- Black Monday by Webster's
The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by English schoolboys.Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold.
- Tekirdağ by Devin Hanson
City (1990 pop. 80,207), capital of Tekirdağ prov., NW Turkey, on the Sea of Marmara. It is a small port and an agricultural trade center. It was known in ancient times as Bisanthe and as Rhaedestus and later as Rodosto. Founded by Greek colonists from Sámos, it later became an important city of the Thracian kingdom. It was conquered by the Ottoman Turks c.1360. The name was officially ...
- Calcium Fluoride by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
CaF 2, a salt; colorless crystals. Density, 3.18 g per cm 3; melting point, 1360°C.Calcium fluoride is practically insoluble in water. It exists in nature in the form of the mineral fluorite (fluorspar) and is a component of apatite. Calcium fluoride serves as a source material in the preparation of hydrogen fluoride and other compounds and as a flux in metallurgy.
- Kazi Zadeh Al-Rumi by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born circa 1360 in Bursa, Turkey; died circa 1437. Mathematician and astronomer.Kazi Zadeh worked in Samarkand in Ulug Beg’s observatory. He was one of the compilers of Zij Ulug Beg. And the author of Treatise on the Determination of the Sine of One Degree., which contains the derivation and solution of the equation for a chord of 2° (that is, the doubled sine of 1°).REFERENCE Istoriko ...
- Langham, Simon by Kyle Kelley
D. 1376, English prelate and statesman, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He ruled the abbey of Westminster with such skill that Edward III appointed (1360) him treasurer and chancellor (1363). Created bishop of Ely in 1362, Langham rose to be archbishop of Canterbury (1366). His acceptance of the red hat without royal permission led to a breach with Edward, and Langham resigned (1368). He ...