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Encyclopedia > March 25, 2004

March 25, 2004

  • Évora-Tambacounda 2004 - 4 University students from Portugal and Spain start descending West Africa in order to redraw history. Their goal is to take Évora city UNESCO medal to several also World Heritage sites along the way. Total of 12000km in 5 weeks. Évora-Tambacounda 2004
  • The 2004 Abel Prize in mathematics is announced to be awarded to Michael F. Atiyah and Isadore M. Singer for their index theorem. (Aftenposten)
  • The terrorist group AZF suspends its bombing campaign in France but continues to demand money from the government. News agencies report that the government placed notices in Libération newspaper to contact the terrorists. (BBC)
  • The House of Representatives of US state of Georgia passes a ban on genital piercings for women, including consenting adults, as part of a bill to ban female genital mutilation as performed by some Muslim populations, among others. The ban does not apply to men. The provision is not included in the version passed by Georgia's Senate. (AP)
  • Novelist and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet is elected to the Académie française. (Académie française)
  • Five planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) array across the evening sky in a night show that won't be back for another three decades. (AP)
  • A prototype of a mechanized five-ton disaster-rescue robot, the T-52 Enryu, is unveiled in Japan. (AFP)
March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Abel Prize is awarded annually by the King of Norway to outstanding mathematicians. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Mathematics Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Mathematics Look up Mathematics on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Mathematics Bogomolny, Alexander: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles. ... Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM (born 22 April 1929) is a mathematician who was born in London. ... Isadore Singer (born 1924) is an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... In the mathematics of manifolds and differential operators, the Atiyah-Singer index theorem is an important unifying result that connects topology and analysis. ... Look up terrorist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... AZF was the name of a chemical factory near Toulouse, France, which exploded on September 21, 2001. ... Libération (affectionately known as Libé) is a French newspaper founded in Paris in 1973 by Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Victor alias Benny Levy and Serge July in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. ... The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Georgia. ... Body piercing is a form of body modification. ... Female circumcision (including excision) loosely refers to a number of procedures performed on the female genitalia and which are generally of a cultural, rather than medical, nature. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of Islam. ... Alain Robbe-Grillet Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-) is a French writer and filmmaker, born in Brest, Finistère, France into a family of engineers and scientists. ... The Académie française, or French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. ... A planet (from the Greek πλανήτης, planetes or wanderers) is a body of considerable mass that orbits a star and that produces very little or no energy through nuclear fusion. ... Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure trace Potassium 31. ... (*min temperature refers to cloud tops only) Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 9. ... Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the solar system, named after the Roman god of war (the counterpart of the Greek Ares), on account of its blood red color as viewed in the night sky. ... Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 70 kPa Hydrogen ~86% Helium ~14% Methane 0. ... Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 140 kPa Hydrogen >93% Helium >5% Methane 0. ... The T-52 Enryu (literally rescue dragon), or HyperRescueRobot, is a five-ton, 10-foot-tall (apx 3 m), hydraulically-operated robot, built to cut a path through debris for rescue workers, in the wake of an earthquake or other catastrophe. ...


 

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