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UC: Undercover

NBCSunday 10:00–11:00 p.m.Cast:Jon Seda, Vera Farmiga, Bruklin Harris, Jarrad Paul, Oded Fehr The show should have been dubbed UC: Unclear. Seda (Homicide) leads a group of elite government…

King Camp Gillette

King Camp Gillette was an American salesman and inventor who introduced the disposable safety razor in the first years of the 20th century. Raised in the Chicago area, he spent his early career as a…

Nick Holonyak Biography

inventorBorn: 28 November 1928Best Known as: inventor of the first III-V alloy visible LEDs Nick Holonyak invented the first light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which…

Vegetarian Diets and Nutritional Requirements

Some Americans eat vegetarian diets for reasons of culture, belief, or health. Most vegetarians eat milk products and eggs, and as a group, these lacto-ovo-vegetarians enjoy excellent health…

How do people become infected?

How do people become infected? Direct contact with infected poultry, or surfaces and objects contaminated by their faeces, is presently considered the main route of human infection. To date,…

Social Security: Who Pays for the Insurance?

Both workers and their employers pay for the workers' insurance. Self-employed persons pay their own social security contributions annually along with their income tax. The rates include the cost of…

William Hesketh Lever Biography

William Hesketh Lever(1st Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles)soap-maker, philanthropistBorn: 9/19/1851Birthplace: Bolton, Greater Manchester, England Lever and his brother, James Darcy…

Richard Mudd 2002 Deaths

Richard MuddAge: 101 physician who was consumed with clearing the name of his grandfather, Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was convicted by a military court of conspiring in the assassination of…

The Devil's Dictionary: Humorist

by Ambrose Bierce HUMANITYHURRICANEHUMORIST -n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-…

Jack Kilby 2005 Deaths

Jack KilbyAge: 81 Nobel Prize–winning electrical engineer who designed and developed the integrated circuit, commonly called the microchip, which miniaturized many consumer electronic…