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  • Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1923 ...
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  • Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 - April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for ...
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century. His prolific and ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Boring, Edwin G. Edwin Garrigues Boring (October 23, 1886-July 1, 1968) was an American experimental psychologist and ...
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  • Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English author of science fiction novels such ...
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  • Rev. Henry Gerhard Appenzeller (February 6, 1858 – June 11, 1902) was the first Methodist missionary to Korea. He and the American Presbyterian ...
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  • George Edward Moore (November 4, 1873 – October 24, 1958), usually known as G. E. Moore, was a distinguished and influential English philosopher ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Hall, G. Stanley [[Image:G_Stanley_Hall.jpg|thumb|250px|Granville Stanley Hall, c. 1910]] Granville Stanley Hall (February ...
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  • Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) ( ˈwʊdhaʊs ) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular ...
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  • Centrifugation is a process that involves the use of the centrifugal force for the separation of mixtures, used in industry and in laboratory ...
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  • In the physical sciences, the weight of an object is a measurement of the gravitational force acting on the object. Although the term "weight ...
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  • A centrifuge is a piece of equipment, generally driven by a motor, that puts objects in rotation around a central, fixed axis, applying a force ...
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  • In physics, the space surrounding an electric charge or in the presence of a time-varying magnetic field has a property called an electric field ...
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  • Mass, in classical mechanics, is the measure of an object's resistance to change in motion, that is, its inertia, which is unchanging regardless ...
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  • Pressure (symbol "p") is the force applied to a surface (in a direction perpendicular to that surface) per unit area of the surface ...
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  • In physics, torque (or often called a moment) can informally be thought of as "rotational force" or "angular force" which ...
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  • surface of the earth. Weightlessness means a zero g-force or zero apparent weight; acceleration is only due to gravity, as opposed to the cases where ...
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  • In physics, acceleration is defined as the rate of change of velocity—that is, the change of velocity with time. An object is said to undergo ...
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  • In particle physics, a hadron (from the Greek word ἁδρός , hadros, meaning "thick") is a subatomic particle formed by the binding ...
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  • In physics, force is defined as the rate of change of momentum of an object. This definition was given by Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century ...
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  • In physics, escape velocity is the speed of an object at which its kinetic energy is equal to the magnitude of its gravitational potential energy ...
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  • Surface science is the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases, including solid-liquid, solid-gas ...
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  • In physics, the angular momentum of an object rotating about some reference point is the measure of the extent to which the object will continue ...
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  • In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from one key to another. This may or may not be accompanied by a change in key ...
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  • Bernardino Telesio (1509 – 1588) was an Italian philosopher and natural scientist. Opposing the Aristotelianism which characterized medieval ...
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  • The naval Battle of Aegospotami took place in 404 B.C.E. and was the last major battle of the Peloponnesian War. In the battle, a Spartan fleet ...
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  • The Doctors' Trial is the unofficial name for the particular Nuremberg Trial held before a U.S. military court for 23 Nazi medical doctors ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Boring, Edwin G. Edwin Garrigues Boring (October 23, 1886-July 1, 1968) was an American experimental psychologist and ...
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  • Limnology is a discipline that concerns the study of inland aquatic ecosystems (whether freshwater or saline, natural or manmade), including ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Biography Seligman, Charles Gabriel Charles Gabriel Seligman (December ...
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  • The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), an African even-toed ungulate mammal, has a very long neck and legs and is the tallest of all land-living ...
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  • In astrophysics, weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, are hypothetical particles serving as one possible solution to the dark matter ...
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  • Ammonium sulfate is an inorganic chemical compound with the chemical formula (NH4)2SO4. It contains 21 percent nitrogen in the form of ammonium ...
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  • A chemical equation is a symbolic representation of a chemical reaction, wherein one set of substances, called the reactants, is converted into ...
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  • In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a particle that does not have a substructure, as far as is known; that ...
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  • Sulfur dioxide (also sulphur dioxide) is the chemical compound with the formula SO2. This important gas is the main product from the combustion ...
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  • In physics, the center of mass (CM) of a system of particles is a specific point at which the system's mass behaves (for many purposes) ...
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  • George Edward Moore (November 4, 1873 – October 24, 1958), usually known as G. E. Moore, was a distinguished and influential English philosopher ...
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  • Gazelle is the common name for any of the various small, swift antelopes of Africa and Asia comprising the genus Gazella and the related genera ...
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  • Millipede ("thousand legs") is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda (previously also known as Chilognatha ...
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  • The Battle of Largs was an military engagement fought between the armies of Norway and Scotland near the present-day town of Largs in North ...
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  • The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that describes three of the four known fundamental interactions between the elementary particles ...
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  • In physics, surface tension is an effect within the surface layer of a liquid that causes that layer to behave as an elastic sheet. This effect ...
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  • Ann Radcliffe (July 9, 1764 - February 7, 1823) was an English author of the early Romantic period whose fiction pioneered the genre of the gothic ...
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  • In chemistry, anthracene is a solid polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of three benzene rings derived from coal-tar. Anthracene is used ...
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  • Tritium (chemical symbol Tritium or Hydrogen|3 ) is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. The nucleus of tritium (sometimes called a triton) contains ...
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  • Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893), was a career U.S. Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He fired the ...
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  • Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. Early was trusted and ...
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  • Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – 250 C.E.) was arguably the most influential Indian Buddhist thinker after Gautama Buddha, who founded the Madhyamaka ...
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  • Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Telugu:సర్వేపల్లి రాధాకృష్ణ, Tamil:சர்வபள்ளி ராதாகிரு ...
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  • Operation Gibraltar, the name given to Pakistan's failed plan to infiltrate the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region in north-western India ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Hall, G. Stanley [[Image:G_Stanley_Hall.jpg|thumb|250px|Granville Stanley Hall, c. 1910]] Granville Stanley Hall (February ...
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  • Henry Cavendish (October 10, 1731 - February 24, 1810) was a British scientist best known for being the first to measure the average density ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Frazer, James [[File:JamesGeorgeFrazer.jpg|300px|right|James George Frazer]] ...
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  • The naturalistic fallacy is an alleged fallacy of moral reasoning. The British philosopher George Edward Moore (1873-1958) introduces the naturalistic ...
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  • In physics, a physical constant is a physical quantity with a value that is generally believed to be both universal in nature and to remain unchanged ...
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  • St. Lawrence Island is an island in the Bering Sea just south of the Bering Strait, administratively belonging to the state of Alaska. The Danish ...
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