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Topic: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain. - page 8. (Read 9894 times)

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From the 1860s to the 1880s many naval designers believed that the development of the ironclad meant that the ram was again the most important weapon in naval warfare.

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


A ram on the bow of Olympias, a modern reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme.
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The American Civil War saw the use of casemate ironclads: armored steamboats with a very low freeboard and their guns on the main deck ('Casemate deck') protected by a sloped armoured casemate, which sat on top of the hull.

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


Breech-loading 110 pounder Armstrong gun on HMS Warrior
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In addition to these structures, the Bock also included a system of casemates which originated in the cellars of the medieval castle.

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


The Beehive Casemate was built into this cliff at Obelisk Bay, Sydney, Australia, in 1871
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The recorded history of Luxembourg begins with the acquisition of Lucilinburhuc (today Luxembourg Castle) situated on the Bock rock by Siegfried, Count of Ardennes, in 963 through an exchange act with St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg)


The "Hollow Tooth" tower with Saint Michael's Church in the background




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I had to mirror the above image (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Huelen_Zant.jpg) for this post, I took a screenshot of the error that the direct link from wiki produced:





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg) <--Note that link is broken due to that second parenthesis, but if you wrap in code it works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg)



The image seems to work for me: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Huelen_Zant.jpg/640px-Huelen_Zant.jpg

BTW, I love this addition. Thanks, bud.
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The recorded history of Luxembourg begins with the acquisition of Lucilinburhuc (today Luxembourg Castle) situated on the Bock rock by Siegfried, Count of Ardennes, in 963 through an exchange act with St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg)


The "Hollow Tooth" tower with Saint Michael's Church in the background







NOTE:

I had to mirror the above image (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Huelen_Zant.jpg) for this post, I took a screenshot of the error that the direct link from wiki produced:





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As Russia mobilized in support of Serbia, Germany invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg before moving towards France, leading Britain to declare war on Germany.

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


Bouneschlupp is considered to be a Luxemburgish national dish
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After the end of World War I, the majority of the United Kingdom gunpowder manufacturers merged into a single company, "Explosives Trades limited"; and number of sites were closed down, including those in Ireland.

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


Austro-Hungarian troops executing captured Serbians, 1917. Serbia lost about 850,000 people during the war, a quarter of its pre-war population.
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Black powder may have been an important invention of Chinese alchemists.

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


The old Powder or Pouther magazine dating from 1642, built by order of Charles I. Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland
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Indeed, Ptolemy's Almagest was claimed as a condition for peace after a war between the Abbasids and the Byzantine Empire.

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


Byzantine lamellar armour klivanium (Kλιβάνιoν) - a predecessor of Ottoman krug mirror armour
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From there, the students of an Academy-in-exile could have survived into the 9th century, long enough to facilitate an Arabic revival of the Neoplatonist commentary tradition in Baghdad, beginning with the foundation of the House of Wisdom in 832; one of the major centers of learning in the intervening period (6th to 8th centuries) was the Academy of Gundishapur in Sassanid Persia.

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


Al-Idrisi's map of the world (12th). Note South is on top.
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Aristotle, who had been Plato's student at the Akademia, disagreed with his former mentor and added aether to the system of the classical elements of Ionian philosophy as the "fifth element".

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


Ancient road to the Academy.
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The active substance, which can be called Fate, or Universal Reason (Logos), is an intelligent aether or primordial fire, which acts on the passive matter:

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The universe itself is god and the universal outpouring of its soul; it is this same world's guiding principle, operating in mind and reason, together with the common nature of things and the totality that embraces all existence; then the foreordained might and necessity of the future; then fire and the principle of aether; then those elements whose natural state is one of flux and transition, such as water, earth, and air; then the sun, the moon, the stars; and the universal existence in which all things are contained.
—Chrysippus, in Cicero, De Natura Deorum, i.39

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_(classical_element)


Sir Isaac Newton
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The ship carrying the device also contained vases in the Rhodian style, leading to a hypothesis the device was constructed at an academy founded by the Stoic philosopher Posidonius on that Greek island.

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


Antisthenes, founder of the Cynic school of philosophy
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The Antikythera mechanism is an example of a very early and intricate geared device, designed to calculate astronomical positions.

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


Front panel of a 2007 reproduction
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A rotating cog wheel was placed in the path of the light beam as it traveled from the source, to the mirror and then returned to its origin.

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


Bevel Gear
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An alternate extinction hypothesis, from Melott et al. (2004), suggested that a ten-second gamma-ray burst could have destroyed the ozone layer and exposed terrestrial and marine surface-dwelling life to deadly radiation and initiated global cooling.

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


The electromagnetic spectrum

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This includes electro-magnetic radiation such as radio waves, visible light, and x-rays, particle radiation such as α, β, and neutron radiation and acoustic radiation such as ultrasound, sound, and seismic waves.

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


A triangular prism dispersing a beam of white light. The longer wavelengths (red) and the shorter wavelengths (blue) get separated



Invisible light and Light are the same Wikipedia pages regardless if linked or not.

I changed the quoted text that included "invisible light" because the one you quoted wasn't linked, albeit you expressed why you did such. I, too, lost it after I followed your steps and clicked on it. Note that once a link is clicked, the color of the linked text changes from a shade of blue to a shade of purple, thus easily overlooked due to the non-usage of underlining links.

No need to link italic text under images.

As for the images, I wanted them to be of actual footage as much as possible oppose to graphics. Although I love the Pink Floyd-esque image, the clouds would've been a better fit.

Thanks kindly, notbatman, for your efforts. You scored a 76.  Kiss
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[QUOTE NO LONGER AVAILABLE]

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


A cloud illuminated by sunlight






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As the "visible light" page no longer exists and now just redirects to "light" I'm unable to copy&paste the linking quote I had just read...
legendary
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Above infrared in frequency comes visible light.

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


A triangular prism dispersing a beam of white light. The longer wavelengths (red) and the shorter wavelengths (blue) get separated





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The link from "radiation" to "visible light" disappeared while I was previewing this post however, since I clicked a link to get to the "visible light" page that now just redirects to "light" I'm going to post it.

The quote I quoted from now exists on the "electromagnetic spectrum" page that was originally linked from the "ordovician" page. "ordovician" no longer redirects "radiation" to "electromagnetic spectrum" but to a "radiation" page of its own.

Were the links edited while I typed or is it a quote from another universe WTH is going on?  Huh
legendary
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An alternate extinction hypothesis, from Melott et al. (2004), suggested that a ten-second gamma-ray burst could have destroyed the ozone layer and exposed terrestrial and marine surface-dwelling life to deadly radiation and initiated global cooling.

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


The electromagnetic spectrum

vip
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The Appalachians first formed roughly 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period and once reached elevations similar to those of the Alps and the Rocky Mountains before they were eroded.

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


Colonization of land would have been limited to shorelines
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