Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patiently explained: "My people do not know how to fight; they only know how to sing and make love." Later he proved equally uncooperative with the invading Japanese, and French commandos had to parachute in to rescue him. Finally, in 1953, when the Viet Minh threatened to overrun the gold-spired royal capital of Luangprabang, the King flatly refused to flee. "This is my country and my palace," he said, "and I am too old to tremble." Then he went calmly...
...vital area in the ancient world. The fame and grandeur of the city in ancient times was enormous. During the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., the Lydian empire grew, and, under King Croesus, reached its peak around 550. The source of the legendary wealth of Lydia was the enormous gold deposits (the present expedition hopes to discover their exact location). In 540, the Persians conquered the city and Croesus, the "millionaire-king" whose memory is still honored in the phrase "rich as Croesus", died...
Bondi, are backers of the theory of continuous creation, which holds that matter is still being created. The newly created matter is generally believed to appear throughout space in the form of hydrogen atoms (one proton and one electron each), but Gold and Hoyle now think it may first appear as neutrons. Since neutrons are unstable, they break up almost immediately, yielding equal numbers of protons and electrons. This neutron decay releases so much energy that the resulting "cosmological material" has the temperature...
What about the galaxies, which do not expand but merely move farther apart? Gold and Hoyle believe that great clouds of the hot cosmological gas radiate some of their heat away over the course of several billion years. As heat drops, each gas cloud cools and shrinks. At last, it reaches the critical point where gravitational attraction between its gas particles is greater than their tendency to fly apart. Then the great cloud collapses, forming a galaxy or a cluster of galaxies, each of which contains billions of stars. The galaxies, being immersed in the hot gas, continue to move...
...Edison landed in New York without a cent. He borrowed a dollar and got a job with a company that manufactured primitive stock tickers. As a repairman, Edison witnessed the 1869 Wall Street panic, when the "Erie Railroad Ring" tried to corner the nation's gold supply. As the crowd surged wildly about him-a prominent banker went mad and had to be restrained by five men-Edison shook hands with a colleague, commented later: "I felt happy because we were poor...