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== Better Than News ==
== Better Than News ==


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== Beyond Plausible ==
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== In Other Words ==
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== Are You Sure ==
== Are You Sure ==


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== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
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== Topic of the Day ==
== Topic of the Day ==


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Latest revision as of 11:32, 20 February 2023

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for his discovery of X-rays?

• ... that engraver, goldsmith, and publisher Theodor de Bry gained fame for his depictions of early European overseas expeditions; and that, although de Bry never visited the Americas, most of his books are based on first-hand observations by explorers?

• ... that chemist and physicist James Dewar invented the vacuum flask, which he used in his pioneering research into the liquefaction of gases?

Topic of the Day

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