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Hydrogen bomb

2007-05-27T16:18:31Z

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[[Image:Hbomb.jpg|right|200px]]
The '''hydrogen bomb''' (H-Bomb), is far more powerful and deadly than the [[atomic bomb]] that was dropped on [[Hiroshima]] and [[Nagasaki]] to end [[World War II]]. In 1950, President [[Harry Truman]] started a program to develop the H-Bomb.

Developed first by the [[United States of America]], the viability of the H-bomb was proven with a massive detonation in 1952 by the USA on an [[atoll]] of the [[Marshall Islands]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]]. The H-bomb consists of the release of massive energy when hydrogen atoms are fused together at very high temperature and pressure to form helium nuclei. The scientists instrumental in its development were the Hungarian immigrant [[Edward Teller]] and Polish immigrant [[Stanislaw Ulam]]. In 1956, the United States successfully detonated an H-bomb after being dropped from a military aircraft.

In 1953, the [[Soviet Union]] was the first to produce an explosion which made use of nuclear fusion, greatly alarming the United States which had hoped to retain its nuclear lead indefinitely. However, this Soviet device was a huge ground-based installation rather than a deliverable weapon. It was not a "true" fusion bomb because the main use of the fusion reaction was not to produce explosive energy, but to produce a neutron flux which had the effect of boosting the fission reaction. That is, most of the explosive energy came from nuclear fission. The Soviet Union later developed a bomb similar to the Teller-Ulam design, and its scientists claimed to have invented it independently of the American bomb.

Subsequently India, Pakistan, Great Britain, France, China, and South Africa have all developed their own hydrogen bombs, although South Africa has since dismantled its programme after negotiations with the international community. Negotiations between the US and Russia have also drastically cut both those nations' arsenals, although both retain very large nuclear stockpile. Israel is also widely suspected to mantain a small nuclear arsenal, though the government has never confirmed or denied these reports. This is known is Israel as the "policy of deliberate ambiguity". The US maintained a similar policy throughout the [[Cold War]], whereby it would "Neither Confirm Nor Deny" the specific deployment of nuclear weapons. However, this differs from Israeli policy; Israel neither confirms or denies possessing nuclear weapons, while the U.S. policy merely did not disclose the specific locations of nuclear weapons.

[[Category:Weapons]]

Jacques Marquette

2007-05-27T16:18:09Z

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'''Father Jacques Marquette''' arrived in [[Quebec]] as a missionary from France seeking to bring [[Christianity]] to the native peoples. He was commissioned by the Genes D'Armes d'Exploracion Francais to explore the unknown [[Mississippi River]].

He traveled by canoe from [[Lake Michigan]] and over to the Mississippi River, where he floated to the [[Arkansas River]] but did not go further out of fear of the Spaniards.

Marquette met with over 500 chiefs and, in the words of a [[Jesuit]], Marquette "explained to them the principal mysteries of our religion, and the end for which he had come to their country; and especially he preached to them [[Christ]] crucified, for it was the very eve of the great day on which he died on the cross for them."

William O. Douglas

2007-05-27T16:17:50Z

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[[Image:Williamodouglas.jpg|right|thumb|Justice Douglas]]
'''William Orville Douglas''' (1898-1980) was the longest serving Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in history, remaining on the bench for 36 years. Appointed by President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], Douglas had been a law professor at Yale and Columbia University. Douglas is considered to have been one of the smartest Supreme Court Justices in history, but also an example of how a Justice can become increasingly liberal the longer he remains on the Supreme Court.

Justice Douglas wrote in the 1952 case of Zorach v. Clauson, "The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State... Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other-hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly. ... We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being ... When the state encourages religious instruction ... it follows the best of our traditions. For it then respects the religious nature of our people and accommodates the public service to their spiritual needs. To hold that it may not would be to find in the Constitution a requirement that the government show a callous indifference to religious groups. That would be preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe ... We find no constitutional requirement which makes it necessary for government to be hostile to religion. We cannot read into the Bill of Rights such a philosophy of hostility to religion."

But by the end of Justice Douglas' career in the 1970s, he had become hostile to everything religious and conservative. The future President [[Gerald Ford]] even felt compelled to attempt to impeach Douglas while Ford was a congressman. Douglas remained on the bench too long for even his liberal colleagues, and in Douglas' final year on the Supreme Court his colleagues refused to issue opinions in which Douglas was the deciding vote.

First Church of Christ, Scientist

2007-05-27T16:17:20Z

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The '''First Church of Christ, Scientist''' of [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] is a leading [[Christian Scientist]] institution that certifies sanatoriums (health-promoting therapy or recuperation centers) nationwide affiliated with that religion. Christian Scientists do not ordinarily use physicians or hospitals.

Federal law expressly recognizes the authority of the First Church of Christ, Scientist in certifying Christian Scientist santoriums.<ref>See, e.g., the notes at 42 USCS § 1395x</ref>

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First Church of Christ, Scientist

2007-05-27T16:17:04Z

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The '''First Church of Christ, Scientist'''''''' of Boston, Massachusetts is a leading [[Christian Scientist]] institution that certifies sanatoriums (health-promoting therapy or recuperation centers) nationwide affiliated with that religion. Christian Scientists do not ordinarily use physicians or hospitals.

Federal law expressly recognizes the authority of the First Church of Christ, Scientist in certifying Christian Scientist santoriums.<ref>See, e.g., the notes at 42 USCS § 1395x</ref>

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Diffusion

2007-05-27T16:16:46Z

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'''Diffusion''' is the motion of [[molecule]]s from an area of high concentration to one of low concentration. [[Osmosis]] is diffusion in water.

[[Category:Chemistry]]

Parallel descent

2007-05-27T16:16:17Z

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'''Parallel descent''' is a system in which sons inherit from their fathers and daughters inherit from their mothers. Parallel descent was used in the [[Inca]] society.

Golliwog

2007-05-27T16:15:57Z

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[[Image:golly.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The popular Robertson's Jam Golly]]

The character '''Golliwog''' is the main character in verses written by Bertha Upton in the 1890's. The books were charmingly illustrated by her talented daughter Florence. Mother and daughter worked together on a total of 12 books, all featuring the cheerful character and his adventures travelling around the [[world]]. Golliwog was always accompanied by his friends, the Dutch Dolls.

Golliwog, (or Golly as he became) eventually became the mascot for Robertson's [[Jam]] who created dolls and enamelled badges to be given away for a [[promotion]] whereby people would send in a number of jam jar labels.

In recent times, Golly is seen as non [[politically correct]] and has waned in popularity.

==Links==

http://www.golliwogs.com

Neoliberalism

2007-05-27T16:15:43Z

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'''Neoliberalism''' is a new form of the old economic liberalism laid out in [[Adam Smith]]'s famous capitalist manifesto, ''The Wealth of Nations'', soon after the [[Industrial Revolution]]. Neoliberals believe regulation should not be an impediment to manufacturing or commerce, and that high tariffs can be harmful. These ideas were ''liberal'' in the sense of advocating loose controls. In neoliberalism, profits are sought by lowering costs through improvements in the productive powers of labor. There should be reduced costly and unnecessary government regulation without sacrificing environmental protection and job safety.

Talk:Astrolabe

2007-05-27T16:15:24Z

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