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Systems Analyst

What is this job like? These workers figure out how to use computers to get things done. They tell businesses and other organizations which computers and software to buy, and they decide how…

A Shock to the System?

Several Tropical Countries Make Their Debut at the Winter Games by Catherine McNiff Related Links 2010 Winter OlympicsMemorable Olympic MomentsBirth of the Modern…

The Solar System

  Comet Hale-Bopp Triton The Flap Over Pluto New Uranian Moons Discovered A Richter Scale for Close Encounter Asteroids Caliban and Sycorax Ultraviolet Death May Follow Asteroid Devastation…

Brewer's: Ptolemaic System

The system of Claudius Ptolemæus, a celebrated astronomer of Palusium, in Egypt, of the eleventh century. He taught that the earth is fixed in the centre of the universe, and the heavens…

Brewer's: Pythagorean System

Pythagoras taught that the sun is a movable sphere in the centre of the universe, and that all the planets revolve round it. This is substantially the same as the Copernican and Newtonian…

Brewer's: Linnæan; System

A system devised by Linnæus; of Sweden, who arranged his three kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals into classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties, according to certain…

Brewer's: Spinoza's System

The “system of Spinoza” is that matter is eternal, and that the universe is God. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SpinsterSpinning Jenny A B C D E F G…

Computer Systems Analyst

Mary Williams Tell us about your work---what do you do? I design , develop , and support computer systems . I work with my…

Computer Systems Engineer

Anonymous Tell us about your work---what do you do? I am in computer systems engineering and I manage an engineering and distribution business…