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Close up of periodic table, focus on nickel, copper, zinc, palladium, silver, cadmium

When Was the Periodic Table Invented?

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Calendar marking march 15th

22 Questions About Time and Timekeeping Answered

Hindu Holi Festival celebrations with colored water, powder and colorful flower petals thrown over celebrants at a Hindu temple in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India on March 24, 2021.

Holi: Festival of Colors

Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.

7 Alphabet Soup Agencies that Stuck Around

Panoramic view at sunrise of moai, Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile

6 Lost Civilizations

Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

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Also Known As	vector gauge boson

Topics

gluino photon gluon graviton intermediate vector boson Higgs mechanism X boson gravitino photino selectron fermion quark CP violation symmetry quantum field theory Higgs boson lepton Pauli exclusion principle weakly interacting massive particle wave-particle duality

Key People

Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs

British physicist

Englert, François

François Englert

Belgian physicist

Satyendra Nath Bose

Satyendra Nath Bose

Indian physicist