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In 1896 Zeeman learned that his laboratory had one of Henry Augustus Rowland's highest resolving Rowland grating, an imaging spectrographic mirror.Zeeman had read James Clerk Maxwell's article in Encyclopædia Britannica describing Michael Faraday's failed attempts to influence light with magnetism.
In 1978, mascot Zach Mills began the tradition of doing a number push-ups after every score equal to the number of points Clemson had in the game. [4] [2] Mills performed 287 push-ups in that game, a record that was later eclipsed by Ricky Capps, who performed 465 push-ups(including help from the Wake Demon Deacon) in an 82–24 victory over Wake Forest during the 1981 national championship ...
Gordon Earle Moore (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023) was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation.He proposed Moore's law which makes the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.
The impact left a crater eight to ten feet (2.4 to 3.0 m) deep and thirty to fifty feet (9.1 to 15.2 m) wide. [91] The coroner ruled that everyone on board who was still alive at the time of the crash died instantly of blunt-force trauma.
The original Latin word universitas refers in general to "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc". [13] As urban town life and medieval guilds developed, specialized associations of students and teachers with collective legal rights (these rights were usually guaranteed by charters issued by princes, prelates, or their towns) became ...
Kappa Delta Rho is collegiate social fraternity established at Middlebury College in 1905. [1] In the following list, active chapters are indicated in bold and inactive chapters are in italics . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Mustard gas is a chemical warfare agent with blistering properties, used in World War I.
The AME Church is not related to either the Union American Methodist Episcopal Church (which was founded in Delaware by Peter Spencer in 1813), or the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (which was founded in New York by James Varick). However, all three are within full communion with each other since May 2012.