After she died, some men broke her statues and removed her name from documents. Other times, it's because a man's name became more famous. For example, Charles Babbage is called the“father of computers", but a woman, Ad a Lovelace, wrote the first computer program.Why haven't we ...
As an epic (史诗)56brings back to life some of the most famous poets from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the highly57(expect) animated movie Chang’an held its premiere (首映) in58was once its namesake city, now ...
Student: And these things were popular? Professor: Yes. They may have been the most popular features of the gardens. I mean, flowers and statues can be nice to look at, but these things were a lot more fun. And the more clever the device is, the more famous the garden and the great...
These words are anyway grasped by tiny children without the need to know what they are called. This may tempt the conclusion that the teaching of grammar should be shelved altogether. But there are reasons to reform it rather than scrap it. One of practical reasons to ask children to work ...
The concept of inanimate objects endowed with intelligence has been around since ancient times. The Greek god Hephaestus was depicted in myths as forging robot-like servants out of gold, while engineers in ancient Egypt built statues of gods that could move, animated by hidden mechanisms operated ...
Tower of London: Founded by William the Conqueror in 1066-7 and enlarged and modified by successive sovereigns, today the Tower of London is one of the world's most famous and spectacular fortresses. In its time it has been a royal palace, a fortress, a prison, an armoury, a treasury ...
Perhaps the most famous proponent of a view of this sort is Karl Popper,who argued that the problem of induction was not nearly as pressing as it might at first seem because we don’t in fact make use of inductive inferences all that often.In particular, he claimed that science, properly...
Leafy parks, grand boulevards, magnificent cathedrals, and the world’s most glamorous fashion scene are all part of what Paris is famous for.
The federal government has a series of overlapping statues that are used to prosecute hate crimes, including the Civil Rights Act of 1969 and the Shepard Byrd Act, passed in 2009, that allow the federal criminal prosecution of hate crimes motivated by the victim's sexual orientation or gender ...
How many arches are in the Colosseum? How many windows does the Colosseum have? How much does the Colosseum weigh? How many seats are in the Colosseum? How many animals died in the Colosseum? What was Roman theatre famous for? What is an ancient Roman theatre called? What is the first ...