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How Deadly Is Quicksand?

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

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?

Aurochs. Bos primigenius. Skeleton. Extinct animal. Skeleton of an Aurochs, an extinct wild ox.

6 Animals We Ate Into Extinction

Cathedrale St.Jean in Lyon, France has a 14th-century astronomical clock that shows religious feast days till the year 2019; Perpetual Calendar

Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Dancers at a Cinco de Mayo festival at the Mission District, San Francisco, California. (Photo dated 2019.) holidays

Is Cinco de Mayo Mexico's Independence Day?

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pyrolysis solvolysis phosphorolysis thiolysis cleavage reaction homolysis photodissociation heterolysis electrolytic dissociation hydrolysis acid–base reaction reaction mechanism catalysis oxidation-reduction reaction ion-exchange reaction photochemical reaction combustion chemical equilibrium chemical synthesis fermentation

Key People

Svante Arrhenius, 1918.

Svante Arrhenius

Swedish chemist

Sir William Robert Grove

British physicist

Viktor Meyer

Viktor Meyer

German chemist