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Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"

How Deadly Is Quicksand?

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Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Eye. Eyelash. Eyeball. Vision.

7 Vestigial Features of the Human Body

Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

7 Deadliest Weapons in History

Periodical Cicada, Adult, Magicicada spp. Requires 17 years to complete development. Nymph splits its skin, and transforms into an adult. Feeds on sap of tree roots. Northern Illinois Brood. This brood is the largest emergence of cicadas anywhere

Why Do Some Cicadas Appear Only Every 17 Years?

Amendments 1-10 to the Constitution of the United States constitute what is known as the Bill of Rights on an American flag.

What Is the Emoluments Clause?

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Also Known As	vector gauge boson

Topics

photon gluon X boson photino gluino gravitino Higgs mechanism selectron squark graviton fermion quark CP violation symmetry quantum field theory Higgs boson lepton Pauli exclusion principle weakly interacting massive particle isospin

Key People

Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs

British physicist

Englert, François

François Englert

Belgian physicist

Satyendra Nath Bose

Satyendra Nath Bose

Indian physicist