Claudius Clavus (Suartho) also known as Nicholas Niger, (Danish: Claudius Claussøn Swart), (September 14, 1388-?), was a Danish geographer sometimes considered to be the first Nordic cartographer. It is believed that he was born in the village of Salling on the Danish island of Funen. He is comme...
Johann Kies (September 14, 1713 - July 29, 1781) was a German astronomer and mathematician. Born in Tübingen, Kies worked in Berlin in 1751 alongside Jérôme Lalande in order to make observations on the lunar parallax in concert with those of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille at the Cape of Good Hope. Read mor...
Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev (September 14, 1837 - June 11, 1903) was a prominent Russian mathematician, the father of Andrei Bely. Bugaev was the active member of the Moscow Mathematical Society and the president of it (1891-1903). He also wrote influential philosophical essays in which he trump...
Joseph Kittinger completed the first solo Atlantic crossing in the 3,000 m³ Balloon of Peace from September 14 to September 18, 1984. As an official FAI world aerospace record, it is (as of December 2008) the longest gas balloon distance flight in AA-10 size category (5,703.03 km) Read more
Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer (which are worded slightly differently from their King James count...
Thousands flock to 21st Southport Air Show to watch stunning aerial displays Thousands of spectators were treated to spectacular aerial displays at the 21st Southport Air Show. Organisers said early estimates were it was a record-breaking year with more than 100,000 thought to have attended ove...
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument and the Panhandle Astronomy Club are sponsoring a weekend of night sky enjoyment Friday, September 14th and Saturday, September 15th at Agate Fossil Beds. The night viewing program will occur from 8-10 p.m. on Friday night, and daytime programs will take place...
Shining light on the sun Within the next decade, China will observe the sun with the world's largest solar telescope and set up its first overseas observatory in Antarctica. Since 2010, the team for the Chinese Giant Solar Telescope (CGST), one of the next-generation ground-based solar telescope...
Berkeley Lab-led Observations of Electron Hopping in Iron Oxide Hold Consequences for Environment and Energy Rust - iron oxide - is a poor conductor of electricity, which is why an electronic device with a rusted battery usually won't work. Despite this poor conductivity, an electron transferre...
Tropical East Africa's epic flora survey completed The complete flora of tropical East Africa has been recorded by scientists, 60 years after the project first began. Read more
In mid September 1954, nuclear bombing tests were performed in Totskoye range during the training exercise Snezhok (Snowball or Light Snow) with some 45,000 people, all Soviet soldiers and officers, who were exposed to radiation from a bomb twice as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima nine ye...
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Selects Acumem ThreadSpotter Acumem, a provider of intelligent software for single- and multicore environments, and China HPC Technology Co., Ltd. (CHPC), a professional HPC application solutions and services provider, today announced that the Shanghai...
University archive of influential poet's work unsealed 100 years after his birth An archive of letters, notebooks and journals sealed after the death of influential poet and University of Southampton English Professor F.T. Prince has been opened for the first time. Frank Templeton Prince knew c...
