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bridgehead

Definition:(noun) A forward position seized by advancing troops in enemy territory as a foothold for further advance.
Synonyms:foothold
Usage:The soldiers made a brave attempt to secure a bridgehead behind enemy lines.
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Senescence

Biologically speaking, senescence is the process of deterioration that follows the development of an organism. In 1965, Leonard Hayflick discovered that normal diploid cells divide in cell culture about 50 times before entering a senescence phase during which they can replicate no more. Each cell division shortens the telomere of the cell's DNA, thus ticking back an "inner clock" for each subsequent copy of the cell. How does this mechanism protect the body from disease? More...
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Vatican OKs Belief in Aliens

In an interview titled "The extraterrestrial is my brother," Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Vatican's chief astronomer and a scientific adviser to the Pope, stated that a belief in alien life does not conflict with a belief in God. The Jesuit priest was quoted as saying that just as there are multiple life forms on Earth, the possibility exists that there are other intelligent beings living in the vastness of the universe; to believe otherwise would suggest that God’s creative freedom has limitations. This is a far cry from the position of the Catholic Church of the 17th century, which tried Galileo as a heretic after he defended a heliocentric theory of the universe. More on the subject...
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Van Gogh's Portrait of Doctor Gachet Sold for $82.5 Million (1990)

In June 1890, shortly before the artist's death, Vincent Van Gogh created two versions of a painting depicting his doctor, Paul Gachet. The paintings, called Portrait of Dr. Gachet, portray the doctor seated beside a foxglove plant, an extract of which is used to treat heart conditions. In 1990, 100 years after it was first painted, Japanese businessman Ryoei Saito purchased one version of the work for the record sum of $82.5 million. Why did he later threaten to have the painting burned? More...
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Pierre Curie (1859)

Curie was a chemist who studied crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. He and his wife Marie worked to isolate polonium and radium and were the first to use the term 'radioactivity,' pioneering its study. He and one of his students discovered nuclear energy by identifying the continuous emission of heat from radium particles. Pierre and Marie were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1903. How many other Curies have received Nobel Prizes? More...
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Democracy is the most vile form of government...democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

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