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Advanced-Level Science Projects: Earth Science

Earth ScienceAdvanced-Level Science ProjectsEarth ScienceHow Much Oxygen Is in the Air?Which Is More Acidic, Snow or Rain? How Can Different Polymers Be Identified? It seems at times that we…

Bertalan de Nemethy 2002 Deaths

Bertalan de NemethyAge: 90 Hungarian-born riding instructor, who coached the U.S. Equestrian show jumping team from 1955-80; won Olympic silver medals in 1960 and 1972; his book “The de…

Colon

Use a colon:To introduce a list, or words, phrases, and clauses that explain, enlarge upon, or summarize what has gone before: Please provide the following: your name, address, and phone…

Cliff Shaw 1998 Deaths

Cliff ShawAge: 91 college football and basketball official whose call in the 1954 Cotton Bowl set a precedent still observed in the NCAA; when Alabama's Tommy Lewis came off the bench to…

Duke Ellington

Name at birth: Edward Kennedy EllingtonEdward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington started as a pool hall piano player and grew to become one of the great figures in American jazz performance. Duke Ellington…

Gustav Klimt

Artist Gustav Klimt, like composer Gustav Mahler, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and big-time thinker Sigmund Freud, was a hotshot of Vienna's glory days at the turn of the 20th century. Influenced…

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher Immanuel Kant's position as one of the greats in Western metaphysics comes from works he published late in life, including Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and The Fundamental…

John Bunyan

John Bunyan's 17th-century book The Pilgrim's Progress is classic literature's most famous Christian allegory. Bunyan grew up in a village outside Bedford, England, the son of a tinker (or brazier…