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Christiaan Huygens was born on the 14th of April, 1629, at Den Haag|the Hague. He was the second son of Constantijn Huygens, a diplomat and a man of gre...

By Blanchard and Company, Inc ......   In 1688, the city of New Rochelle, New York was founded by French Protestants. Colonist Jacob Leisler executed

A Self-Taught Math Genius Wrote This Riddle While Serving Time in Prison. Can You Solve It? Evelyn Lamb © Kory Kennedy Self-taught student Chris Havens got his number theory riddle published in a mathematics magazine. Last year, Christopher Havens, an inmate serving to 25 years for murder, made headlines as the lead author on an academic paper published in Research in Number Theory. Havens had dropped out of high school, but discovered his fascination with mathematics shortl...

this hour an airport security hearing on capitol hill. >> chair of a house subcommittee looking into why there have been thousands of security breaches despite thousands spent. good morning it is a congressman from utah, holding hearings this morning on airport security. here are statistics that the congressman is citing that have brought concern to him, 25,000 security breaches since november 2001 according to the congressman, 14,000 people found their way into sensitive areas of ai...