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His colleague Richard Feynman wanted to call these new basic particles partons, as in Dolly, but was overruled. Instead they became known as quarks.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Americans also are paying for a $16 billion project to resuscitate the dying Everglades, just part of the costs they will bear for the build-out of the Florida dream.
The Boomtown That Shouldn’t Exist
MICHAEL GRUNWALD
In Carboniferous forests dragonflies grew as big as ravens. Trees and other vegetation likewise attained outsized proportions. Horsetails and tree ferns grew to heights of fifty feet, club mosses to a hundred and thirty.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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