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Copernicus's Toruń birthplace (ul. Kopernika 15, left).Together with no. 17 (right), it forms Muzeum Mikołaja Kopernika.Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toruń (Thorn), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, [10] [11] to German-speaking parents.
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, died under ...
Parchman roadsign The original superintendent's residence at Mississippi State Penitentiary. For much of the 19th century after the American Civil War, the state of Mississippi used a convict lease system for its prisoners; lessees paid fees to the state and were responsible for feeding, clothing and housing prisoners who worked for them as laborers.
Updated September 21, 2024 at 5:39 PM. MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRA. Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid ...
Olivia Newton-John's voice lives on. Two years after the Grammy-winner and Grease star's death from breast cancer at age 73, a never-before-heard song "My Dream" is set to be released thanks to ...
The Federal Trade Commission alleges CVS Health’s Caremark Rx, Cigna’s Express Scripts and United Health Group’s OptumRx created a system that prioritizes high rebates from drug ...
e. Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon of a group of particles being generated, interacting, or sharing spatial proximity in such a way that the quantum state of each particle of the group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, including when the particles are separated by a large distance.
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