timequiz 0.1.6 → 0.1.7

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data/lib/events.rb

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 =end
 
 # All events known.
+$events << ['First hydrogen bomb', 1952,'The first test bomb was called the Ivy Mike device. It was not a deliverable bomb- it weighed 82 tons and used an Atomic bomb to trigger the hydrogen explosion. The bomb was set off on Eniwetok atoll on November 1st. The weapon was 10.4 megatons- 1,000 times stronger than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. It was twice the power of all the bombs dropped during World War II.' ]
+$events << ['Publication of the theory of Special Relativity by Albert Einstein', 1905, "Einstein postulated in his study that the speed of light is immutable, constant, and independent of the observer's motion. Therefore, except the constant speed of light, everything is relative, including time, distance, and mass."]
+$events << ['The mass of the Earth is estimated for the first time.', 1775, 'Nevil Maskelyne’s experiment on the Scottish mountain Schiehallion set out to derive the mean density of the Earth, from astronomical observations of the deflection of the vertical and calculation of the mountain’s relative gravitational attraction. His results were later amended by the works of Charles Hutton.']
+$events << ['Joseph von Fraunhofer establishes the spectrum of the sun', 1821, 'In 1821 Fraunhofer built the first “diffraction grating”, comprised of 260 close parallel wires. Well versed in the mathematical wave theory of light, Fraunhofer used his diffraction grating to actually measure the wavelength of specific colors and dark lines in the solar spectrum.']
+$events << ['Isaac Newton is born', 1642, "Decoding gravity was only part of Newton's contribution to mathematics and science. His other major mathematical preoccupation was calculus, and along with German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, Newton developed differentiation and integration—techniques that remain fundamental to mathematicians and scientists."]
+$events << ['Ole Römer estimates the speed of light for the very first time.', 1676, 'Until that time, scientists assumed that the speed of light was either too fast to measure or infinite. The dominant view, vigorously argued by the French philosopher Descartes, favored an infinite speed. Römer observed Io, the innermost of the satellites of Jupter, known at this time and noticed the lapses in time between two observations of the moon. In a brilliant insight, he realized that the time difference must be due to the finite speed of light.']
+$events << ['Christian Huygens is born', 1629, 'Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch mathematician who patented the first pendulum clock, which greatly increased the accuracy of time measurement. He laid the foundations of mechanics and also worked on astronomy and probability']
+$events << ['Foundation of the Royal Society in London', 1660, 'From its first meeting, on 28 November 1660, following a lecture by the Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College in London, Christopher Wren, the new Fellowship would concern itself with natural philosophy – what we would now term science. Wren considered that it should act to transform knowledge, profit, and health and the conveniences of life.']
+$events << ['Galileo Galilée observes the first known satellites of Jupiter', 1610,  'A few weeks after his observations, Galileo determined that he was observing not stars, but objects in orbit around Jupiter. Today, Jupiter’s four largest satellites—Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto—are named the Galilean moons in honor of their discoverer.']
+$events << ['The Persian astronomer Al Soufi is born', 903, 'Abd-al-Rahman Al Sufi published his famous "Book of Fixed Stars" in 964 describing much of his work, both in textual descriptions and pictures. In his descriptions and pictures of Andromeda, he included "A Little Cloud" which is actually the Andromeda Galaxy M31.']
+$events << ["Failed British Macartney Embassy in China",1793, 'The British mission traveled to China in 1792–93 in an attempt to secure more favourable trade and diplomatic relations for the United Kingdom. Macartney was expected by his hosts to kneel three times and to touch his head several times on the ground in acknowledgment of the emperor as the “son of heaven” (tianzi) and of China as the Central Kingdom (Zhongguo). He refused to kowtow, however, and instead went down on only one knee, as he would before a British monarch. The whole mission was marked by misunderstandings, and the Embassy failed to achieve its goals.']
+$events << ['Copernicus publishes “De revolutionibus orbium coelestium”', 1543,'Copernicus major work, first edition 1543 in Nuremberg, was a compendium of six books published during the year of his death, though he had arrived at his theory several decades earlier: Copernicus held that the Earth is another planet revolving around the fixed Sun once a year and turning on its axis once a day.']
+$events << ['Permière heure universelle, “Greenich Meen Time”', 1884, 'People had been trying to standardise time for years, but nobody could agree. And so, to settle the subject once and for all, in 1884 a conference was called by the president of the USA, Chester Arthur. On 13 October 1884, the International Meridian Conference resolved by 22 votes to one, and two abstentions (one of which was France, obviously), that Greenwich would be the prime meridian of longitude.']
+$events << ['Begining of the Islamic Calendar', 622, 'The Islamic Calendar, also known as the Hijri or lunar calendar, began on July 16, 622 CE, marking the first day of the first year of the Hegira (Hijra). This significant event commemorates the migration of the Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, a pivotal moment in Islamic history that not only shaped the early Muslim community but also established a new chronological framework for Muslims.']
+$events << ['Introduction of the Gregorian Calendar', 1582, 'After centuries, the Julian Calendar had added ten days too many to the calendar, so Pope Gregory decreed that the day after the 4th of October 1582 should be the 15th of October 1582, thus correcting the error.']
+$events << ['The Tunguska event', 1908, 'On June 30, 1908, an asteroid plunged into Earth’s atmosphere and exploded in the skies over Siberia. Local eyewitnesses in the sparsely populated region reported seeing a fireball and hearing a large explosion. They also reported massive forest fires, and trees blown over for miles (NASA).']
+$events << ['The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe observes a Supernova', 1572, 'The appearance of the Milky Way supernova of 1572 belongs among the most important observation events in the history of astronomy (Wikipedia)' ]
+$events << ['The cities Nanjing and Wuhan, among others, are flooded by the river Yangtze', 1931, 'About 3.7 million people are estimated to have perrished in the major flood of the Yangtze River in 1931.']
+$events << ['The Classic Period of the Mayan culture ends', 900, 'Originally villagers and peasants, between 250 and 900 CE, the Mayas had founded more than 40 cities for 5000 to 50000 people.']
+$events << ['Incorporation of the British East India Company', 1600, 'The East India Company (1600 - 1874) should exploit the trade with Asian territories but evolved into an agent of Britisch Imperialism.']
+$events << ['Foundation of the Han Dynasty', -206, 'This Chinese Empire included modern China, but also most of Vietnam and Korea. It lasted for more than 400 years.']
 $events << ['Foundation of the UNESCO', 1946, '(4/11/1946) The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization wants to intensify the cooperation between peoples by developing education, science and culture']
 $events << ['Invention of soap', -1500, '']
 $events << ['First honeybees', -100000000, '']

