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days, this was synonymous with the industrial center of the world. James Prescott Joule, a young owner of a brewery, was walking towards his factory. Well, actually it was still his father’s factory, but [...] 5/5/21 367 KB (PDF) Historical Sources A Primary Sources Joule, James Prescott : On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 140, 1850, S. 61–82. Joule, James Prescott et. al. : The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule 1884, available online:http://archive.org/details/scientificpapers01joul

Mean". In honour of the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce's "Ulysses," the EUF and CAU-Kiel have joined together to host a lecture series and virtual reading group on Ulysses, entitled

J oyce’s Nonfiction Writing: Outside His Jurisfiction (with James Fraser, 2018) and Progressive Intertextual Practice in Modern and Contemporary Literature (with Christin Mulligan, 2024) as well as

politician, Charles Stewart Parnell, and also the day on which James Joyce's "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" takes place. This year, we will be participating in the commemoration with a culinary odyssey

Winner of the 2015 Geschwister- Scholl- Preis Winner of Le Prix FETKANN! de la Mémoire 2013 “ A captivating and si mul ta neously vexing mixture of historical lecture and political- philosophical manifesto.” — Andreas Eckert, Frank furter Allgemeine Zeitung “ Achille Mbembe is one of those paradoxical optimists who predict the worst without ever losing their faith in the future. . . . Admittedly, slav- ery has been abolished and colonialism is a thing of the past. But today new forms of alienation have arisen, the Other continues to be stigma- tized, and the monster of capitalism reaches for

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1807: 5). In his instrument description, Wollaston indicated James Newmann (1790-1830), at 24 Soho Square, London, as the main seller of his Camera Lucida. Newmann was famous for selling every

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Biography_Dalton_ENG.pdf Biography: John Dalton 1 Storytelling Teaching Model: wiki.science-stories.org Biography: John Dalton John Dalton (1766 – 1844) was an English physicist and chemist, a teacher in Manchester and a professor at Oxford University. Dalton was a man of diverse interests, although his greatest achievements were in the field of chemistry. Dalton introduced atomic theory by explaining the law of constancy of chemical composition, and formulating the laws of partial pressures and multiple proportions. He also carried out numerous tests on gas absorption in liquids and thermal expansion

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Biography_Democritus_ENG.pdf Biography: Democritus 1 Storytelling Teaching Model: wiki.science-stories.org Biography: Democritus Democritus (460 – 370 BC) was a Greek philosopher and thinker. Known as the “laughing philosopher,” he was a supporter of extreme determinism and a main proponent of ancient materialism. Around 430 BC he presented an atom- ic theory of the cosmos and is now considered to be the “father of the materia- list theory of matter and modern science.” Democritus, like many of his contemporaries, did not leave behind written works. However, from the messages of later Greek

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bygone cultures is, unfortunately, not a thing of the past. From James Earle Fraser’s famous sculpture End of the Trail to James Cameron’s Avatar, Indigenous American cultures have long been displaced

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