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Name that element! which element on the periodic table makes ultra light tennis rackets, brews up decaf coffee, and is the most important element for life on Earth? Follow these eight clues to find out. Then turn the page to test your chem IQ.(Physical: chemistry)
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(CLUE 1)
AIRHEAD
Like all elements, this is rarely found in nature as single atoms, or the basic building blocks of matter. Instead, it forms molecules, two or more atoms joined together by a chemical bond. In Earth's atmosphere, the mystery element bonds with oxygen, a member of the same period, or row, on the periodic table.
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GENE MACHINE
This element is the primary ingredient for all I life on Earth. It needs four additional electrons (negatively charged ...
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A Fire-Eater Remembers: The Confederate Memoir of Robert Barnwell Rhett
Magazine article from: South Carolina Historical Magazine
; ...Fire-Eater Remembers: The Confederate Memoir of Robert Barnwell Rhett. Edited by William C. Davis. (Columbia: University...Father of Secession" upon his death in 1876, Robert Barnwell Rhett of South Carolina had more than earned the title...
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A Fire-Eater Remembers: the Confederate Memoirs of Robert Barnwell Rhett.('The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander Stephens,' 'Apostles of Disunion; Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War' and 'Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860')(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly
; ...Davis. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. 152 pp. $24.45; The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander Stephens, by William C. Davis. Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 2001. 284 pp. $29.95...
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Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History
; ...William C. Davis's revealing portrait of Robert Barnwell Rhett, antebellum South Carolina's most insistent secessionist...biography of him, Laura A. White's much shorter Robert Barnwell Rhett: Father of Secession (New York, 1931), and...
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Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History
; ...William C. Davis's revealing portrait of Robert Barnwell Rhett, antebellum South Carolina's most insistent secessionist...biography of him, Laura A. White's much shorter Robert Barnwell Rhett: Father of secession (New York, 1931), and...
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Fortune and Misery: Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans: A Biographical Portrait and Selected Fiction, 1891-1920
Magazine article from: South Carolina Historical Magazine
; ...Fortune and Misery: Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans: A...literary daughters. Sallie Rhett Roman (1844-1921) was the daughter of Robert Barnwell Rhea (1800-1876), South...John C. Calhoun, R. B. Rhett was the most influential...
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The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens...included his edition of the memoir of Robert Barnwell Rhett, one of the most vituperative...Stephens ("Little Aleck") and Robert Toombs, a nearly lifelong friendship...
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The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History
; ...Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens...Confederacy and a biography of Robert Barnwell Rhett. For many years an independent...notable Georgia political leaders Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens...
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The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History
; ...the collapse of the Confederacy and a biography of Robert Barnwell Rhett. For many years an independent scholar, but now at...relationship between the two notable Georgia political leaders Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens. They met in 1835...
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An affair of honor at Fort Sumter
Magazine article from: South Carolina Historical Magazine
; ...United States to the Court of Tuileries.6 Alfred Rhett was the son of Robert Barnwell Rhett, a U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina...for presidency of the Confederacy. His brother Robert B. Rhett, Jr. was the publisher of the Charleston...
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Torching the temple of liberty.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...secessionist "fire-eaters," including Robert Barnwell Rhett, whom historian James L. Abrahamson...residents of the Palmetto State. Rhett and others had been advocating...and Civil War 1859-1861," "Rhett wanted South Carolinians - and...
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