Conservation status: Fossil
Adasaurus (Ada Lizard) was a bird-like carnivorous dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous Period. (The name comes from the name of a mythological evil demon of Mongolia.) It has been described as being very similar to Archeopteryx and its discovery added fuel to the present debate concerning dinosaurs and birds. Only incomplete fossils have been found, all in Mongo ...
Charles Wuorinen (born June 9, 1938 in New York City) is an American composer. Co-founder of the Group for Contemporary Music, Wuorinen writes serial instrumental music. Some of his pieces are influenced by fractal geometry and Benoit Mandelbrot, while his later works feature some tonal relationships.
In 1970, Wuorinen was the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for Time's Encomium. He is also the author of Simple Composition, ISBN 0938856065, which he says is, "written by a composer and is ...
Samuel Thomas Sömmering was the ninth child of the physician Johann Thomas Sömmering. In 1774 he completed his education in Thorn and began to study medicine at the University of Göttingen. He became a professor of anatomy at the Collegium Carolinum in Kassel and, beginning in 1784, at the University of Mainz. There he was for five years the dean of the medical faculty. In 1795 Sömmering opened up a practice in Frankfurt. As one of his many important enterprises, Sömmering introduced against many resistances the vaccination against smal ...
