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Look up: Galvani

  1. Galvani
    Type: Term Pronunciation: gahl-vahn′ē Definitions: 1. Luigi, Italian physician and anatomist, 1737-1798. See: galvanism
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  2. Galvani
    [n] - Italian physiologist noted for his discovery that frogs` muscles contracted in an electric field (which led to the galvanic cell) (1737-1798)
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Galvani
    Galvani, Luigi (1737-1798) An Italian anatomist and physiologist, he noticed in 1780 that the muscles of dissected frog legs twitched wildly when a spark from a Leyden jar (early device for storing electric charge) struck them. Since electric shocks made living muscles twitch, why not dead ones, to...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  4. Galvani
    The Galvani was an Italian Galvani Class ocean-going submarine of 896 tons displacement launched in 1938. She was powered by two Tosi diesel engines and two electric motors providing a top speed of 17 knots surfaced and nine knots dived, could dive to a depth of 60 fathoms, and was armed with one 3....
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  5. Galvani
    (crater) `Galvani` is a lunar crater that lies close to the northwestern limb of the Moon, due south of the larger walled plain Volta. It partly overlies the southeast rim of the crater Langley, which occupies half the gap between Volta and Galvani. To the northeast is the large walled plain ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvani

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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