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October 1997 News and Events
1997 Month-By-MonthWorldU.S. Sends Carrier to Gulf (Oct. 3): The Nimitz is dispatched in a warning to Iran to halt air attacks on Iraq, a violation of the no-flight zone imposed at the end of…January 2008 Current Events
Here are the key news events of the month organized into three categories: World News, U.S. News, and Business, Society, and Science News. World | Nation | Business/Science/Society…Chandra: Exploring the Invisible Universe
Sources: NASA and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. NASA's most powerful X-ray telescope, called the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), was launched from the space shuttle Columbia…King Conspiracy Theory #1
Ray was the unwitting patsy for someone shadier by Borgna Brunner Was James Earl Ray, a career criminal and known racist, nothing more than a patsy for someone even shadier? King Conspiracy…star cluster
(Encyclopedia) star cluster, a group of stars near each other in space and resembling each other in certain characteristics that suggest a common origin for the group. Stars in the same cluster move…silicate
(Encyclopedia) silicate, chemical compound containing silicon, oxygen, and one or more metals, e.g., aluminum, barium, beryllium, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, potassium, sodium, or zirconium…barium
(Encyclopedia) bariumbariumbârˈēəm [key] [Gr.,=heavy], metallic chemical element; symbol Ba; at. no. 56; at. wt. 137.327; m.p. 725℃; b.p. 1,640℃; sp. gr. 3.5 at 20℃; valence +2. Barium is a soft,…technetium
(Encyclopedia) technetiumtechnetiumtĕknēˈshēəm [key] [Gr. technetos=artificial], artificially produced radioactive chemical element; symbol Tc; at. no. 43; mass no. of most stable isotope 98; m.p. 2,…International Geophysical Year
(Encyclopedia) International Geophysical Year (IGY), 18-month period from July, 1957, through Dec., 1958, during a period of maximum sunspot activity, designated for cooperative study of the solar-…muckrakers
(Encyclopedia) muckrakers, name applied to American journalists, novelists, and critics who in the first decade of the 20th cent. attempted to expose the abuses of business and the corruption in…Trending
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