goloshchuk Flashcards

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Romantic artist, works embraced the imagination as “the body of God” or “human existence itself”​, mystical elements, deities, universe​

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William Blake

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An English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist​ {1796 first oil painting}. Imaginative landscapes, turbulent/violent marine paintings​. chromatic palette, atmospheric washes of paint​. shipwrecks, fires, natural phenomena: sunlight, storm, rain, fog​
fascination: power of the sea​

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Josehp Mallord William Turner

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Revolution in religious art – Holy Land – studying archeological evidence – clothing, appearance, etc. – biblical scenes as accurate as possible​

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William Hunt

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love as the most important subject​

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Rosetti

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paintings of landscapes, people, wildlife of Scotland – picture of Scotland for others in the UK – high in demand​

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Edwin Landseer

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Aesthetic Movement

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Oscar Wilde, Whistler, Rossetti, Leighton

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Classical Revival​. medieval themes: Arthurian legend, religious themes​
excuse to paint idealized figures/scenes – avoid reflecting the reality of industrial Britain​
scenes of Ancient Rome, scenes from Ancient Greece​
emphasis on passivity and internal drama​
worked primarily in bright colours​

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Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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free schooling for poor children​

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John Pounds

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1970 - more comprehensive schools were established -the Secretary of State for Education in the new Conservative government​

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Margaret Thatcher

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1918 empowered the local authorities to levy a rate (tax) to finance technical colleges​

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the Fisher Act

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a self-selected association of twenty-four public research universities. its members - the UK’s most prestigious universities​

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Russell Group​

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provided a theory to explain why species evolved, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859)​, „survival of the fittest“

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Charles Darwin

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penicilin
studied influenza (гріпп)

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Alexander Fleming

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1945 discovered the atomic structure of penicillin​
1954 discovered the structure of vitamin B12​
revealed the structure of insulin

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Dorothy Hodgkin ​

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discovery of images of molecular structures of DNA

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Rosalind Franklin

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theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation (Hawking radiation)​, theory of cosmology explained by the union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics​, A Brief History of Time (1988)

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Stephen Hawking

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inventor of the World Wide Web, implemented the first successful communication between a HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) client and server via the Internet​

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee

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expert on chimpanzees​
Tanzania research, 1960s​
observed human-like behaviours amongst chimpanzees

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Jane Goodall

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successfully broke the challenging German Enigma machine codes ​
development of theoretical computer science (concepts of algorithm and computation – the Turing machine – model of a general-purpose computer)​
father of artificial intelligence​

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Alan Turing

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1902 invention of Tarmac - asphalt

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Hooley

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1907 electroluminescence (principle behind LEDs)​

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Round

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1928 first colour television​

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Baird

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1930 jet engine - реактивний двигун

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Sir Frank Whittle

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1964 the first theory of the Higgs boson

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Higgs

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1966 patents the cash machine and PIN​

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Goodfellow

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1976 develops the first Lithium ion battery​

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Whittingham

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1976 develops the first Lithium ion battery​

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Whittingham

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1996 first mammal cloned (a sheep)​

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Roslin Institute