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Guglielmo Marconi, a 19th/20th century inventor born in Bologna, Italy, is given primary credit for which key invention? |
Radio
Telegraph
Television
Telephone
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Who was the 19th century British physicist whose key contribution to science was his formulation of four differential equations that enumerate the basic laws of electricity and magnetism? |
George Herbert Mead
George Edward Moore
Perry Gilbert Miller
James Clark Maxwell
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Karl Marx is considered to be one of the most Important modern figures in both philosophy and the social sciences.Born in Germany in 1818,he died 65 years later in which capital city? |
Brussels
London
Paris
Moscow
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4 |
This man's name means lion in Arabic he was born Zahir ud-din Muhammad, and is best known for founding the Mughal Dynasty in India. By what name do we know him today? |
Babingida
Bhumibol
Bakr
Babur
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Despite his being a failed and corrupt politician, he gained international fame for his writings on philosophy and he scientific method, namely The Advancement of Learning and 'Novum Organum'. What is this great thinker's name? |
George Berkeley
William Beveridge
Edmund Burke
Francis Bacon
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This man single-handedly ensured the development of the Germany empire in the late 19th century by Promoting an aggressive expansionist policy, including wars against Denmark,Austria and France.Name this iron man |
Bloch
Beckmann
Bismarck
Blucher
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7 |
Buonarroti was the surname of which of these artistic greats? |
Donatello
Leonardo
Michelangelo
Rephael
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Relatively unknown to us today this Italian architect was commissioned by Pope Julius II to draw up design plans for the great St.Peter's in Rome, after the old basilica had been dismantled.who was this architect? |
Bramante
Burri
Belini
Bellarmine
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The ancient Greek philosopher Thales is sometimes called the Father of Western Philosophy.In which ancient city was this 7th/6th century B.C. philosopher active? |
Thebes
Helicarnassus
Miletus
Sparta
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One of the great political philosophers of the modern are was Henry David Thoreau,the famed American author of the 19th century. What was the subtitle of his most famous work,Walden ,published in 1854? |
The Search for Meaning
Around the Lake
Life in the woods
Studies in Truth
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