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Pablo Escobar: 8 Interesting Facts About the King of Cocaine

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U.S. Death Toll During Major Events

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Just How Many Oceans Are There?

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Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

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7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances

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7 Alphabet Soup Agencies that Stuck Around

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When Was the Periodic Table Invented?

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glucocorticoid cortisol

Key People

R.B. Woodward, 1966.

Robert Burns Woodward

American chemist

Percy Julian

Percy Julian

American chemist

Philip Showalter Hench.

Philip Showalter Hench

American physician

Tadeus Reichstein

Swiss chemist

Edward Kendall

Edward Calvin Kendall

American chemist