• Annus mirabilis (pl. anni mirabiles) is a Latin phrase that means "marvelous year", "wonderful year", or "miraculous year". This term has been used to...
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    The annus mirabilis papers (from Latin annus mīrābilis, "miraculous year") are the four that Albert Einstein published in the scientific journal Annalen...
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    Annus Mirabilis is a poem written by John Dryden published in 1667. It commemorated 1665–1666, the "year of miracles" of London. Despite the poem's name...
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  • Annus horribilis (pl. anni horribiles) is a Latin phrase that means "horrible year". It is complementary to annus mirabilis, which means "wonderful year"...
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    he published four groundbreaking papers, sometimes described as his annus mirabilis (miracle year). These papers outlined a theory of the photoelectric...
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    consolidate and achieve its war aims. In 1759, Britain enjoyed an Annus Mirabilis, with success over the French on the continent (Germany), in North...
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    In 1814, the Kingdom of Norway made a brief and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to regain its independence. While Norway had always legally been a separate...
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  • mirabilis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mirabilis is a Latin adjective meaning "amazing, wondrous, remarkable", and is used to refer to: Annus mirabilis...
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    though a difficult period for the poet, marked the beginning of his annus mirabilis in which he wrote his most mature work. He had been inspired by a series...
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    physics journal. These are the papers that history has come to call the Annus Mirabilis papers: His paper on the particulate nature of light put forward the...
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  • committee also failed to recognize the other contributions of his Annus Mirabilis papers on Brownian motion and special relativity. Often these nominations...
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    work Marić is thought by some to have contributed (in particular the Annus Mirabilis papers). In 1921 Mileva Marić received the Nobel Prize money her ex-husband...
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    William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, PC, FRS (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain...
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  • emitted by them. 2005 was renamed the "annus mirabilis" of numerical relativity, 100 years after the annus mirabilis papers of special relativity (1905)...
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  • Picasso of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter. Painted during Picasso's annus mirabilis, the work depicts Walter sitting upright in an armchair. In 2023, the...
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    that was, if not acceptable, at least understandable. John Dryden, in Annus Mirabilis, suggested that the king's keeping of mistresses and production of...
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  • being drawn up against Ireland for a play-off tie, making 2011 the "annus mirabilis of Estonian football". They have since repeated this feat by qualifying...
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  • having hoped that the Queen would experience an annus mirabilis but instead finding 1992 an annus horribilis. She used the phrase in a speech to describe...
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  • Casket, act 1, scene 1". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-24. "annus horribilis". Webster's Dictionary. Retrieved 17 March 2018. "apologia pro...
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    wife Mileva Marić, and their son Hans Einstein from 1903 to 1905. The Annus Mirabilis papers, which presented Einstein's theory of relativity and contributed...
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    Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey cites 1882 as Cruls' annus mirabilis. In that single year, Cruls co-discovered the Great Comet of 1882,...
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  • examples of ballad meter.) Decasyllabic quatrain used by John Dryden in Annus Mirabilis, William Davenant in Gondibert, and Thomas Gray Various hymns employ...
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  • People Really Read in 1922: If Winter Comes, the Bestseller in the Annus Mirabilis of Modernism", in Macdonald, Kate, and Singer, Christoph, Eds, Transitions...
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    the siege of Calais on 4 September 1346 became known as Edward III's annus mirabilis (year of marvels). After an eleven-month siege, which stretched both...
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  • theorem, including Einstein's explanation of Brownian motion during his annus mirabilis and Harry Nyquist's explanation in 1928 of Johnson noise in electrical...
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    the inertia of a body depend upon its energy-content?", one of his annus mirabilis papers, published on 21 November 1905. The formula and its relationship...
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  • "This Be The Verse" and "The Explosion", as well as the title poem. "Annus Mirabilis" (Year of Wonder), also from that volume, contains the frequently quoted...
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    1653, so much so that the year 1652 could be considered a Spanish annus mirabilis. However, following the end of the Fronde and an English intervention...
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  • 1666 in England was the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem, which celebrated England's failure to be beaten...
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    year. In Britain, the victory is celebrated as contributing to the Annus Mirabilis of 1759. The western German-speaking states of Europe had been a major...
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