A flamingo that never learned to stand on one leg, that spent most of its time in the water with both legs immersed, would lose somewhere around 40-70% more body heat than a flamingo that did learn this behavior.
The ideas of the Enlightenment played a major role in inspiring the French Revolution, which began in 1789. After the Revolution, the Enlightenment was followed by an opposing intellectual movement known as Romanticism.
The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason;[1] in French: le SiÃ¨cle des LumiÃ¨res, lit. 'the Century of Lights'; and in German: AufklÃ¤rung, 'Enlightenment')[2] was an intellectual and philosophical movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, The Century of Philosophy.[3] The ...