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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (26 September 1849 – 27 February 1936) was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning.
September 27 is all about recycling. At least when it comes to our transatlantic neighbours in the USA, who celebrate this date as the so-called crush-one can day.
There is no special event known to us today.
in the year 3021 3. ZA. At the Graue Anfurten Círdan waited with the last remaining ship, which was to sail to Valinor. It was supposed to bring some of the most powerful of Middle-earth to Valinor: Galadriel, Elrond and Gandalf, the bearers of the three Elbenrings, Celeborn, Galadriels husband, and Frodo the Halfling, who destroyed the One Ring, because the bearers of the One Ring were allowed to enter Valinor.
Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger (30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German physicist. He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus. He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger.
Wolverine is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, mostly in association with the X-Men.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C for short) is the committee for the standardization of techniques in the World Wide Web. It was founded by Tim Berners Lee on 1 October 1994.
Captain John Price, callsign Bravo Six, is a British special forces soldier and a protagonist of the Modern Warfare franchise
Sir William Ramsay (2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air".
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, which promotes the universal freedom to study, distribute, create, and modify computer software,[4] with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms,[5] such as with its own GNU General Public License.
On 4 October 1957, Sputnik 1 was the first artificial earth satellite in orbit and is regarded as the starting signal for Soviet space travel.
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City.
Maniac Mansion is a 1987 graphic adventure video game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games. It follows teenage protagonist Dave Miller as he attempts to rescue his girlfriend from a mad scientist, whose mind has been enslaved by a sentient meteor.