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What’s the Difference Between Angiosperms and Gymnosperms?
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Water Fluoridation: Just the Facts
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9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
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Falling Stars: 10 of the Most Famous Endangered Species
Ethel Rosenberg arrested in August 1950. Photograph dated Aug. 8, 1950. American civilians executed for espionage. Spies, communists, Julius Rosenberg
Spies Like Us: 10 Famous Names in the Espionage Game
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Internet http://www blue screen. Hompepage blog 2009, history and society, media news television, crowd opinion protest, In the News 2009, breaking news
Who Invented the Internet?
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Born May 8, 1842 • Ribe • Denmark
Died August 27, 1909 (aged 67) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Subjects Of Study brewer’s yeast • yeast
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet
French botanist
Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet
Russian botanist
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen
Danish botanist and geneticist
telegraphone
Valdemar Poulsen
Danish engineer
Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming
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Sigurd F. Varian
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Orville Wright
American aviator
Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Konrad Zuse
German engineer
Barthélemy Thimonnier
French inventor
Russell H. Varian
American physicist
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
French aviator
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
French aviator
John Coulter
American botanist
Amos Eaton
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Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
Francis Edward Elmore
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Alexander Stanley Elmore
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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