Pierre Joseph Pelletier
Pierre Joseph Pelletier , 1788-1842, French chemist. With J. B. Caventou , he was cofounder of alkaloid chemistry and codiscoverer of quinine, strychnine, brucine, and other alkaloids. He also isolated such other substances as picrotoxin, caffeine, and piperine. He was especially noted for his introduction of new methods of generating organic substances.
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`Hell Houses' receive spirited - and controversial - reviews: Creators defend them as way to lead teens to salvation.(Nation)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/23/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...for Halloween, but few have ever been to hell - the evangelical Christian variety, that...their versions of the sinful life in "Hell Houses," replete with graphic dramatizations...shock calloused youth into salvation. Most Hell House performances last through October...
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HELL: A DEVIL OF A PLACE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/22/1989; ; 700+ words
; HELL, Grand Cayman - If you go to Hell, and you should, dress for warm weather and adopt a devil-may-care attitude. Hell, a tiny district in Grand Cayman island, 280 miles south of Havana...
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Hell's sober comeback: three out of 5 Americans now believe in Hades, but their views on damnation differ sharply. Theologians are struggling to explain these infernal images. (Cover Story)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 3/25/1991; 700+ words
; ...by prudent seekers of religious piety. Hell is every believer's worst nightmare...religions. But for much of the 20th century, hell didn't fare well. Attacked by modern...flames of Hiroshima and the Holocaust, hell's frightful imagery lost much of its...
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Hell's Kitchen proving to be hot among homeowners.(INSIDERS OUTLOOK)
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 9/12/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...neighborhoods for potential home owners is Hell's Kitchen. Maybe it's because it still...because of the neighborhood's past, but Hell's Kitchen offers buyers a value not seen...buyers can reap by purchasing a home in Hell's Kitchen while sales prices are attractive...
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Hell, Michigan Claims to be Halloween Capital, CBS
Transcript from: CBS This Morning; 10/29/1999; ; 614 words
; ...UPDATED. MITCHELL: Just in time for Halloween, we`re going to show you hell on earth. That`s right. We`re taking you to hell and back. Meet John Colone, who is in Hell -- Michigan, that is. Good morning to you, John. JOHN COLONE, HELL...
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Hell--A Hot Topic in Art and Literature for 4000 Years
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 3/6/1994; 700+ words
; 00-00-0000 LIANE HANSEN, Host: `Hell hath no limits,' Christopher Marlowe. `Hell is other people,' Jean Paul Sartre. `Hell is oneself,' T. S. Eliot. `Hell is the largest shared construction project in imaginative history...
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Hell hath no fury.(changing doctrines on hell)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 1/31/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...of 18th-century New Englanders, the threat of hell has served as a potent incentive to refrain from...eternal stakes were frightfully clear: There was a hell to shun and a heaven to gain. Hell and its flaming torments were real. Edwards would...
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HELL HOUSE IS HOMELESS PASTOR SEEKS PLACE TO HOLD IN-YOUR-FACE CHRISTIAN EVENT.(City Desk/Local)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 8/19/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...After a year off, the pastor who brought Hell House to Colorado is ready once more to...he needs to be happy is a new home for Hell House. From 1995 to 2001, it seemed everybody...feet of warehouse or office space to stage Hell House vignettes depicting behaviors such...
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HELL SPAWNS BUDGET OUTLETS
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 9/6/2009; ; 530 words
; THE BOYS from Hell are about to turn up the heat on pizza chains Domino's and Pizza Hut. Hell Pizza co-founders Warren Powell, Stu McMullin and Callum Davies, along with Hell franchisee Glenn Collins, are opening a chain...
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Hell Point 2.0
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 4/5/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...dark, dank, surly confines of the old Hell Point neighborhood once deterred many from...Street plan to hark back to the memory of Hell Point. World-class restaurateur Robert Kinkead is opening a restaurant called Hell Point Seafood at the former Phillips Seafood...
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hell
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
hell / hel / • n. a place regarded in various religions as a spiritual...of great suffering; an unbearable experience: I've been through hell he made her life hell. • interj. used to express annoyance or surprise or for...
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Hell (or Höll), Maximilian
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Hell (or H ö ll), Maximilian ( b . Schemnitz [now...1720; d . Vienna, Austria, 14 April 1792) astronomy . Hell was the youngest of the three sons of Matthias Cornelius Hell, the chief engineer of the royal mines at Schemnitz...
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Hell
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...occurred. Although the word hell comes from Hel, the Norse* goddess of death, hells appear in the beliefs...traditional belief of up to 136 hells. The hell to which a dead soul...of punishment in one hell or in a series of hells. When they have paid...
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Hell's Angels
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
HELL'S ANGELS HELL'S ANGELS. A motorcycle club founded by Arvid Olsen and a group of World...sense of excitement and brotherhood they felt in the military (they had "Hell's Angels" painted on their fighter planes), the group turned to motorcycles...
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"Hell on Wheels"
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
"HELL ON WHEELS," "HELL ON WHEELS," a term applied to the temporary rails-end towns, or...largely Irish laborers, who fought, drank, and caused general hell along the rail as they progressed westward over the prairie and through...
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