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Is Light Pollution Really Pollution?

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What's the Difference Between Speed and Velocity?

$Light refraction image with a cube. Prism$

How Is Light Both a Particle and a Wave?

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Why Is the Sky Blue?

baby girl with toy bunny rabbit.

Has Pink Always Been a “Girly” Color?

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jeans, denim, pants, clothing

Why Do We Say “A Pair of Pants”?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Why We Celebrate MLK Day

Washington, D.C. locator map.

What State Is Washington, D.C. In?

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)

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Red Army (Soviet) soldiers in the Russian Revolution.

Russian Revolution Timeline

Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)

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Flag of Bhutan

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brown: References & Edit History

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Tanya Kelley

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Tanya Kelley

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: Verywell Mind - The Color Psychology of Brown.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 10, 2019
	In the discussion of brown's etymology, removed extra period.	Alicja Zelazko	Jun 21, 2019
	New article added.	Alicja Zelazko Tanya Kelley	Jun 13, 2019