Joshua Harold Burn

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What’s the Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?

7 Drugs that Changed the World

How Do Antacids Work?

People wearing surgical masks (also called face mask or medical masks or safety masks) walk through the city center of Milan, Italy on Feb. 23, 2020. Coronavirus disease COVID-19 pandemic

How Do Face Masks Control the Spread of Disease?

Queen Elizabeth II on her Coronation Day (June 2, 1953) holding the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross in her right hand the Orb in her left, in an embroidered and beaded dress by Norman Hartnell, a crimson velvet mantle edged with ermine fur, with the Coronation ring, the Coronation necklace, and the Imperial State Crown. The backdrop depicts the interior of Westminster Abbey; photograph by Cecil Beaton. (British royals)

5 Fascinating British Coronation Objects

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Flags of the countries of the world (flagpoles).

How Many Countries Are There in the World?

Nostradamus and His Prophecies

Close up of praying mantis walking on stone ground against a blurred background in Japan

6 Animals That Eat Their Mates

Chinese pictograph, calligraphy tablet of Huang Tingjian, a famous calligrapher in Ancient Song Dynasty. The background of Chinese cultural elements.

The World’s 5 Most Commonly Used Writing Systems

Ahura Mazda - relief of the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda at the ancient ruins of Persepolis in Iran. Also known as Ormazd Zoroastrianism,

Which Religion Is the Oldest?

The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

New Seven Wonders of the World

"Landing of Columbus" by John Vanderlyn, oil on canvas; commissioned 1836/1837, placed 1847. In the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. 12' x 18' ft. (3.66 m. x 5.49 m.) Christopher Columbus and members of his crew are shown on a beach

5 Unbelievable Facts About Christopher Columbus

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Born	March 6, 1892 • Barnard Castle • England
Died	July 13, 1981 (aged 89) • Oxford • England
Subjects Of Study	hormone • vitamin

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins

British biochemist

Sir James Black

Scottish pharmacologist

Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st Baronet

British physician

Alfred North Whitehead

British mathematician and philosopher

Ernest Rutherford

British physicist

Frederick Sanger

British biochemist

Sir Humphry Davy

British chemist

P.A.M. Dirac

English physicist

Lancelot Thomas Hogben

English scientist

Mary Cartwright

British mathematician

William Hyde Wollaston

British scientist

Dorothy Hodgkin

English chemist

Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet

English astronomer

Sir William Bragg

British physicist

William Donald Hamilton

British naturalist and population geneticist

John O’Keefe

British-American neuroscientist

James Lovelock

English chemist, doctor, and author

Richard Henderson

British biologist

Hertha Marks Ayrton

British physicist

Sir William Siemens

British inventor

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