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Water, Water Everywhere

The Question: Do you know the percentage of the earth's surface covered by water? The Answer: About 70.8% of the Earth's surface is covered by…

Death by Water

Death by WaterPhlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell And the profit and loss. A current under sea…

Water Polo

First Olympic Appearance: 1900 by John Gettings and Mark Zurlo Did You Know? Water polo players swim up to one and a half miles during the course of a water polo game. Related Links…

The Water of Life

The Water of Life Long before you or I were born, there reigned, in a country a great way off, a king who had three sons. This king once fell very ill—so ill that nobody thought he could live…

Brewer's: Water

(See Dancing Water.) The Father of Waters. The Mississippi (Indian, Michc Sepe), the chief river of North America. The Missouri is its child.…

Brewer's: Waters

(Sonitary). For anaemia, Schwalbach, St. Moritz. “ articular rheumatism, Aix les Bains.” “asthma, Mont Dore.” “atonic gout, Royat…

Wind on Water

NBC Saturday 8:00–9:00 p.m.; canceled Cast: Bo Derek, Lee Horsley, William Gregory Lee, Brian Gross, Shawn Christian, Jacinda Barrett, Matthew Stephen Liu and Matt George Cole (…

Water Clocks

Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology Physics Laboratory Water clocks were among the earliest timekeepers that didn't depend on the observation of celestial bodies. One of…

water

(Encyclopedia) CE5 A. Water molecule (black circles represent valence-shell electrons) B. Structure of ice: Each oxygen atom (white circles) is bonded to four other oxygen atoms by hydrogen bonds…

Brewer's: Aërated Water

Water impregnated with carbonic acid gas, called fixed air. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894AeriansAerated Bread A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O…