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Nativity Scene, Adoration of the Magi, Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary, Montenegro

Why Is Christmas in December?

Bog body. Head of Tollund Man. Died at about age 30-40, Dated to about 280 BCE early Iron Age. Found Bjaeldskovdal bog Denmark in 1950 near Elling Woman. Most well preserved bog body to date. Human remains mummified in natural peat bogs. mummy, embalm

9 Noteworthy Bog Bodies (And What They Tell Us)

Mount Everest (Mt. Everest, mountains, Himalayas).

Is Mount Everest Really the Tallest Mountain in the World?

Mother tickling her daughter, sitting in a garden

Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself?

Ruminant. Deer. Red deer. Cervus elaphus. Buck. Stag. Antlers.

9 of the World’s Deadliest Mammals

Saguaro cacti dot the Sonoran Desert landscape at Saguaro National Park, Arizona. Formerly Saguaro National Monument cactus

Can You Drink Water from a Cactus?

Eye. Eyelash. Eyeball. Vision.

7 Vestigial Features of the Human Body

Thomas Thomson

Scottish chemist

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study of definite proportions law

In law of definite proportions
…findings, but the Scottish chemist Thomas Thomson confirmed some of them and wrote in his article “Chemistry” in the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica (1801) that Proust had definitely proved “metals are not capable of indefinite degrees of oxidation.” The principle was then concretely formulated by the English chemist John…
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use of chemical symbols

In chemical symbol
The Scottish chemist Thomas Thomson was the first to use letters as chemical symbols in the article “Mineralogy” in the Supplement (1801) to the 3rd edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. The Swedish scientist J.J. Berzelius proposed in 1813 that chemical symbols be based on the Latin names of…
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