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Art Students and Aspiring Artists Encouraged to Enter Contest to Creat
High school and college art students are encouraged by an up-and-coming designer jean company to enter a contest that could propel them into the world of international fashion. Zongoo.com Daily Press. Aug 03 2004 05:00 GMT

December 26 Pierre and Marie Curie announced the existence of a new el
1898 - Pierre and Marie Curie announced the existence of a new element, later to be named radium. Radium (Latin radius, ray) was discovered by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre in 1898 in pitchblende/uraninite from North Bohemia. While studying pitchblende the Curies removed uranium from it and found that the remaining material was still radioactive. They then separated out a radioactive mixture mostly consisting of barium which gave a brilliant red flame color and spectral lines which had never been documented before. In 1902 radium was isolated into its pure metal by Curie and Andre Debierne through the electrolysis of a pure radium chloride solution by using a mercury cathode and distilling in an atmosphere of hydrogen gas.Dec 26 2004 14:48 GMT

December 26 Pierre and Marie Curie announced the existence of a new el
1898 - Pierre and Marie Curie announced the existence of a new element, later to be named radium. Radium (Latin radius, ray) was discovered by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre in 1898 in pitchblende/uraninite from North Bohemia. While studying pitchblende the Curies removed uranium from it and found that the remaining material was still radioactive. They then separated out a radioactive mixture mostly consisting of barium which gave a brilliant red flame color and spectral lines which had never been documented before. In 1902 radium was isolated into its pure metal by Curie and Andre Debierne through the electrolysis of a pure radium chloride solution by using a mercury cathode and distilling in an atmosphere of hydrogen gas.Dec 26 2004 14:48 GMT

January 24: A Walk Through Baku National Carpet Museum. http://vialin.
While touring Baku, you are likely to discover that many of its museums are found in buildings that were constructed for entirely different purposes. Take the former Lenin museum, for instance. As with corresponding Lenin museums in other Soviet republics, Baku version once displayed items related to Lenin life: letters, speeches, telegrams - even replicas of his clothing.Jan 24 2005 4:48 GMT

 

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