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Four year old boy with grandfather and father lighting Hanukkah menorah. Photo taken on: December 21st, 2009

Which Is Correct: Hanukkah or Chanukah?

The Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. (Civil War, Pennsylvania)

9 Worst Generals in History

King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

Indian hijras participate in a religious procession in Gandhinagar, India, some 30 kilometers from Ahmedabad, on March 22, 2017. Hijra is a term used in South Asia which refers to transgender individuals who are born male. (gender identity, gender expression)

6 Cultures That Recognize More than Two Genders

Facsimile of one of William Henry Ireland's forgeries, a primitive self-portrait of William Shakespeare(tinted engraving). Published for Samuel Ireland, Norfolk Street, Strand, December 1, 1795. (W.H. Ireland, forgery)

The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad

Nativity Scene, Adoration of the Magi, Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary, Montenegro

Why Is Christmas in December?

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pyrolysis solvolysis homolysis cleavage reaction electrolytic dissociation heterolysis thiolysis phosphorolysis photodissociation hydrolysis acid–base reaction reaction mechanism catalysis oxidation-reduction reaction ion-exchange reaction photochemical reaction combustion chemical synthesis fermentation chain reaction

Key People

Svante Arrhenius, 1918.

Svante Arrhenius

Swedish chemist

Sir William Robert Grove

British physicist

Viktor Meyer

Viktor Meyer

German chemist