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Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.
10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.
Where Do Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories About the Rothschild Family Come From?
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Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
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America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)
Super Typhoon Noru over the western tropical Pacific Ocean as observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA Aqua satellite July 31 2017
What Is the Difference Between a Typhoon and a Super Typhoon?

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Born June 26, 1888 • Switzerland
Died January 13, 1953 (aged 64) • Zürich • Switzerland
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Paul Scherrer
Swiss physicist
Bragg, Sir Lawrence
Sir Lawrence Bragg
British physicist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff
American chemist
Max von Laue
German physicist
John Desmond Bernal
Irish physicist
Peter Debye
American physical chemist
René-Just Haüy
French mineralogist
Albert Wallace Hull
American physicist
Bertram Eugene Warren
American crystallographer
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, 1948
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale
British chemist
Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
German crystallographer
Charles Mauguin
French mineralogist
Franz Ernst Neumann
German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
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Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
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Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
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Sir Charles Frank
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Norman L. Bowen
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