Word: gwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nell Gwyn's 37 years were not all beer & skittles, but Biographer Bax is of the cheerful opinion that her short life was mostly merry. In a musical-comedy age she played one of the star parts, and the applause has not yet died away. Born in the slums of London, her father dead and her mother already a drunkard, Nell served drinks in a bawdy-house when she was still a moppet. She was only 10 when the Restoration brought her future lover, Charles II, back to England. Puritanism no longer darkened the doors of theatres...
When Charles II died suddenly in 1685, Nell Gwyn's world collapsed. She survived Charles only by two years. Though her death has usually been attributed simply to "apoplexy," Biographer Bax cites a modern medical opinion that the real cause of her death was syphilis, hints that this too was a gift from her lavish royal lover. Bax calls Nell "sweet, merry, winsome. . . . We cannot say, though, that she was one of the world's most beautiful women." But he thinks "she would have enchanted any cocktail party or diplomatic reception of our time...
...Nucleus, The late great Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleeff arranged the 92 elements in a periodic table according to weight. The late Henry Gwyn-Jeffreys Moseley found that each atomic number corresponded to the number of negatively charged electrons outside the nucleus. Element No. 1, hydrogen, has one such electron; No. 2, helium, has two; lithium, No. 3, three. . . . For each negative electron the nucleus of an atom must contain a positively charged proton. And, except in hydrogen, all nuclei were found to contain more protons than were electrons around them. The additional necessary electrons were found in the nucleus. Lithium, with...