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Henry "Hank" Rearden. Henry (known as "Hank") Rearden is one of the central characters in Atlas Shrugged. He owns the most important steel company in the United States, and invents Rearden Metal, an alloy stronger, lighter, cheaper and tougher than steel. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Lillian, his brother Philip, and his elderly mother ...
In mathematics, the logarithm is the inverse function to exponentiation. That means that the logarithm of a number x to the base b is the exponent to which b must be raised to produce x. For example, since 1000 = 103, the logarithm base of 1000 is 3, or log10 (1000) = 3.
Atlas Coeli 1950.0. One chart from the color Atlas. The Skalnaté Pleso Atlas of the Heavens ( Atlas Coeli Skalnaté Pleso 1950.0) is a set of 16 celestial charts covering the entire sky. It is named after the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory in Slovakia where it was produced. The first versions were published by the Czechoslovak Astronomical ...
Kevin Atlas (formerly Kevin Clinton Laue; born April 13, 1990) [1] [2] is an American former college student and basketball player at Manhattan College. He is 6 feet 11 inches (2.11 m) tall. He was born missing half of one arm and has been recognized for his skills and success in overcoming adversity. In the 2008–2009 season he played at a ...
The Atlas consists of a four-volume book set, an interactive website, five floor maps, downloadable tile maps, plastic-coated maps, poster maps, teaching guides for elementary and secondary school students, and lesson plans for teachers. One floor map is the size of a school gymnasium, about 11 by 8 metres (36 ft × 26 ft).
Jìlóng. Tan Qixiang ( Chinese: 谭其骧; 25 February 1911 − 28 August 1992) was a Chinese geographer and historian who is considered a founder of the field of historical geography in Modern China. His magnum opus, the eight-volume The Historical Atlas of China, was published between 1982 and 1988. [1] [2] [3] He was elected to the Chinese ...
Linguistic Atlas Project. The Linguistic Atlas Project (LAP), is a survey-based research project directed by Hans Kurath in 1929, with the purpose to record words and pronunciation of everyday American English around the country. The Linguistic Atlas Project was first created by the American Dialect Society to create an American Linguistic Atlas.
Eduard Pernkopf (November 24, 1888 – April 17, 1955) was an Austrian professor of anatomy who later served as rector of the University of Vienna, his alma mater.He is best known for his seven-volume anatomical atlas, Topographische Anatomie des Menschen (translated as Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy; often colloquially known as the Pernkopf atlas or just Pernkopf), prepared ...