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Sierra Leone: A Nation Collapses

// Cite Astronomers, astrophysicists, chemists, and physicists Jump to a category: AstronomersAstrophysicistsChemistsPhysicists Astronomers Adams, John Couch Al-…

Brewer's: Corpuscular Philosophy

promulgated by Robert Boyle. It accounts for all natural phenomena by the position and motion of corpuscles. (See Atomic Philosophy.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…

chemistry

(Encyclopedia) chemistry, branch of science concerned with the properties, composition, and structure of substances and the changes they undergo when they combine or react under specified conditions…

Summer Sizzlers | July 2000

by Beth Rowen Loser American Pie's Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari (perhaps better known as Lester Burnham's object of obsession in American Beauty) leave behind high-school hijinks and graduate to…

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, established in 1980, annually honors an American fiction writer with a $15,000 prize. Three judges choose five finalists before…

Brewer's: Phalaris

The brazen bull of Phalaris. Perillos, a brass-founder of Athens, proposed to Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, to invent for him a new species of punishment; accordingly, he cast a brazen…

Brewer's: Vacuum Boyleanum

Such a vacuum as can be produced by Boyle's improved air-pump, the nearest approach to a vacuum practicable with human instruments. The Guerickian vacuum is that produced by ordinary air-…

Brewer's: Orrery

An astronomical toy to show the relative movements of the planets, etc., invented by George Graham, who sent his model to Rowley, an instrument maker, to make one for Prince Eugéne. Rowley…

2012 Olympics

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