Main Page
From New World Encyclopedia
New World Encyclopedia integrates facts with values. Written by certified experts.
Featured Article: Betty Williams
Betty Williams (May 22, 1943 - March 17, 2020) was a co-recipient, with Mairead Corrigan, of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 (the prize for 1976), for co-founding Community of Peace People, an organization dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. With Corrigan and their Peace People movement, which involved thousands of women from across the religious divide in Northern Ireland, she is credited with helping to create the climate that made the Anglo-Irish Agreement of November 1985, possible, representing the first breakthrough in peace negotiations since the start of the "Troubles," in 1969.
Popular Article: Fermentation
In biochemistry, fermentation is an enzyme-catalyzed, energy-generating process in which organic compounds act as both donors and acceptors of electrons. Fermentation can occur in the absence of oxygen, and the term is sometimes defined as the pathway in cells by which fuel molecules are broken down anaerobically. People have devised innumerable ways to utilize fermentation to produce food and drinks, creating such products as beer, wine, cheese, yogurt, sauerkraut, miso, soy sauce, kimchi, and so forth.
Did you know?
Legend says that if the six resident ravens ever leave the Tower of London, the Tower and the British kingdom will fall (source: Tower of London)
