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João Torto, a most likely apocryphal 16th-century Portuguese man who jumped from the top of Viseu Cathedral wearing a biplane-like flying rig and an eagle-shaped helmet. [55] Orban, the designer and manufacturer of the Basilic, a gigantic cannon used to break down the walls of Constantinople in 1453, died when one of his cannons exploded in ...
It is most famous for being the scene of the Battle of Utapau, marked by the duel where Obi-Wan Kenobi kills General Grievous. It is also known as the homeworld of the Grand Inquisitor of the Galactic Empire, an agent under the orders of Darth Vader. Despite its mostly desert surface, Utapau is the home world of the Utais, Pau'ans and Amanins.
[6] 17 November – Neutral antimatter atoms are successfully trapped for the first time, with 38 antihydrogen atoms held in place for a fraction of a second. 17 November 2010: scientists at CERN (pictured) trap neutral antimatter atoms for the first time. 28 November – Scientists reportedly reverse the ageing process in mice.
Unethical human experimentation is human experimentation that violates the principles of medical ethics.Such practices have included denying patients the right to informed consent, using pseudoscientific frameworks such as race science, and torturing people under the guise of research.
Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process. Multiple discovery sometimes occurs when multiple research groups discover the same phenomenon at about the same time, and scientific priority is often disputed. The listings below include some of the most significant people and ideas by date of publication or experiment.
The fragment, with a surface of 2 by 2.8 centimetres (0.79 by 1.10 in), is the oldest piece of writing from Jerusalem yet discovered, dating back to the 14th century BC. The high quality of the Akkadian writing indicates that it was engraved by a royal scribe and speaks to the importance of Jerusalem as a political center in that era.
January 10 – Donald Knuth, American computer scientist and mathematician; January 28 – Tomas Lindahl, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry; March 5 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist (d. 2011) March 7 – David Baltimore, American biologist, university administrator and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology ...
January 25 – The discovery of the planet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing is announced by PLANET/RoboNet, OGLE and MOA; February 1 – 2003 UB 313 is found to be larger than Pluto. February 13 – The recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi erupts. The last outburst occurred in 1985.