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unusual facts about Revolutions



1543

May – Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) in Nuremberg, offering mathematical arguments for the existence of the heliocentric universe, denying the geocentric model.

Annus mirabilis

Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) in Nuremberg, Germany, which eventually alters the science of astronomy forever.

Anti EP

The third track, "Flutter", was programmed to have non-repetitive beats and therefore "can be played at both forty five and thirty three revolutions"; but following their disclaimer, it was advised that DJs "have a lawyer and a musicologist present at all times to confirm the non repetitive nature of the music in the event of police harassment."

Arab Awakening

The Arab Spring, a series of revolutions and protest movements that began in December 2010.

Barry Bergdoll

As a curator, Bergdoll has participated in several major architectural exhibitions, including "Mies in Berlin", shown in New York, Barcelona, and Berlin in 2001-3; "Le Panthéon: Symbole des Révolutions" shown in Montreal and Paris in 1989, and "Les Vaudoyers: une dynastie d'architectes" at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris in 1992.

Cross-national research

Cross-national research may be qualitative, as in Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions.

Destination Docklands

Destination Docklands was an event consisting of two concerts by musician Jean Michel Jarre on the Royal Victoria Docks, Docklands, London on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9 October 1988, to coincide with the release of Jarre's new album Revolutions.

Dora Levy Mossanen

She extensively researched the Tsarist era, the political upheavals and long-drawn revolutions that led to the rise of the Bolsheviks, fall of the Romanovs, and the execution of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children.

Duchy of Modena and Reggio

In the course of the Italian unification period in the 1830's-60's, the "Austria-Este" dukes were briefly ousted in the revolutions 1831 and 1848, but soon returned.

Haymarket Books

Haymarket also publishes accounts of various revolutions such as Alexander Rabinowitch's The Bolsheviks Come to Power, Building the Party and All Power to the Soviets by Tony Cliff about the Russian Revolution, along with books about the Spanish Revolution and the German Revolution.

Hecker Uprising

Joseph Fickler had emerged as a local agitator in the Vormärz period before the failed March revolutions of 1848.

How to Start a Revolution

Scottish journalist Ruaridh Arrow, who wrote, directed, and co-produced the film, explained that he first learned about Gene Sharp's work as a student, and then heard that Sharp's booklets were turning up on the sites of many revolutions.

Invisible College

Gingrich, Owen: The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus.

Italian regional elections, 1990

All Italy instead punished the Communists, revolutions in the Eastern Bloc having marked the final decline of the party: Secretary Achille Occhetto understood that an era was finished, and prepared the transition of his group to social-democratic ideas.

Jian Bozan

Qi Benyu, a prominent Party figure of the time period, also criticized Jian on four counts: opposing the theory of class struggle, denigrating peasant revolutions, praising emperors and kings, and applauding conciliatory policies.

Karen Hanson

Hanson is the author of The Self Imagined: Philosophical Reflections on the Social Character of Psyche and a co-editor with Kenneth R. Johnston, Gilbert Chaitin and Herbert Marks of the book Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory. Hanson has been a member of the editorial board of the American Philosophical Quarterly and associate editor of the Journal of Social Philosophy.

Mark Z. Danielewski

He is a fan of Biffy Clyro as the band discovered when Danielewski attended one of their shows after they borrowed the title of his novel Only Revolutions for their own album.

Matthew Naythons

In addition to substantive coverage of seven wars and revolutions, the collection includes his features on the Centers for Disease Control, Burmese rubies, and the film Apocalypse Now, and portraits of such high-profile figures as Steve Jobs, Charles M. Schulz, Pope John Paul II, President Jimmy Carter, Kevin Costner and Hunter S. Thompson.

National Assembly

In Germany, a Nationalversammlung was elected following the revolutions of 1848–1849 and 1918–1919, to be replaced by a permanent parliament (Reichstag) later.

Oleg Platonov

In his work The History of the Russian People in the Twentieth Century, Platonov treats the February and October revolutions of 1917 as handiwork of Judæo-Masonic conspirators, the agents of the Entente and of the German Empire.

OSC OSCar

Ultravox used one for the solo on Love's Great Adventure, and it is used for the bass on Stevie Wonder's Skeletons, Jean-Michel Jarre's Revolutions Overture, Seaweed (British musician) of Ozric Tentacles used one in his rig and perhaps most notably on Do They Know It's Christmas.

Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

His books have exposed the cultural genocide of the Penan peopleof Sarawak, Malaysia, helped to generate a renaissance of appreciation for British naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallaceand identified Eco-Cultural Revolutions which have had major impacts on our relationship with nature.

Revolution of 1830

The July Revolution in France leading to a constitutional monarchy lasting until the revolutions of 1848

River-class destroyer

Eden was given turbines to test their viability for future destroyer classes, with three propellers on each of her two shafts, to transmit the power at the high revolutions of the direct drive turbines, a feature of the earlier Turbinia.

Spirometry

Turbine/Stator Rotor (normally incorrectly referred to as a turbine. Actually a rotating vane which spins because of the air flow generated by the subject. The revolutions of the vane are counted as they break a light beam)

Talkin' 'bout a Revolution

In February 2011, Israeli band Shmemel covered the song and added a verse inspired by the Arab Spring revolutions, with the new song being given the title "Talking About an Arab Revolution".

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages is a nonfiction book by Carlota Perez that seeks to academically treat the subject of financial bubbles in modern economies by analyzing the emergence of long term technology trends.

Ultimo Power Station

The original generating plant at Ultimo consisted of four reciprocating steam engines supplied by E.P. Allis & Co of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, each rated at 1250 horsepower (hp) and running at 100 revolutions per minute(rpm).

Vasile Erdeli

Basil Erdeli-Ardeleanu as Emanoil Gojdu during revolutions of 1848 - 1849 in Transylvania and Hungary, the Romanian-Hungarian brotherhood promoted, but soon after the capitulation of Șiria, Arad kossuthişti Hungarian revolutionaries, supported in publicly, Franz Joseph I, Emperor of the Habsburg Empire.


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