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subaqueous

Definition:(adjective) Growing or remaining under water.
Synonyms:subaquatic, submerged, submersed, underwater
Usage:The children were excited at the prospect of viewing a variety of subaqueous fauna from the hull of a glass-bottom boat.
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The Lafarge Poisoning Case

In one of the first trials followed by the public through daily newspaper reports, Frenchwoman Marie-Fortunée Lafarge, who stood accused of poisoning her husband with arsenic, was found guilty of murder. Her conviction in 1840 was the first to be based heavily on direct forensic toxicological evidence. During the trial, local experts presented contradictory testimony regarding the presence of arsenic in the victim's body, and it was ultimately exhumed and tested using what new detection method? More...
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Gene Linked to Deadly Child Cancer

Though neuroblastoma causes just 7 percent of all childhood cancers, it is responsible for 15 percent of all non-adult cancer deaths. The deadly cancer has just a 40 percent survival rate, but there is new hope for families struggling with the disease; researchers have identified a gene that causes most forms of inherited neuroblastoma, the ALK gene. The discovery will enable doctors to test families affected by familial neuroblastoma and monitor children with the mutation. Mutations of this gene have also been associated with some cases of lymphoma and lung cancer, and several companies are currently working on drug treatments that block the ALK protein. More on the subject...
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"I Have a Dream," Says Martin Luther King, Jr (1963)

King was a leading figure in the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 60s. His "I Have a Dream" speech was delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Considered one of the finest speeches in the history of American oratory, it powerfully and eloquently expresses King's desire for a future in which blacks and whites can live harmoniously as equals. What political, cultural, and religious allusions can be found in the speech? More...
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Leo Tolstoy (1828)

Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and philosopher. Considered one of the world's greatest writers, he is perhaps most famous for his masterpieces, War and Peace, a vast prose epic of the Napoleonic invasion of 1812, and Anna Karenina, about the tragedy of a woman's faith in romantic love. Tolstoy was an anarchist and disapproved of all organizations based on the premise of force, including the government and the Church. How many characters are there in War and Peace? More...
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