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NFL Football Preview - NFC West

NFC West Could somebody tell this division that the '80s are over? Jerry Rice? Steve DeBerg? Dick Vermeil? Mike Ditka? The San Francisco 49ers dominated that decade and will do more of the same…

DK Science: Reflection

IRREGULAR REFLECTIONMIRRORSFIND OUT MOREReflections are usually caused by shiny things, such as MIRRORS, that show a reversed image of whatever is placed in front of them. The image seems to be…

Best-Selling Books, 2006

Source: Publishers Weekly. Hardcover Fiction For One More Day, Mitch Albom Cross, James Patterson Dear John, Nicholas Sparks…

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

astrophysicistBorn: 10/19/1910Birthplace: Lahore, India (now Pakistan) Chandrasekhar was one of ten children born to a civil servant and an intellectual mother who translated Ibsen's A Doll House…

Barkla, Charles Glover

(Encyclopedia) Barkla, Charles GloverBarkla, Charles Gloverglŭˈvər bärˈklə [key], 1877–1944, English physicist. He was professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh from 1913. For his discovery of the…

Siegbahn, Karl Manne Georg

(Encyclopedia) Siegbahn, Karl Manne Georg, 1886–1978, Swedish physicist. In 1913, he began a series of experiments that led to the discovery of the M series of X rays and demonstrated the shell…

DK Human Body: Body

WHAT MAKES HUMANS SPECIAL? WHY ARE WE ALL DIFFERENT? CELLSORGANSIMAGINGFIND OUT MOREA human body is made up of 100 trillion CELLS of different types. Similar cells are grouped to form tissue, and…

DK Science: Lasers

HOLOGRAMLASER LIGHT SHOWFIND OUT MORESome beams of light are powerful enough to cut through metal. Others are precise enough to use for delicate surgery on people’s bodies. These remarkable…

Baharampur

(Encyclopedia) Baharampur Baharampur bəhäˈrəmpôr [key], Berhampur, or Berhampore…

Sittwe

(Encyclopedia) SittweSittwesĭtˈwē [key] or AkyabSittweăk yăbˈ [key], city (1983 pop. 107,607), capital of Rakhine State, W Myanmar, at the mouth of the Kaladan River and on the Bay of Bengal. It is…