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Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)

The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

Titanic infographic. The 30th anniversary of its discovery is September 1, 2015. SPOTLIGHT VERSION.

Timeline of the Titanic’s Final Hours

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).

What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

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projectile motion external ballistics intermediate ballistics internal ballistics terminal ballistics wound ballistics gunnery mechanics kinetics fluid mechanics mechanics of solids quantum mechanics celestial mechanics relativistic mechanics soil mechanics hydraulics statistical mechanics Lagrangian function Hamiltonian function

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Key People

Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet

British physicist

Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia

Italian mathematician

Gregory Breit

American physicist

Gilbert Ames Bliss

American mathematician