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What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?

Prussic acid, in a crystalline powder , was used to kill in Germany's gas chambers.
The gas would paralyze the victim's lungs, causing them to suffocate.
Under what name is it better known as?

What is ten per cent of the salt mined in the world each year is used for ?

What is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust?

What expression, meaning "old", was originally used to describe the age of horses?

What does the United States government keep at the US Military Academy at West Point, NY.
 

 
 

                                    who's the artist?
 
 
 
 
 

In the news this week (29 Oct - 03Nov 2001)
What will British citizens born on 6 Febuary 1952 be receiving soon?
 

In the news this week (29 Oct - 03Nov 2001)
Albert Di salvo will be exhumed...why?
 

What did these people who died during sex have in common?  he died of a heart attack while having sex in 939,  he was bludgeoned to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time in 964, he was also murdered by a jealous husband in 972,  he died while being sodomized by a page boy in 1471.

What did the New York phone book have 22 listed before World War II and none after?

What is the world's smallest independent state? It has a population of about 1,000 - and a zero birthrate. 

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down; What expression is derived from that practice?

 

What is composed of: the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Interior, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Health/Human Services, the Secretary of Housing/Urban Development, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the Secretary of Education?

What was built for the 1889 World's Fair?

What is Deoxyribonucleicacid better known as?

What did these US presidents have in common: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant?

What is the science that deals with the motion of projectiles called?

What was the name of the B-29 Bomber that dropped the Atom Bomb on Nagasaki?

What is composed of 78% nitrogen, 21.5% oxygen, .5% argon and other gases?

What is also called anthropophagy?

A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has what?

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In 1982, in the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Dr. Barney Clark, who lived 112 days with the device.

Mineral deposits in caves: The ones growing upward are stalagmites,
the ones growing downward are stalactites.

Natural gas has no odor. The smell is added artificially so that leaks can be detected.

The only rock that floats in water is pumice.

A poll of 3,000 Americans found that for 41 percent, the thing they're most afraid of is
speaking before a group of people. 32 percent stated they were afraid of heights.

About 10% of the world's population is left-handed

The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog."