
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Long before the first photographs were made, Chinese philosopher Mo Di and Greek mathematicians Aristotle and Euclid described a pinhole camera in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid


One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100 (P. Oxy. 29). The diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5.
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Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain.
July 21, 2015, 08:51:52 PM
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Initial attempts to find identical snowflakes by photographing thousands their images under a microscope from 1885 onward by Wilson Alwyn Bentley found the wide variety of snowflakes we know about today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography


Color photography was possible long before Kodachrome, as this 1903 portrait by Sarah Angelina Acland demonstrates, but in its earliest years the need for special equipment, long exposures and complicated printing processes made it extremely rare.
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