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1. Impossible Object -- Impossible Objects
   The first consciously constructed impossible object is the impossible tribar construction (see the figure below). The Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd invented it in 1934, and in 1956 it was reinvented independently by the English mathematician Sir Roger Penrose and his father. Their result was published two years later, when the famous picture Belvédère of the Dutch graphic art designer M.C. Escher was presented. Here a boy dressed in medieval style plays with aimpossible cube (figure on the right).
2. Kurt Godel -- Mathematicians
   Kurt Godel was a mathematician that lived in the early 1900's. Godel proved that any system that employed numbers could have statements expressed in that system that are true but not derivable from the basic axioms of that system. Thus, if the laws of nature are most fundamentally based on mathematics, then there may be things and/or events in the universe which do exist but are not derived from the more basic elements of the universe. It is difficult to adhere to a fully deterministic and logical universe if some things in it cannot be derived from the simpler elements. This would seem to deny cause and effect on which a deterministic point of view depends.
3. Epimenides Paradox
   Paradoxical versions of the Epimenides problem are closely related to a class of more difficult logical problems, including the liar paradox, Russell's paradox, and the Burali-Forti paradox, all of which have self-reference in common with Epimenides. Indeed, the Epimenides paradox is usually classified as a variation on the liar paradox, and sometimes the two are not distinguished. The study of self-reference led to important developments in logic and mathematics in the twentieth century.
4. Dyson -- Air
   Dyson is certified asthma friendly® according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. Air expelled from a Dyson has up to 150 times less bacteria and mold than the air you breathe. The most powerful upright for pet hair.
5. Charles Babbage -- Computers
   Charles Babbage was an English inventor and mathematician whose mathematical machines were based on ideas that were later put to use in modern computers. Indeed, Babbage is sometimes even called the inventor of the computer. He was ... a pioneer in the scientific understanding of manufacturing processes.
6. Tower Of Babel -- Stories
   The Liberty Alliance announced Tuesday that the Tower of Babel just got one story shorter now that five IT providers have passed a unified test to insure single sign-on interoperability. The Alliance is a consortium focused on identity management in Web
7. Diablo Ii -- Characters
   The Diablo II expansion makes several key aesthetic enhancements to the game. Most notably, it now lets you play in 800x600 resolution, up from 640x480. Though the higher resolution setting adversely affects performance on systems that approach the minimum requirements for Diablo II, for all the rest, this yields a threefold benefit: It cleans up the graphics by making all the characters slightly smaller and ... less pixilated, it cleans up and reduces the size of the onscreen interface bar, and it literally provides a tactical advantage by letting you see more of your surroundings at any given time. Once you try the game in the higher resolution, you'll have a difficult time going back to the standard setting. Besides this, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction includes an excellent new symphonic score for the fifth act and impressive high-quality cinematic sequences for the introduction and ending of the new act.
8. Johann Sebastian Bach -- Art
   Bach's place in music is ... far higher than that of a reformer, or even of an inventor of new forms. He is a spectator of all musical time and existence, to whom it is not of the smallest importance whether a thing be new or old, so long as it is true. It is doubtful whether even the forms most peculiar to him (such as the arpeggio-prelude) are of his invention. Yet he left no form as he found it, - not even that most conventional of all, the Da Capo Aria, which he did not outwardly alter in the least. On the other hand, with every form he touched he said the last word. All the material that could be assimilated into a mature art he vitalized in his own way, and he had no imitators.
9. History of the Netherlands
   The part called 'history and description of the foreign possessions' (E 4780-4984) primarily relates to the activities of the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company. Highlights of this collection are mentioned in the exhibition catalogue Reistogten om den Aardkloot (Amsterdam: Bibliotheek KNAW, 1995). The following overview is restricted to works which did not constitute part of this exhibition.
10. Francis Crick
    Francis Crick was born, the firstson of Harry and Alex Elisabeth Crick (nee Wilkins), and raised in Weston Favell a small village near the English town of Northampton where Crick’s father and uncle ran the family’s boot and shoe factory. At an early age he was attracted to science and what he could learn about it from books. As a child he was taken to church (Congregationalist) by his parents, but by about age 12 he told his mother that he no longer wanted to attend.[3] Crick preferred the scientific search for answers over belief in any dogma. He was educated at Northampton Grammar School (now Northampton School For Boys) and, after the age of 14, Mill Hill School in London (on scholarship) where he studied mathematics, physics and chemistry. At the age of 21, Crick earned a B.Sc. degree in physics from University College London (UCL).[3] Unfortunately, he had failed to gain a place at a Cambridge college as he wanted to, probably through falling foul of their requirement for Latin; his contemporaries in British DNA research Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins both went up to Cambridge colleges, to Newnham and St. John's colleges respectively.

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