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Tian Shan Mountains

Tian Shan Mountains

The Tian Shan mountains, stretching across the border region of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and western China, are pictured in this Envisat image. As one of the longest mountain ranges in Central Asia, the Tian Shan mountain...

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marconism
  • (noun) The art of wireless telegraphy according to the Marconi system, in which Hertzian waves are used in transmission and a coherer is used as the receiving instrument.
Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy.

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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

- Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)

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