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Childhood Diseases: Deadly Diphtheria
Deadly DiphtheriaChildhood DiseasesIntroductionThe Polio PanicChickenpoxEar AchesMeasly MeaslesMumpsRubellaDeadly DiphtheriaPertussis, or Whooping CoughTerrifying TetanusThe Importance of Childhood…iodine
(Encyclopedia) iodineiodineīˈədīn, –dĭn [key] [Gr.,=violet], nonmetallic chemical element; symbol I; at. no. 53; at. wt. 126.90447; m.p. 113.5℃; b.p. 184.35℃; sp. gr. 4.93 at 20℃; valence −1, +1, +3…ocean
(Encyclopedia) ocean, interconnected mass of saltwater covering 70.78% of the surface of the earth, often called the world ocean. It is subdivided into four (or five) major units that are separated…Walt Whitman: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Out of the Cradle Endlessly RockingOut of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, Over the sterile sands and the…Atlantic Ocean
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Atlantic Ocean [Lat.,=of Atlas], second largest ocean (c.31,800,000 sq mi/82,362,000 sq km; c.36,000,000 sq mi/93,240,000 sq km with marginal seas). The North Atlantic Ocean…Pacific Ocean
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Pacific Ocean, largest and deepest ocean, c.70,000,000 sq mi (181,300,000 sq km), occupying about one third of the earth's surface; named by the explorer Ferdinand Magellan; the…Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner
ChristabelThe Ancient Mariner The Latin motto is condensed, by omission, from about a page of Thomas Burnet's Archaeologiae Philosophicae: sive Doctrina Antiqua de Rerum Originibus,…Flatland: How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland
by Edwin A. Abbott Concerning a Stranger from SpacelandHow the Sphere, having in vain...How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland…John Keats: Book II
by John Keats Book IBook IIIBook II Just at the self-same beat of Time's wide wings Hyperion slid into the rustled air, And Saturn gain'd with Thea that sad place Where Cybele and…Christina Rossetti: Autumn
AutumnI dwell alone—I dwell alone, alone, Whilst full my river flows down to the sea, Gilded with flashing boats That bring no friend to me: O love-songs, gurgling from a hundred throats…Trending
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