Search results for "Half life" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • whom a revival had to wait until the second half of the twentieth century) ... At the end of his life, Hummel saw the rise of a new school of young ...
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  • The rite embodies the traditional view of spiritual life beyond physical ... harvested rice, alcohol, and songpyeon (half-moon rice cakes), prepared ...
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  • E. (V.S. 1535), on the 11th day of the dark half of lunar month of chaitra ... Initially he vowed to remain a life-long celibate but the guru Vitthalanatha ...
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  • group of animals, representing more than half (about 57 percent) of all ... interactions with humans and other forms of life on earth, including key roles ...
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  • the American political culture of the last half of the twentieth century like ... Agony and the Ecstasy? That's what my life has been." ...
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  • primarily instantaneous speed. In real life we often use average speed ... It is often intuitively expected, but incorrect, that going half a ...
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  • Shaka was succeeded by Dingane, his half brother, who conspired with ... royal household and fled north. Mpande, the half-brother who had been spared ...
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  • was a leading rabbinical sage of the first half-century following the destruction ... which has been at the center of Jewish life and civilization for the last ...
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  • a son of the Daoguang Emperor and a younger half-brother of Xianfeng Emperor ... *Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi's autobiography My First Half Life (我的前半生 ...
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  • 1392, had been on the throne for four and a half centuries, the royal bloodline ... in Korea was postponed for another half century. ==Death== ...
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  • as a practicing physician his entire life. In his early writings, Williams ... Later in life, however, Williams moved away from the excessively abstract ...
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  • (except for those noted in the table) have half-lives from a few days to fractions ... The isotope 137Cs, with a half-life of 30.17 years, has been used ...
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  • While many of the Iroquois renounced him in the last years of his ... Albany, New York. Abeel spent his adult life as a trader in western New ...
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  • and founder of the Brethren of the Common Life. He studied at the University ... The Brethren of the Common Life, or Modern Devotion, as it was also ...
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  • isotope of rubidium, 87Rb, which has a half-life of 4.88 × 1010 years. ... the most significant one is 90Sr, with a half-life of 28.78 years. As a byproduct ...
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  • countries, and the bread-machine of one half of the human race." ... invalid for the last three or four years of his life. New York Times ...
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  • Sikhs alike regard it as a celebration of life and use the occasion to strengthen ... designation in the Indian calendar. A lunar half-month is 15 days. Diwali as ...
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  • works of art and literature devoted to his life story. He was an early conservationist ... == Early Life == John Chapman was born in Leominster, Massachusetts ...
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  • temporary blindness, which caused the left half of images to be blotted out ... that the metal's density was half that of platinum. As he was ...
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  • Prize. With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the ... the Hansen family from 1919 into the second half of the twentieth century: ...
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