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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?

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

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Flags That Look Alike

A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000

14 Tough Questions Answered

Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that

America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

New York NY/ USA- November 23, 2018 Hordes of shoppers throng the Macy's Herald Square flagship store in New York looking for bargains on the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday.

Why Is It Called Black Friday?

Diverse elementary school children wearing school uniforms running outside of school. Boys girls

Pro and Con: School Uniforms

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Also Known As	vector gauge boson

Topics

photon gluon graviton intermediate vector boson Higgs mechanism squark gluino gravitino photino selectron fermion quark CP violation symmetry quantum field theory Higgs boson lepton Pauli exclusion principle weakly interacting massive particle wave-particle duality

Key People

Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs

British physicist

Englert, François

François Englert

Belgian physicist

Satyendra Nath Bose

Satyendra Nath Bose

Indian physicist