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Hayden Carruth was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut. [1] He graduated from Pleasantville High School in Pleasantville, New York with the class of 1939 as vice president of the senior class; he was credited with the "prettiest hair."
Sidney Clopton Lanier [1] (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, [2] worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer.
Charles's law (also known as the law of volumes) is an experimental gas law that describes how gases tend to expand when heated. A modern statement of Charles's law is: When the pressure on a sample of a dry gas is held constant, the Kelvin temperature and the volume will be in direct proportion. [1] This relationship of direct proportion can ...
Collected salt mounds Naturally formed salt crystals Ancient method of boiling brine into pure salt in China. Salt, also referred to as table salt or by its chemical formula NaCl (sodium chloride), is an ionic compound made of sodium and chloride ions. All life depends on its chemical properties to survive.
A sketch of Samuel Francis Smith from a life sketch in The Express. While a student at Andover Theological Seminary, Smith gave Lowell Mason lyrics he had written and the song was first performed in public on July 4, 1831, at a children's Independence Day celebration at Park Street Church in Boston. [1]
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One of his poems, originally part of "In April Once", was re-published in a revised form under the name A. W. Percy in Men and Boys, an anonymous anthology of Uranian poetry (privately printed, New York, 1934). There is speculation that Edward M. Slocum, the compiler of the anthology, changed the text of the poem before printing it, and that it ...
Charles Law may refer to: Charles's law, also known as the law of volumes, experimental gas law which describes how gases tend to expand when heated; Charles Law (British politician) (1792–1850), British judge and Conservative Party MP; Charles B. Law (1872–1929), United States Representative from New York