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    radioactivity‚ Marie Curie‚ have in common? Actually‚ there is a lot more than you would think. You might say to yourself that they are completely different‚ which is correct‚ yet incorrect. One thing is a rollercoaster and the other is a famous scientist‚ but when you look past just their physical descriptions‚ you will see how much they actually are alike. They both follow similar paths and they both faced many hardships‚ but also many great things. Firstly‚ they both start off slowly. Marie was just

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    Marie Curie Marie Skłodowska Curie‚ c. 1920 Born Maria Salomea Skłodowska 7 November 1867 Warsaw‚ Kingdom of Poland‚ then part of Russian Empire[1] Died 4 July 1934 (aged 66) Passy‚ Haute-Savoie‚ France Residence Poland‚ France Citizenship Poland (by birth) France (by marriage) Fields Physics‚ chemistry Institutions University of Paris Alma mater University of Paris ESPCI Doctoral advisor Gabriel Lippmann Doctoral students André-Louis Debierne Óscar Moreno Marguerite Catherine

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    Cited: Hunt‚ Lynn. “The Many Bodies of Marie Antoinette: Political Pornography and the Problem of the Feminine in the French Revolution.” Eroticism and the Body Politic. Lynn Hunt‚ ed. Baltimore‚ MA: The Johns Hopkins University Press‚ 1991. 108-130. Book. Laqueur‚ Thomas. Rev. of Eroticism

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    know this love will not last and is forbidden. Marie Curie was a passionate physicist and chemist who is famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity‚ as she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her husband was also an instructor at the school of physics and chemistry; it was their mutual interest in natural sciences that drew them together. However only after eleven years of marriage‚ Pierre was killed in a road accident‚ leaving Marie devastated by his death. After five years of his

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    he later on married Marie de Medici. * Converted to Catholicism to appease French populace. * Passed the Edict of Nantes in 1598 that allowed Protestants to practice their faith in certain places. * Henry IV was much loved. But‚ when he decided to start a war with the Austrians‚ he was assassinated by radicals. Louis XIII (1610 - 1643) * He was a little kid when Henry IV was assassinated. Cardinal Richelieu acted as the regent (later?). Wikipedia: Marie de Medici acted as his

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    The Pond is important bond of Kate and Mate The novel Crow Lake written by Mary Lawson portrays a family that experienced a serious tragedy of when the Morrison parents are died in the car accident. The two characters Kate and Mate are sibling with closed relationship in Morrison family. They have grown up in Crow Lake and spend a sweet memory in the pond. Lawson reveals that the pond is symbolized four stages in Kate’s emotional journey: represent the childhood of Kate‚ help Kate to discover her

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    Louis XVI who was an absolute monarch. This meant that he could decide for everything and did not have to be approved by a parliament. When Louis married Marie Antoinette‚ an Austrian Archduchess‚ they were first popular with the French public but as the years went by‚ they lost popularity‚ especially because of Marie Antoinette. It wasn’t only Marie Antoinette who made the royal government unpopular. Many people thought the king had too much power and they thought that king’s power should come from

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    Dear Monsieur Dubois‚ I’m afraid your opinion on Marie Antoinette is false. The story is all wrong! Jewelers Böhmer and Bassenge nearly went broke creating a necklace that they presumed King Louis XV would buy for his mistress Madame du Barry. Unfortunately for them‚ the king died before he was able to buy it. They hoped Louis XVI‚ the new king‚ would agree to purchase the necklace. Before he could buy it‚ Madame Antoinette made a smart and patriotic decision to convince Louis not to buy it. She

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    without anyone noticing he was there. Mikey and I are very much alike. In addition‚ Mikey’s sister‚ Marie‚ reminded me of my own sister and how she always ends up falling into the trap of a male companion that is not suitable for any female to have. Marie is dating Jon‚ who bullies Mikey‚ just as my sister’s previous boyfriends have done. The similarities given between myself and Mikey and my sister and Marie made the book fun to read because it was close to how my life is. The emotional attachment Blank

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    Leaning over a microscope wearing a crisp white lab coat is a biochemist developing the cure for cancer. Wearing faded blue jeans and a red polo shirt is the company information technologist fixing the company security system. An engineer designs a reusable space shuttle powered by interstellar radiation. Human computers calculate the moon landing to assure the safe arrival of the first men on the moon. Imagine a person in these positions. What did they look like? What color was their skin? Was it

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