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…, magnetism, is probably the most accurate and complete of all scientific theories. The understanding of electricity has led to the invention of motors, generators, telephones, radio and television, X-ray devices, computers, and nuclear energy systems…

…on April 4. News of the assassination resulted in an outpouring of shock and anger throughout the nation and the world, prompting riots in more than 100 United States cities in the days following King’s death. In 1969 James Earl Ray, an escaped white convict…

…resigned from the patent office. He was hired as a full-time professor at the Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague in 1911. For Einstein the year 1911 was a very significant year because he was able to make preliminary predictions about how a ray of light from…

…by the accepted theory of the bending of light by dense media. Newton argued that white light is really a mixture of many different types of rays, each of which is specific to a given spectral color. He then proved this theory by directing a blue band of light through…

…the rays of the sun. The sun seems to be the root from which the Aztec culture grew and produced. Warfare and human sacrifice provided the function of replenishing that root. The first section of this paper will illustrate three myths centered around the sun…

…with catcher Ray Schalk, and pitchers Urban "Red" Faber, and rookie Dickie Kerr. It is believed that some of the rift has to due with sectional prejudice. Jackson, an illiterate Southerner, felt most comfortable with fellow Southerner Lefty Williams. He also…

…Depression to Virginia Ray and Jack Thompson. Thompson was the oldest of three sons, he led the way from the beginning of his life. Thompson and his family lived in a rural middle-class area in a neighborhood with many other families just like theirs. “His…

…they have been cited in several popular books, including Dea Radin’s The Concscious Universe, and Courtney Brown’s Cosmic Voyage, as providing very promising, if not conclusive, supprt for the existence of ESP. Although some critics, like Ray Hyman, found…

…are substances that increase the chance of mutation and include such physical phenomena as x-rays and radioactivity from radium. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan are examples of physical mutagens that caused an increase in the number…

…, and placed over a piece of x-ray film. When developed, the film reveals the location of the radioactivity as a black spot. The corresponding colony on the original plate thus contains the bacteria carrying the required gene. The applications…