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Patriotic Music for Independence Day

The best songs for your 4th of July picnic by Mark Zurlo Related Links Fourth of July by the Numbers Facts on Fireworks History of Fourth of July Celebrations American Flag Quiz…

NFL Football Preview 1999: NFC Central

NFC Central Minnesota Vikings - It will be difficult if not impossible for the Vikings to have as good a regular season as they did in 1998. The Vikings went 15-1 and looked like the…

Fungal Infections: Fighting Fungus

Fighting FungusFungal InfectionsIntroductionTypes of InfectionFungal Infections of the SkinFighting Fungus As noted earlier in this section, the strength or weakness of the body's immune system is…

Tuberculosis: Introduction

IntroductionTuberculosisIntroductionTuberculosis: Airborne NightmareTreating TBTB Is a Global Peril In an age when we believe that we have the tools to conquer most diseases, the ancient scourge of…

dark energy

(Encyclopedia) dark energy, repulsive force that opposes the self-attraction of matter (see gravitation) and causes the expansion of the universe to accelerate. The search for dark energy was…

Geiger counter

(Encyclopedia) Geiger counter or Geiger-Müller (G-M) counterGeiger countergīˈgər-mŭlˈər, –my&oomacr;ˈlər [key], instrument for the detection and quantitative determination of ionizing radiation…

Jones, Quincy

(Encyclopedia) Jones, Quincy (Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.), 1933–, African-American musician, composer, bandleader, and music executive, b. Chicago. Jones played trumpet and sang gospel growing up, and…

West, Kanye Omari

(Encyclopedia) West, Kanye Omari, 1977- , African American rapper, b. Atlanta (some sources give Douglasville), Al. West’s father, Ray, was a…

Teller, Edward

(Encyclopedia) Teller, Edward, 1908–2003, American physicist, b. Budapest, Hungary, Ph.D. Univ. of Leipzig, 1930, where he studied under Werner Heisenberg. Fleeing the Nazis, he came to the United…