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Chemistry: Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures

Dalton's Law of Partial PressuresChemistryGas LawsBoyle's Law: Why Compressed Gas Is SmallCharles's Law: The Incredible Imploding CanGay-Lussac's Law: Spray Paint + Campfire = Bad NewsThe Combined…

Gladys PYLE, Congress, SD (1890-1989)

Senate Years of Service: 1938-1939Party: RepublicanPYLE, Gladys, a Senator from South Dakota; born in Huron, Beadle County, S.Dak., October 4, 1890; attended the public schools; graduated from…

The Endurance

The Endurance Shackleton's expedition trapped by an iceberg in the South Atlantic by Susan Hyde On December 5, 1914, Ernest Henry Shackleton, an Irish explorer, and 27 men set sail…

Berea, in the Bible

(Encyclopedia) Berea or BeroeaBeroeaboth: bērēˈə [key]. 1 Town near Jerusalem, mentioned in First Maccabees. It is probably identical with Beeroth (1.) 2 See Véroia, Greece. 3 See Aleppo, Syria.

Zara, in the Bible

(Encyclopedia) Zara or ZarahZaraboth: zāˈrə [key], same as Zerah (1.)

Froude, James Anthony

(Encyclopedia) Froude, James AnthonyFroude, James Anthonyfr&oomacr;d [key], 1818–94, English historian. Educated at Oxford, he took deacon's orders after coming under the influence of the Oxford…