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Fuchs, Klaus Emil

(Encyclopedia) Fuchs, Klaus EmilFuchs, Klaus Emilf&oobreve;ks, f&oomacr;ks [key], 1912–88, British physicist and Communist spy, b. Germany. In 1933 he fled Germany for England, where he…

Castile–La Mancha

(Encyclopedia) Castile–La Mancha Castile–La Mancha kăstēlˈ–lä mänˈchə [key],…

Carruthers, George Richard

(Encyclopedia) Carruthers, George Richard, 1939-2020, African-American astrophysicist, b. Cincinnati, OH, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BS,…

Tolstaya, Tatyana

(Encyclopedia) Tolstaya, TatyanaTolstaya, Tatyanatōlstīˈyä [key], 1951–, Russian short-story writer and essayist. Increasingly recognized as one of the major European writers of the postwar…

2012 World News: Iran

Advances in Nuclear Program Lead to Additional Sanctions and Increased Tension with Israel by Beth Rowen Mahmoud AhmadinejadRelated Links Iran Country…

News of the World, 2007

2007 news of the world from Iraq to Sudan by Beth Rowen Related Links 2007 Year in Review 2007 People in the News 2007 Places in…

Earth Day: Environmental Disasters

Environmental Disasters Read about some of the largest disasters in the world that were caused by human activity and upset the delicate balance of nature. Chernobyl:…

Things Get Rough in Kashmir

50 years later the struggle continues by Ben Snowden This article was posted in June, 1998. "If we want to save not only South Asia from nuclear war, but the world as a whole,…

nucleosynthesis

(Encyclopedia) nucleosynthesis or nucleogenesis, in astronomy, production of all the chemical elements from the simplest element, hydrogen, by thermonuclear reactions within stars, supernovas, and in…