The respectful tenderness with which, on one knee before her, he helped her to remove her hat, and disentangle her pretty hair from it, was quite a chivalrous sight.
Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who helped develop the electroweak theory explaining the relationship between electromagnetic and weak forces. For this work, he shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979. He was the first Pakistani and the first Muslim scientist to be so honored. To support physicists from developing countries, he founded the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1964. He died in England and was brought back to Pakistan for burial. Who defaced his grave?More...
Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo Is Assassinated
(1961)
Trujillo was a military strongman who seized control of the Dominican Republic in 1930 and ruled it as a dictator for the next 30 years. He renamed the capital after himself and forced all citizens to join his political party. He brutally suppressed dissent and ordered the infamous 1937 Parsley Massacre, in which up to 30,000 Haitians living near the Dominican border were murdered. In 1961, Trujillo was ambushed and shot to death by seven men. Why was the 1937 massacre named after a garden herb?More...
One of the most prolific voice actors of all time, Blanc began his career in radio. In 1933, he began to work for a daily radio program, for which he created several voices. In 1937, he joined the cartoon department of Warner Brothers. During his 50-year career, he supplied voices in more than 3,000 animated cartoons for hundreds of characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Woody Woodpecker. Which Looney Tunes character is said to sound closest Blanc's natural voice?More...
Arthritis Drug Could Improve Treatment of Dysentery
Preliminary tests on animals have shown that a drug used since 1985 to treat arthritis is 10 times more effective at treating amebic dysentery than the best drug currently in use. Not only was auranofin more effective than metronidazole at killing Entamoeba histolytica, a parasite that causes dysentery, it is also relatively inexpensive, an important factor given that most of the 70,000 people killed by the disease each year live in developing countries. While further studies are needed to determine whether auranofin can cure the infection in humans, experts are optimistic. More on the subject...
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