Word: copernicus
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...endure a fair amount of paperwork, but for someone interested in planning out a specialized field of study, the extra work is well worth it. LiteratureAre you trilingual? Do you harbor a special love for all incarnations of the story of 1001 Nights? Do you consider the writings of Copernicus, the poetry of Apollinaire, the philosophical musings of Aristotle, and the narratives of Tolstoy to have equally great literary value? If so, you’ll feel right at home in the Lit concentration. It may be a smaller concentration than its peers, with about 50 concentrators...
...trilingual? Do you harbor a special love for all incarnations of the story of 1001 Nights? Do you consider the writings of Copernicus, the poetry of Apollinaire, the philosophical musings of Aristotle, and the narratives of Tolstoy to have equally great literary value? If so, you’ll feel right at home in the Lit concentration. It may be a smaller concentration than its peers, with about 50 concentrators in 2007, but like the other fiction concentrations it allows students to construct their own specialized field of inquiry. The emphasis in the Lit department is on cross-cultural comparisons...
IDENTIFIED Centuries of speculation ended on Nov. 20 after scientists announced they had identified the long-lost remains of 16th century Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus using DNA testing. Copernicus was condemned for asserting that the sun was the center of the known universe...
...There was a riot.RR: Would you consider yourself good at holding it in?DC: I’m a fucking camel, man. But Anna is holding a ten-hour rehearsal today and isn’t allowing anyone to pee. I think that’s how Copernicus died.[Note: Actually, Copernicus’s death was unrelated to urine, while fellow astronomer Tycho Brahe died of a bladder infection after refusing to leave a banquet to relieve himself...
...analogy might be too tight: Copernicus postulated—but did not prove—that the earth revolves around the sun. It took more than a half-century after Copernicus’s death before Galileo would muster more convincing evidence for the heliocentric theory...