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21Gabor A. Somorjai — (born May 4, 1935 in Budapest, Hungary) is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is a leading researcher in the field of surface chemistry. Somorjai won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1998 for his contributions to… …
22Tom Monaghan — Thomas Stephen Tom Monaghan (born March 25, 1937 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an entrepreneur and Catholic philanthropist who founded Domino s Pizza in 1960. He owned the Detroit Tigers from 1983 1992. Monaghan sold Domino s in 1998 and has… …
23Quarter stick — A quarter stick can hold 20 grams of flash powder, more or less. All similar modern day large M firecrackers containing more than 50 mg of powder are in fact illegal bootlegs, with no standards for either names, powder content, or powder… …
24The Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour — was a radio comedy show on CBC Radio One for four seasons, running from 1997 to 2000. The show was set in a fictional café of the same name, in the equally fictional town of Blossom, Alberta. Both Blossom and the café were originally described in …
25Alkane metathesis — In alkane metathesis acyclic alkanes are scrambled to higher and lower homologues with tantalum hydride supported on silica (SiO2)TaH at temperatures of 25°C to 200°C. In this reaction ethane is converted into methane, propane and traces of… …
26List of observatory codes — Astronomical observatories are locations used for observing celestial events. Observatory codes are assigned by the Minor Planet Center (a service of the International Astronomical Union) for use in cataloguing astrometric observations of solar… …
27Richard Gans — Richard Martin Gans (1880 1954), German of Jewish origin, born in Hamburg, was the physicist who founded the Physics Institute of the National University of La Plata, Argentina. He was its Director in two different periods. During the first one,… …
28Extremal optimization — (EO) is an optimization heuristic inspired by the Bak Sneppen model of self organized criticality from the field of statistical physics. This heuristic was designed initially to address combinatorial optimization problems such as the travelling… …
29Quinuclidone — Quinuclidones are a class of bicyclic organic compounds with chemical formula C7H11NO with two structural isomers for the base skeleton 3 quinuclidone and 2 quinuclidone.3 Quinuclidone (1 azabicyclo [2.2.2] octan 3 one) is an uneventful molecule… …
30History of slavery — The history of slavery uncovers many different forms of human exploitation across many cultures throughout history. Slavery, generally defined, refers to the systematic exploitation of labor traced back to the earliest records, such as the Code… …