data/lib/version.rb

@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
  ***************************************************************************/
 =end
 
-VERSION = '0.1.6'
-SUMMARY = 'Some new events added. Fixed a bug in the logging-configuration.'
+VERSION = '0.1.7'
+SUMMARY = 'Some new events added, mostly related to astronomy.'
 AUTHOR = 'Michael Uplawski'
 AUTHOR_MAIL = '<michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu>'
-YEARS = 2017 - 2024
+YEARS = 2017 - 2025

metadata

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 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
 name: timequiz
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-  version: 0.1.6
+  version: 0.1.7
 platform: ruby
 authors:
 - Michael Uplawski
-autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
-date: 2024-01-06 00:00:00.000000000 Z
+date: 2025-08-24 00:00:00.000000000 Z
 dependencies: []
 description: Play a history game
 email: michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu
@@ -43,7 +42,6 @@ homepage: ''
 licenses:
 - Nonstandard
 metadata: {}
-post_install_message:
 rdoc_options: []
 require_paths:
 - lib
@@ -58,8 +56,7 @@ required_rubygems_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
     - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
       version: '0'
 requirements: []
-rubygems_version: 3.4.20
-signing_key:
+rubygems_version: 3.6.7
 specification_version: 4
-summary: Some new events added. Fixed a bug in the logging-configuration.
+summary: Some new events added, mostly related to astronomy.
 test_files: []